ATTN JMS: Genie online service finally shut down

 Posted on 1/2/2000 by jmsatb5@aol.com to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated


>I think you were still a member when I left in early 1996, when its
>new owners yanked up the rates, driving off many long-time users. This
>withered the content. Did you stay until the end?

Until they turned off the lights.

>An aside: I recall that you appear regularly in a forum in CompuServe.
>I have heard recently that owner AOL is making changes to CompuServe
>that will make that service far less attractive to content providers
>such as yourself.

If true that would be most unfortunate; it's been a good forum, and the one
I've been on the longest, since something like 1985.

jms

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