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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
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Subject: Re: Envoy 100
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Date: 26 Feb 90 02:00:46 GMT
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In article <4300@accuvax.nwu.edu> "Robert P. Warnock" <rigden!rpw3@eddie.mit.
edu> writes:
>X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 124, Message 6 of 11

>| hooking them up to a system called "Envoy 100".  (It's a billable

>It's just a commercial e-mail service. Happens to be run (indirectly)
>by the Canadian government. Fees are charged for connect time,

Very indirectly. It's run by a company called Telecom Canada. Which in
turn is owned by the government. The Canadian Telco's are involved as
well.

Telecom Canada is apparantly being put on the block by the government
(as of last Tuesday's federal budget).

>in fairly isolated locations. Telenet's "local" access ports are a
>winner for this population.

Envoy was originally a clone of Telenet's Telemail. I havn't used it
in a number of years, but don't imagine they have re-implemented it
from scratch. I did use both it and Telemail from 1982 to about 1985.
It was ok but pricey.


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