Compuserve *hasn't* banned newsgroups

[Anonymous]

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Duncan Frissell 1/3/96 1:02 PM:

>You mean that the thirty-some odd open news servers listed on
>http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~jwa/open-sites.html might get swamped.  Then the
>CIS refugees will be forced to pay Sameer the massive $12.50 (?) a month for
>a net-access-only account and read off of c2.org's server.  (Or any of the
>thousands of sites worldwide one can open a shell account on.)

   CIS refugees aren't the only people who use or need free NNTP servers:

>  Here's what you can do for $208: get a used XT with two floppy drives for
>  $70; a 2400-baud internal modem (new at a local computer show) for $18 
>  (it comes with free communications software); and an e-mail and Usenet
>  news-reading account for $10 per month. 

   Sound familiar?     

Hieronymous


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