Re: NAUG and the net?

[edward@pro-ren.cts.com (Edward Floden)]

In <CJ8pBC.F7A@freenet.carleton.ca>
ai848@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (T A Sallade) writes:

>Why doesn't the National Appleworks Users Group take part or use the Usenet
>to contact it's members or at least be a gateway to their BBS to post 
>messages or questions? I noticed that the sister org. CWUG also avoids the 
>Internet. 

Because NAUG has contracts with some online services (CompuServe and GEnie, at
least, and maybe America OnLine), and the cost of using those services, to
NAUG, is really cheap. If they used the Internet, they'd be paying for access,
and that's probably too expensive for them.