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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Networks considered harmful
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Date: 26 Dec 89 20:58:37 GMT
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Re: fax newsgroups/discussions

There are "intelligencers" which you can buy and are distributed by
fax. A few times a day sheets will pop out of your fax with selected
bits of timely news and analysis. I have no idea what these cost (I
don't even remember the names of the services, but I have stood at a
fax machine reading them.)

That's a one-way medium but I don't know of any similar services on
the Internet (I guess it would be forbidden on this network since it
would be a commercial service.) Perhaps analogous services exist on
commercial e-mail nets?

Do the people in this discussion actually feel like they know *what*
goes on on the commercial e-mail nets besides simple messaging? If
someone does know perhaps you could make a quick list of activities
that might be interesting and send it to this group.

        -Barry Shein

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