Re: New York Times article on BBS's

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From: Charles Lasner
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 18:08

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In article <1992Jul24.152041.28854@panix.com> fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller) writes:
>In <1992Jul23.180127.1359@qiclab.scn.rain.com> leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
>
>>medic@milton.u.washington.edu (Travis Lauricella) writes:
>
>>For what it is worth, The *format* is owned by Compuserve. They just
>>let folks use it freely. And the standards document says it is pronounced
>>"jif"...

Since when does someone own a format?  Are you telling me that if I encode
a piece of graphics copyright me into .GIF format that Compuserve owns
my file?

cjl

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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
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