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Re: Genie?

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From: Seth I Katz
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1988 18:46
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chatterchatterchatter<2279@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>chatterchatterstowe@silver.UUCP (holly):
| In article <861@viscous> sethk@sco.COM (Seth I Katz) writes:
| 
| [about GEnie...]
| 
| >... and although they claim they don't charge for
| >download time, they do (I haven't bothered to fight this one yet- I am simply
| >giving up...).
| 
| I have *never* seen GEnie claim to not charge you for download time.
| You are not charged for UPLOAD time.
| 
| Holly, SysOp
| GEnie ST RoundTable
| (HS)

Ok, everyone and their uncle has been clever enough to repeat the point that
GEnie never claimed that they didn't charge for download time.

I'd like to see someone stand up for that piece of garbage mailer of theirs.

BTW, I don't know how rich you folks are, but I think $5 an hour is not
cheap. Do we base our standards on Compu$erve?
-s
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From: sethk@sco.COM (Seth I Katz)
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Subject: Re: Genie?
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Date: 19 Sep 88 18:46:58 GMT
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