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From: jdg@elmgate.UUCP (Jeff Gortatowsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: CES Summary
Message-ID: <554@elmgate.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Jan-87 09:40:19 EST
Article-I.D.: elmgate.554
Posted: Mon Jan 19 09:40:19 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Jan-87 00:20:13 EST
References: <870115-133608-1094@Xerox> <1514@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: jdg@aurora.UUCP (Jeff Gortatowsky)
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY
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In article <1514@lsuc.UUCP> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
>     The alternative is to use the commercial systems.  As the moderator of
>the OS-9 conference on BIX I have a direct interest in seeing BIX attract
>new users, but long before I was a moderator on BIX I was a user of CIS,
>the Source and Dow Jones.  I was *not* rich.  I just used them sparingly.
>I tried (fairly successfully) to keep my online to less than $50.00/month
>which I could barely afford, and benefited greatly from my contact with
>the people I met there.  The choice is yours.
>
>Cheers! -- Jim O.

The interesting point you brought up here is when you wrote 'I was *not*
rich'.  Either you are now, or moderators use BIX for nothing.  Although
I've heard that BIX has the highest quality of tech info of any of the
pay services.  Too bad that McGraw-Hill priced it right out of the range
of some of us who could use it and contribute to it.

Me?  I use the net and PLINK.  I look to the net for technical meat, and
PLINK for social potatos.  BIX?  Well I can afford to read the best of
BIX column in Byte and that's it.

BTW. I agree that Atari's doing an OK job spreading info almost
everywhere they can.


-- 
Jeff Gortatowsky       {allegra,seismo}!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jdg
Eastman Kodak Company  
<Kodak won't be responsible for the above comments, only those below>