Re: GEnie gateway (was Re: Applelink gateway)

[andy@vistachrome.com (Andrew Finkenstadt)]

>uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd) writes:
>>I think that GEnie's charging money for the Internet mail is insane!  It's
>>_free_ on America Online.  Some way to compete, GEnie.  Way to go.

AOL -used- to be connected via UUCP.  Now (and for some months now)
they have a SCO machine running some measure of internetworkable 
software which can be pinged and telnetted to just fine.
AOL charges by the hour for all connection time, except those in
free areas.  I can assure you that mail is NOT free on AOL.

m.tiernan@pro-applebcs.cts.com (Michael Tiernan) writes:
>   You forgot one thing.  (Or didn't know).  The mail to and from AOL is not
>done with a connection to the InterNet.  It is done through UUCP.  That's why
>they can do it for free.  GEnie opened an actual connection from GEnie to the
>net for other purposes and allowed a way to justify it by charging for it.

Look for some big announcements about this issue this week. :-)
-Andy

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