Not on the basis of even the developments over the last few months as I have used some of these services. Having just had newspapers to read for however many hundred years it is, new paradigms will take time to catch on. With CompuServe finally announcing this week that they can deal with unencoded binary files, I thought I would do a little testing to see how quickly mail moves through their systems. Although AOL was fastest, when I first tried they were not accepting emails at all, and I had to try again 3 hours later. I think for business use, you need to have confidence that your messages will get through inside 20 minutes.
Pricing is another issue with the ISPs, with a wide range of offerings.
The deals from AOL and CompuServe are really quite deceptive, although you can get 3 hours for 4.95 from AOL, you only need to spend 9 hours online a month before you're better off on the 16.95 price plan. At that stage Demon's 10 per month, means you are paying 6. 95 a month for AOL content. We could have a long debate about access and content. Last week I hadn't got round to updating MajorDomo, with the names of the new subscribers, so I put them all in as bcc copies.