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From: JerryK@cup.portal.com (Jerry E Kindall)
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Subject: Re: A2-central...AUGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!
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Date: 26 Aug 89 00:53:18 GMT
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To add to the growing dispute over A2-Central, I should point out that A2-
Central does indeed promise ALL your money back if you're not satisfied.  It's
printed in the boilerplate on the back of each and every newsletter.

Tom, have you written to A2-Central?  (I can understand not wanting to call
them; that might cost more than you paid for the subscription.)  Could it be
possible that they made (gasp) a MISTAKE?  Hey, we all make them... the A2-
Central staff is responsible and dedicated to fixing their mistakes.

I personally think A2-Central is great.  The two examples cited (one about
ShrinkIt and the other about AppleWorks 3.0) were quite good articles.  If you
didn't have access to online information resources would you have known about
ShrinkIt at all?  And the AppleWorks 3.0 article was the FIRST report on AW
3.0 published anywhere.  (If you saw it in InCider before A2-Central, the
postal service messed up.  That particular A2-Central arrived in my mailbox
almost a whole week before AW 3.0 was even officially announced!)

I will admit that since I got my modem, A2-Central has lost some of its
edge.  With a modem, I now have access to information as it is available,
not two months after it is available.  So maybe that's why it didn't meet
your high expectations.  But it sure does meet a lot of other peoples'
expectations.

Tom, if you haven't contacted A2-Central about this yet, I'll be happy to
do so.  In fact, I'll forward this entire message thread to Tom Weishaar.
I'm sure he'll see that you're taken care of as soon as possible.

/\    Jerry Kindall    | JerryK@cup.portal.com
  \/  Death to COBOL   | GEnie: A2.JERRY   ALink: A2 Jerry

Disclaimer: I sort of work for A2-Central, in a very roundabout way:
I'm an assistant in GEnie's A2 RoundTable, which is managed by A2-Central.
I don't get paid for my work there except in free time, and nobody
is paying me to write this message.  (In fact, I'm paying to write it
because I use a pay Usenet service.)  I do not report directly to Tom
Weishaar or other A2-Central staffers on GEnie.  And I was a satisfied
A2-Central subscriber for a long while before I became a GEnie user
(and MUCH later, a sysop).