Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!apollo!moynihan_r
From: moynihan_r@apollo.COM (Robert Moynihan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: User Networks
Message-ID: <46522e61.d3a6@apollo.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 89 13:46:00 GMT
Reply-To: moynihan_r@apollo.hp.com (Bob Moynihan)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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Okay, I finally did it.  Last week I purchased an Amiga 500 with a
few assorted extras: RAM upgrade, extra 3.5" disk, printer, & modem.

What I want to do now is join some kind of bulletin board or other
sort of network.  Compuserve is the only one I can think of off the
top of my head, I'm sure there are others.  I also wouldn't mind 
considering some way to get into internet from home.  Portal comes
to mind here, is Portal nationwide, or limited to a specific area?

Anyway, my fellow Amigites, I seek your help.  If you use Compuserve,
Portal, or anything similar to interface with some nationwide (or
even New England area) network, let me know what you use, what you
think of it, what you get out of it, how to join, and how much it 
costs.  

If you know of any I should avoid like the plague, I'm interested
in hearing that too.  

Thanks in advance for your help.  Is anyone going to say "Welcome
to the club?"

Bob

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