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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Re: FCC considering "modem fees" again
- Message-ID: <63148@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 23:28:42 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <rlcarr.04qa@animato.network23.com> <1T9FoB6w164w@zswamp.UUCP>
- <62802@cup.portal.com> <3417@faatcrl.UUCP> <Bs2KD7.9q@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- <3436@faatcrl.UUCP>
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- I do NOT work for or know anyone at Portal personally. I am only a happy
- customer who feels like he knows two of the best kept secrets.
- 1. The Amiga is a great system and
- 2. Portal is the best value for any Amiga user, period.
-
- >
- > No matter how bad some others make out the high cost of CIS over their
- >cheaper systems, the one benefit you have is the ability to use automated
- --- -------
- >messaging programs like TapCIS for the PeeCee or Whap! for the Amiga. Both
- >are supported online there and can really make for some economical messaging,
- >so long as you resist downloading and save that for a local BBS or new Fish
- >disk.
-
- Portal now has, or will within days, have an automated downloader, mail
- reader/writer that works for both local Portal mail AND usenet mail (I'm
- using it now). You can use your own favorite editor to write messages (I'm
- using CEDPro)! Known as PortalX, it was written by Steve Tibett (of VirusX,
- ScreenX, etc.) and is available from and supported by Portal. It is fully
- intuitionized as well as full keyboard support and works well with 2.0 and
- 2.1.
-
- So much for that "one" benefit.
-
- >
- > Another plus, especially people like me who are not local to a Tymnet or
- >Telenet indial is the fact the CIS often has a local indial that doesn't add
- >another few dollars per hour to the connection.
-
- I use PCPursuit at $30 for 30 hours of monthly connect time to Portal, no
- additional comm charges. There is also a 60 hour at $50. (This is at
- 9600bps in Chicago, no extra charge.) Otherwise it would be about $5 an
- hour for connect per hour after 6pm. Much less than the CIS charge without
- those "few extra dollars." Still, I would also like to see more telenet
- nodes in place. This would be nice for folks out in the sticks. Also, you
- can use Tymnet as well.
-
- Check out Portal, I guarantee you won't be disappointed. Remember also that
- the famous PeopleLink SIG moved lock stock and barrel to Portal.
-
- -Joel
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- ========================================================================
- / Joel E. Swan....Pres./...Media Specialties, Ltd., Oak Forest, IL.USA /
- / & Senior Producer..../...Moody Broadcasting Network, Chicago, IL. USA /
- / Portal ID: joeles..../...joeles@cup.portal.com /
- ========================================================================
- ***** PORTAL NOW SUPPORTS TELNET, IRC AND FTP ACCESS TO ITS USERS! *****
- FOR $1/HOUR AT 9600BPS! (w/PCPursuit)
-