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From: mikel@codas.ATT.UUCP (Mikel Manitius)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: AT&T announces electronic mail service
Message-ID: <473@codas.ATT.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 16:25:46 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 16:25:46 1986
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Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Altamonte Springs, FL
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> I just saw a short article in the newspaper that says AT&T has announced
> an electronic mail service that sends a short message for 40c and a few
> pages of stuff for 80c.  If you want it printed and mailed to the
> recipient, it's $2 extra, and if you want messenger delivery it's like
> $22 extra.
> 
> The article also mentions that "AT&T has been using it internally and
> testing it with 200 outside companies".
> 
> Are they talking about the uucp network, or is this something else?
> Where do the prices come from, and how does the whole thing tie together
> for someone who has e.g. an MSDOS machine at home?

I haven't seen the article, but it sounds like they're talking about
what is known (internally) as AT&T Mail, I've been using it for over a
year, it's a nice friendly mail interface, who's verbosity you can tune
to your desire. It's especially nice for people who travel a lot (like me),
most large metropolitan areas have a local number to call for access,
and there is a national 800 number to call as well.

If you want to read your mail, but don't have a terminal, no problem!
Just call the 800 number, and a DECtalk (DEC's voice synthesizer) will
answer the phone, and ask you to login using a touch-tone phone's keys,
and will then read your mail to you! You can also register regular
unix machines with it, and forward mail in and out of AT&T mail that
way via UUCP.
-- 
			Mikel Manitius @ AT&T-IS Altamonte Springs, FL
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