Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!hriso!attdso!ssc!fyl
From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: USENET -> GEnie uplink now working
Summary: Ok, I'll disagree
Keywords: usenet,genie,gadgets,uplink,messages
Message-ID: <330@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 89 18:53:43 GMT
References: <15097@well.UUCP> <935@crash.cts.com>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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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.

I disagree.  There are sources of information and there are distributors
of information.  We, the users of Usenet are the source.  We have decided
to share that information with others.  And GEnie is not providing access
to that information - for a price.  Usenet offers the same but the price
is different.  In my case, a company that I own part of foots the bill for
providing Usenet services to employees as well as feeds to other
companies.  Other companies provide Usenet access for money.

Now, anyone who is on GEnie and reads this can decide they would rather
pay a different provider of service.  For example, in Seattle there are at
least three companies that will provide Usenet access for a price.  

-- 
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
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