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- Subject: Changes to "What is Usenet?"
- Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.admin.misc,news.answers
- From: netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 08:01:03 GMT
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- Archive-name: what-is-usenet/diff
- Original-from: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
- Comment: edited until 5/93 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
- Last-change: 19 July 1992 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
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- *** /tmp/T0a06459 Thu Apr 28 04:00:57 1994
- --- last/whatis.n Thu Apr 14 11:54:24 1994
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- That doesn't mean you are without options. Depending on the nature of
- ! your site, you may have some internal political recourse. Or you
- ! might find external pressure helpful. Or, with a minimal investment,
- ! you can get a feed of your own from somewhere else. Computers capable
- ! of taking Usenet feeds are down in the $500 range now, and
- ! UNIX-capable boxes are going for under $2000, and there are at least
- ! two UNIX lookalikes in the $100 price range.
-
- No matter what, though, appealing to "Usenet" won't help. Even if
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- That doesn't mean you are without options. Depending on the nature of
- ! your site, you may have some internal political recourse. Or you might
- ! find external pressure helpful. Or, with a minimal investment, you can
- ! get a feed of your own from somewhere else. Computers capable of taking
- ! Usenet feeds are down in the $500 range now, UNIX-capable boxes are going
- ! for under $2000 and there are several freely-redistributable UNIX-like
- ! operating systems (NetBSD, FreeBSD, 386BSD and Linux from ftp sites all
- ! around the world, complete with source code and all the software needed
- ! to run a Usenet site) and at least two commercial UNIX or UNIX-like
- ! systems in the $100 price range.
-
- No matter what, though, appealing to "Usenet" won't help. Even if
-
-