"What's New" Coup -- an answer from Larry Smarr

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

Date: Sun, 13 Nov 94 16:14:54 -0600
To: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu
From: pls@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Larry Smarr)


david-the "what's new" page will continue on the ncsa web server just as it
always has and will be freely available to internet users.  GNN is putting
the people on it to manage the exponentially expanding load of folks who
want ncsa to put them up on What's New. It needs professional management
and I think GNN will give the Internet that.  This is not so different from
the 20 companies that have licensed NCSA Mosaic and yet NCSA keeps a public
domain version available as well.






On 11/11/94, David Farber wrote:
>From: Laura Fillmore <laura@world.std.com>
>Subject: "What's New" Coup
>****
>The November 1 issue of "The Internet Letter" contains an article about "GNN
>Publisher to Update WWW Site List," in effect turning over a site with 3.2
>million hits per week (a tenfold increase over a year ago) to a private,
>commercial entity, which plans to implement the takeover this month and to
>sell advertising to the space, "..therein giving GNN market dominance over
>its competitors."
>