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From: andy@fgp.hcru.uq.oz (The Wubba Wubba Mon)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: A proposed solution to the GEnie mess. (was about Rape and stuff)
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Keywords: GEnie, email, Usenet
Message-ID: <446@fgp.hcru.uq.oz>
Date: 8 Jan 90 03:42:30 GMT
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Reply-To: andy@fgp.hcru.uq.oz (The Wubba Wubba Mon)
Organization: Humanities Computing Resources Unit,  University of Queensland,  Australia.
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Brad has said that the formats of the two services (GEnie and Usenet) are
quite different.
If this is so, then what is the point of trying to link them into a
homogenous system?

Predictions have been that Usenet will have even worse S/N ratio, as, in
addition to the noisy annual start-of-university-semester grunion spawining
of new Usenetters, there will be worse noise in the form of GEnie subscribers.
[No offence meant here.  The S/N ratio is low as it is,  GEnie users are
apparently discouraged from using private email and encouraged to "post"
globally, and by linking of these two systems, the users caught in a
too-wide gulf between have two opposing and incompatible netiquettes.]


It would seem to me, that GEnie should be left to do the things that its
set-up allow it to do best.  Carrying USenet doesn't seem to be one of them.
By all means, set up two way email links between it and Usenet though.

GEnie users (and anyone else with a modem) who wish to participate on Usenet
can get accounts on a Public Access Usenet BBS.


Sounds too simple to be true!  Consistancy of rules on a system.  Access to
Usenet for any one with a modem.   No real change to the S/N or volume
levels (or no worsening, anyway).  It even seems sensible!

Any comments.
/\ndy.

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Andrew M. Jones, Systems Programmer, 	ACSnet: andy@fgp.hcru.uq.oz
Language Lab,  Univ. of Qld, 		Work Phone: (07) 377 2075
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