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The following text is excerpted from today's "IO Revealed!" -  the daily
news column of Illuminati Online.  The complete column (as well as back
issues - like June, 1997, which details our large-scale hardware and
connectivity upgrades) can be read at:

http://www.io.com/revealed

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Tuesday, July 8, 1997
Illuminati Online waives sign-up fees for new dial-up accounts

At IO, we want to make getting on the Internet as easy and affordable as

we possibly can. To that end, we've long had a policy of not charging
our normal $25 sign-up fee to create a new PPP account for someone
switching to Illuminati Online from another ISP. Now we've decided to
take that idea one step further, by waiving sign-up fees for _anybody_
establishing a new PPP account here at IO.

There is some expenditure of effort on our part to set up a new PPP
account - which was the initial reason for charging the sign-up fee -
but we've decided that lowering barriers to getting people on the 'Net
is more important than collecting this fee, which is common at other
ISPs as well.

So, if you have any friends who are new to the Internet and considering
which ISP to sign up with, tell them that there is no fee to become an
IO subscriber.  New users simply choose which of our two dial-up plans
they want, based on their anticipated usage, and pay only for the time
actually used.  Since we give all new users a free two-week trial, that
means a new user could sign up and get unlimited 'Net usage free for two

weeks, and then pay only $18 for the next month's service under our
40-hour/monthly "budget" account plan.

We think most other ISPs still charge some initial set-up fee for new
PPP account creation, so this is something else that sets IO apart from
the Internet crowd, along with what we like to think is excellent
service and performance.

Getting on the 'Net with Illuminati Online has never been more
affordable!

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As far as I know, IO is fairly unique in having a daily news column
(it's been active for several years now), although we have come to
discover that some of our own customers weren't  aware of it.   There is
news of interest not only to IO subscribers, but also to the 'Net
community in general, like yesterday's item on how Windows 95 and NT
users can protect themselves from potential "denial-of-service" attacks
caused by flaws in the operating system's TCP/IP implementation.
Everybody is welcome to read that info as well at:

http://www.io.com/revealed