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From: 0003209613@mcimail.com (Sandy Kyrish)
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Subject: Re: Does AT&T Mail Exist?
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Date: 15 Oct 90 12:45:00 GMT
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While AT&T Mail is fully featured, etc., you would NOT necessarily
switch over to it because MCI raised its rates! The AT&T Mailbox fee
is $30.00 already, and they really zing you on message charges -- you
are charged for the creation *and* the transmission of the message.
So after about seven or eight messages, you would have made up the
$5.00 savings in up front mailbox fees.  About the only mailbox I can
think of that has no fee is the "mail" feature of CompuServe, although
there you pay for on-line time ... oh well, STILL no perfect world.


[Moderator's Note: You are correct that the subscription and per-use
prices on AT&T Mail would be no saving over the new MCI rates, but the
quality of service is important also; and generally, given my
druthers, I prefer AT&T although I have service on both. I find AT&T
Mail a little easier to work with. They also have pretty good help
documentation, and their shared folders (sort of like a public
bulletin board) are easy to use.  PAT]