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From: towns@atari.UUCP (John Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: USEnet on GEnie...a followup
Message-ID: <1925@atari.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 90 20:56:26 GMT
References: <23792@brunix.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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in article <23792@brunix.UUCP>, rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo) says:
> 
> Here's an interesting sidenote:
> 
> I was on GEnie last night, attending the Atari ST RT discussions.
> (Every Wednesday night at 10:00 pm EST). I brought up the
> USEnet->GEnie transfer topic. Most people didn't know it
> existed, and those that did were *glad* that it stopped. 
> It seems that the USEnet messages were saturating the Atari ST
> section. (Too much info, too fast.) People found they
> couldn't keep up, even for the few days (hours?) it was operating.
> 

The USEnet UPLINK wasn't in the ST Roundtable. It was located in the 
Gadgets by Small RT. Most of the ST users didn't even know about it.

-- John Townsend				ames!atari!towns
   Atari Corp, Systems Test