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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: GEnie->Usenet may already be here
Message-ID: <15086@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 10 Jan 90 18:07:17 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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Once an email gateway is in place, GEnie users can join mailing
lists (as CIS users can do now) which in turn can be gatewayed to
newsgroups.  This may be all that's needed.  The usual argument
for news over mailing lists is that the flood algorithm's more
efficient over a distributed net, but with single point gateways
and a black-box distribution within the commercial service, a
mailing list is just as efficient.
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