leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) (08/30/89)
karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: <sewall@uconnvm.bitnet writes: < Last month's "scoop" was about the Internet gateway to Compu$erve... <Perhaps I'm missing something important, but I find it very difficult <to understand how anyone can claim to have "gotten the scoop" on a bit <of information which was announced to the entire Usenet plus the <entire subscribership of info-nets@think.com some 6+ weeks ago. <Of course, I also failed to understand why the existence of the <gateway appeared in a "rumors" column (PCWeek) _after_ that same <announcement. So perhaps I'm a bit slow. Or perhaps I just don't <understand things that are ugly and media-marketing-like (with <apologies for the redundancy). Maybe it's because CIS *sdtill* hasn't announced the existence of the gateway to it's users. BTW, I somehow missed both of the announcements you mention. I read a *lot* of newsgroups, but I didn't see anything about the gateway until after reading about it the vaporware column. So much for "announced to the entire Usenet"... -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -- Solomon Short