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From: rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: USENET -> GEnie uplink now working
Keywords: usenet,genie,gadgets,uplink,messages
Message-ID: <23620@brunix.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 89 22:49:56 GMT
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In article <2907@ethz.UUCP> chris@bernina.ethz.ch.UUCP (Christian Dreyer) writes:
>That's kinda my VHO as well. One-way transfer is hardly ever fair and
>I think it won't support the Atari-community either (that should be the
>point, shouldn't it).
>
>-- 
>   $      Chris  Dreyer      St. Gall Graduate School for Economic and    $

It *should* be the point.

First of all, I agree *in principle* with the complaints about
GEnie using USEnet articles for profit and not reciprocating.
This posting is an attempt to represent the other side of the
coin...the side (I'm guessing) that David Small saw when he 
proposed this uplink to the GEnie community.

I've been on GEnie, I still am on GEnie,  and I see the kind of ST (and other)
information that is on there...and I feel that USEnet info is far
superior. The conversation threads make more sense, I get a lot of good
technical info, etc. GEnie postings consist mostly of non-technical
non-informative conversations....there are the odd exceptions, like the
RT discussions that Small holds, etc.

Let's face it, USEnet is a community of profession CS people, Engineers
and scientists - as well as students and graduate students in those
areas...GEnie consists mostly of home hobbiests, business professionals,
and (generally) non-technical types. 

It seems to me there *would* be a benifit to the Atari community by allowing
USEnet info to go wherever it is needed. 

In addition, there are 10's of 1000's of people who can *not* get access
to USEnet, would you deny them our info/rumors/conversations/etc?



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