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From: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: USENET -> GEnie uplink now working
Keywords: usenet,genie,gadgets,uplink,messages
Message-ID: <5806@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 89 16:20:24 GMT
References: <15097@well.UUCP> <935@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <935@crash.cts.com> canada@crash.cts.com (Diane Barlow Close) writes:
>What I object to the most is the fact that the link is one way (and will
>stay that way due to GEnie's commercial nature).  I don't like Usenet being
>``raped'' to supply GEnie's commercial pockets.  If GEnie is that ``tapped
>out'' for knowledge that they are desperate enough to plunder Usenet, then
>perhaps GEnie should be disbanded.
>-- 
>Diane Barlow Close

I agree with you, to an extent.  However.  The flow of information should be
regarded as a good thing.  It would me MUCH better if EVERYONE could access
Usenet, but that ain't so.  I'm lucky; I'm a student who happens to work in the
computer labs, so I have Unix accounts everywhere.  Other people who would
like to know have no means of getting to this information.  I'd post the info
to the local BBSes if I had the time (a working computer would help, too).
But I don't.  Not for all of it, at least.

Mike