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- Subject: Re: GEnie To Internet
- Message-ID: <5JPFqB1w164w@status.gen.nz>
- From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 07:08:03 GMT
- References: <BtJKA3.8Cp@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
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- >
- > In article <BtIIo4.C1B@world.std.com> bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum) wri
- > >In article <BtHwnC.3sI@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
- > >>
- > >>Pretty bogus - TRIPLING the monthly fee just for access to internet
- > >>mail? I suppose the greedy bastards charge you whether you send or
- > >>receive the mail too, huh?
- > >>
- > >>Sheesh. Maybe it's time I dropped GEnie.
- > >>
- > >Well, you don't have to subscribe to the Internet mail. I do think that $9.
- > >is a little high, and it's silly that you can't even receive mail from
- > >Internet without paying that fee. Still, it beats using PC-Pursuit to call
- > >an out-of town Internet host. If only Genie had Usenet and ftp...
- >
- > I suggested that very thing to them. I told them they could be the FIRST
- > commercial online service to offer REAL Internet access, and beat their
- > arch rival CI$ to the punch. Apparently they just don't understand the
- > value of that particular service.
- >
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- You mail address for GEnie ie username@genie.geis.com.
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- Email away chaps, all incomming mail is free on GEnie so you can
- talk to all your friends via internet.
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- Regards
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- Jon Clarke
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