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From: chad@norge.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: USEnet on GEnie...a followup
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Date: 5 Jan 90 22:16:32 GMT
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>| 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
                                                                        
         ^^^^^^^
                                                                        
        big implication.....

>|| 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!

Rob, 

Not to irritate you more, but don't *you* read your own replies??? You implied
in your original posting that it (the Uplink) was saturating the ST RT
when you said:

>|| It seems that the USEnet messages were saturating the Atari ST
>|| section. (Too much info, too fast.) People found they

You said Atari ST section which heavily implies the Atari ST RT 

Chad
DEC has no opinions...
I've never even been on any pay service...
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