Re: A2C Subscription

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <dirk-2404951002520001@muffin.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de>,
Dirk Froehling <dirk@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> In article <D7FEyn.AsH@actrix.gen.nz>, dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz
> (David Empson) wrote:
> 
> > Likewise - I sent in a couple of applications (I also had part of a
> > Script-Central subscription left) and haven't heard anything since.
> > Anyone in the USA had any luck?  Anyone outside the USA?

I got my first issue a day after I posted that.  :-)

> I used to subscribe to A2-Central and Script-Central, and I got two
> replacement issues from the Cobb Group last week. One was a disk with
> share/freeware, one a printed magazine, both for the Mac. Not that
> overwhelming... 

I ordered the "Inside the Internet" magazine and one other one that I
forget (it hasn't arrived yet).  "Inside the Internet" is a little
thin in size (16 pages).  The issue I've just received (Vol. 2, No. 4,
April 1995) has a lead article describing ISDN, which was quite good
if you didn't know much about ISDN.

Other material:

- Pointers to material avaiable on Internet for several minor topics of
interest.

- An article about Prodigy (I haven't read it).

- An article about MPEG (only relevant to the Mac, PC and UNIX/VMS).

- An article about working with Gopher.

- A summary of UNIX Gopher client commands.

- A discussion on URL syntax.

- Some background information on the GIF kerfuffle (re the UNISYS
patent), and "PNG" (Portable Network Graphics), a supposed
replacement, also known as GIF-24 (first I've heard of it).

- A glossary.


In future issues they are promising:

- A modem primer.
- E-mail tips.
- ISDN product reviews.
- Netscape's extended HTML tags.
- PGP (Pretty Good Privacy).
- PPP.


All in all, it is somewhat of a low-end magazine, aimed at newish
Internet users and those who have only explored limited areas.

I have 11 more issues to go...
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand