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From: daysinns!alanf@gatech.edu (Daniel Alan Fleming)
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Subject: Re: Does AT&T Mail Exist?
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Date: 17 Oct 90 16:25:19 GMT
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In article <13587@accuvax.nwu.edu> 0003209613@mcimail.com (Sandy
Kyrish) writes:
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 739, Message 2 of 14

>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.

While this is probably true of the average user, there are other
options.  AT&T sells (for a pretty penny I might add) a software
series called PMXStarmail for a variety of their systems.  This is a
full screen mail program that allows you to create the mail onsite,
avoiding the creation cost.  At my previous job we had our AT&T 6386
set up as an AT&T Mail Post Office.

Another nifty piece of software (also expensive) is the MS/DOS
software ACCESS Plus.  This allows mail messages to be downloaded to
your PC from your AT&T Mail post box.  This program runs RAM resident
and can be hot keyed to.  While you are busily working up your budget
in Lotus 1-2-3 or playing the latest in Sierra Games a message will
appear stating you have mail.

We were running Windows 3.0 with eight different software packages and
never had a problem with the hot key.  It was a nice set up.  Of
course, we had to find out about the package ourself and order it
despite having a dedicated AT&T sales rep.  The quote I have heard and
come to appreciate is: "AT&T couldn't sell drugs at a Grateful Dead
concert."


Alan
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