[9076] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Regarding Clarinet and copyright
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Wed Dec 15 21:25:01 1993
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 17:57:50 -0800
To: "Jane D. Smith" <jds@mcnc.org>, fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
At 8:02 PM 12/15/93 -0500, Jane D. Smith wrote:
>> > The first rumors I heard about Clarinet, oh so very long ago, were that
>> > they would take the wealth of information from Usenet, clean out the cruft
>> > and nonsense, and provide a distilled, high-content valued added
>> > publication.
>>
>> You may be remembering the "In Moderation Network", which was supposed to
>> start up at about the same time as Clarinet, but never got off the ground.
>
>No, this is exactly as I remember the early Clarinet announcements.
Jane, the In Moderation Network (the idea of Geoff Goodfellow who later
started RadioMail) was exactly as described above and preceeded Clarinet.
Clarinet was always an on-line "wire service" rather than distilling prior
postings.
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Glenn Tenney
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