nelson@bolyard.wpd.sgi.com (Nelson Bolyard) (10/01/90)
A relative of mine in St. Paul Minnesota, a retired school teacher, would
like to be able to send and receive electronic mail from her home. So on
her behalf, I'm looking for a commercial e-mail service that is accessible
via a LOCAL PHONE CALL from St. Paul. She needs one with a gateway to
Internet mail and she'll use it rather infrequently, i.e. once per week,
tops, and usually 1-2 times a month, so it would be best if the service had
a low fixed monthly cost.
I'm vaguely aware of Compuserve and MCI mail, but I've never used any of
these services. I don't know about costs, ease of use, of any other
similar issues. I have read some mail in which copmuserve is described as
expensive (e.g. spelled compu$erve).
If you have PERSONAL experience with one or more of the following networks,
then I'd like to hear your recommendations and comments. Please E-mail
your replies to the address below, and I'll summarize to this newsgroup.
compuserve commercial time-sharing service
connect Connect Professional Information Network (commercial)
fidonet PC-based BBS network
geonet GeoNet Mailbox Systems (commercial)
mci MCI's commercial electronic mail service
telemail Telenet's commercial mail service
My thanks to frotz@dri.com (Frotz) who passed along an nth-generation copy
of a file from one John J. Chew, listing networks with internet gateways
(among others). Thanks, Frotz, for that usefull service.
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Disclaimer: Views expressed herein do not represent the views of my employer.
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