Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pro-exchange.cts.com!sschneider From: sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com (The RainForest BBS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: AppleLink Message-ID: <8910070813.AA16725@trout.nosc.mil> Date: 7 Oct 89 00:07:35 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 38 Comment to message from: m2c!wpi!dseah@husc6.harvard.edu (David I Seah) Thanks for the reply... Not only did the "user interface" grind me a bit but at least =50%= of the time (=NO= exaggeration!) the software would lock up in the first screen after logon and I'd have to drop carrier and relog on again. It really got to be a hassle. I did notice that most of the people "honking the horn" for AppleLINK were freebee account users (for whatever reason)... hey; for *FREE* I don't bite the hand that feeds me either. One of the online news services (BPS to be exact) ran a blurb in their latest that Online America was looking for 25,000 Apple users to beta their software and would have some free time on the system and provided a 1-800 number as well as a normal number for access/info.. So I called... HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA... "No, we don't offer any testing of software or free time but we'd be happy to sell you.........."; I said thank you and hung up... =ONE OF THESE DAYS=.... someone is going to offer unlimited access to information at 19.2K bps with no stupid interface for $25 a month... sign me up as USER #1 ! /steve ============================================================================== "The only thing 'stupid' about one's quest for information is the 'dog and pony show one must go through to gain such knowledge....." --/sschneider ============================================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | UUCP: crash!pro-exchange!sschneider COMPU$ERVE : 75166,2544 | | ARPA: crash!pro-exchange!sschneider@nosc.mil GENIE : sschneider | | INET: sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com * My son is a Georgia Tech freshman | | I work for Xerox Corporation for decent bucks but dream of Palto Alto RC | | The RainForest @ 305-434-4927 / PO Box 841422, Pembroke Pines, Fl, 33084 | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------