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From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New GEnie Deal (was: PRODIGY HATES AMIGA -- Says wont do port!)
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Date: 1 Oct 90 20:52:21 GMT
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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".

Question. What's a "boonie"?

-Joseph Hillenburg

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