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From: gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore)
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Subject: Re: included lines/databases ==> hypertext
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Date: Mon, 24-Dec-84 21:52:44 EST
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> Mark Biggar:                                    ...I like followups that
> reply to a massage in a point by point manner, alternating old text with the
> new.

Clearly we need to interface netnews to Xanadu Hypertext.  (I believe
they have it running on a single machine -- I don't know if they'd be
happy with uucp as a distribution medium though!)

Unfortunately Ted Nelson and friends (who are my friends too) are
holding tightly to the secrets of Xanadu rather than releasing it to
the public domain.  They claim this is partly a fanatic dedication to
seeing it done right (rather than having somebody like TRW pick it up
and use it for Oppression?).  Personally I think that running netnews
as a gigantic hypertext publishing system (maybe with a free-part and a
costs-money-to-read-part) would be a gigantic feather in their caps,
producing a large body of hypertext plus a large collection of
fanatical readers in a short period of time.