Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pro-tcc.UUCP!lvirden From: lvirden@pro-tcc.UUCP (Larry Virden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: AppleLink Message-ID: <8909300914.AA09761@trout.nosc.mil> Date: 30 Sep 89 06:02:02 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 Network Comment: to #432 by brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!hacgate!gryphon!pnet02!lbotez@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu I have seen a lot of 'bellyaching' about the new Aline prices. With the old price, you paid approx $3 a month and $6 an hour for service. This is much better than the $1.50 a month and $12 an hour for CIS for instance. The NEW rate, if you get in before 1/90, is $1.95 a month and $4 an hour - with one hour free. Now the Source used to be minimum of $10 a month. And I dont know anything about GEnie. Delphi, which few Apple 2 owners use, has no minimum fee (nor minimum usage - I havent used it but about 2 times in 4-5 yrs and as far as I know my account is still active). Anyways, the price is very competitive. As for whether there is anything good there- well, I have found all of the files that I have looked for there, or been able to find someone who could upload them. The rate of uploads is about the same - in some groups better - than on CIS and DEFINITELY better than Prolines that I have used or Usenet. So I have nothing to complain there about getting 3 times the downloads as I would be able to afford at CIS (plus downloads to me seem faster and have less errors). So the biggest complaint is the way that one has to read msgs. I have made numerous suggestions in the last 9 months. When I have done so constructively I have found either implementations followed, explanations why they were not reasonable or possible at this time, or, occasionally, no respones. Gee - same as I see on all the other services! Imagine that! I see about the same clichishness on Aline as I see on CIS, Usenet and Prolines. In short, if it werent for my free proline and usenet accesses, I would be spending 90% of my time on Aline. As it is, I can get a lot of good stuff here.