Re: GEnieLamp

[toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira)]

In article <1992Nov11.164127.9816@b8.b8.ingr.com> scott@b8.b8.ingr.com (Scott Gentry) writes:
>CD46@DKAUNI2.BITNET (Volker Herrmann) writes:
>
>>Hi all,
>>I think Scott Gentry was right for all those boys and girls about ten
>>years old who cannot distinguish between pure advertisement and
>>information mixed up with some ads. Since I'm a little older than ten
>>I can read through GEnieLamp, pick up the interesting infos and skip
>>the word GEnie.
>
>Yo, back...
>
>The issue isn't whether you're ten years old or fifty years old.  The
>issue is wasted bandwidth (the wastage is comprised of fluff and what
>appear to be ads).  

The "wasted bandwidth" thing is invoked so often, and consumes so much
bandwidth, that it carries no weight at all anymore. If we were all really
so concerned about bandwidth usage, Usenet would not exist, or barely exist.
Let's be between 10 and 110 and admit that one person's fluff is another
person's treasure (or something to that effect).

For the record, I have pretty mixed feelings about seeing ads for GEnie
(or any other we-own-our-information service) on csa2. But certainly not because
of bandwidth...even an ad for GEnie is of better use than half the tripe around
here. The issue is presumably one of principle.


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