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From: fallst!tkevans@uunet.uu.net (Tim Evans)
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Subject: Re: AT&T MAIL ACCESS Program Description
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In <14689@accuvax.nwu.edu> nelson%odin.corp.sgi.com@sgi.com (Nelson
Bolyard) writes:

>Executive (:-) Summary: If you have and use AT&T Mail's "ACCESS"
>program for the PC or MacIntosh, please write a description of how it
>works, how you use it, how user-friendly it is, etc, and mail it to me

>So I chose AT&T Mail.

>AT&T has a pair of programs that they want you to buy to use AT&T
>Mail.  Both are named "ACCESS", one is for the PC, one for the
>MacIntosh.  Each reportedly costs about $150 (just went up, used to be
>about $100).

Missing here is the fact that ATTMail can be used non-interactively.
AT&T does after all run UNIX on its systems, including the ATTMail
system.  If your system is a UNIX or UNIX-derived system, just
establish a UUCP link to ATTMail (they will allow this) and then use
your local mail agent to compose messages with UUCP-style addresses.
They will be delivered just like any other UUCP mail.  Morever, since
ATTMail charges more for "on line" message composition than for
messages "uploaded" via UUCP, you save even more money this way.

PC and Mac users: don't despair.  Get a PD UUCP (i.e., 'uupc' or
similar agent) and connect to ATTMail as a "UNIX" system.  Even if you
_buy_ a DOS/MacOS UUCP-style mailer, you're still ahead of where you'd
be buying ACCESS, because you can use it to talk to systems other than
ATTMail.

I don't thing anyone disagrees that AT&T's marketing of ATTMail is
p*ss poor, but if you insist that you want to connect a "UNIX" system
(even if your "UNIX" system is really a DOS system), somebody in
Customer Service should be able to find somebody who knows somebody
who can help you.  Just don't confuse them by telling them you're
using a PC or Mac.


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