Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!elroy!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PORTAL
Summary: A SERIOUS DILEMMA FOR THE NET
Message-ID: <10935@gryphon.COM>
Date: 20 Jan 89 05:01:21 GMT
References: <11300005@hpfclr.HP.COM>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <11300005@hpfclr.HP.COM> guest@hpfclr.HP.COM (Guest account) writes:
>I am thinking about buying a membership to PORTAL.  I sort want to know what
>my $10 bucks buys me.

Your $10 buys you, expressed in `C':

		IQ -= 50;

>Does acces to USENET give one access to these notes files? 

Yes, but not shell access. Portal users protected from the harsh bitter
realities of UNIX.

>What else is on PORTAL?

Gaggles of giggling teenagers.

>One of my main reasons for wanting to access PORTAL is to be able to read 
>these notes files outside of work.  

Try killer in tejas. It's unix. It's free.

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