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From: towns@atari.UUCP (John Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: First CIS, then Delphi, now Genie
Message-ID: <2264@atari.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 90 23:07:28 GMT
References: <5440129@hplsla.HP.COM>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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in article <5440129@hplsla.HP.COM>, andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino) says:
> 
> | 
> |     All three of these online services will be charging
> |     monthly access charges withing a month or two.  CIS has
> |     been doing it for a while, Delphi announced they will
> |     start, and GEnie also announced they will start.  
> | ----------
> 
> This is very disappointing. I'll probably be quitting GEnie. I think all
> these services have an inflated view of their value. If enough people "vote
> with their feet", maybe they'll check-in with reality!
> 
>     %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>     % Andy Cassino                                       %
>     % Hewlett-Packard - Lake Stevens Instrument Division %
>     %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Geesh. It $4.95 going to break your budget? If you get any kind of
mail at all or spend any time in any of the other 100 products that 
are now FREE due to the flat rate than you could easily SAVE yourself
money over the long run.

-- John Townsend				!ames!atari!towns
   Atari Corp, Systems Software