lgreen@pnet01.cts.com (Lawrence Greenwald) (05/03/88)
jacobson@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > >I have several friends who do not work at the University and thus do >not have signons or access to the Unix systems here. They would like >to gain access to Usenet and are looking for ways to do so. I have >seen notice of pay systems such as the well and/or other places. Could >someone please send me a list of pay services (hopefully the ones that > >I understand that the "Well" is perhaps a "low cost" access to the >Usenet from what I remember reading, but I don't know for sure and I >don't have any phone numbers I can give my friends to access it or >any similar connection. > >******************************************************************* >* Russ Jacobson * >* 615 E. Peabody Drive * >* Illinois Geological Survey "THE MAD HACKER" * >* Champaign, IL 61820 * >* * >* 217-244-2425 * >******************************************************************* My suggestion is to try Portal. It is accessible thru Telenet and is in a city supported by PC-Pursuit (Cupertino, CA, area code 408). Better still, if you have a PCP account already, you can type: C PORTAL,PCPACCT,PCPPSWD at the @ prompt...no need to use a dialer! The system costs only $10/month for unlimited use (yes, that is correct, just 10 bucks a month). They have all the conferences and have a very easy to use command structure. With PC-Pursuit, your total comes to $35 per month for a very cost effective system!!! P.S., on the "Well", I subscribed to it and after about a day or two of really sloooooooowww response time and hard to understand commands, I felt Portal was a better bargain. Hope this helps... Lawrence Greenwald UUCP: {cbosgd hplabs!hp-sdd sdcsvax nosc}!crash!pnet01!lgreen ARPA: crash!pnet01!lgreen@nosc.mil INET: lgreen@pnet01.cts.com SNAIL:4545 Collwood Blvd, #52 San Diego, CA 92115 WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! OH SHUT UP! You bubble-headed booby!!! -- Dr. Zachary Smith, forever "Lost in Space"