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In article <3054@cbneb.UUCP> adm@cbneb.UUCP writes:
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>>By the way, I see from articles post to the net that CompuServe seems to 
>>...
>>Do you folks think the membership is worth it? I have a 1200 baud only
>>modem and they charge a lot for connect time at that speed.
>...
>I have the same question, please post a response if you use CompuServe.
>
I have been a Compuserve subscriber for at least three years, and mainly
use it for access to MAUG, the Microneted Apple User Group.

Is it worth it?

Well, I have averaged about 40 dollars per month to that organization
over that period, or about $1400.  For this investment I have got first
crack at much of the freeware and some of the beta software.  I've gotten
free advise from some people you may have heard of: Andy Hertzfeld and 
Dennis Brothers are two people on MAUG regularly.  Apple AUTHORIZED posting
of much of their software supplement there.  Andy Hertzfeld is planning
on posting the first Beta-Release of his Switch there shortly.  

I think it is worth it.  BUT $1400 is a lot of money.

-- 
 Jim Budler
 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 (408) 982-6547
 UUCPnet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd!jimb
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> >By the way, I see from articles post to the net that CompuServe seems to 
> >have a lot of software for the Mac available from the Apple SIg.
> >Do you folks think the membership is worth it? I have a 1200 baud only
> >modem and they charge a lot for connect time at that speed.

> I have the same question, please post a response if you use CompuServe.
> 
> Wayne Pollock,	{ihnp4}!cbnap!whp


Ok, I think it is worth it.  In the first place, very little that has been
posted here was not already available on Compuserve.  There is a *lot* of
stuff there that has not made it here yet.

More importantly, however, is the ongoing discussion of Mac issues and problems
that is available there.  First-hand accounts of use of new software packages
are showing up all the time.  In fact, there is a whole section of the
MAUG (Micronetted Apple User's Group) devoted to MAC commercial software
packages.  Three of the available eight sections are devoted to the MacIntosh,
and one of those is used to disseminate info about Inside Macintosh.  All the
software supplement stuff that Apple has given to the public domain is 
available there.

I have a 300/1200 baud modem, and I just about always log on at 1200 now.
I can get on, do a quick scan of new upload files, and then start a download
of the latest gab on Mac hacking for later reading offline, and be off
in 10 minutes (or $2.00!).  As long as I don't do that every day, the monthly
charge is not too unacceptable.

This is not to say that there aren't problems, however!  The system C'Serve uses
is a kludge compared to the stuff we unix user's are used to.  I don't think 
that should stop anyone, however!

Kim Helliwell
hplabs!analog!kim