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Re: Online deals with "The World"

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From: James_J_Kowalczyk
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:54
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cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ofer Inbar) writes:
>James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com writes:
>>Portal is an online service offering a wide range of services for a 
>[...]
>>Amiga, etc.); online chat & game areas; the world's largest file archive; 
>
>The world's largest file archive?  Bigger than Channel 1?  Bigger than
>UUnet?  Even bigger than wuarchive.wustl.edu?  Are you sure?

I only know what Portal CS claims, and when I asked, they said that
since the archive contains all of UUnet, and mirrors several other sites,
it is "the world's largest file archive."

Jim Kowalczyk         James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com
Andover, MA
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References: <1993Jan14.231101.12956@frog.CRDS.COM> <MER.93Jan17013319@world.std.com> <73952@cup.portal.com> <cos.727823129@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>

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From: James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: ne.org.bcs
Subject: Re: Online deals with "The World"
Message-ID: <74365@cup.portal.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 17:54:28 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
References: <1993Jan14.231101.12956@frog.CRDS.COM>  
  <MER.93Jan17013319@world.std.com> <73952@cup.portal.com>
  <cos.727823129@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
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