Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cithep.UucP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!escher!cithep!tim From: tim@cithep.UucP (Tim Smith ) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: USENET and Compuserve Message-ID: <136@cithep.UucP> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 22:53:35 EDT Article-I.D.: cithep.136 Posted: Tue Sep 24 22:53:35 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 05:59:19 EDT Organization: Caltech HEP, Pasadena, CA Lines: 17 Has anyone done any serious comparison of USENET with Compuserve ( or any of the other non-free networks ( I know USENET is not *really* free, but it appears that way to the typical user ) ) ? I don't know how many poeple Compuserve has, but the forums ( sort of like newgroups on USENET ) that I read on compuserve have a lot more traffic than the corresponding newgroups on USENET, and do not have a problem with lots of junk. I do not know exactly why this is so, but if someone could discover why, maybe it could be applied to USENET. Besides the issues of how to deal with a large number of users, perhaps there would be some relevence to the legal issues that USENET brings up. The forums on Compuserve are not moderated, yet there does not seem to be a lot of worry about legal problems. -- Tim Smith ihnp4!cithep!tim