Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Path: utzoo!sq!outer
From: outer@sq.sq.com (Richard Outerbridge)
Subject: Re: America Online
Message-ID: <1989Nov23.155855.21722@sq.sq.com>
Summary: Americans only
Keywords: surcharges
Reply-To: outer@sq.com (Richard Outerbridge)
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto
References: <29969.2562DE85@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <2368@cbnewse.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 89 15:58:55 GMT

A.O.L. sure does sound neat, but outside of the U.S. the extra
user-pay communication tolls make it more expensive than any other
service on the market - including CI$.  If it's as slow as everyone
says those charges would get VERY painful VERY quickly.  For the
time being Canadians are S.O.L. w.r.t. A.O.L.