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From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: USENET and Compuserve
Message-ID: <342@sesame.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 23:48:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  3 23:48:23 1985
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>.... 
> 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.
> 

The answer is simple: when you have to pay for being on the system,
you don't waste any time by sending junk.


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