Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: WANTED: America Online OPINIONS Message-ID: <1991May23.125934.10345@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 23 May 91 12:59:34 GMT References: <1991May22.065212.29985@agate.berkeley.edu>> <1991May23.024406.3740@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at U-C Lines: 16 >My only other gripe is that AOL has no gateway to the rest of the world. >I would love to have some sort of way to e-mail to and from Internet. >Erik A. Johnson, Graduate Student \Internet: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu One thing I don't hear people saying is why they bother to pay for these services when they have the Internet. What do you get from AOL that you don't from the Internet? I have had a GEnie account for years, but I almost never use it, since almost everything it offered was duplicated on the Internet, only faster and better (ever try GEnie's mail?). I don't cancel it only because a) it doesn't cost anything if I don't use it and b) I'm too lazy to figure out how. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner