1995-11-07 - Re: DejaNews all over again

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From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
To: Damaged Justice <frogfarm@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
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UTC Datetime: 1995-11-07 06:19:28 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 14:19:28 +0800

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From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 14:19:28 +0800
To: Damaged Justice <frogfarm@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
Subject: Re: DejaNews all over again
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On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Damaged Justice wrote:

> My two cents: I've used Dejanews for almost a month now, and have been
> consistently impressed with the results. The uses are many; the danger,
> as others have noted, is that people forget (or never realize in the
> first place) that you should never post anything to Usenet that you
> wouldn't want to see plastered on the evening news.
> 
> Having said that, I'm greatly looking forward to the impending addition
> of the alt.* groups to their archives. Everyone is indeed a Kibo now,
> and the general public has become more aware of the need for reputations
> as a result.

I absitively agree. I have no quarrel with archiving and redistributing 
public information. I think it's great.

Might also help spread aewareness of the anonymity options available. It 
would be good to see if the dejanews folks would give the anon servers a 
plug. Anybody friendly with them?

-rich





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