RE: UKNM: Subscriptions

[Phil Gyford]

At 10:55 10/06/1999 +0100, you wrote:


>Snobby techies who've been on the net "since it started" are

>generally prepared to pay for internet access, as they

>perceive that this somehow makes them better than users of

>Freeserve et al.


Freeserve.co.uk is the new aol.com.


But then it's also techies who (a) haven't wanted to give up tried and

tested accounts for something that was new and uncertain (b) are too

apathetic to bother closing one account and opening a new one (this is me)

and/or (c) don't want the hassle of changing the email/web addresses

they've had for years. The latter's a big factor in persuading people to

give up one service for another, although our 'techies' are probably more

likely to have email etc elsewhere than with their ISP so I expect it's

less of a factor in this case.


 Phil Gyford

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