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- From: Karl_Kleinpaste@cs.cmu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Genie?
- Message-ID: <C1FHr5.MIH.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:16:04 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.C1FHr5.MIH.2
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- dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com writes:
- No, go right ahead. Remember that GEnie charges nothing for mail within
- GEnie, whereas CompuServe does charge for [sending] mail within CompuServe.
-
- That didn't ring quite true to me, so I asked someone at CompuServe
- about this.
-
- If you are a pay-as-you-go subscriber, there are no charges aside from
- connect time.
-
- If you are a flat-rate subscriber, you are charged based on the size
- of the message, but there is an initial allowance of approx 60
- 1-2Kbyte messages before those additional charges start.
-
- That would cover quite a lot of email, for most folk.
-