[JA] Re: Spam Desk
- From: "George Lunt" <glunt@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <juno_accmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 15:33:37 -0800
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 thepccat@xxxxxxxx writes:
>The free account, as I recall, is 10 hours per month
>before it refuses to let you on the Internet [I don't recall
>if it then allows email via dialup and/or Internet].
Hi PC Cat, and All,
Yep... 10 hr. Same as NetZero. With both, you can get 20 hr. :) In
any case, e-mail access continues.
>At one time Juno/UO was trying to get rid of the minority
>of people who use the majority of the time...
Yep, Juno's stock "5% of subscribers using 95% of Internet time" which
meant most people shouldn't have been bothered. But if you surfed at
all, you know better. I think it was more of a blatant ploy to drive
everybody onto their Premium service. If you remember, they never told
anybody what the rules were of usage were! Only that you've broken
whatever they were, no matter if you'd just surfed for 3 hr one day in a
month or were a regular 10 hr a day surfer. You just got a notice
saying "you'll be able to surf again 'after' the middle of the
night...", but then it might be a week or two or never...
>..and said that even the paid accounts would be scrutinized for
>usage, ..and, if excessive, they would come back a you and
>charge you more for the account, or even cancel the account.
>There were reports of people being charged $30/mo to
>continue accounts, and much dissatisfaction and grumbling.
>I wonder if this has subsided, or just the heavy users gone
>to other places which are more truly "unlimited" service?
Both of these happened. Today, Juno IS pretty much unlimited...
although you may not be able to stay connected for "many" hours at a
time... 10 max. and not often that many... you can generally reconnect
right away.
George Lunt ..... so. cal.
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