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Article #44Re: FYI - USWest wasting our money again
From: Jan Vilhuber
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 00:31
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 00:31
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In article <1992Sep15.222805.2392@mercury.cair.du.edu> elesatz@diana.cair.du.edu (Eric LeSatz) writes: >Hook that USWest thing to the net. If systems like CARL can be on >there why can't the phone book? > Coz CARL is plain text, and the directory is not, and will not be. As I was explaining to Andrew yesterday (unsucessfully?): You can't market something to the general public, that doesn't look nice and graphical. Otherwise we would still be using CPM, if that's what people liked. People like graphical things. -- Jan Vilhuber | Internet: jvilhube@du.edu or jvilhube@[130.253.1.4] (The skydivin' Bass) | Bitnet : jvilhube@DUCAIR --------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!boulder!csn!copper!mercury.cair.du.edu!diana.cair.du.edu!jvilhube From: jvilhube@diana.cair.du.edu (Jan Vilhuber) Newsgroups: nyx.misc,du.general,co.general Subject: Re: FYI - USWest wasting our money again Message-ID: <1992Sep16.003143.3431@mercury.cair.du.edu> Date: 16 Sep 92 00:31:43 GMT References: <1992Sep14.163601.15895@mercury.cair.du.edu> <1992Sep15.143046.12702@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Sep15.222805.2392@mercury.cair.du.edu> Sender: news@mercury.cair.du.edu (netnews) Distribution: co Organization: University of Denver, Denver, Colorado Lines: 15