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- From: doug@cc.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell)
- Subject: Re: Newspapers on Gopher
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:03:40 GMT
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- fkappe@fiicmds04.tu-graz.ac.at (Frank Kappe) writes:
- :
- : I am looking for newspapers that are available on internet (through gopher or
- : otherwise). So far I found the "Daily Texan" and "Minnesota Daily". Is anybody
- : aware of any other newspapers (including non-english and non-gopherized ones)
- : on internet?
- :
- You might find some school, local or regional papers, but I don't know of
- any right off-hand. The big ones (UPI news, USA Today, Washington Times,
- etc) are all handled by commercial usenet redistributors, and to make them
- accessable to all comers via gopher (or nntp, for that matter) would cost
- them revenues and potential customers, so their contracts prohibit making
- them available.
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- Doug Sewell, Tech Support, Computer Center, Youngstown State University
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