kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (10/01/87)
if someone reading this has any connections to APDA it would be useful to communicate to them that their presence on this net would be highly welcomed. If nothing else, they could announce new goodies as they become available, announce delays and the reasons for it, and work on improving their image, in general. Of course, it would be nice if they would lower their prices instead, but without competition, what can you expect ..... (yes, I do think that they are more expensive than they should be. remember, that they charge a membership fee - totally unjustified, really, as their margins are quite sufficient; but that's another story ... -- INTERNET: kraut@emx.cc.utexas.edu UUCP: kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (or ...!ut-sally!ut-emx!kraut)
jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) (10/15/87)
I dunno, APDA's ability to take on additional tasks seems dubious.
For example, they have a reserved BBS area on AppleLink, and the
catalog posted there is five months out of date.
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Joel West (c/o UCSD)
Palomar Software, Inc., P.O. Box 2635, Vista, CA 92083
{ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!jww jww@sdcsvax.ucsd.edujwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell) (10/15/87)
In article <121@ut-emx.UUCP> kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes: |if someone reading this has any connections to APDA it would be useful |to communicate to them that their presence on this net would be highly |welcomed. ... APDA currently uses Compuserve for their network contact to the outside world. For a long time it was very hit and miss, but recently they've hired Curtis Snow (sp?) to monitor Compuserve contacts. I will pass this suggestion on, but it would help if someone in or near Renton, WA (where APDA is located) could offer network access. I don't think they have any UNIX boxes in-house (all blue, in case you were wondering why they are having problems :-)), so an account on a public or private machine would be needed. Can anyone help with this? |-- |INTERNET: kraut@emx.cc.utexas.edu |UUCP: kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (or ...!ut-sally!ut-emx!kraut) Jerry Whitnell It's a damn poor mind that can only Communication Solutions, Inc. think of one way to spell a word. -- Andrew Jackson
bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long) (10/17/87)
In article <121@ut-emx.UUCP> kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes: > Of course, it would be nice if >they would lower their prices instead, but without competition, what >can you expect ..... (yes, I do think that they are more expensive >than they should be. remember, that they charge a membership fee - >totally unjustified, really, as their margins are quite sufficient; >but that's another story ... Yep. That's my gripe with them and why I didn't renew. Besides the high prices and the membership fee we have a minimum shipping fee of $6.00 for guaranteed second-day delivery, while MacConnection and Programs Plus offer next-day delivery for $3.00. On top of that, the second-day delivery from APDA is a joke. They often don't get around to processing your order for a couple of weeks, so what's another couple of days. When I've ordered from MacConnection, they processed the order and put it in the mail that day. Why Apple didn't contract with MacConnection or somebody else already in the high-volume mail order business, I don't know. -- Roger L. Long FileNet Corp {hplabs,trwrb}!felix!bytebug