Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!johnsone From: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: WANTED: America Online OPINIONS Message-ID: <1991May25.063222.26802@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 25 May 91 06:32:22 GMT References: <1991May22.065212.29985@agate.berkeley.edu>> <1991May23.024406.3740@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991May23.125934.10345@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991May24.070946.27644@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 18 I, johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson), wrote: >dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes: >>One thing I don't hear people saying is why they bother to pay >>for these services when they have the Internet. What do you get >>from AOL that you don't from the Internet? > >Furthermore, some "official" Mac software is not (legally) available simply >through ftp/Internet/comp.sys.mac.* but AOL is licensed to distribute said >software. Case in point: ResEdit 2.1. Well, Mark Johnson at Apple just put ResEdit 2.1 and Macsbug 6.2.1 on ftp.apple.com, so this last argument has just lost a bit of weight. Erik A. Johnson, Graduate Student \ Internet: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering \ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign \ AmericaOnline: ErikAJ