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From: elaine@hpmtlx.HP.COM ($Elaine_May)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New GEnie Deal (was: PRODIGY HATES AMIGA -- Says wont do port!)
Message-ID: <740004@hpmtlx.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Sep 90 14:51:07 GMT
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> On a semi-related note, I read an ad in Amiga World for GEnie, offering
> unlimited access to a number of their products for $4.95 per month.  Any
> GEnie subscribers out there that can tell us what the catch is? (if any)
In order to subscribe to GEnie, you pay a fee of $4.95 a month.  In return,
electronic mail, some of the conferences, the encyclopedia, the shopping
areas, and I don't know what else are free.  If you have to pay a $2.00
per hour connect surcharge for living in the "boonies" (as I do), that
is still in effect during the "free" time.  Other conferences such as the
games and computer conferences and the mutli-player on-line games are
billed at a connect charge of $6/hour for 300/1200/2400 baud ($8/hour for
the "boonies" folks).  All in all, I think it's a pretty decent deal.
They also run ads all the time telling you how to waive the $29.95 "setup
fee".