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From: jvj0852@rouge.usl.edu (Joubert John V)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Genie Star*Services flyer
Message-ID: <19363@rouge.usl.edu>
Date: 26 Nov 90 16:56:18 GMT
References: <1990Nov26.072636.12369@beach.csulb.edu>
Reply-To: jvj0852@usl.edu (Joubert John V)
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
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In article <1990Nov26.072636.12369@beach.csulb.edu> sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
>
>  My offer to forward the Genie Star*Services flyer is still open
>and the request load has been manageable so far. However, my mailer

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>  Note that I am not yet a subscriber so please dont solicit any
>experiences with your request for the flyer. Anybody who has is free

......

	I am currently a subscriber, and I am thinking of dropping. If you are
a heavy e-mail user, Genie is quite a deal.  However, access to any of the 
computer group areas are $6 per hour.  I hardly ever use email on GEnie, and
the end result now is that I pay an extra $4.50 or so on my bill, on top of my
ever present computer group access prices.  It's not much money, but it is
enough to tick me off and send me looking at other services, e.g. Prodigy.
I would rather pay $10 or so a month for a service that let's me play in the 
computer SIG's without a cost+ charge.  Is this the way it works on Prodigy?
Can I acess the MS-DOS area at the flat rate?  If so, I think I will change.

	Another thing, the games area that you can access on GEnie in the 
Star Services area is pretty junky.  Single player games, and more on the line
of, you guessed it, "adventure."  The blast from the past.  The newer and better
games are cost plus.  The news feeds are pretty good, but nothing I can't 
pick up in a few minutes of CNN, definitely nothing to scream about.  It has
some financial stuff in Star Services, but it's very basic, yesterday's close,
etc.  History and info statistics/summaries are cost +.  This really is not
so bad, except that the salespeople make it sound like I can track the world
without the cost+ information, when actually all you can get is less than what
you can find the Wall Street Journal.  The financials don't have futures 
anywhere, or at least not in the "cheapie" section.  They do have EASY-Sabre for
booking your airline flights in Star Services area, that's neat, but it'll be
at least 3 more years before I even glance at that (I am still in school).
All in all, I don't think GEnie is for me, not if I can get what I need for
a flat fee of $10 or so.