Telenet in Houston had a connection to a local credit agency of some kind. You could look up payment history and searches may have even created profiles for pe

Telenet in Houston had a connection to a local credit agency of some kind. You could look up payment history and searches may have even created profiles for people who didn't have one. I'm a little surprised there's no mention of CompuServe's billing hole. We discovered via purchase of their documentation a quick Fortran program to wipe billing info would let you stay connected cost free. By the time we found that loophole it was closed a few weeks after and clearing the info would force a logout instead.