Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!brunix!rjd From: rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: USEnet on GEnie...a followup Message-ID: <24374@brunix.UUCP> Date: 5 Jan 90 15:49:10 GMT References: <23792@brunix.UUCP> <1925@atari.UUCP> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 37 In article <1925@atari.UUCP> towns@atari.UUCP (John Townsend) writes: >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 OK, now I'm starting to get irritated. This is the third or forth response like this that my message generated. Don't some of you *read* the messages you respond to? I clearly stated that the topic was brought up in the ST RT *DISCUSSIONS* on Wednesday night...I wasn't talking about where the UPLINK was located! Secondly, I stated that *most people didn't know about it*. Thirdly, and lastly, I only mentioned this here so that USEnet people got some sort of a feel as to what the GEnie side of this thought about the situation. - Rob DeMillo | Internet: rjd@brown.cs.edu Brown University | BITnet: DEMILLO%BRNPSG.SPAN@STAR.STANFORD.EDU Planetary Science Group | Reality: 401-273-0804 (home) "I say you *are* the Messiah, Lord! And I ought to know, I've followed a few!"