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From: gto@neoucom.UUCP (Thomas Osterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: CompuServe, Free Services, $1.50 charge
Keywords: CompuServe,CIS,free
Message-ID: <1605@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 89 13:52:21 GMT
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Reply-To: gto@neoucom.UUCP (Thomas Osterfield)
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Yes, CompuServe is expensive to begin with.  Yes, this is a
monthly charge we can't avoid if we subscribe.  Yes, often a
month goes by that I don't access the system.  But...

I compare the $1.50 to other options, such as the $5 or more
for most other services of interest to me (Tandy's pc-link and
two services-whose names I don't remember recommended by our
national church body.)  Furthermore, there is, as yet, no
annual subscription (the two "church" services are $40/year.)
There was the original sign-up fee, but many of us got that as
part of a package (mine came with the Color Computer RS232
pak.)   And CompuServe is still the largest and most varied
such service.

Of course, many of us are spoiled by "free" access to Usenet
etc.  (but somebody else foots a very large bill for us
there.)

I'm keeping my CIS subscription.

Is this discussion in the right newsgroup?

-- 
G. Thomas Osterfield archivist (216)325-2511 x531 CIS:74106,1153
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