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From: tdn@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA (Thomas Newton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: YAMR (Yet Another Mac Request)
Message-ID: <409@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 15:19:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-s.409
Posted: Sun Aug  4 15:19:25 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 01:37:45 EDT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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1.  You can get the "phone-book" edition of Inside Macintosh for $25.
    The loose-leaf edition went down in price from $150 to $100 a while
    back, but will go away (if it hasn't already) to be replaced by a
    hardback edition sometime in the fall.

2.  Why don't you subscribe to Compuserve yourself?  Unlike the Source,
    there is no minimum monthly fee -- if you don't use any connect time
    or storage space during a month, you don't get billed for anything.
    I get the impression from your offer to supply disks that you think
    connect time is free to subscribers.  It isn't.  Being a subscriber
    just means that you can log on and run up connect time bills...

    (An interesting sidenote is that the "Welcome to MAUG" article and
     the documentation on FreeTerm that came with the final Supplement
     talk about how you can get an account number and password free and
     say that membership in MAUG is free.  Nowhere is there any mention
     of how much connect time costs; the closest Apple comes to giving
     you a hint that participating in MAUG is not free after all are a
     couple of sentences:  "Keep in mind that entering your User ID is
     similar to printing your name on a check, but giving the password
     is like signing the check.  Never give anyone your password." and
     "participation is through telecommunications on the Compuserve
     Information Services Network")


                                        -- Thomas Newton
                                           Thomas.Newton@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA