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From: wall@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Wall)
Newsgroups: net.wanted
Subject: Need info on electronic mail services available
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Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 02:09:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 26 02:09:50 1984
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I'm thinking about subscribing to an electronic mail service so that I can
send mail to my sister in Wash. D.C. and was wondering if anyone has any
experience with any of the companies offering such services. If anyone can
answer any/all of the below question I'd really appreciate it.

	1) Is there a monthly charge for the service?
	2) Do they charge "by the byte" for each letter?
	3) How fast does the mail get from the West coast to the East coast?
	4) Are there any that are accessible from the ARPANET, UUCP, etc?
	   (I kind of doubt this, but I thought I'd ask anyway...)

Also, my sister was talking about Compuserve...does anyone have any experience
with them? How about the new MCI mail?

Thanks alot,

Steve Wall
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