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- Subject: Changes to "What is Usenet? A second opinion."
- Newsgroups: news.misc,news.admin.misc,news.answers
- From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 09:02:05 GMT
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- Original-author: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
- Original-date: 26 Dec 1991
- Archive-name: what-is-usenet/diff2
- Last-change: 26 Oct 1994 by netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
- Changes-posted-to: news.misc,news.admin.misc,news.answers
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- The following are the differences between two versions.
- - indicates lines that were deleted in the new version,
- + indicates lines that were added in the new version.
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- ...
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- Usenet is a network with many parts to it. Some parts are academic,
- some parts aren't. Usenet is clearly not a commercial network like
- -Sprintnet or Tymenet, and it's not an academic network like BITNET.
- +Sprintnet or Tymnet, and it's not an academic network like BITNET.
- But parts of BITNET are parts of Usenet, though some of the traffic on
- Usenet violates the BITNET acceptable use guidelines, even though the
- people who are actually on BITNET sites reading these groups don't
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