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From: pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Partner status is STILL a bargain
Message-ID: <6506@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 12 Feb 89 17:29:44 GMT
References: <2576@pegasus.ATT.COM> <10330133@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Reply-To: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar)
Organization: Late Night Software (San Francisco)
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In article <10330133@accuvax.nwu.edu> bob@accuvax.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel) writes:
>> Now, do you REALLY want to pay that $300 for Applelink? What good is
>> it? Especially if you have USENET news and mail access? If you are a
>> one-man shop and worried about $600 then it seems like applelink would
>> just be a pointless waste of money. 
>
>> 				Peter Desnoyers
>
>Yes, I really do want to pay $300 for AppleLink. I almost never used it for
>mail, however. What I did use it for was getting the most recent versions of:
>
>	o Apple programs (ResEdit, MacsBug, Virus Rx)
>	o Tech Notes
>	o MPW interfaces
>	o Documentation (Sound Manager chapter, Script Manager, etc)
>	o Sample programs

      And all of this stuff come to me via mail ussually the
      same time it is released on Apple Link.  I do have to say
      getting a disk in the mail is more convenent that having
      to download it via AppleLink.

		Tim

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