AW#@>No, actually if all you need is E-mail and World Wide Web, then
AW#@>Compuserve and America Online are probably the best. If you want
AW#@>InterNet Relay Chat, Telnet, FTP and some other additional services
AW#@>you are probably better off with someone who charges a flat rate
AW#@>at no more than $40 per month. There are a number of companies
AW#@>that will do it for you. I'm not sure where you are located, but
AW#@>it's probably better that you use a local company to get local
AW#@>phone charges.

Yeah...Compuserve's WWW access is nifty.  My boyfriend has CIS, and I've
used his account a couple of times to check out some Web sites.

Delphi might be another option.  I've used Delphi...mostly for
newsgroups and telnet access, but they *do* have ftp and IRC.  They only
have a text-based Web browser at this point, although I know they've
signed an agreement with Netscape and are supposedly looking at a
graphic browser by the end of the year.

I've got a local node for Delphi here in the Detroit area...since they
use Sprintnet, they have quite a few nodes nationwide.
Internet access costs me $23/month (for up to 20 hours...every hour
after 20 costs $1.80 each).  I've yet to exceed 20 hours in any given
month...and Delphi has several offline readers available for dl, so
people can minimize their time online with newsgroups and forums at any
rate.

Delphi also has a couple of writing-related forums (where's Theresa
Grant, BTW?  I've seen her over on Delphi's version of Writers
Workshop--Custom 285).


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