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Joel, Don't you think its a little ridiculous sending this message to tech diver? Tech diver already has the world's best tech and cave divers on it, and can be used to do anything its readers desire. Compuserve is a low powered playtoy for the computer illiterate, who might otherwise be unable to operate online. When compuserve offers access fees similar to most internet providers, without raping members for premium services (the cableTV concept of online services), and when compuserve members are provided with Netscape equivalent web browsers instead of the low tech garbage of the last year, then Compuserve has a right to be mentioned on the internet. Until then, its an example of a big company taking advantage of uneducated consumers, promising the world, but delivering sub standard services. And I'd like to hear your response to this. Dan >Roger, > >Compuserve (CIS) has a Scuba forum which is only accessible through the CIS >online service. It is a comprehensive forum dedicated to all aspects of >diving from snorkeling to technical, cave and commercial diving. The >membership of the forum has recently passed 40,000 members and continues to >grow. The Cave and Technical Sections are very active and have as members >some of the top practitioners in the world. There is no more comprehensive >forum for scuba diving anywhere in the world. > >The Compuserve Forums are much more interactive than mailing lists. They >offer: > >Person to person addressing on the forum which can be either private or take >the shape of a public conversation that others can join in on by responding >with the same header. These ongoing conversations are called threads and can >be arranged for viewing in many ways. > >Live conferences between divers at prearranged times and on a given topic or >simply a free-ranging discussion of diving in general. > >A large library of files, software and threads of general interest. > >Using a navigator you can sign-on with the stroke of a key and download all >files of interest, messages and mail. The program runs itself and then >saves the material neatly arranged in files which are easily manipulated and >responded to. Or you can go live online using WinCim, an online comm program >for navigating CIS manually. CIS also provides Internet access. > >JoeL > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. >Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. > > Dan Volker SOUTH FLORIDA DIVE JOURNAL http://www.florida.net/scuba/dive 407-683-3592
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