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From: kenh@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Ken Hillen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Yellow Pages Online
Message-ID: <10453@pogo.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 91 16:04:02 GMT
References: <1991Feb6.235121.12951@athena.mit.edu> <3322@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: kenh@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Ken Hillen)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.
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>Didn't this group offer a free copy of the disk to people who sent
>a form in by a certain date last year? I sent my form in and never
>heard back. What happened to that offer? Did anyone else receive a
>copy? If so, how useful do you find it and is it worth my paying for?
>These people haven't made a favorable impression on me yet and I'm
>wondering just how long a _free_ online service would stay that way.
>
>Comments?

I also sent in a form and many months later received a letter asking for $10
to receive my free disk!  I foolishly sent them the money and again after a
wait of several months received a disk with very out of date and incomplete
information.  Most of the hardware making up my system was not listed in the
database.  Some of the software I own was not in the list, and old version
numbers were listed for some of the things that were.  The disk (which I 
received in late November) had a creation date from sometime during the
summer.  Accompanying the disk was a subscription form to get update disks 
on a regular basis.  Updates were something like $15 per disk.  Sorry I can't
be more specific.  I erased the disk and used it for something else, and I
threw away the subscription form.

Ken Hillen
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