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From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Plink is gone!  Come join us on Portal!
Message-ID: <43800@cup.portal.com>
Date: 29 Jun 91 05:04:44 GMT
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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People/Link is gone.  The Amiga Zone is moving to Portal.
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28 June 1991
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Dear Amiga Modem Users:
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It's with great sadness that I must inform you that People/Link 
shut its doors this afternoon and, to the best of my personal
knowledge is no longer in business.  I founded and ran (Sysoped)
the Amiga Zone Clubs on Plink for the last 6 years.  Seeing as how
the rug was pulled out from under me before I was able to announce
this to the 10000 plus members of the Zone, I'm posting it here
with the hopes that all you kind folks will pass the word around
to as many people, as quickly as possible.
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The Amiga Zone crew is moving our act to Portal.  Portal is a
multi-user realtime national dialup network similar to Plink with
many additional features: Zmodem batch file transfers, a full
Usenet newsfeed, real-time live conferencing, and soon, in the
tradition of the Amiga Zone, the best online Amiga support
anywhere.
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The entire crew of the Zone is moving to Portal with me: Dan
James, Steve Tibbett, Oran Sands, Bill Seymour, Steve Gillmor,
John Hoffman, and Jim Meyer (all Amigoids of renown in their own
right) will work with me to set up, open, expand and manage Portal's
Amiga support areas. 
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If you're a former Plink subscriber, we hope to see you on Portal
soon!  You can sign up any of these ways:
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By Voice: 1-408-973-9111 (9am-5pm Pacific Time)
By Modem: 1-408-725-0561 (24 hours)
Or just dial your local Telenet/SprintNet node and type "C PORTAL"
(without the quotes) at Telenet's "@" prompt for online signup,
rates, and more information.  Portal's rates are very low: a small
flat monthly fee for all you can "eat", a small surcharge for
access via Telenet unless you dial direct.  Users in the 408 area code
should dial direct.
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Portal is, like Plink was, a PCPursuit "DAF" (Direct Acccess
Facility). If you log into Portal with a PCPursuit account, you're
looking at an hourly equivalent rate of under $1.50/hour! 
Rate/Pricing info is available when you sign up.
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When you sign up, be sure to tell them I sent you.  I hope to see
you online on Portal soon.  It'll take us a short time to get
things up to speed but there's already a library chocked full of
Amiga files with thousands more to come in the next few weeks. 
The entire Fred Fish collection (500 disks) will soon be online in
its entirety.
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Please post this notice everywhere: your local BBSes, put it in
your User Group Newsletters, tell your friends, especially if you
or they were Plink subscribers.  Give it to 10 friends. Ask them to
do the same.
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I thank you for your time.  Keep the faith.
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Harv Laser
Portal: harv