WorldSpy ISP Sells Out To Juno
Written: Jun 21 '00 (Updated Jul 31 '00)
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Pros: Will still offer pretty good e-mail service through Juno.
Cons: No longer ad bar free.
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| Schinjay's Full Review: Worldspy |
Say it Ain’t So Joe
The End Has Come
For Free ISP Favorite WorldSpy
The end has come and there is a soul in my Internet soul. My favorite free ISP WorldSpy has given up the ghost and sold its customer base to free ISP competitor Juno.
Currently you can go to the WorldSpy connection and download the software for the Juno service. Juno has agreed to maintain your WorldSpy e-mail address as long as you forward all incoming mail to your new JUNO e-mail account. Otherwise, all WorldSpy e-mail service will come to an end.
Juno has been around for a while, and about all I have heard good and bad about it was that its e-mail service is pretty good. The greatest variance from the WorldSpy service is the Juno ad bar that floats on top of your browser screen.
I can’t believe it. For months now I have been touting the wonderful free Internet ISP service provided by WorldSpy.com. It was the best thing since mom’s apple pie. It was voted the best ad bar free service on the WWW by many Internet related magazines. It was great while it lasted. Apparently, it was too good to last forever.
WorldSpy.com had been an Internet favorite shopping site for quite some time. It started offering its free Internet service not long ago in an effort to increase traffic through it’s virtual shopping aisles. I suppose this step in itself should have been a signal that a storm was on the horizon.
Unofficial sources at WorldSpy, owned by New York based Centennial Ventures, told Winmag Magazine recently that everything was “OK”. But all of the external signs seemed to point to the contrary. As of June 20th the WorldSpy shopping site was no longer active and some, but not all, of the service’s local access numbers had been deactivated. No one had been answering the WorldSpy Customer Service or Technical Service numbers either.
Since the first of June many of WorldSpy’s access numbers were lost and never replaced. Some numbers that stopped responding in California had been replaced, but users in other areas were left in the lurch.
According to Winmag Magazine’s Broadband Report, 22 states had no published WorldSpy access numbers, and several other states had only one number published. Fortunately for me, the solitary San Antonio, Texas number was still active until about June 30 and I could still access the Internet through my WorldSpy connection. But since I can’t shop there and help support the great free service, how long was that going to last?
When authentication problems began to surface recently with WorldSpy’s logon software rumors flew that a conflict with AOL’s software was causing problems. These rumors were proven unfounded when reports of authentication problems came from many WorldSpy users that were not using AOL on their systems.
So, for all of us loyal WorldSpy shoppers and ISP users, let the hunt begin for the second best free Internet ISP anyone has ever found.
That's my epinion! Mahalo for stopping by!
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Member: Steve Schindler
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