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Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Geosat transmission of news
Message-ID: <1989Jun6.154822.13971@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <371@odi.ODI.COM> <3400@looking.on.ca> <3549@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <3413@looking.on.ca> <1203@ssbn.WLK.COM> <3569@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 89 15:48:22 GMT

In article <3569@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>Again, providing that you can redistribute what you receive.  This was
>Stargate's biggest problem, and if the BC people try this tack they'll
>likely get the same kind of response from the net at large.

Although I have no positive knowledge, it seems to me that Stargate's
"problem" with redistribution rules has been vastly overblown, to the
point of being ridiculous.  Only a negligible fraction of messages on
the net ever carried redistribution restrictions.  The "response from
the net" was outraged screaming from a tiny minority.  I cannot believe
it had a major effect on Stargate's financial viability.  What killed
Stargate, it seems to me, was extremely slow progress towards putting
it on a commercial footing (as opposed to a technology demonstration)
plus the appearance of UUNET.
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