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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Re: FCC considering "modem fees" again
- Message-ID: <63147@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 23:27:57 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <rlcarr.04qa@animato.network23.com> <1T9FoB6w164w@zswamp.UUCP>
- <62802@cup.portal.com> <5403@dsacg4.dsac.dla.mil>
- Lines: 47
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- >In article <62802@cup.portal.com> TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:
- >>concerning CI$'s fees, how does anyone afford it? $12/hour for
- >>(yawn) 1200/2400 access. A whopping $22/hour for normal (v32)
- >>access.
- >>
- >>Assuming you do little else but get email, that's probably
- >>4 hours a month.
- >>
- >>Most people must get their company to pay for it.
- >
- >THE FOLLOWING IS NOT AN AD, JUST A STATEMENT OF FACT.
- >
- >Let's not be too hard on CI$, er, I mean, CIS. Those dollar amounts are
- >only almost correct if you call them during the daytime... but if you do
- >what I do and call after 6pm, then it's only $7.95 per month -- period.
- >
- >END OF ANOTHER STATEMENT OF FACT BY ANOTHER SATISFIED CUSTOMER.
- >
-
- Oh, really? And what do you do there, read AP news all night, or read
- encyclopedia articles?
-
- If you enter any SIGS you start paying the humungous hourly rate. FACT.
- I also have the monthly basic service (though I'm going to drop it rsn), but
- hardly spend any time in basic service when I visted.
-
- I'M NOT ADVERTISING HERE, BUT I FELL I OWE THIS INFO TO THE POOR FOLKS
- POURING GOOD $$ DOWN THE DRAIN AT CI$.
-
- On Portal I have THE biggest Amiga database, complete fish disks organized
- much better than Genie (download individual files or complete disk), and
- complete access to the internet, FTP, IRC and on and on for a little more
- than $1 per hour at 9600. All this using the new PortalX (written by Steve
- Tibett of VirusX, ScreenX, etc.) software to read/post mail offline and pick
- sw to download similar to WHAP.
-
- Nothing can beat Amiga BBSing like Portal, nothing.
-
- -Joel
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- ========================================================================
- / Joel E. Swan....Pres./...Media Specialties, Ltd., Oak Forest, IL.USA /
- / & Senior Producer..../...Moody Broadcasting Network, Chicago, IL. USA /
- / Portal ID: joeles..../...joeles@cup.portal.com /
- ========================================================================
- ***** PORTAL NOW SUPPORTS TELNET, IRC AND FTP ACCESS TO ITS USERS! *****
- FOR $1/HOUR AT 9600BPS! (w/PCPursuit)
-