CompuServe Messages

On the eighth point, since the cost of becoming an Ultracard "user" is jus the cost of downloading the browser, the normal chicken-and-egg paradox is neatly elminated. A stack author is in the same position as an artist, who konws that whether the art tool is DPaint, PPaint, ExpressPaint, or DigiPaint, or whatever, the resulting image can be legitimately viewed by any IFF display utility. This is not the case with Thinker or InfoMinder, two other hyperdocument editors which require both the author and end-user to make an $80+ purchase.