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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: Online-Platinum Edition (COMMERCIAL)
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Date: 6 Jul 89 22:49:05 GMT
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In article <28132@ames.arc.nasa.gov| mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick) writes:
|In article <19042@louie.udel.EDU| detert@lognet2.af.mil (CMS David K. Detert) writes:
||I'll give you some of my thoughts }n the Platinum Edition of OnLine -- Stay
|}away until they fix it.  For example:
|[deleted all sorts of stuff regarding Online! Problems!]
|[sez Online Platinum  is unsable]
|}PS.  I would be interested in hearing from others who have had these or similar
|}problems and any word of a fixed version.  Thanks in advance.
|}
|Here! here! I found the same problems, so I have to go back to 2.0 myself.
|I haven't bothered to call them yet, since I assume their tech support line
|will be busy. . .
|If they don't get upgrades out within the next month or two, I'll probably 
|go with A-Talk, (particulary since the author is on the net, Marco).

Way back OXXI was offering A-Talk III to Online! users at $60, which was
less than the discounted mail order price. I am not sure if they still
offer this (I have no control over these things any more as a developer,
non-publisher).

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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