Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!ethz!chris
From: chris@ethz.UUCP (Christian Dreyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: USENET -> GEnie uplink now working
Keywords: usenet,genie,gadgets,uplink,messages
Message-ID: <2907@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 89 00:23:03 GMT
References: <15097@well.UUCP> <935@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: chris@bernina.ethz.ch.UUCP (Christian Dreyer)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
Lines: 18

In article <935@crash.cts.com> canada@crash.cts.com (Diane Barlow Close) writes:
>In article <15097@well.UUCP> dsmall@well.UUCP (David Small) writes (now
>much edited):
>
>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.

That's kinda my VHO as well. One-way transfer is hardly ever fair and
I think it won't support the Atari-community either (that should be the
point, shouldn't it).

-- 
   $      Chris  Dreyer      St. Gall Graduate School for Economic and    $
   $      Student            Social Science, Switzerland                  $
   $      DREYER@CSGHSG5A.BITNET      !cernvax!ethz!chris (UUCP)          $