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From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: USENET -> GEnie uplink now working
Message-ID: <533@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 89 19:45:28 GMT
References: <15097@well.UUCP> <935@crash.cts.com> <2907@ethz.UUCP> <25374@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA
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I'm not going to get into the poliical and ethical questions about
the GEnie to Usenet connnection, but I will point out that there is
an (almost) free way for anybody to read *and post* to comp.sys.atari.st
using the Beckemeyer Development BBS at (415) 452-4792.   Using
PC Pursuit this is available for a pretty low fee -- I'm sure less
than what it costs to read the messages on GEnie.   I don't make
a red cent from it -- nobody does except the phone company and
whatever Comm. service you use.    This *costs* me money to run.
It takes up my disk space, my modem, my time, and my CPU.  I do 
it as a service to my customers and to the ST comunitity  -- I also
do it because I *like* to do it.  This stuff about indirect profits
because of "good will" is nonsense -- heck I'm not even smart enough
to figure out how to "write it off"!

Anyway all this talk about "no other way to access Usenet" is baloney.
If people really want to access Usenet, there are better ways than on
GEnie, IMHO, of course.
-- 
David Beckemeyer			| "To understand ranch lingo all yuh
Beckemeyer Development Tools		| have to do is to know in advance what
478 Santa Clara Ave, Oakland, CA 94610	| the other feller means an' then pay
UUCP: {uunet,ucbvax}!unisoft!bdt!david	| no attention to what he says"