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Liz Lane to Cynthia S. Gaver about "Recommendations" at 10:02:06 PM on  5/1/92

  LL> As to CompuServe and GEnie, it depends on what you want. If you need
  LL> to send mail to Internet users, you have to go with CompuServe.
  LL> They've got a gateway, GEnie doesn't. If you just want to use
  LL> general-purpose databases, CompuServe has more--and costs more--than
  LL> GEnie. For software archives, it's about the same. CompuServe has a
  LL> little more, but it's more $$.
  LL> 
  LL> I have accounts on both. I never use the CompuServe anymore, I do use
  LL> the GEnie. I use it to send mail to other GEnie users, and to use the
  LL> Easy Saabre gateway to make travel reservations.

Interesting. I have accounts on both, and I hardly ever use Genie. One reason
for this is the Internet mail gateway. Another is that there is no surcharge on
CompuServe for prime-time access. CompuServe also gives you client software with
a decent interface to the system. There have been some attempts to provide this
for Genie, but I'm not aware that any of them have worked out.

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