root@BANG.UUCP (03/06/86)
MIS-Week just released a story on a new commercial electronic mail system by AT&T. I'm not sure what they have to offer or what the costs will be but I am intrigued by an interesting feature where they will forward your incoming mail to your home UUCP account. I'm lookng for details if anyone has info. The AT&T information number for it is (800) 367-7225 ext. 720. They will send literature but are otherwise uninformed. Bret Marquis (sdcsvax,ihnp4) bang!bam bang!bam@NOSC.ARPA
JSOL@BUCS20.BUNET (Jon Solomon) (03/07/86)
I just called the number and at least on this coast they are more informative. Their service seems to be designed to compete with MCI Mail (surprise!). For $2.00/month you can maintain a mailbox on their system. You can have mail forwarded to your unix machine for a fee. If you send mail out from your unix machine into their network the service is free (I'll bet there's just a uucp path). Inside the system they charge for outgoing mail but not incoming mail. (This leaves a small hole where a company can have field mailboxes in the system designed to receive broadcast messages, and the originator can be on a unix system, and no additional charges would incur). The rates are quite reasonable (40c for less than 400 characters, 80c for 400-7500 chars, and probably higher for more). If I didn't have the vast resources of the ARPA Internet at my fingertips, I'd consider this service a viable alternative. Cheers, --JSol