Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!ziploc!eps From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: newsgroup access Message-ID: <318@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Date: 18 Feb 90 02:25:35 GMT References: <2727@pbhye.PacBell.COM> Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Organization: San Francisco State University Lines: 19 In article steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) writes: >* Call a commercial service that carries them. The two that I know of are >Portal System (Cupertino, Calif.), and Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (San >Francisco, I think). Both of these are accessible on Telenet; you type >"connect portal" or "connect well". Both charge monthly fees in the $10 to >$20 range plus telecom expenses. Your information on Portal is more or less accurate. WELL is in Sausalito, CA, and is accessible through Compu$erve's packet network (not Telenet). They charge per-hour in addition to a monthly fee and telecom costs. There are less expensive places to read usenet; WELL's main attraction is its local conferences available nowhere else. (But if you're used to blowing big bucks on BIX, Compuserve, Delphi, GEnie, et al., WELL is a bargain.) -=EPS=-