Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!well!sirius
From: sirius@well.UUCP (Mike Stilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PORTAL
Summary: Rich, we all KNOW you hate portal, but keep with the facts.
Keywords: Portal
Message-ID: <10441@well.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 89 00:26:56 GMT
References: <11300005@hpfclr.HP.COM> <10935@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: sirius@well.UUCP (Mike Stilson)
Followup-To: /dev/null
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <10935@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>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;

Rich, have you ever been on there?  How does it automatically reduce your IQ?
It's rather different, but I happen to think that Unix is rather simple..  And
rn is much less complicated while being much more cryptic than portal.

>>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 do you need shell access for if you just want to read/post messages?
Admittedly, shell access is very nice for breaking up shar/uuencoded/etc files,
but even that can be gotten around easily if you have half a brain.

In any case, most of us DO ask & yell for shell access there..


>>What else is on PORTAL?
>
>Gaggles of giggling teenagers.

Sorry, you must be thinking of CI$ here..

They have a large number of sigs there, for nearly every subject you want.
And a rather unique chat area, where contrary to what Mr Sexton says, there 
are many rather relevant discussions (and lots of meaningless BS, also.. but
since when is talking to others such a minus for a system?).


>>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.

It's also annoying to try to get through to, which you can spend a LOT of time
doing.  Portal's accessable via Telenut/PCP  (C PORTAL,id,pa), and usually
isn't busy.


>richard@gryphon.COM


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