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- From: watson@clark.edu (Dennis Watson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: * America On-Line vs. Prodigy vs. Genie...which one??
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.164822.24162@clark.edu>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 16:48:22 GMT
- Article-I.D.: clark.1992Aug12.164822.24162
- References: <SMITTIE.92Aug10102359@lark.csulb.edu> <TSLATER.92Aug11111918@zeste.nmsu.edu> <1992Aug11.155027.2424@nic.csu.net>
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- Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa. USA
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- In article <1992Aug11.155027.2424@nic.csu.net> marc@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU (Marc Matteo) writes:
- >For what it's worth I just got a subscription to AOL and it's *painfully*
- >moronic. It makes me think of the "CLIs that teach and GUIs that don't" thread
- >on the net a while back.
- >
- >After pounding around on GEnie or Compuserve
- >(without Navigater) for a while you can easily explore other BBSs without much
- >heartache. I'd hate to see a AOL veteran let loose on any other BBS. Of
- >course an exclusive AOL veteran wouldn't know how to dial a modem cause the AOL
- >software does that too.
- >
- >--
- >
- What is this hangup people have about wanting to do things the hard way????
- If you like Compu$serve without Navigator you must just LOVE Unix and DOS!
-