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| Winter/Spring 1998  Usenet, The Unsung Hero of the Internet  Vol 8 No 1 |
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   "A large part of the success of Usenet is due to the fact 
   that its admins. do *not* generally quash argument and
   unpopular opinion. This made it a crucible for testing 
   ideas and opinions in one of the closest approaches to the
   `marketplace of ideas' that has been seen in history."
                                                Gregory G. Woodbury

                            Table of Contents
                                    
   [1] Interview with Tom Truscott. . . . . . . . . . . . . (27,816 bytes) 
   [2] Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 6,423 bytes) 
   [3] Factsheet Five: ACN Vol 7 No 2 . . . . . . . . . . . ( 1,564 bytes)
   [4] Cooperative Nature of Usenet . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 4,076 bytes) 
   [5] Creating Broadsides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (19,027 bytes) 
   [6] History of the Net is Important. . . . . . . . . . . (27,866 bytes) 
   [7] Netizens: Review of Reviews. . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 7,038 bytes) 
   [8] Book Reviews: Netizens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 6,946 bytes) 
   [9] Community in k12.chat.teacher. . . . . . . . . . . . (39,378 bytes) 
  [10] Wiener and Licklider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (17,202 bytes) 
  [11] Amateur Computerist Index: 1988-1998 . . . . . . . . ( 6,257 bytes)

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Reprinted from the Amateur Computerist Vol 8 No 1 Winter/Spring 1998. The whole
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