Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 15:33:19 -0400 From: Claude DiDomenica Subject: Attention CAT friends: Help us and get better Internet service! NOTE: This is the E-mail list for Children's Animated Television (CAT). To unsubscribe, reply to this e-mail with the SUBJECT: Unsubscribe CAT (Please redistribute to your friends and colleagues) Dear friends of CAT, You have probably noticed little activity at the CAT Web site over the last few months... I have recently started working with a new Internet service provider. I will be responsible for marketing their services in the Boston area, where I live. As soon as things get settled, I will return to working with CAT. Progressive ISP: Unlimited access, E-mail, 5 meg Web site for $17.95 per month! PLUS registered copy of Netscape! If you live in one of the areas served by People Link Connections, please consider changing service providers. I myself have been using this excellent service for a few weeks and have had a pleasant and error free connection to the Net. By signing up with People Link, you will be helping me directly, which will enable me to continue the important work of CAT. Below is the current list of areas served by People Link, as well as press release announcing the new service. I've also included some additional information on People Link Connections and their "New World Village", an excellent progressive Web site. You can also browse on the Web: http://www.people-link.com Thanks! Claude claude@people-link.com Children's Animated Television claude@qcfurball.com PS: I also should mention our non-profit organization has been working with the folks at People Link for many years. They have very much helped my and other progressive organizations. If you do decide to sign-up, please let me know that you did. :) CAT: http://www.qcfurball.com/cat/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - People Link Local Dial-Up Access Areas CONNECTICUT Hartford, New Haven CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Area Anaheim, Beverly Hills, Brea, Buena Park, Burbank, Carson, Compton, Culver City, Cypress, El Monte, El Segundo, Fullerton, Gardena, Garden Grove, Glendale, Hawthorne, Hollywood, Inglewood, Irvine, Los Angeles, Montebello, Orance, Pasendena, Pasendena, Placentia, Santa Anna/Tustin, Torrance, Van Nuys San Diego Area Chula Vista, Coronado, El Cajon, La Jolla, La Mesa, National City, Oceanside, Carlsbad, Rancho Bernardo, San Diego, San Diego (LindaVista), San Diego (Mira Mesa) Bay Area Danville, Dublin, San Ramon, Fremont-Newark, Oliver, Hayward , Lafayette, Millbrae, Mountain View, Oakland, Oakland (Alameda), Oakland (Trinidad), Berkeley, Fruitvale, Orinda, Palo Alto , Redwood City, San Carlos, Santa Clara , San Francisco, Juniper, Evergreen, San Mateo , San Jose, Sunnyvale, Walnut Creek FLORIDA Fort Lauderdale, Miami, West Palm Beach GEORGIA Atlanta ILLINOIS Arlington Heights, Bellwood, Bensenville, Chicago (entire city), Des Plaines, Downers Grove, Elmhurst, Elk Grove, Hinsdale/Oakbrook, Lombard, Naperville, Northbrook, Rochelle/Shaumburg, Skokie, Summit, Wheeling MARYLAND Baltimore MASSACHUSETTS Andover, Beverly, Boston, Brockton, Burlington, Cambridge, Canton, Chelmsford, Clinton, Fitchburg, Foxboro, Framingham, Hopkinton, Lexington, Lowell, Lynnfield, Malden, Mansfield, Marlboro, Northboro, Randolph, Reading, Saugus, Shrewsbury, Southboro, Quincy, Waltham, Westboro, Worcester NEW JERSEY Newark, Hackensack NEW YORK Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Long Island, White Plains NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh-Durham PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia TEXAS Houston, Dallas WASHINGTON Seattle Washington D.C. People Link Connections is adding dial-up service to new areas every week. Please reply to this message if you would like to be notified as new locals are added. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - March 3, 1997 People Link is proud to announce the launch of our unique new program for politically progressive Internet users, beginning today, March 3, 1997. The program has two components: People Link Connections, an access provision service and New World Village, one of the most comprehensive and technologically advanced progressive Web sites in the world. The address: http://www.people-link.com The New World Village Web site provides a simple, direct interface to about 300 of the top progressive sites, using frames technology and a "neighborhood" motif. Neighborhoods include "Laborhood," Kids World," and sites on environmental issues, legal rights, women's issues, people of color and other "issue and movement" communities have their own neighborhoods. The Village also provides a Web radio station for music and news. The access program offers subscribers unlimited Internet access, full E-mail service and a five megabyte personal Web site space for $17.95/mo. Subscribers can begin signing up at the very end of February by accessing the People Link site or by calling the toll free number -- 888-677-LINK. Info: Linda Cronin-Gross: linda@people-link.com tel#: 718-238-8883. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ABOUT PEOPLE LINK Let's start with the facts: We offer unlimited Internet access for $17.95 a month and we manage New World Village. That's what we do and here's why. Progressive people need time to explore the Internet. They need places to exchange ideas and to talk issues and developments with other people. They need a central place where they can get information about where they can go on the Web for the information they need. They need an E-mail service to communicate and perhaps their own Web site space to express themselves. They don't have time for endless busy signals, stalled connections, software downloads, endless searches and long waits during technical support calls. They don't have money for hourly fees, surcharges, or extra service fees. You no longer have to endure any of that. Subscribers to People Link receive: Unlimited Internet Access (24 hours a day, every day of the year) E-mail Address and full service Free Web site rental (five megabyte size) Full Suite of Internet Software Free phone technical support And you pay $17.95 a month with absolutely NO extra charges (except for an initial $4 software delivery and reproduction fee if you need our software package). That, in a nutshell, is our basic access package. But that package is part of a larger communications program that includes New World Village and our special programs for organizations. SPECIAL PROGRAMS To address the specific needs of organizations and encourage their use of the Internet as a communications tool, People Link offers two group programs: The GROUP PAYMENT PROGRAM is for organizations of at least 20 people. The organization pays $15.95 for each member subscribed and that member receives the full program. The organization also receives a central E-mail account and its own Web site rental space. However, the organization is centrally billed for payments of all its members accounts. This program is particularly appropriate for offices and organizational who need a centralized on-line tool for internal communications among staff or membership or organizations who wish to provide Internet access as a membership benefit. In the AFFINITY PROGRAM, members pay for their own accounts at the regular monthly rate of $17.95. Their organization then receives one dollar per month for each subscribing member as well as a free central E-mail account and Web site space. All that is required is that an organization inform its members of the program. Affinity participation is appropriate for organizations who wish to bring their members on-line while benefiting financially in the process. Organizations with 30 or more members qualify and participation is subject to approval by People Link. For information on this program, please E-mail Darcy Cobb at darcy@people-link.com us or get in touch, by phone: (718) 238-8883. In all subscriber programs, the Web browser we distribute is configured so that, when you come on-line with us, you immediately come to New World Village. ABOUT NEW WORLD VILLAGE New World Village is a comprehensive information and networking environment designed especially for progressives. In that sense, it has many faces. It's a gateway to the rest of the progressive Internet. It's a community with chat rooms and a dozen message boards. It's an information center with news, analysis, information, and a library of Real Audio (live streaming) audio programs. It's a home for our own subscribers' Web sites. Corporate sites close themselves off. Information services are contained in their own computer systems. But, as progressive organizers and communicators, we at People Link prioritize building relationships and networks, supporting the work of other progressives and introducing you to those people. That's why New World Village has been designed as a gateway to the entire progressive Internet. Each of the Village's areas are home to literally hundreds of links to other progressive Web sites, organized by movement and issue. And as you're browsing those other sites, you can always express your opinions (and read those of others interested in those same issues) on one of our area message boards. You may want to attend a scheduled live conference in our Conference center or just drop in to chat "real time" with others visiting the site. You can also engage in private "hallway" discussions with another user in those rooms. In fact, because we believe that Internet technology is most useful to progressive when it is used in an "integrated" way, all message boards and chat rooms in New World Village allow users to display their E-mail addresses AND the URL of their personal or organization Web sites. People you're talking with need only click on those links to send you an E-mail or to visit your page. And, no matter where you are on the Web, you can always check out our virtual radio station WNWV for news, discussion or music. But unlike other information services, New World Village is open to everyone on the Internet, whether they subscribe or not and you can experience it for yourself by visiting the rest of our site. That said, there are some very good reasons to subscribe to People Link, including how much you get and how little you have to pay for it. WHO WE ARE Since 1985, People Link and its affiliated firms have been providing integrated communications to the progressive, socially responsible business, and organized labor communities. Our services involve the development and execution of strategies that combine public and media relations, advertising in all forms, publications and materials, audio and visual media, events and, of course, cyber-communications. Our firm is owned, in equal shares, by its full-time staff (called "partners") and all services are provided by our own partners and associates. But we are not vendors of a service laundry list. We avoid single jobs, one-shot deals and individual service provision. Instead, we build long-term strategies that combine all the communications tools appropriate for clients and necessary to deliver their message, improve their image and, most of all, enhance their outreach, marketing and organizing. Over the years, People Link has served over 100 clients with long and short-term campaigns. You may very well have seen our work without knowing our name and that's the way we want it. It's the client's name and message that counts. But our name is known among progressive on the Internet as designers of quality Web sites and as the administrators of our own site -- one of the early progressive mega-sites on the Web. Today, People Link is a leading progressive cyber-communications organization. Besides our continuing Web site design and maintenance services, we now offer a full program of Internet services for progressive users including a full Internet Access program and New World Village. We now invite you to visit the entire New World Village site and enjoy it. But if you're not yet a subscriber to People Link, maybe the next step for you is our subscription form? SUBSCRIPTION FORM Available on-line at: http://www.people-link.com/info/subscriptionform.html If you prefer to subscribe by phone, call us at 1 888-677 LINK Copyright 1997 People Link, Inc. All Rights Reserved This post may be freely distributed as long as it remains intact and this notice is not removed