0004142427@mcimail.com (Fred E J Linton) (10/26/90)
I've just unearthed an old brochure explaining how one registers for
AT&T Mail on-line: make a modem call to 1 800 624 5123 (2400, 1200, or
300 baud, 8 bit, no parity); give one (or more) <CR>'s; and at the
login prompt, type REGISTER followed by another <CR>. The system will
walk you through its on-line registration procedure. Have a
creditcard number or EFT number handy. You can back out at any time
with a ^C (<cntrl>-C) and a QUIT.
Other ways to register: through a human at the end of the
telephone-tree on 1 800 624 5672 or on 1 800 367 7225 (mention
extension 720); by mail or by FAX (through faxline 1 201 668 1683)
using forms available from the Telemarketing folks at the 367 7225
800-number mentioned above.
A couple further AT&T Mail features I neglected to mention before
(I've never used them): "Mail Talk" permits retrieval of messages w/o
a terminal from any DTMF phone -- text messages get "spoken" by a
synthesized voice; and there are "Autoanswer" and "Autoresponse"
options permitting fairly flexible automatic response to either all or
selected incoming messages (someone I know had an "Autoforward" option
turned on once, but I have no documentation on that).
Fred <flinton@eagle.Wesleyan.EDU> or <fejlinton@{att|mci}mail.com>