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- From: tsait@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Theodore Leonard Tsai)
- Subject: Re: r.a.a. widely known?
- Message-ID: <p162brk@rpi.edu>
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <C09G1L.7x4@jrd.dec.com> <1993Jan3.070819.7127@netcom.com> <1993Jan3.101242.16686@netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 15:15:14 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1993Jan3.101242.16686@netcom.com> genef@netcom.com (Gene Fornario) writes:
- >
- >How would you rate r.a.a. as compared to other anime forums on your other
- >online services?
- >
- >Gene--
- >
- >
- >--
- >genef@netcom.com
-
- Well, I tried GEnie for a month during the summer when I was away from my
- school account (on their 'money back if not satisfied' guarantee). I
- thought it was a decent service, especially for the price, but the way
- the anime discussion groups were split into so many sections kind of
- was a pain. But that's just me talking. Lots of other people might
- appreciate the way they could cut a lot of the noise out just by not
- reading certain topics in a RT. It didn't really suit my taste is all.
- Also, traffic was kind of slow. While on r.a.a., within 24 hours you can
- almost count on 120+ showing up, it took GEnie's group 2 or even 3
- days to get that kind of traffic going.
- But GEnie had a lot of other groups which were better, IMHO. The
- rec.arts.comics.misc group here pales in comparison to the one on GEnie.
- And for Wild Cards readers, almost all of the authors of that series have
- GEnie accounts (in fact, there is one RT where they plan their stories.
- But, it's off limits to everyone but the authors-- no eavesdropping).
- Melinda Snodgrass and George RR Martin are frequent contributors to
- the Wild Cards discussion groups.
- But you asked about r.a.a. I'd take r.a.a. over the GEnie anime RT,
- but everything else on GEnie compares very favorably.
-
- Ted Tsai
- tsait@rpi.edu
-
-