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From: oplinger@jupiter.crd.ge.com (B. S. Oplinger)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: The Rape of Usenet
Keywords: The wholesale capturing of Usenet by GEnie
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Date: 21 Dec 89 22:22:26 GMT
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I must say I don't agree. As a 'typical' :) member of the Atari
community, I did not have access to Usenet until I took my
current job six months ago. However, I did have access to Genie
and Compuserve, all I needed was a modem and a desire to watch my
bank account dwindle :). I would have loved to have useful and
intellegent articles but often there weren't any. Yes it is a way
for Genie to make a profit, but so what? Unless someone is
willing to post a summary to Genie, I'd rather provide those less
fortunate ;) than us, who don't have Usenet access, all of the
postings instead of none of the posting.