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From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Online services for Mac users
Message-ID: <115@stech.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 06:05:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: stech.115
Posted: Wed Aug  5 06:05:58 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Aug-87 06:42:51 EDT
References: <24782@sun.uucp>
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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in article <24782@sun.uucp>, mlwh%sphinx@Sun.COM (Martin Hall) says:
> 
> I thought that I would give a quick tally of what I have received so far
> on my tally of Online services.....nobody has mentioned MCI mail, while
> they have nothing specific about Macs, I would be curious to hear
> more....The actual responses follow the tally.
> 
> 
Here's another response.  I regret not being able to mail it, but the software
I'm using can't reverse the path for mail on anything that doesn't have a uucp
address (the stuff with @'s in it won't work ...)

At any rate, for Mac stuff I use USENET and CompuServe.  If I need to send
a message to Apple Developer Services using MCI mail, I actually send it from
CompuServe.

I'm new to USENET and hesitate to make judgements after only a couple of weeks.
My first impressions are that people are earnest and knowledgeable, but that
there aren't the vendors and developers that one finds on CompuServe.  It is,
however, the only way for me to get Mac PD software on my bbs computer (a 3B2),
since my Mac won't talk to the 3B2 (modem problems).

CompuServe has been excellent.  I've gotten more work (writing) from contacts
I've made there than all the money I've spent.  For example, that's where
MacUser found me and asked me to write a review of 4th Dimension for the 
November issue.  The pay for that one article will be twice what I spend on
CompuServe in a year ...  I don't use their data libraries, since I get PD
disks through the mail from the Boston Computer Society.

Scholastech, the group for which I operate a bbs, has accounts on things like
Biznet, Future, Channel and Softline, local bbs's which have MS-DOS PD      
software - the idea is to expand our collection - but I don't use them
personally (having a built-in prejudice against anything that's not a Mac ...)

Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
seiso!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop

A plea to all readers: please put uucp paths in your messages so people like
me can mail responses to you !!!!