Re: UNIX newbie question

[Scott.Alfter@skunkworks.genesplicer.org (Scott Alfter)]

In article <66999@f10.n209.z1>, Ian Schmidt <irsman@iastate.edu> wrote:
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>In article <32987s$f03@crl3.crl.com> joko@crl.com (Joe Kohn) writes:
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>>To me, it's almost bizarre that there's more info posted on GEnie's A2
>>about using the Internet than there is here on c.s.a2.
>
>That's because online services are the training wheels for the Net.
>Nearly everyone starts out on GEnie or AOL and then moves on to bigger
>and better things.

I guess I'm not "nearly everyone." :-) I started out on the net
(saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu, long ago) and only got a GEnie account
when I returned home for the summer (since I didn't want to ring up
huge long-distance bills.  Now I have a Linux box that uses
Fight-O-Net to plug into the Internet ($5/month for all the news and
mail you can take, along with Fido traffic) and a GS for dialing into
GEnie.

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