🚀 go-pugleaf

> You are quite right David, yesterday, the DOJ announced it would not
> be able to stop 95 from shipping as it could not prepare anything
> before the 24th release date.  Today it was confirmed.  I guess they
> will end up with just a $$$ fine.  MS also announced it would limit
> the MSN start up to 500,000 people.  This seems to be a ploy to get
> the rush to MSN started.  Gates at work again, no doubt.  MS also
> released pricing, something like $5/mo for 3 hours and of course a
> nice hourly fee of about 2.50.  I might be off on the prices by a bit,
> trying to remember what I read earlier.

In response to this thread, even *if* MS was told that MSN was "wrong"
somehow, they wouldn't have to recall all those CDs/DISKs.  They'd simply
have to take MSN offline.

Also, I've been using MSN now for, oh...4 months, and it's pretty nice.
I mostly just use it as an Internet access provider.  Not bad...PPP, 28.8
dialups...competitively priced.  Internet Explorer (the MS web explorer)
sucks compared to Netscape though...so you can get away with deleting that
crap.

Only thing is, it's usenet server can't be accessed by anything but it's
MSN Data Center thing.  Oh well...it's not TOO sucky (except not being
able to uuencode/decode stuff easily).