CMP.WERNER@R20.UTEXAS.EDU (Werner Uhrig) (02/27/86)
[ from the Austin American Statesman - Feb 26, 86 ] AT&T STARTS ELECTRONIC MAIL Washington - AT&T on Tuesday began offerering an electronic mail service that will instantly send a short message for 40 cents and more than 2 typewritten pages for about 80 cents. That compares to 22-cents to mail a letter. MCI, COMPUSERVE LINK UP Washington - MCI Communications Corp. and CompuServe Inc on Tuesday linked their electronic mail services, creating the world's largest interconnected electronic mail network. Together, the companies serve a half-million subscribers. Subscribers of the Washington based MCI and Columbus, Ohio-based CompuServe can create and send messages to subscribers on either network using the same access methods and commands they now use. [ does anyone know more details? ---Werner ] -------
GUMBY@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU (David Vinayak Wallace) (03/13/86)
Date: Thu 27 Feb 86 13:42:46-CST From: Werner Uhrig <CMP.WERNER at R20.UTEXAS.EDU> [ from the Austin American Statesman - Feb 26, 86 ] Washington - MCI Communications Corp. and CompuServe Inc on Tuesday linked their electronic mail services, creating the world's largest interconnected electronic mail network. Together, the companies serve a half-million subscribers. How does the internet compare? What about internet+bitnet+uucp+csnet? That should add up to about 500k.