dbb@aicchi.chi.aic.com (Ben Burch) (11/13/90)
In article <14534@accuvax.nwu.edu> mcglk@bailey.cpac.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen) writes: >The only semi-useful thing I got out of it was trying to navigate >EASY SABRE to see if I could reserve an airline ticket. Again, here, >the menus were poorly organized, frequently *almost* redundant (to >wit, two menus allowed you to see *exactly* the same information, >except for one little item -- I had to abort the reservation process >and go off to inspect the flight number again), and in general, >barely useful. I have been a GENIE subscriber for some years (And have no other connection with them.) Recently, perhaps in response to Prodigy, they began charging a flat $4.95 per month rate for a number of the core services like E-mail and the non-profession, non-computer related bboards, and the non-multiplayer games. These they group as "*STAR Services". Also under this flat fee is EASY SABRE and the Groliers Electronic Encyclopedia. Access to other services (downloads, multiplayer games, chat-like stuff) is billed at $6 per hour at 300 through 2400 baud. The Macintosh libraries, and product support libraries have been really quite useful to me in the past, although I never spent any time with the non-computer stuff until it became "free". Having spent some time playing with the Groliers and Easy Sabre, and etc, I feel it is worth my $4.95 per month. Also, there are very few online ads (mostly in the one page login bulletins) although they do have a range of electronic shopping services. You might check it out. Ben Burch bb@aicchi.chi.aic.com