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From: gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST-Report / CPU-Report on Usenet?
Keywords: st-report
Message-ID: <1990Mar10.222005.7167@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 10 Mar 90 22:20:05 GMT
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Reply-To: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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In article <1567@bdt.UUCP> david@bdt.UUCP (actually Michael Arthur) writes:

>CPU Newswire/ST Report is a weekly online Magazine which deals withboth
>Atari-related news and events, but also with current decisions and happeniNGS
>of Atari Corp. itself.  It is already very popular on GEnie 
>Compuserve, BIX, and Delphi, but ST Report is also considering distributing
>CPU Newswire via Usenet.

I've been distributing ST Report via email for quite a whle now. I
feel that it would be a very bad idea to post these to the newsgroup
because:

1) it's big. people in the past have complained about that aspect.
2) it contains utterly totally-commercial advertising for the editor's
   business. this IS a no-no at many sites which receive Usenet news
   messages over the Internet.

I post a message about availability of ST Report here about every 2
months. I'm surprised you hadn't noticed this.

>Also, since CPU Report (a column in ST Report) is about 12K - 25K in size, and
>deals with the microcomputer industry, I believe that I asked you about the
>feasibility of also distributing it via Usenet, and the Newsgroups which would
>theoretically distribute it.

I wouldn't distribute this to anything but a garbage can. It is an
extremely poor quality "column". If you distributed it to the
newsgroups that it theoretically belongs in, you'd be laughed off of
Usenet. That's just my opinion.

>	Michael Arthur

Greg Lindahl
gl8f@virginia.edu                                  Astrophysicists for Choice.