Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!dana From: dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: WANTED: America Online OPINIONS Message-ID: Date: 23 May 91 18:39:55 GMT References: <1991May22.065212.29985@agate.berkeley.edu>> <1991May23.024406.3740@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991May23.125934.10345@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 20 dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes: >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 Ditto here. I went out and subscribed to a number of online services with the idea of trying them out to see which was better. It turns out that all my online time is spent here and I rarely ever log in to any of the ones I'm subscribed to. I did finally get bothered enough to figure out how to cancel Prodigy and Connect, though! -- Dana E. Keil Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley dana@are.berkeley.edu