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Electronic Cafe (not strictly com-privish)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John [Francis] Stracke)
Sat Dec 4 09:59:33 1993

Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 09:37:54 +0500
From: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Sean Michael White's message of Fri, 3 Dec 1993 15:48:01 -0800 <9312032346.AA13089@euphrates.Stanford.EDU>


>That may be how MacWeek covers them, but Kit and Sherrie, the owners of
>Electronic Cafe International have a very different view of their work. 
>They do *not* think of their cafe as a broadcast system.  It is an
>interactive system where people can go and communicate informally with
>others.  If someone is packaging it as Broadcast TV, it isn't them.  

Oh, good.  Thank you.

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