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From: is813cs@pyr.gatech.EDU (Cris Simpson)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: U. S. Supreme Court Opinions On-Line - Can We Gateway?
Message-ID: <6318@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 23 Aug 88 03:47:12 GMT
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In article <894@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>Close, it's Lexis. 
>But can _we_ get into it?
>				--Blair
You can if you have lots of money. It takes a lot to maintain a 
system like that. The other on-line system is WestLaw, which
is far superior (IMHO) to Lexis.  Most college law libraries 
get free access to them, as a way to hook the students before they
head out to the larger world.  Some slack libraries may let
you use them. The really slack ones tape the login and password
on the terminal.

Caveat:  Lawyers think a 1200 modem is amazingly fast.

         The Mead terminals are so bad....
         You really need to see one to believe it. The keyboard
         makes the PCjr look like a Selectric(tm).

You'd be offended by what they'd get as a jury of your "peers".

-- 
||...despair! Despair I can handle, it's the hope...    J.Cleese,Clockwise ||
Cris Simpson
                  is813cs@pyr.gatech.edu               GA Tech      Atlanta,GA
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