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From: whiz@well.sf.ca.us (Oishii Ichigo)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: What is PAN? How can I use PAN?
Keywords: PAN
Message-ID: <18854@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 3 Jul 90 16:49:22 GMT
References: <1990Jul2.013544.26764@caen.engin.umich.edu>
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PAN is a commercial BBoard service for the music industry.  It is a 
good place to communicate with music companies, musicians, and 
lots of MIDI programmers from all over the world.  They have been
trying to get more music research people on PAN but haven't had much
success.  The international representation on PAN is pretty amazing,
with people dialing in from Austraila, France, Germany, England, etc.

There is also an extensive tour support service, which many touring
bands use to stay in touch with themselves and the home office.

It is NOT the "Performing Arts Network", according to its founder,
Perry Leopold.  Just call it PAN.  You may not have heard of it,
but they've heard of you!  (I've been uploading comp.music onto
PAN for several months.)

It can be reached through Tymnet and Telenet just like compuserve, and
costs about the same: $24/hour 8AM-6PM, $12/hour 6PM-8AM. (There is a
one time sign up fee of $150 in most cases, which is waived under some
cases.  I know that Opcode gives away a fee waiver with purchase of
their products.) For more information call (215) 584-0300, or write PAN
at P.O. Box 162, Skippack, PA 19474.

Disclaimer:  I worked for Perry writing an automated Hypercard
	     front end for PAN.  It acts as a remote control
	     information agent so that you spend no time online using
	     arcane editors and commands, and all of your time
	     downloading, reading, and replying to messages through
	     effecient hypercard stacks.  Perry also has a version for
	     PC's which is functionally identical, but uses a text
	     interface.  (It works pretty good too, which is something
	     coming from a Mac-a-holic) Of course, if you *want* to
	     read the entire 50 page manual and fill your brain with
	     the details of how to use their one-of-a-kind editor and
	     message system, go right ahead.

-- 
Oishii Ichigo           | "Unhappy?  How 'bout a blast from my FUN GUN!"
Private Citizen         |  --Founding Member of Bay Area Fruit Lovers Club
Sausalito, CA           |  whiz@well.sf.ca.us ucbvax!well!whiz