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From: rob@violet.berkeley.edu (Rob Robertson)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: What USENET can do and what it can't
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Date: 16 Mar 89 07:22:49 GMT
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In article <2951@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>Some of the magazines, newsletters and news services that now allow
>electronic publishing are quite worthwhile I think, and often very
>reasonably priced.  You can sign on to services and read them, but I think
>it's very sad that we can't have them in the USENET way.  It's ten times
>nicer to read electronic information on your own computer, at your own
>pace, with your own software and your own high speed terminal.  It's
>a pain to have to sign on to another computer to read your email or
>your electronic news.

you can!  talk to rick adams...  see if you can set up "private pay per 
subscription" newsgroups.  have your "clients" phone up uunet and get a 
pay per view newsgroup.  you can bill, and you don't have intermediate 
sites footing the bill for communication costs the sender or recipient 
should be handling anyway.  you can use the regular News/rn software to 
read it.  (isn't it wonderful some people don't charge for their software, 
unlike other people do for their jokes. 1/2 a :-). 

or if you can't convince rick with enough silver, you can get your own 
machine.

the only problem i can think of is how you prevent the receiving site from
secretly passing on (if that is a concern).

rob