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From: mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Some questions about USENET and commercial sites
Message-ID: <185@artsnet.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 20:27:34 GMT
References: <7105@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <2958@looking.UUCP> <822@telly.UUCP> <1989Mar19.053739.6478@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
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In article <1989Mar19.053739.6478@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <822@telly.UUCP> evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>>If r.h.f. gets sent to Genie, will jokes posted to Genie be brought to
>>Usenet? Will Genie be a black hole into which Usenet postings go, without
>>us seeing what's added by Genie subscribers?
>
>I believe Brad was quite explicit that the gatewaying envisioned would
>be bidirectional.
>
In that case, it would seem that Usenet would be getting something
added for 'free', which would be right in line with what I've seen
so far of normal net practice -- in which case, it might be more
palatable to some folks to say that Brad is getting paid as a
'gatekeeper' rather than as a 'moderator', and the pay is coming
from the 'other' side of the gate, after all.  (Frankly, I don't
think Brad cares *what* the money-accepting role is called, but the
verbal reorientation may, again, be helpful to some others.)

Cheers,

--Mark

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