Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!n8emr!lwv
From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: AppleLink Review
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Date: 23 Oct 88 19:21:39 GMT
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Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
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1. If this review goes into a national publication in this form, expect at
LEAST flames - dont be surprised to get even hotter responses than that!

2. I was on Delphi 4 years ago and in this time it has as little or less than
what you just described for a 6 month old service; what in the world do
you expect for a service which had NO regular subscribers until a month ago?

3. With regard to the payment setup - this is the same way that Delphi and
Compuserve work (except that CIS has a checkfree payment setup I think it
is called; not a billing service, but you pay them how much you think
you are going to use and they lock you out of the system after you have
used up your money.)  You honestly think that anyone with thousands of
customers racking up LOTS of dollars of online time is going to try to use
a billing method?  Good grief!  What a cash flow night mare?  Any GENIE or
Source users out there have payment method coments?  I know at one time
Source required a minimum monthly payment of $10 - even if you hadnt logged
on for a single second!  That made a $120 a year payment; makes $35 a year
look like of puny doesnt it?

4. I have NO connection with AppleLink - I ordered one of the 'free' kits
and never received it (i am sure LOTS of others did likewise so I dont
expect to get one till next year or later).  So I have no vested interest
here.  I just think folks should get a break.

5. As for small amounts of downloads - look at usenet/bitnet apple downloads
recently - rather miserly theirselves!

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