Subject: Re: AOL in the newsroom From: xerxes@clark.net Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 18:59:56 -0400

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There is also the financial problem with reasoning that suggests 5
journalists on an AOL account will be more cost-effective than a real net
account (SLIP/PPP).   Suppose a jornalist uses his or her account for 30
minutes per day on average.  That is 15 hours per month.  How much will 5
journalists @ 15 hrs/month cost the publisher......I'd say over $200 per
month.  How much does 5 unlimited PPP accounts cost....about $150, or if
you use the Arizona StarNet service, $100.  

AOL is not cost effective for professional uses.  It is only cost effective
for people who use the system less than 10 hours or so per month (20
minutes per day).   

At 12:58 AM 5/19/95 -0500, Don Taylor wrote:

{snip, snip}

> >  Some additional criteria might include which service:
>
>    1) Allows access to ALL internet newgroups and WWW sites. 
>
>    2) Does not censor or police their conference, message, and e-mail areas
>for 
>       either language or content (unless you want this). 
>
>    3) Has publicly taken a stand for freedom of speech (since that's your
>line of business). 
>
>AOL also has the highest reported incidence of make-money-fast, misplaced
>advertising, and breaches of Netiquette. Surprisingly most professional
>True.Net groups have less of a problem with these areas without the great
>enforcement effort. In fact, they apparently have quite a group of people
>ired. There is an alt.aol-sucks newsgroup and here is an anti-AOL web-site I
>just heard: http://www.cloud9.net/~jegelhof/.  You might want to check it
>out - there may be a story in it. (If not it is a bit humorous.)



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