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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Portal flames back!
Summary: A second opinion...
Message-ID: <2700@kitty.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 88 02:12:47 GMT
References: <9027@cup.portal.com> <6934@gryphon.CTS.COM> <9150@cup.portal.com> <3686@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
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Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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In article <3686@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, greg@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gregory Nowak) writes:
> 
> In article <9152@cup.portal.com> john_f_tamburo@cup.portal.com writes:
> >     Criticism?   This  entire newsgroup is a fucking  LYNCH  MOB 
> >when Portal is involved!  You wan't war, buddy, YOU CAN HAVE  IT!  
> >How  about a nice posting in our internal events section,  asking 
> >EVERYBODY ON PORTAL to flame you!  Ready for 15,000 flames?  
> 
> And here the threat is made explicit. Something clearly needs to be
> done aobut Portal. My own opinion is that Portal is packaging Usenet
> as a commercial product, and in some sense violating the
> anti-commercialism rule, but that's just one opinion.

	It is also my opinion.  If it were within my power, I would simply
deny the Portal site a Usenet feed. If one believes Portal's advertising
hype, their "internal" bulletin boards far exceed Usenet in size; if this
is true, then Portal users would miss little if denied Usenet access.

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