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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What are some good bulletin boards??
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Date: 5 Feb 88 01:05:24 GMT
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In article <1655@ssc-vax.UUCP> dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) writes:
>I'm hunting for a good bulletin board.  Here's what I'd like to find:
>1)  A bulletin board where I can get answers to programming questions on Amiga.
>2)  A bulletin board with a wealth of PD software.
>3)  A bulletin board that supports more than one user at a time.  
>	(I hate having to call 15 times to get through).

Well, bulletin boards have this problem, which is the number of people they
can profitably draw on. Basically, when you find somewhere that is busy
you tend to stay there rather than look around. The best place for Amiga
questions and answers is definitely BIX. Unfortunately, that is expensive
too. They don't have a whole bunch of PD software though, (although that
might change now that uploading time is free, except for tymenet charges).

>I have heard PeopleLink mentioned on the Net quite a few times, but I know
>nothing at all about it.

PeopleLink, Genie, and Compuserve, are all pay per hour conference systems.
I haven't used them so I don't know how they stack up. (I don't get enough
sleep as it is :-()

--Chuck McManis
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