BBS's
Sierra is EXPENSIVE. First you pay for the basics, which offer no games
you really want to play, and then it's an extra $9.95 per month for each
additional "land." I'm trying to cure my son of it.
I'm not on AoL very much; it's pretty but disappointing. An old friend
of mine runs the gaming SiG there, though, and it's easy to get in touch
with him that way.
Bix I use primarily as a program resource; at $29.95 a QUARTER,
unlimited time on the system, it's a superb place to download even large
new shareware and freeware files and samples and such. The WiX section
there is one of the best active Windows forums/libraries around. I don't do
much in the way of communication, though, unless something comes up that
needs it.
GEnie I haven't been active on in a long time; it's mostly of interest
for some private areas that SF pros hang out in (to me, anyway) and because
I like to check in from time to time and see what folks are saying about me
on the Jack Chalker interest group I had nothing to do with forming (but
discovered). GEnie's interface is so bad, even with the TAPCIS-like
Aladdin, that I can hardly stand it, though.
Delphi bribes me to be there and I like the people and atmosphere.
Except for the Wednesday night Delphi sessions, I'm not online as much
as you might think.