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Article #17299Re: Why Canadians Are Superior To Americans
From: jeffrey carroll
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 00:00
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Dr. Michael Mancini (mancini@starbase.neosoft.com) wrote:
: So if you can cope with Windiows, you should be a shoe-in for
: the point-n-click world of America On Line.
^^^^^^^
this is my favorite coinage of the week. I just wish I could believe it was
intentional.
: Steve Case is a fucking
: genius! He's found a way to package bullshit on 3.5 inch diskettes and
: market it to the public. And whoever said the public would never
: knowingly buy bullshit.
I'll take your word for the capabilities of Steve Case's steaming wand,
but I wish to politely demur, as follows:
a) Please define "bullshit".
b) What Steve Case has done mostly is find a way to provide the public with
an endless supply of free floppy disks. My experience has been that the people
out of whom he needs to construct a long-term core to his business use AOL
as an entree to the net, and eventually migrate to other providers who more
specifically and economically meet their needs.
jkc (ITSF, WI)
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