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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!iat.holonet.net!peten
- From: peten@iat.holonet.net (Pete Norton)
- Subject: Re: HOLONET? YOu BET!
- Message-ID: <By51zI.82o@iat.holonet.net>
- Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
- References: <1992Nov20.092353.29036@disk.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:18:53 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- tony@disk.uucp (tony) writes:
- : neta@iat.holonet.net (Gregory Giagnocavo) writes:
- :
- : >Jim asked tohear from a Holonet member.
- : >We are, members/subscirbers of Holonet. It is a fine, inexpensive system
- : >with far more features than you'd expect for the price.
- : >Full Internet access, directly connected -so no delays
- : >And a complete Internet services menu, so you don't have to get lost
- : >I recommend it to anyone. And, it is reachable from almost anywhere,
- : >since they hae low cost packet switching.
- : >Also feature full Usenet news groups.
- :
- : Do they get _all_ the UseNet groups? Some of the boards I call don't get cer-
- : tain groups. Only the college board around here gets alt.sex. There are other
- : boards around that get UseNet but they censor the list. Does HoloNet do any
- : censoring -- as if modemers are a STUPID lot, too stupid to decide on their own
- : what they should be allowed to read -- uh, if not, I might be interested. But
- : if they do censor what their users are allowed to read they can keep it all all
- : to themselves (oh, and you). I guess you can tell I'm leery -- that's just be-
- : cause so many system operators around here don't respect people's 1st Amendment
- : rights to be able to read anything they want.
- :
- : Oh, I should add... the nixpub board I'm mailing from doesn't get alt.
- : sex either... but at least we have the option of a "private" subscription if
- : it's that important to us. To me it isn't -- the group is too heavily contrib-
- : uted to and I'd have to delete 20 screens of new messages every day. I just
- : think it's the principle of the matter, not so much the fact of the matter.
- :
- : Holonet has almost 4000 newsgroups including the alt.sex ones.
- --
- Pete Norton
- peten@well.sf.ca.us
- peten@holonet.net
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