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In article <1992Dec17.171239.15127@newshost.lanl.gov>, hutch@bellman.lanl.gov writes...
>And as nice as CIS is, it's still *very* expensive, compared to GEnie.
>For Atari users, GEnie is a _much_ better online service, with much
>more active Atari support than CIS and it's also the "official" online
>service of Atari Corporation (for what that's worth).  CIS is huge and
>offers a _lot_ of services, but Atari-related stuff is better on GEnie.

   On the other hand, it costs $9.95/month to subscribe to the internet 
service on GEnie, and only $7.95/month to subscribe to CompuServe 
itself. Once on CompuServe, connect time in the e-mail system is free 
and you get a $9/month e-mail credit. I realize that GEnie and 
CompuServe charge differently for e-mail, but up to a certain volume 
(and I haven't figured out what that level is) CompuServe is a better 
deal for internet e-mail because for a comparable price you are getting 
internet e-mail _and_ access to all of CompuServe's other services 
(some of which are free of connect time charges).

   I use GEnie for Atari-related stuff, and CIS for e-mail (though I do 
most of that from work, now) and Eaasy Sabre (airline and other travel 
reservations). GEnie offers access to Eaasy Sabre as well, but the last 
time I checked they charged connect time for it, while CIS did not. 
Does anyone know if this has changed?

   --- Jim O'Donnell, abjod@stdvax.gsfc.nasa.gov

PS The views expressed here are my own, etc, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah...