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From: GTHEALL@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU (George A. Theall)
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Subject: RE: FIDONET ON COMPUSERV    Conf: (74) fRAINBOW
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Date: 9 Oct 89 13:05:00 GMT
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Comments: Rainbow Echomail from MAYNARD MARQUIS    Read: YES

Well, I tried CIS, even attempting to use TAPCIS on a PC to cut costs.
$3.50 later, I haven't read any messages.

I dislike the logon at 300 baud to look around, then log off and call
back at 2400 to download. I can't tell you the contortions that I have to
do to tell my HST to only crawl at 300 baud just to cut costs. Somehow, TAPCIS
logged on, got the messages I asked it to, and then deleted them before I
got a chance to read them. I tried to ask for them again, but found that CIS
thought that I have read all those messages already!

I dislike the long winded menu's that say nothing I want to read, and
use up my precious connect time. I wish that I knew the expert commands. TAPCI
with its 100 page manual didn't seem that much help either.

It seems that I get so much more done on FidoNet and it costs me so much
less. CIS sends me all this propaganda that seems designed to give me enough
information to log on but not enough to efficiently navigate their system.

$3.50 to download a comm program, find out that many DECPC LIB's have
no new software in the past few months (at least that's what it looked like
it was saying) and answer a questionaire for CIS (I hope that time was as
free as they suggested.)

I tried to send you a message, but that got messed up too.

It's hard to see why someone who couldn't take CIS as a business expense
would want to use it much unless they were isolated in Montana or something.

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated, but please send
messages in here or Email to 142/0.

Thanks.



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