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From: mshappe@HEIGHTS.CIT.CORNELL.EDU (Mike Shappe)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Re: The Rape of Usenet (an alternative view)
Summary: The expansion of the universe of information, not the closing of minds
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Date: 21 Dec 89 17:31:58 GMT
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I'm sorry, but I think I'm misunderstanding something here.
It was always my impression that the concept of networks like USENET was
the wholesale, unadulterated spreading of information as far as the
telephone-and-Internet links will carry it; to shrink the world by
expanding access to information and ideas, and to share ideas between
various people of extremely diverse backgrounds.
So, tell me, how does gatewaying to GENie or any other charging system
violate the purpose of USENET?

'Nuff said

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