sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) (01/31/90)
ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: >In article <199@modcomp.UUCP> srp@modcomp.UUCP (Steve Pietrowicz) writes: >>As far as I know, no other on-line service has this ability, and previous >>followups to this message seem to confirm this. >> > The WELL is a commercial system that has UUCP access both via mail > You can also get mail into and out of Portal, another commercial D.I.S.K. is another online information service. (still small but we are trying!) Based on unix, like Portal or the Well, we offer in addition to multiplayer games, full shell and usenet access. You can send and recieve mail from D.I.S.K. by normal UUCP mail paths (i.e. user@disk.UUCP) -- John Sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps. Accessable via Starlink (Louisville KY) sparks@corpane.UUCP <><><><><><><><><><><> D.I.S.K. ph:502/968-5401 thru -5406 Help fight continental drift.
john.russell@canremote.uucp (JOHN RUSSELL) (01/31/90)
Canada Remote Systems (CRS) also has a Usenet gateway and echoes to many Canadian BBS systems. Many of the Canadian authors are on here. Mail that comes in to canremote.uucp for specific users is mixed in with the news articles, but viewable by the receiver only. John --- ~ Via ProDoor 3.2aR
doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) (02/01/90)
In article <1376@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes: >ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: >>In article <199@modcomp.UUCP> srp@modcomp.UUCP (Steve Pietrowicz) writes: >>>As far as I know, no other on-line service has this ability, and previous >>> >> The WELL is a commercial system that has UUCP access both via mail > >D.I.S.K. is another online information service. (still small but we are trying!) >Based on unix, like Portal or the Well, we offer in addition to multiplayer Ok, ok...by now I'm sure it's clear that if it's based on Unix, odds are that the commercial service allows email. I think that what Steve meant originally were the huge national online services. It's difficult to draw a clean line between those and smaller commercial services that offer national service due to PC Pursuit/Telenet access, but there's some fuzzy distinction, at least. Although the big ones may have a "full range of services" like stock quotes and data base searches, they usually screw up on the "little" things like email and Usenet connectivity, something the little guys are more likely to offer. Seizing this opportunity for a favorite flame of mine: why is it that all of these online services have user interfaces that absolutely SUCK??! I know, all of you fans out there have gotten used to them and have forgotten how much trouble they are...human beings are infinitely adaptable. But we're in the 90's now, and most of them are using 60's style user interfaces. Genie is the worst offender I've seen, but they're *all* bad. I haven't seen Compuserve's interface for years, but the fact that they're still using numeric user id's is very telling. Same with GE's ads for Genie...the instructions for how to access them reflect the primitive nature of their software. Portal (a little guy) has some nice ideas but is inconvenient as hell in practice. The Well at least lets you drop into the underlying Unix if you want to, but that's still a poor reason not to provide a good user interface...their's is better than most but still not especially great. Apple, on the other hand, has really Done It Right with Applelink...a service very limited in scope, but with a beautiful user interface. Fully iconic, very intuitive. Prodigy sounds like a nice idea, although I've heard some complaints from users, so it may not have been implemented as nicely as the concept sounds. And small scale BBS software...that's the worst. Absolutely primitive. Kludgy. Hard to navigate. Extremely modal. Arbitrarily partitioned. Minimal command sets. And every time some enterprising hacker writes their own BBS software, they still seem to model the user interface on what they're used to, which is the same old awful stuff. About eight years ago I was a regular on Big Tree (in the Santa Cruz mountains), the only BBS I've ever seen that had a tolerable user interface. (This is to say that it *is* possible to do it nicely even in a text-only slow baud environment.) It had its problems, but the author/sysop cared very deeply about user interface, and it showed. Most of these other services/BBS's seem to have been deeply influenced by JCL. Doug -- Doug Merritt {pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug Member, Crusaders for a Better Tomorrow Professional Wildeyed Visionary
bjordan@usceast.UUCP (Billy Jordan,1980) (02/05/90)
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I hope someone out in netland can help with this problem:
For reasons better left unmentioned, an external floppy was unplugged from
my Amiga 500 while it was powered up and the cpu A500 was dropped approx.
5 inches. Now the internal drive will not poll and look for the disk.
However, if a disk (workbench) is in the drive at power up or warm
reboot it will load up just fine. The local Official Amiga Store thinks
that the internal drive is shot and I need to order another from Commodore.
Has anyone else out there heard of a similar problem??
PLEASE HELLLLPPPP!!!! I need my computer for class. Just in case I
need a news drive, does anyone have one they would like to sell ( a A2000
int. drive will not fit into the case) or maybe a dead A500 sitting around
gathering dust.
Thanks in advance,
WFJ
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