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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!nott!cunews!revcan!micor!toh
- From: toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira)
- Subject: Re: GEnieLamp
- Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Orleans (Ont)
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:23:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.232320.24479@micor.ocunix.on.ca>
- References: <1992Nov10.174223.13562@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1992Nov11.164127.9816@b8.b8.ingr.com>
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- In article <1992Nov11.164127.9816@b8.b8.ingr.com> scott@b8.b8.ingr.com (Scott Gentry) writes:
- >CD46@DKAUNI2.BITNET (Volker Herrmann) writes:
- >
- >>Hi all,
- >>I think Scott Gentry was right for all those boys and girls about ten
- >>years old who cannot distinguish between pure advertisement and
- >>information mixed up with some ads. Since I'm a little older than ten
- >>I can read through GEnieLamp, pick up the interesting infos and skip
- >>the word GEnie.
- >
- >Yo, back...
- >
- >The issue isn't whether you're ten years old or fifty years old. The
- >issue is wasted bandwidth (the wastage is comprised of fluff and what
- >appear to be ads).
-
- The "wasted bandwidth" thing is invoked so often, and consumes so much
- bandwidth, that it carries no weight at all anymore. If we were all really
- so concerned about bandwidth usage, Usenet would not exist, or barely exist.
- Let's be between 10 and 110 and admit that one person's fluff is another
- person's treasure (or something to that effect).
-
- For the record, I have pretty mixed feelings about seeing ads for GEnie
- (or any other we-own-our-information service) on csa2. But certainly not because
- of bandwidth...even an ad for GEnie is of better use than half the tripe around
- here. The issue is presumably one of principle.
-
-
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- Marc Sira |
- toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca | "Your god drinks...P-P-Peach nectar!"
- '
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