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From: rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: USEnet on GEnie...a followup
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Date: 3 Jan 90 15:30:41 GMT
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In article <15253@well.UUCP> dsmall@well.UUCP (David Small) writes:
>
>The basenote describes the GEnie Wednesday night conference and the mention
>of the USENET, err, discussion there.
>
>	Rob, the comp.sys.atari uplink to GEnie has barely been mentioned in
>the ST area. Remember, it's in a *completely* different area,the Gadgets RT,
>which is like a whole nuther newsgroup. It certainly wasn't flooding the ST
>area; it couldn't,it was in the Gadgets area.

Actually, Dave...I did know that.

As I was pointing out in the original posting, I have never even
*seen* the USEnet uploads on GEnie. What I had mentioned was the
fears/complaints/suttlebutt-rumors/etc of people who were on the
Wednesday night GEnie conference - nothing more.

>
>	GEnie has awesome disk space -- they just don't delete notes. There's
>stuff on there going back for years.

Actually, I've been noticing that lately. (Stuff going clear back to 
1987.) What is their total disk space allocation?

>
>	Anyway, I'm sure you had good motives, and just wanted to clear this
>up lest someone unfamiliar with GEnie think we were wreaking havoc inthe
>Atari ST RT ... nope, just one category, of 14 or so, in the Gadgets area.
>

My original intent was to relay feedback on the subject
from GEnie users to USEnet posters, so they could get some sort
of a feel for what was going on there. 


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