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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Harv
- From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: FCC considering "modem fees" again
- Message-ID: <62858@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 15:41:02 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <rlcarr.04qa@animato.network23.com> <1T9FoB6w164w@zswamp.UUCP>
- <1992Jul26.172846.26274@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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- >Why? CIS may be more expensive than Prodigy (who cares!) or Genie. But
- >no one is forcing *you* to use it. And CIS's prices have come down since
- >the old days.
- >
- >BTW, I wonder what this will do to "public" Internet sites if they carry it
- >off?
- >--
- >Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
-
- Down?? Would you call $12.80/hr for 1200/2400 or $22.80/hr for 9600
- (to access their Amiga areas) cheap? Economical? A Bargain?
- Reasonable? What indial speeds did they lower the rates on? 300 baud?
- ($6.00/hr). Are you *seriously* going to use 300 baud?
-
- No one need pay these ridiculously high prices to access information
- and files on/for/about the Amiga. Yes, I consider $22.80/hr for 9600bps
- access ridiculous. A ripoff. Highway robbery.
-
- How about $13.95/month flat plus an hourly access charge of $2.50
- (via SprintNet or Tymnet) to get at 800 MEG of Amiga files (including
- 700 Fish disks), Amiga message bases, thousands of users, including the
- Usenet, plus Internet FTP and IRC which CI$ (or Genie for that matter) don't
- even offer?
-
- Yeah, $2.50/hour. Even at 9600bps. No kiddin.
-
- It's called The Portal System. Email me for more info.
-
- Harv
-