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                           BAH - Issue #001 
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    ³ Title: bahlist04/95          Authors: Stone, Tori Amos, Infidel   ³ 
    ³ Date: 04-25-95                                                    ³ 
    ³                     *like, welcome to BAH*                        ³ 
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the bah list: 
This is the bah list, compiled by us three. Any additions would be welcome 
to the list, since more opinion makes for better accuracy. Everything has a 
scale of one to five. Feedback is greatly appreciated. Flames are welcome. 
Send them to: president@whitehouse.gov 

america online: 
 ** 1/2 

AOL has served their users well. Unfortunately, their users don't know what 
they're getting into. Later this year, AOL plans to implement IRC and 
telnet into their program. They already have ftp. IRC is crowded enough 
already, with people running "op me" all the time and the bots, oh god the 
bots. All IRC users will gain with AOL coming in will be thousands of 
people asking for ftp sites. 

ameritech: 
*** 

Ameritech isn't that bad a phone company, they provide good service at 
medium prices. Their folly lies in their media campaigns. Do you know how 
much money Ameritech makes in a day? Do you know how much they've spent on 
their strange commercials about testing towns or people who ask people's 
opinions on things? From our experience, a lot of people don't give a flying 
fuck how big a screen is. Do we really care if there's a testing town? 

at&t: 
* 1/2 

AT&T's "You Will" commercials are annoying. The endless war between long 
distance companies has become very tiring. The same applies to the war 
between collect carriers. Need we say more? 

compuserve: 
*** 1/2 

Compuserve, having been around since 1979, has changed with the computer 
industry. The company should be commended by not jumping on the bandwagon 
and developing a GUI. 

cellular one: 
*** 1/2 

Cellone is a great company. The prices aren't bad at all. 

delphi internet: 
**** 

Delphi is one of the best major online services available. With full 
Internet, no GUI, and a reasonable price, Delphi is a great bet, if you 
can't get a local net provider. 

mci: 
** 1/2 

MCI's Friends and Family II and AT&T's True Savings program are very 
similar. Who cares? MCI's annoyance comes in the form of dissing other 
telephone companies' service, prices, and forms of calling collect. There 
are three ways of calling collect long distance. How many times have you 
called collect *long-distance*? 

newsweek magazine: 
1/2 

Newsweek is annoying and ignorant. They think they're so 'techno-hip' and 
they're on the 'information superhighway' just because they replace an 
occasional 'f' with a 'ph', hired Katie Hafner, and Cliff Stoll. We've seen 
the issue devoted to the Internet, and more than half was world-wide web 
sites. 

prodigy: 
*** 

Prodigy has been around for a while, but just recently got Internet. Most 
of the users stay away from it, in our experience, but there still are 
some. The GUI is what drew people to Prodigy in the first place, since when 
it started, the so-called 'age of information' was beginning, people 
were (and still are) afraid of anything non-graphical. Getting out of 
Windows gave these people a rash. So Prodigy's GUI was great. The same, 
however, can not be said of their prices. 

sprint: 
*** 1/2 

Sprint, having stayed out of the media flaming of other long-distance 
companies, and having not set up their own 'cheap' long-distance collect 
line, is a pretty good company. Their rates are cheap, with one of their 
programs. 

vice-president al gore: 
* 

You've probably heard such terms as 'information highway' and 'age of 
information'. Al Gore uses these terms a lot. There is plans for a 
world-wide network, simliar to the Internet, only it won't be free. 

bah, that's a small list. we need more feedback. We'll try to do one every 
month, if we can. 

-ta,stone,infidel 
04/95