Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!well!dsmall From: dsmall@well.UUCP (David Small) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: The Rape of Usenet (an alternative view) Message-ID: <15202@well.UUCP> Date: 24 Dec 89 09:28:37 GMT References: <946@crash.cts.com> <6576@brspyr1.BRS.Com> <1989Dec21.024040.25157@athena.mit.edu> <1989Dec21.045834.6375@utzoo.uucp> <1989Dec21.174847.20010@athena.mit.edu> Reply-To: dsmall@well.UUCP (David Small) Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 8 Jonathon, the original intent is to bring GEnie into the Net as a 2-way link, not as an "information sink". The present(well, past, now) kludge was just a demo to show GEnie that it would be mutually beneficial to do so. We're suffering here from bad initial information; see my reply to the "GEnie link is down.." note for more information. -- thanks, Dave Small / Gadgets