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Article #40031Re: USEnet on GEnie...a followup
From: John Townsend
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 20:56
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 20:56
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in article <23792@brunix.UUCP>, rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo) says: > > Here's an interesting sidenote: > > I was on GEnie last night, attending the Atari ST RT discussions. > (Every Wednesday night at 10:00 pm EST). I brought up the > 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 > 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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!texsun!newstop!sun!imagen!atari!towns From: towns@atari.UUCP (John Townsend) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: USEnet on GEnie...a followup Message-ID: <1925@atari.UUCP> Date: 4 Jan 90 20:56:26 GMT References: <23792@brunix.UUCP> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 18