Re: Genie, Virii, and Beagle Bros. (was Re: Genie...is it worth it?)

[jkonarz@ix.netcom.com (Jason Konarz)]

In <3pvfq4$784_001@nntp.crl.com> lensman@crl.com (Randall Stukey)
writes: 

>>How can you say that, when CIS offers unlimited access to core
>>services? I can shop, read the newspaper, send/recieve e-mail (up to
90
>>messages a month), read People magazine or US News and World Report,
>>view entertainment news, make travel reservations, and more... 24
hours
>>a day, 7 days at week, at 14.4 (28.8 in some areas) for only $9.95??
>
>A library of Apple II programs is part of CIS basic services?  Please
>tell folks here more about this.  The last time I was on CIS, all the
>computer oriented material was $4.80 an hour.
.
No, not basic services, although every item I listed above is in the
basic services... But, does GEnie even *HAVE* basic services? Can you
access *anything* on GEnie at 14.4 for $4.80 an hour?

>
>Do you know of any place online that has more Apple II material?  The
>Apple RTs on GEnie have more than I've seen anywhere else -- including
>the Internet.

GEnie looks like a hands down winner in that category... (although,
again, I've never browsed CIS's library...) But thats no reason to be
paying a service $10 a month which really has no other good qualities.
My comment of overpriced, and undercontented material referred to the
GEnie service in general, and not at their Apple II libraries...

I would suggest people join GEnie... Get the software they want, and
get the hell out of there as soon as possible... With an offer code
like the one I gave (ZZZ555), they could get $150 in online credit...
Of course, once they become regular subscribers they only get 4 hours a
month... (quite a drop there for their paying members...) Join, use the
$150 credit... then leave...

If you don't get what you want in the $150 credit... sign up again with
a friends address for another month, and get another $150 credit... :)

Thats what I did. Until I got all that I wanted, and now I can say
goodbye to GEnie forever and pretend it doesn't even exist like the 3
million CIS subscribers, the 2 million AOL subscribers, the 1.5 million
Prodigy subscribers, the 50 million estimated people on the Internet,
etc...

Jason