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From: mjm@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy Behrens)
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Subject: Re: Nynex Gateway Bites the Dust
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Date: 16 Feb 91 03:47:35 GMT
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> Nynex Corp. said yesterday (Monday) it will pull the plug on a computer
> information service [Info-Look] that has lost several million dollars.

I doubt it'll be missed.  Here's one of the services offered, as
described in a flyer that Nynex sent me last year:

    ---------------------------------------------------------------
			  G O   T A R O T

	      Type GO TAROT to see your future with
		     Sphinx Tarot Card Reader
		  on the NYNEX INFO-LOOK Gateway!

    * General Tarot gives an overview of the next 8 weeks of your
      life (6 themes).

    * Astrological Tarot describes the next 12 weeks of your life
      in detail (12 themes).

    * Focused Tarot offers insight to a specific current issue of
      your choosing (6 themes).

    Our unconscious is a natural psychic, somehow capable of
    choosing a card which addresses our questions, even if the
    "card" is electronic, so to speak.  The TAROT cards in this
    service match those used by professional psychics!
    
   [You will need Minitel emulation software to access this service]
    ---------------------------------------------------------------

Maybe they should have done a reading to find out if the stars and
planets were favorably aligned for starting up a bulletin-board
system.


Andy