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In article <2gd6is$cm0@bmerha64.bnr.ca> myhui@bnr.ca (Michael Hui) writes:
>I would like to know the ratio of people who have access to Usenet news
>vs. those who have access to interactive Internet services.
>
>Our local Freenet is insisting on putting regular news postings
>generated by government ministries on newsgroups internal to the
>Freenet, and at most is willing to consider making them available on
>Gopher. They adamantly refuse to post the regular releases to a
>suitable or newly created newsgroup, without giving any reasons
>whatsoever.

Michael;

Please do not misrepresent the discussion between you and me.  First,
what I have said, and what you have misrepresented here, is my opinion,
and not an official position of the National Capital FreeNet.  Official
positions can only be set by the Board of Directors.

Second, in now way did I say that we should refuse to distribute any
information over regular or special Usenet groups.  What I did say is
that I do not believe it is in the NCF's best interest to distribute
the local ncf.* news heiarchary outside of the NCF system.  If any
information provider wants to post their information to regular Usenet
newsgroups (instead or in addition to the ncf.* groups they are using
now) through the NCF, they are free to do so and we will help them.

The issue is really what the information providers want to do, not what
the NCF will allow.

As I told you before, I do think the government information should be
distributed wider than the FreeNets, but it is the government
information providers and not the FreeNet that you have to convince.
So far, they are still learning about our wonderful technologies and
the FreeNets are a good place to get started.  We need someone to
explain to them about cross-posting and the advantages of expanding
beyond the ncf.* groups.


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