Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!arnold From: arnold@gatech.UUCP (Arnold Robbins) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: satellite netnews support Message-ID: <11371@gatech.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 17:42:07 EST Article-I.D.: gatech.11371 Posted: Mon Dec 17 17:42:07 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Dec-84 07:08:31 EST References: <466@vortex.UUCP> <1871@sun.uucp> <1295@eosp1.UUCP> <491@ut-sally.UUCP> <409@amdcad.UUCP> Organization: Firefighters Extraordinaire, Inc. Lines: 21 One thing that isn't clear to me, is that it seems that sites receiving netnews from stargate would be "listen-only". Indeed, the request for moderators seems to bear this out. Is this so? I am definitely *not* knocking the idea; I think it would be a wonderful thing, particularly for people who can't/won't pay the phone bill for a regular connection. But, one of the nicest things about USENET is that anyone can post, as well as receive (of course this is also one of the problems, as just the traffic in this group telling Lauren to ignore the flames, attests). Will it be possible for people receiving cable netnews to post back as well? It would be a shame for such a wonderful two-way medium to be just one-way for such a (hopefully) large group of subscribers. Keep up the good work, Lauren! Lots of us are interested and hope that this works out. -- Arnold Robbins CSNET: arnold@gatech ARPA: arnold%gatech.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa UUCP: { akgua, allegra, hplabs, ihnp4, seismo, ut-sally, }!gatech!arnold Help advance the state of Computer Science: Nuke a PR1ME today!