Xref: utzoo news.config:724 news.sysadmin:793 news.misc:1604 Path: utzoo!utcsri!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ubvax!vsi1!wyse!mips!prls!philabs!nbc1!stone From: stone@nbc1.UUCP (Anthony Stone) Newsgroups: news.config,news.sysadmin,news.misc Subject: Re: Independent access Message-ID: <466@nbc1.UUCP> Date: 4 Jul 88 21:15:59 GMT Article-I.D.: nbc1.466 References: <465@nbc1.UUCP> <8898@netsys.UUCP> <4242@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Reply-To: stone@nbc1.UUCP (Anthony Stone) Organization: NBC Computer Imaging, New York Lines: 26 Summary: gateway to "The Independent in London" for techies not journalists Hello Len and Erik. I too wonder about the consequences of journalists having access to Usenet, but the gateway to "The Independent" (who, BTW, is willing to assume 2-3 news feeds) is just for Dwight Ernest, who used to run the site at Time magazine in New York and enjoys living in Europe now but misses having access to the net. He, his wife (who used to be at the Wall St. Journal) and those in his technical support group at the paper are probably the only ones who will see the news. Dwight should probably be answering this, but that's catch-22. At NBC, where I work, no journalists see Usenet and gatewaying it into their system would be pretty difficult. I think they would find it interesting, but it would also just add to their information overload since they probably find it just as difficult to keep up with all the wire service and press agency reports on their system as we do with Usenet postings on ours. I used to work at a television station in Austin, KVUE, which is still on the net and some of its news producers read the net occasionally and have even gotten story ideas from it. But I think Usenet is still predominately technical enough that it more of a sociological curiosity than a source of news to general interest journalists. (Let's take news.config out of follow-ups to this discussion.) -- Anthony Stone NBC Computer Imaging, New York, NY stone@nbc1.ge.com 212-664-2206