richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (04/09/89)
In article <16409@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: >In article <14428@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >> >>I'd agree that for Joe Q. Averageuser PLINK is the best value for money > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Is it, really? I just switched to the new BIX rates: $156/year FLAT for BIX >and $15/month FLAT for Tymnet. That makes it $28/month for UNLIMITED usage. >And there are no additional charges because Tymnet is a local call away. >How does that compare with the other nets in terms of price per month of >UNLIMITED usage? Oh thats right, they did implement a new rate structure didn't they. Oh well. >Note also that BIX supports YMODEM Batch and ZMODEM. None of the other nets >(expect CIS) supports either one. Expect Harv Laser to jump in any seconf now and say: ``But only PLINK has WXMODEM whicj is faster'' The current issue of Amiga World has a review (real small) of these networks. The completely omitted USENET, which, considering the apparant IQ of the average author of their letters column, is probably a good thing. -- ``The second big surprise was that horse conchs, the biggest, baddest, most fearsome univalves in the Atlantic Ocean, like cooked squash.'' richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV