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- From: rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan)
- Subject: Re: Can someone post how to ask Microsoft a question on Compuserve
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.163029.29642@panix.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:30:29 GMT
- References: <1gl1hjINNp71@news.aero.org>
- Organization: Panix, NYC
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- As a rule, Microsoft will not answer mail sent to their Compu$erve accounts
- from non-Compu$erve users (presumably because it costs Compu$erve users extra
- to read mail from Internet). The general procedure for asking questions,
- though, is not to send mail, but rather to post to the appropriate forum.
- There is no way to post to or read from any forum without logging on to
- Compu$erve directly with your own, personal CIS userid.
-
- The short answer to your question is "you can only do it from your
- Compu$erve account". You can contact Microsoft's Product Support
- Services (PSS), 1-800-227-4679 for details on various other support
- options. They include telephone assistance (for C/C++ it is
- 1-206-635-7007), Microsoft Download Services (1-206-936-6735).
-
- While Compu$erve seems to have taken steps to make their system more
- reasonable (a flat $8 per month with no usage fees) for basic services
- (news, encyclopedia, stock prices, etc), extended services like Microsoft's
- forums still incur hourly rates (roughly $23/hour at 9600bps, $13/hour at
- 2400 and 1200bps, and $7/hour at 300bps) and are prohibitive for individual
- users like us. With smart computing techniques (writing messages off-line
- and transmitting them quickly when you log on) you can minimize bills, but
- you still can't afford to sit and browse the system.
-
- If you have a CD system, you can also look into Microsoft's Developer Network
- CD, which is $30 (I think). You can call the 1-800 number to get details.
-
- --
- Rob Ryan
- rryan@panix.com
-