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From: ngg@bridge2.3Com.Com (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Genie?
Summary: GEnie Mail is fine
	 You need to learn it
Message-ID: <88@bridge2.3Com.Com>
Date: 21 Sep 88 16:51:28 GMT
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In article <881@viscous>, sethk@sco.COM (Seth I Katz) writes:
> chatterchatterchatter<2279@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>chatterchatterstowe@silver.UUCP (holly):
> | 
> 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
Yes a variety of comparsions are made to CIS and their $12.50 plus surcharges
in some cases for 1200 baud connections. This does make $5.00 much cheaper.
And Genie provides many of the same services, and some CIS doesn't and of
course vice/versa.

As far as GEnie mail and the BB software, there is room for improvement,
but CIS could use some to, either method has its drawbacks if looked at
very closely. The thing about Genie is you need to take the time to learn
how to use the software effectively, there are a lot of options and it
can be quite powerful if you learn to use them to your advantage...this
means reading the manual, and getting out there and just spend some time
seeing what the commands do, and ask questions if something does not
work like you expected....most of the problems it appears is that users
of Genie that have a hard time using it come from not reading the manual,
or not taking that couple minutes to ask the questions to learn how to use it.

Norm Goodger
3Com
Sysop - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862