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From: sharon@asylum.SF.CA.US (Sharon Fisher)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: The Rape of Usenet
Keywords: The wholesale capturing of Usenet by GEnie
Message-ID: <9189@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 22 Dec 89 04:51:13 GMT
References: <946@crash.cts.com> <1989Dec21.162642.812@millipore.uucp>
Reply-To: sharon@asylum.UUCP (Sharon Fisher)
Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA
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In article <1989Dec21.162642.812@millipore.uucp> blu@millipore.UUCP (Brian Utterback) writes:
>Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't
>the Well carry usenet postings and charge for connect time?  And I don't 
>believe that these two cases are isolated.  

It does indeed.  However, Well users are also able to post messages to
the net.  It's not a one-way street, as is the case with the Genie
service.

(sharon@asylum.sf.ca.us -- also known as slf@well.sf.ca.us)