If you are sitting in an Internet-Cafe now, then you have the necessary know-how to do some work useful to a million companies working with AutoCAD, useful to me, and eventually, useful to yourself. How?

No problem. Type the word in a search engine and you know all about it. Keywords: Usenet, NewsGroup, Public Access Server. You are searching for Public Access Usenet Servers and in them newsgroups containing the words Acad or AutoCAD.

Before reading or posting messages, you must connect to a news server.

The Internet Provider of your connection has a server and you need the name.

If you cannot find this, guess by putting news. before the provider's name. Like

news.myInternetpro.com

You are doing this in an e-mail reader like Outlook Express. Not in the Explorer.

How to get there?

In Internet Explorer, open the GO menu and select NEWS

After typing your name or a nickname and your e-mail address, it wants the address of your news server.

Here are some servers. Type one of them. There are many more:

learnet.freenet.hut.fi     mailserver.corvis.ru      news.state.ut.us     news1.hetnet.nl      nntpserver.pppl.gov

To add a second server to your Outlook Express news reader:

Outlook ExpressMenu:

Tools + Accounts + News +

After you add a news server, dialog box appears for newsgroups offered by this server.

Type a word in the search box (acad or autocad) and you see groups including this word.

Pick them and click subscribe.

and here are some newsgroups on acad or autocad. There are hundreds more.

Now you see server names you added and newsgroup names you subscribed in the Outlook express window below Inbox, Outbox etc.

You pick any of these and in the subject box of Outlook Express you see mail subjects.

The following links should connect to server and newsgroup at the same time:

news://discussion.autodesk.com/autodesk.autocad.customization

news://discussion.autodesk.com/autodesk.autocad.2000general

news://discussion.autodesk.com/autodesk.autocad.marketing

news://discussion.autodesk.com/autodesk.autocad.drafting

news://discussion.autodesk.com/autodesk.americas.customerservice

news://discussion.autodesk.com/autodesk.autocad.network

news://discussion.autodesk.com/autodesk.world.general

news://discussion.autodesk.com/autodesk.autocad.training

news://discussion.autodesk.com/autodesk.autocad.r14general

news://discussion.autodesk.com/pn.classified

The rest is same as e-mail operations. Pick one and read the content.

Dear Sir

We saw your mail in a newsgroup and we may be able to provide a macro for your specific task. You can have the macro installed and running within one week of your confirmation.

We are specialized in integrating Autocad with MS-Office files, (most often Excel).

We write macros which convert the information in Excel into ACAD drawings, edit the existing drawings, convert colors, layers, text sizes, styles and blocks. Extract text information from drawings and more. On request we provide macros that do these operations on all the files in a subdirectory. A macro of average complexity takes a week to deliver. You test it and if satisfied pay us $1000.- for it.

Expecting your reply, Sincerely.

We do not want to send the same offer twice to a client. Therefore, before you send any mails, please go to our forum page:

And post on the forum there, the newsgroup you are using to select clients. If you post there first, then when a client from this newsgroup buys a macro from us, you get half of the fee.

I am starting this on October 2000, and the forum page is empty yet. You can become the first partner. Go for it.

The worst performance may be this:

You send 100 mails, get 2 clients, only 1 is satisfied and pays us $1000.-

The best performance may be this:

You send 200 mails, get 20 clients, only 10 are satisfied and pay us $10,000.-

Whatever they pay, you get half because you contacted the client. I share the other half with the programmers or I write the macros my self.

I arrange with an Incorporation Company in Delaware, USA, to open a bank account there for you when your first client is satisfied with our macro and wants to pay.

When your 20^th satisfied client pays, you have $10,000.- in your account. I arrange with the same Company to incorporate you in Delaware as Limited Liability Company or equivalent and pay your taxes (about 25%). You get an American Express Card and check book to access your money.

You got a company in America and money in your bank account. I would say this is a pretty good start to make from an Internet cafe in the middle of nowhere (or center of the universe). And I hope you shall remember me kindly in your years after.

It is your time, your decision. Do as you please. I am not insisting.

You should know this before you waste your precious time:

quite a few said:

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    September 26, 2000. (Update Nov. 5, 2000)