Are we gatewayed to Usenet?

[Pat Farrell]

In message Tue, 9 Nov 93 12:38:52 PST,  tcmay (Timothy C. May)  writes:

> I believe someone has gatewayed the list onto Netcom, which is
> available to many thousands of subscribers, including local POPs
> (points of presence) in Washington, D.C., Boston, Atlanta, Austin, and
> of course all up and down the West Coast.
>
> Is this such a good idea? And should it be unilaterally done? If there
> was discussion of this, I must've missed it somehow (which I doubt).

I think this is a terrible idea. Yes, the list is not secret, and
I expect that half the nyms on it are TLA employees, but
converting the list to a feed on a commercial service such as netcom,
delphi, or digex, is not what I want to see. IMHO, of course, but a bad
idea.

Since I'm a netcom user too, i'll fire up rn from the east coast.

Pat

Pat Farrell      Grad Student                 pfarrell at netcom.com
Department of Computer Science    George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
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