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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
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Subject: Re: Article on Computer Message Systems
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 21:59:32 EDT
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Unfortunately, these studies tend to look at much more limited
systems than we're dealing with here, and usually systems where
everybody is paying for virtually everything right up front.
(Compuserve is a typical model).  Usenet represents a unique
entity with unique problems--partly technical, partly sociological.
But as new sites continue to join Usenet, and each site has the
ability to broadcast anything and everything to every other site,
the sheer traffic volume continues to make other "services" look
like microbes next to a mountain in comparison...

--Lauren--