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From: JSOL@BUCS20.BUNET (Jon Solomon)
Newsgroups: mod.telecom
Subject: AT&T mail
Message-ID: <8603120605.AA29296@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 15:06:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 15:06:00 1986
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I just called the number and at least on this coast they are more informative.

Their service seems to be designed to compete with MCI Mail (surprise!). 
For $2.00/month you can maintain a mailbox on their system. You can have
mail forwarded to your unix machine for a fee. If you send mail out from
your unix machine into their network the service is free (I'll bet there's
just a uucp path). Inside the system they charge for outgoing mail but
not incoming mail. (This leaves a small hole where a company can have
field mailboxes in the system designed to receive broadcast messages,
and the originator can be on a unix system, and no additional charges
would incur). The rates are quite reasonable (40c for less than 400
characters, 80c for 400-7500 chars, and probably higher for more).

If I didn't have the vast resources of the ARPA Internet at my
fingertips, I'd consider this service a viable alternative.

Cheers,
--JSol