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From: steve@thelake.UUCP (Steve Yelvington)
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Subject: Re: The Rape of Usenet
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Date: 24 Dec 89 19:10:08 GMT
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In article <946@fylz.UUCP>,
     fyl@fylz.UUCP (Phil Hughes) writes ... 

>I have considered setting up an account that is read-only access to
>Usenet.  In other words, the equivalent to the one-way link to GEnie.
>Does this make me a horrible person or whatever?

If you're an ogre, you'll have plenty of company. Not only are many
university sites set up that way (for beginners), but it also is the
norm for Citadel BBSes that receive Usenet newsgroups.

The whole thing is much ado about nothing.

-- 
   Steve Yelvington at the (very, very cold) lake in Minnesota
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