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- From: jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner)
- Subject: Re: Genie Gateway charges?
- Message-ID: <jpenne.722136654@ee.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:30:54 GMT
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- ddkilzer@iastate.edu (David D Kilzer) writes:
-
- >In article <92321.183803KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu> <KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >>Does the Genie person get charged upon receipt or sending of mail or both?
-
- >Both, I believe. I don't subscribe to GEnie, but from what a friend of
- >mine says (who does have a GEnie account) says, he has to pay both ways.
-
- Yeah, you have to pay both ways. I'm not signing up for this gateway
- because if some fluffhead on the Internet wants to waste lots of my
- money he can just send tons of mail my way and I have to pay. That's
- silly. The outgoing mail cost I can accept since if it was free,
- you'd have GEnie users sending files from the GEnie system to their
- Internet accounts and downloading them free! (I only wish :).
- Incoming mail should be in the same class as Uploads: free.
-
- The other problem with GEnie (which has nothing to do with the
- Internet gateway) is that it has a slow response time, at least my
- node does. I've complained and it got better for a while but it still
- is slower than accessing the Internet through 2 different machines
- concurrently (which is how I get on here).
- --
- Jerry Penner jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca Try a 1-line .sig today.
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