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Re: GEnieLamp A2 July 1993



 corem@pro-greens.cts.com (Chuck Orem) writes:

>jlcooper@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU (Jonathan L Cooper) writes:
>
>>Scott Gentry (wsgentry@ne3005.reston.ingr.com) wrote:
>>>Listen,
>>>
>>>Must we have these commercial advertisements on csa2?  I thought these
>>>were supposed to uploaded to the binaries in shrunk form?
>>
>>don't start that again.  it's a pain in the butt to read them if they're
>>shrunk/binsciied.  they're not really binaries, so they don't belong there
>>anyway.
>>
>
>Nor does it belong on csa2 or any of the other newsgroups. GEnie is a well
>established entity, it shouldn't be allowed to run up my phone bill with
>its' advertisements.

I hate to perpetuate this too, but I don't understand why you say GEnie is
running up your phone bill.  Don't like it, don't read it ("just change the
channel").

I also wouldn't consider GEnieLamp an advertisement, but i suppose that's
a matter of opinion.  Which is why i won't drag this out any further.

  greg h