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From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Best Commercial BBS for Mac Programmers (WHICH?)
Message-ID: <19029@cup.portal.com>
Date: 1 Jun 89 06:59:29 GMT
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I agree with Chuq on this one.  CIS has a nicer interface than GEnie.
The problem with GEnie is that there is too much!  With CIS, I can
log in, do a "quick scan" of the forums I am interested in, while
capturing the text, log out, look at my scan, note which articles
I want to read, log back in, use the "read individual" command
to grab the articles that looked interesting, and then log out.

GEnie seems to me to be much more inflexible.  It would be fine
if I wanted to read all new things that have appeared since I
last was on, but I don't.  I want to be more selective.

Someone once described this to me as the "news vs. notes" issue,
and having used both news and notes, I think they were accurate.
The bottom line is that I have found that GEnie gives me more
information that I don't want.  CIS is easier to weed out the
junk on.

If I'm looking for something to download, however, GEnie is the
place to go first.  ( Well, actually, Portal is the place to
go first ).

					Tim Smith