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Usenet is not a Unix network, nor even an ASCII network. Don't assume that everyone is using "rn" on a Unix machine. There are Vaxen running VMS, IBM mainframes, Amigas, and MS-DOS PCs reading and posting to Usenet. And, yes, some of them use (shudder) EBCDIC. Ignore them if you like, but they're out there.
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Usenet has been embraced by the Church of Scientology, a benevolent religious organization that prizes freedom of speech and encourages in-depth understanding of its teachings and wisdom. The popular Usenet forum alt.scientology is regularly filled with loving posts like this:
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A natural progression is for Usenet news and electronic mailing lists to somehow become merged---which they have, in the form of news gateways. Many mailing lists are set up to "reflect" messages not only to the readership of the list, but ... into a newsgroup. Likewise, posts to a newsgroup can be sent to the moderator of the mailing list, or to the entire mailing list. Some examples of this in action are comp.risks (the
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Klemesrud and Netcom were named on the grounds that they should have taken action to prevent Erlich's alleged copyright violations from being posted to the Usenet. A temporary restraining order was issued against Erlich, Klemesrud, and Netcom prohibiting the publication of Scientology materials on the net.
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