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- From: briang@bari.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Prodigy - Don't even think about it!
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 17:36:24 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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- Message-ID: <lfimsoINN68a@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <aa.720292810@hela.iti.org> <1992Nov02.162920.105086@watson.ibm.com> <100606@bu.edu>
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- In article <100606@bu.edu> vida@crsa.bu.edu (Vida Jakabhazy) writes:
- >
- >In all this discussion no one has mentioned America-on-Line. I've
- >heard it's faster and easier to use than Prodigy or GEnie and costs
- >less than Compuserve. Any comments?
-
- One disadvantage of AOL (which I do use, by the way) is that they have no plan
- for unlimited off-hours access for a flat fee. Your $6.00 a month or whatever
- gets you just 60 minutes of off-hour connect time. Downloading something big,
- like an OS or Word Processor update, can easily take more than that at 2400
- baud (the higest available, as far as I know).
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