[275] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: pointless bickering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy Smith)
Mon Mar 4 20:55:31 1991
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 91 20:28:58 EST
From: Roy Smith <roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu>
To: bob@aecom.yu.edu, com-priv@psi.com
> if you subscribe to some of [the LISTSERVS] you see that they are
> actively used by professionals for discussions of content within their
> own field. As opposed to netnews groups which are practically all either
> computer-related topics or frivolous topics.
I don't know what percentage "practically all" translates to, but
if you want to see usenet used for real purposes by real scientists to do
real work, check out the bionet groups.
