[no save] QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON CLARINET What are the advantages of ClariNet? Many online services offer you electronic publications, including live newswires. The difference with ClariNet is that we deliver it to your computer. You don't have to dial up and read it with a 2400 bps modem, with a meter running. You get to read your news on your own machine, on your own time, and on your own high speed terminal. The subscription fee is quite low. ClariNews at $11 a month is a bargain compared to online services like CompuServe, where that $11 would buy less than an hour of newsreading per month. How can I handle over 500 new articles of news each day? You can search the news on your own machine with your own tools. ClariNews is quite large, and you would not be expected to read all of it, just as you don't read all of a daily paper. Because ClariNews is headlined by professional editors, all it takes is a simple "=' (in RN) to make a quick scan of the headlines. Then pick and choose the stories you like. Or use a NewsClip filter program. ClariNews is highly keyworded. You can arrange to see only articles that describe topics, people places or companies that you are interested. Want to see only the computer stories that mention Sun Microsystems? -- no problem. There are hundreds of different keywords that the editors place on each article. Topics from AIDS to child abuse to Buddhism to inflation to gun control can be tracked. How fact can I get the news? We get the news right as it comes off the wire, and deliver it to UUNET within the hour. If you call UUNET each hour, or have an internet connection, you can get the news as it happens. Most evening papers close out just after noon. Many morning papers close out at midnight. ClariNews stories will beat the papers for you every time. NewsBytes comes out every day, beating all printed computer news sources by a large margin. How will you stop information thieves? We'll reward people who report piracy by giving them free subscriptions. Many people steal software and information, we're sad to say, but people would have to be crazy to steal from a news service. If they are caught and it is reported in the news, they would be likely to lose a lot more than the pirate feed. Can I buy NewsClip without ClariNet? Currently it is available only with ClariNet. We will, however make special arrangements for sites that can't buy ClariNet. The licence fee would depend on site size. What if my site can't join but users want to subscribe? If your sysadmin is willing to put the "clari" news articles in a special "group" that can only be read by people we authorize, we will be glad to bill individual users or groups of users. The discounts apply to each billing unit. (So if everybody wants to be billed individually, each pair pays the base price, but you can combine for a discount.) On small sites, even this security measure is not required. Check with your library to see if they have a standard policy on ordering publications. Finally, if due to budget bureaucracy you find that you can buy software but not electronic news, we can arrange to sell you NewsClip and give you ClariNet free.... (sigh). What if I don't have a Unix system? There are software packages available that handle USENET format news for many different operating systems. There are even a couple of free/shareware packages for the IBM-PC. You can arrange to ship your news to your IBM-PC at home or on the road, if desired. .xgw-vgx, -gg xx -qgb. -qg- xx dM' !#I MM .... ....... ... |MM#. |M .... _MM__ MM MM !#"'q#, MMP"## MM |M'MM,|M dMP"`Mb MM MM. ... MM dgP'TM| MM` MM |M 'qM+M MM---"" MM 'M#,.,+P MM MM..dM|. MM MM |M YMM vMb..gy qMLjg ""` """"` '""`'"" """"` """"` """" '" '"" '"" ------------------------------------------------------------- C o m m u n i c a t i o n s C o r p. 124 King St. N., Waterloo, Ontario, N2J 2X8 519/884-7473