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From: lwv27@CAS.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: info for the masses
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Date: 4 Feb 91 17:16:00 GMT
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Reply-To: Larry W. Virden <osu-cis!chemabs!lwv27>
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.


Another good reason for the pay services is that there is much more software
available there than on Internet.  I would guess that less that 30% of the
files uploaded to AOL/CIS/Genie ever make it to Internet.  On the other hand,
probably more than 70% of the files first posted to Internet make it to the
services.  The odds of one finding what one wants is much higher on a
info service than on Internet.

One other reason is that one has a much greater chance of discussing things
with the authors
of the most frequently used games, utilities, etc. on one of the pay services
than of finding them posting here on comp.sys.apple2.  This group is great
for discussing things with lots of different folks, but you for instance
no longer find Jason Harper here, never encountered Glen Bredon here,
won't see Roger Wagner here, and seldom see the folks from Beagle Brothers.
On the other hand, when I had the $$, I talked to these folks all the time
on Compuserve.
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