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Article #81Re: Why couldn't public libraries do this?
From: Gary Klein, bear at heart
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 04:47
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 04:47
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In article <BvAHpu.JB5@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, cbs@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
(Chris Syed) writes:
> In article <lc9nmjINNr88@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> tmhoff@oogoody.Corp.Sun.COM
writes:
>>>I saw an article in our local paper the other day describing a company that
>>>introduces senior citizens to the net (i.e. e-mail, listservs etc.) and
>>>provides access to them from their home.
> Odd.. I just heard a woman on "Fresh Air", the CBC radio's Sunday
> morning programme with a heavy seniors slant - she was talking about
> a "Gold and Silver" BBS designed especially for seniors. Apparently
> there are the usual conferences, plus hooks to other BBSs and
> maybe the net(?). Didn't get the phone number. Gimme a few years ;-).
FRESH AIR is produced by CBC/Toronto.
I don't have their phone number, but you could also write to them:
FRESH AIR
CBC Toronto
Post Office Box 5000
Toronto, ON M5W-1E6
P.S. For CBC fans, that postal code is:
"Make Five Weiners, I'll Eat 6"
as coined by Arthur Black
--
"Librarian, Leather bound"
Gary Klein, Business Librarian, (Univ of Toledo) * * * *
PO Box 12650 Toledo OH 43606-0250 * *
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!bgsuvax!uoft02.utoledo.edu!gklein From: gklein@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Gary Klein, bear at heart) Newsgroups: soc.libraries.talk Subject: Re: Why couldn't public libraries do this? Message-ID: <1992Sep28.234703.10222@uoft02.utoledo.edu> Date: 28 Sep 92 23:47:03 EST References: <80070@ut-emx.uucp> <lc9nmjINNr88@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> <BvAHpu.JB5@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> Organization: Carlson Library, Univ of Toledo Lines: 30