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From: zellich@stl-07sima.army.mil (Rich Zellich)
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Subject: MailStorm Project (Email to Saudi Arabia)
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Date: 21 Feb 91 13:47:17 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 144, Message 3 of 10


 From today's {St. Louis Post-Dispatch}:

 Mail to Troops
 
UMSL COMPUTER SYSTEM SENDS LETTERS TO GULF

Letters from home have taken on a dedicedly high-tech cast in this
high-tech war. Now people can send mail to the Persian Gulf by comput-
er - at no cost, thanks to a service set up locally by the University
of Missouri at St. Louis.

The system, part of a natinwide effort called the MailStorm Project,
is open to anyone with a computer, a modem and the name of a soldier
in the gulf. The messages are transmitted over an electronic bulletin
board system at UMSL's School of Optometry, which in turn transmits
the mail through a network that includes bulletin board operators in
Saudi Arabia.

Delivery time has been averaging about 48 hours.  The UMSL system can
take two calls at a time, for 24 hours a day.

Here's how it works:

     * Call the bulletin board at 553-6475. 

     * Select and enter a password.  Once you've selected a password,
       you use the same one each time you send a message.

     * Follow directions from the system.


                          Virginia Hick

[The above phone number is in area code 314.  I called it to make sure
the PD printed the right number; a modem answered, but I didn't try to
log in to verify it any further.  -RWZ]