gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (03/01/86)
I just saw a short article in the newspaper that says AT&T has announced
an electronic mail service that sends a short message for 40c and a few
pages of stuff for 80c. If you want it printed and mailed to the
recipient, it's $2 extra, and if you want messenger delivery it's like
$22 extra.
The article also mentions that "AT&T has been using it internally and
testing it with 200 outside companies".
Are they talking about the uucp network, or is this something else?
Where do the prices come from, and how does the whole thing tie together
for someone who has e.g. an MSDOS machine at home?
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John Gilmore {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu jgilmore@lll-crg.arpamikel@codas.ATT.UUCP (Mikel Manitius) (03/06/86)
> I just saw a short article in the newspaper that says AT&T has announced > an electronic mail service that sends a short message for 40c and a few > pages of stuff for 80c. If you want it printed and mailed to the > recipient, it's $2 extra, and if you want messenger delivery it's like > $22 extra. > > The article also mentions that "AT&T has been using it internally and > testing it with 200 outside companies". > > Are they talking about the uucp network, or is this something else? > Where do the prices come from, and how does the whole thing tie together > for someone who has e.g. an MSDOS machine at home? I haven't seen the article, but it sounds like they're talking about what is known (internally) as AT&T Mail, I've been using it for over a year, it's a nice friendly mail interface, who's verbosity you can tune to your desire. It's especially nice for people who travel a lot (like me), most large metropolitan areas have a local number to call for access, and there is a national 800 number to call as well. If you want to read your mail, but don't have a terminal, no problem! Just call the 800 number, and a DECtalk (DEC's voice synthesizer) will answer the phone, and ask you to login using a touch-tone phone's keys, and will then read your mail to you! You can also register regular unix machines with it, and forward mail in and out of AT&T mail that way via UUCP. -- Mikel Manitius @ AT&T-IS Altamonte Springs, FL ...{ihnp4|akgua|bellcore|clyde|koura}!codas!mikel