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From: joshua@Spies.COM (Joshua Geller)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: compuserve
Message-ID: <1991May15.054958.16231@Spies.COM>
Date: 15 May 91 05:49:58 GMT
References: <1991May13.191916.27614@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu> <1991May14.174227.29625@oar.net>
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In article <1991May14.174227.29625@oar.net> karl.kleinpaste@osc.edu writes:
|>uccxmgm@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu writes:
|>   Is there a gateway between the Internet and "Compuserve?"  I would like
|>   to be able to down-load some files from a Compuserve site.

|>The only connection to CompuServe is for email passage.  You can't get
|>at CompuServe's libraries through it.  They require you to login to
|>their systems as a known subscriber who can be billed in order to get
|>at such stuff.

	And their mail is semi-frequently hosed. For the amount of money
	they charge their subscribers, it does not seem to me that said
	subscribers get incredibly good service. 

|>
|>--karl


josh