mo@seismo.UUCP (Mike O'Dell) (07/27/85)
As for people with $200 Compuserve bills, yes, if you get on every day to read every piece of fluff posted in the User's forum, you might well spend $200 synthesizing an electronic social life. (This is not a swipe at people who do this - they can spend their money as they see fit to do damn well what they want to.) However, with the division of MAUG into the User's Forum and a Developer's Forum, a weekly visit for an hour is more than sufficient (at 1200 baud). I logon less frequently and certainly don't read things online. I either scan the headers and ignore them (mostly), or download the stuff and throw it away offline. It isn't clear which is faster. Downloading all the suppliment would, of course, be more than pricy, but you don't need to do that. So, regardless of whether or not it is on Delphi, MAUG is valuable and not that expensive to track. My Compuserve bill runs about $25/month if I have been tracking things closely. Obviously less if not. -Mike O'Dell
bhl@edison.UUCP (Bill Louden) (08/05/85)
A new service will soon be announced that will provide SIGs (like MAUG), software exchange, e-mail etc. And may help lower your monthly bills. General Electric will be entering this "consumer information service" market this fall with a service priced at $5.00 per hour non-prime for 300 AND 1200 baud. If you want more details send me mail. Bill Louden