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Subject:Re: What to do in CyberSpace From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 28 May 1993 10:41:39 PDT
sanders_j -at- TBOSCH -dot- DNET -dot- GE -dot- COM said:
> In reply to Karen (@netcom.com, no last name, so I use the InternNet default
> value), some of the people using and interacting with the Net only have the
> most peripheral access to it.
Then nothing, even better help files, will increase access to the net.
> Yes, it is much more polite to simply help yourself, rather than bother
> some-
> one else for it, but if you don't have a choice...?
These books exist in hardcover, in bookstore. I guess that I am basing
my reaction on how I have felt in the past when people asked me for things
that they could get themselves.
> In any event, similar information on where to mail away for information,
> particularly on such topics as using the InterNet, are also of great interest
> to me, for simple curiosity reasons.
Then read alt.internet.services, or the equivalent bitnet group (whose
name escapes me).
