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                     Welcome to THE FREEBIE NEWSLETTER!

This will be a computing adventure unlike any other you have ever before 
experienced! We bring the computer world closer to home!  We here at 
LongLastings feel that it's about time businesses started helping stimulate
business by helping others!  That is the foundation of THE FREEBIE NEWSLETTER!

THE FREEBIE NEWSLETTER is packed full of Informative Articles, Free Software,
Free Classified Ads, Computer Comics, Letters and Articles sent in by You our
Readers, and Many Opportunities never before available!

Some of our articles and/or special features such as, Computer Comics (tm),
Letters to the Editor, and the Computer Crossword Contest (tm) are in a series
form.  An example of how the series works is: the Computer Crossword Contest,
the answers to the present issue's puzzle will be published in the next issue.

In order to take advantage of all the Free Offers, You must be a Subscriber.
(To Subscribe, return to the Main Menu and Choose, SUBSCRIPTION FORM.)  Sign
up Today So As Not to Miss a Single Issue!

THE FREEBIE NEWSLETTER has a Guaranteed Circulation of Over One Million 
Computer Users!  No other disk publication can say that!  We circulate our 
Newsletter by uploading it to several of the largest Bulletin Board Systems
in the country, in addition to these large Bulletin Boards, `The Freebie' is
uploaded to many smaller Bulletin Board Systems. One of the larger Bulletin
Board Systems is exclusively for Shareware Vendors, people who sell software
programs.  There are over 10,000 Vendors in the U.S. alone, and every week
thousands of them call these large Bulletin Boards to get the latest programs
to offer to their customers, this makes it easy for millions to obtain a copy
of THE FREEBIE NEWSLETTER. 

THE FREEBIE NEWSLETTER is also displayed in over 1,000 stores across the U.S.A.
and Canada!  Plus, our subscribers eagerly await the latest edition and are
faithful readers from cover-to-cover (so-to-speak!).   So, you see, when you
Subscribe and have the privilege of placing a Classified Ad in our Newsletter,
you will have even better exposure than most paper magazines offer!

Where else can you get that large an exposure for Your Classified Ads for an
entire year!  Check out some of the Classified prices in other magazines, add
up what it would cost you to advertise in their magazine for a whole year!
Staggering isn't it!  Why not be a Regular Subscriber of THE FREEBIE NEWSLETTER
to get FREE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING, as well as other FREEBIES?

Back issues will be available for those of you who want to `catch up'.  These
back issues can be obtained in future issues since this is a trial issue.

* * BOOKMARK FEATURE: You may read as long as you wish and then exit the 
                      program, when you start the program once more, you will
                      be asked if you want to start where you left off, answer
                      Y and you will be returned to the precice spot where you
                      were last reading.  Answer N and you will be taken to 
                      the Main Menu.



                             * * LEGAL NOTICE * *

Please read the following, it is a bunch of `legal stuff' which our Lawyers say
we are required to publish.  Please bear with us, it's not too painful!


                              * * DISCLAIMER * * 

Everything written on this disk is for informational purposes only.  What the
individual who reads this information does with that information, is solely
that individual's responsibility.  LongLastings and/or any of its present and/
or future employees cannot take responsibility, either consequential or 
inconsequential for the application of this information or the use of any
software which may result in personal loss or damage to the reader or the
equipment which it is used on in any way whatsoever. 

Use of all Shareware software distributed by LongLastings is the sole
responsibility of the user and the author of said software.  LongLastings
and/or any of its present and/or future employees cannot take responsibility,
either consequential or inconsequential for the application of said software or
the use of any personal loss and/or damage to the user of said software or 
equipment on which it is used in any way whatsoever.

FOR PROBLEMS and QUESTIONS about FREE SHAREWARE PROGRAMS: Contact the author of
the program.  LongLastings is a distributor of these programs only, not their
creator.

TO ALL ADVERTISERS: We reserve the right to accept and/or reject and/or edit
all classified ads.

TO ARTICLE AND LETTER SUBMITTERS: We reserve the right to accept and/or reject
and/or edit any and all material sent to LongLastings.


      * * Thank You For Taking the Time To Read the Information Above * *


The information on this disk may not be changed in any way, unless permission
is obtained from LongLastings.  To change any information on this disk without
LongLastings' permission would be in direct violation of the Copyright Law.

                      Copyright (c) 1993 by LongLastings    
                             All Right Reserved

COMPUTER COMICS (tm), and COMPUTER CROSSWORD CONTEST (tm) are Trademarks of
LongLastings and may not be used by anyone except LongLastings.

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