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From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New GEnie Deal (was: PRODIGY HATES AMIGA -- Says wont do port!)
Message-ID: <14754@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 1 Oct 90 14:28:10 GMT
References: <4d0aec1d.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <740004@hpmtlx.HP.COM>
Reply-To: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <740004@hpmtlx.HP.COM> elaine@hpmtlx.HP.COM ($Elaine_May) writes:
>> 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".

It was my understanding that the new "Star*Services" access would not
have a "signup fee" at all anymore.  I could be wrong, though :)

bj

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