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- From: dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
- Subject: Compuserve costs (was: Microsoft's ...)
- Message-ID: <dmurdoch.155.721537190@mast.queensu.ca>
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- Organization: Queen's University
- References: <Bx5CLu.6pv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <11270013@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com> <dmurdoch.261.721411529@mast.queensu.ca> <4626@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:59:51 GMT
-
- In article <4626@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:
- >In article <dmurdoch.261.721411529@mast.queensu.ca>, dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
- >> Compuserve isn't that expensive; if you live in a big city so that it's a
- >> local call, and you use a session automator, you can get a lot of
- >> information for $5/month.
-
- >"isn't that expensive". Where do you come from? If you look at it,
- >the $5 pays for log-on only. After that 99% of the services that
- >really make a difference cost you clocked at $13/hour. I decided to
- >skip Compu$pend after running bills in the $300-$400 region per
- >month.
-
- Aki and I are talking about two completely different kinds of use. The $13/
- hour figure is right; my claim is that 20 minutes connection per month can
- get you a lot of information. I log on about once or twice a week, download
- all subject headings relevant to the current Turbo Pascal version, and then
- (offline) decide which 4 or 5 threads to read. Those are downloaded on my
- next call. This way many of my calls are only 1 minute; most are under 3
- minutes. (This is all automated using Tapcis. Tapcis is rather
- expensive ($80ish) shareware, but there are free alternatives like
- Autosig that do more or less the same thing.)
-
- Aki's hour a day spent online is a very expensive way to use Compuserve.
-
- Duncan Murdoch
-