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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: USENET -> GEnie uplink now working
Message-ID: <25354@cup.portal.com>
Date: 25 Dec 89 06:41:06 GMT
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(Sorry, Dave.. you knew I'd have to have something to say, right...?)
 
My feelings about a one-way GEnie link to UseNet..?
 
UseNet is UseNet, and GEnie is GEnie...  one has a reputation for being
a technically oriented, well informed source of information, and the other
has let its reputation slide to being a "K-Mart" for cheap downloads.
 
Even if it was CIS or BIX who was involved, everyone here has to realize that
a commercial venture will now be making money from every article, message
and comment you may post here, without giving anything in return.
 
Of course the GEnie management has been receptive..!  While Dave may not
make any money from the deal, remember that $5.40 of every hours reading
of your messages goes directly into the pockets of people like Neil Harris
and Bill Louden (gaak).   And naturally, under their "compilation copyright,"
they aren't going to allow anything to flow the other way, even if it wasn't
for the load that would impose on the network.
 
If you want UseNet style information, come to UseNet... if you want
<giggle> <tee hee>, go to GEnie...
 
BobR
 
(sorry... no offense intended toward K-Mart...)