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From: karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
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Subject: The GEnie link is down
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Date: 22 Dec 89 15:39:42 GMT
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If you have not read <15158@well.UUCP> in comp.sys.atari.st, please do
so.  It is the parent of this article, so if your newsreader supports
a direct move-to-parent operation, you can get there easily.

Dave Small has shut down the link for the technical and political
reasons expressed, and is now working on convincing GEnie to redo it
the right way.

Brad, it has not become illegal to be a read-only site; but it was
improper for the users of such a site to be _forced_ to be read-only.

Quoting Dave's first paragraph:
| After receiving mail on some concerns people have had with the
| USENet -> GEnie uplink, I've gone ahead and shut it down. It won't be back
| up unless those concerns are resolved to everyone's satisfaction.

--Karl