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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,alt.flame
Subject: Re: The Use of Rapenet
Keywords: The wholesale capturing of Usenet by GEnie
Message-ID: <23728@gryphon.COM>
Date: 22 Dec 89 20:01:21 GMT
References: <946@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <946@crash.cts.com> canada@crash.cts.com (Diane Barlow Close) writes:
>This message was posted by Dave Small to the atari newsgroup, and I have
>many objections and some questions I'd like to pose to the net (so as not
>to waste net $$ please direct all followups to news.misc or alt.flame):

(posting to additional groups only costs one extra inode, whose $$ value
is rather small)

>-> 	It's time to announce that there is now a working uplink
>-> from USENET to GEnie.
>
>I object to this ONE WAY transfer of information. 

Sigh. We just did this with Brad's r.h.f group. There was a four
month flak about him gatewaying jokes onto GEnie. The net effect
to Usenet was zero, presumably GEnie users got something out of it.

No one person can say ``this will stop NOW!'' If you feel
strongly, put something in your .signature file like:

``Redistribution to GEnie prohibited''.

This prevents YOUR postings from being propagated to GEnie. If a lot
of people do this, it will send a message to GEnie. If a lot
of people don't do it, it will send a message to USENET.