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Subject: Delphi/GEnie - not such a bad deal
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Date: 5 Sep 90 09:45:41 GMT
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In article <1990Sep5.101244.7077@rodan.acs.syr.edu>, ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg) writes:

> I guess I don't see why none of these services (i.e. CIS,
> Delphi, or Genie) has offered the users the option to choose
> one option or the other, i.e. join the new system, or stay on
> the old way.  It seems to me that would make everyone happy.
> --Gerry

My reading of the GEnie offer is that you -do- have a choice.  If you prefer
to pay for connect time to the services offered at the relatively low fee, you
are most welcome to do so.

Likewise with Delphi.  Their 20/20 plan appears to be quite nice for those of
us who were paying lots of $ for connect time, and on-line charges for those
who don't use the system that often is reflected in that structure.

The idea is to have a -steady- source of income, regardless of whether that
income might sometimes be lower than peak usage in the past.  You can plan
budgets with a steady income; you can plan nothing if you get paid by the hour
and are 'employed' on a relatively intermittent schedule.  (Which is what the
current system was like for the on-line services).

-- 

David Paschall-Zimbel		davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu