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- From: rhayden@oracle.com (Ronald Hayden)
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- Subject: Re: Prodigy/Genie/et. al.
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:56:33 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com's message of 14 Jan 93 13:34:45 GMT
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- In article <1j3q5mINNgc0@transfer.stratus.com> lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Laurie Mann) writes:
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- I've been active on GEnie for about a year and a half, mostly in the science
- fiction area (which is extraordinarily active). There is "private space" for
- gay folks and their friends, and some public discussion elsewhere. The phobe
- level seems quite low. There is a reasonably active "Homosexuality in Fantasy
- and Science Fiction" area in the science fiction BBS, which tends to be a
- meeting area for gay, bi and gay-supportive people in fandom. It's only
- $4.95 a month for GEnie Basic services (unlimited access to many bulletin
- boards between 6pm and 8am---real time conferences extra hourly charges ($6
- an hour at nights I think)). GEnie isn't very user-friendly, but it is
- quite inexpensive. By contrast, most USENET news reading software is
- more user-friendly.
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- A good friend of mine (Martha Soukup) is a sysop in GEnie's science
- fiction roundtable, and she is extremely gay-friendly. Hell, even
- though she's straight, until I got active recently she was much more
- of a gay-rights crusader than me!
- --
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- - Ronald Hayden
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