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From: arnold@gatech.UUCP (Arnold Robbins)
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Subject: Re: satellite netnews support
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Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 17:42:07 EST
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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
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