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From: PHil@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Report Card On University E-MAIL
Message-ID: <9255@cup.portal.com>
Date: 19 Sep 88 05:18:40 GMT
References: <9228@cup.portal.com>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.1001

Just to clarify things about Portal to prevent any misunderstanding:

- Usenet is made available without the need to have a unix host and
  administer it.  All you need is a terminal.

- Net mail to Bitnet, UUCP, ARPA and most other "public" nets is available.

- Many other services including private setups for things like doing
  online Customer Support and information distribution can be done also.

You can connect to Portal yourself by calling 408/725-0561 or using Telenet
and the host mnemonic of "portal."  Call 800-336-0437 for instructions on
how to connect to Portal using Telenet.  Portal is at 408/973-9111.
We've had a lot of requests from net users indicating we should make ourselves
more well known on the net because many organizations use Portal as a way
of allowing email connections to their internal machines without having to
support the accounts on those machines.  If you are a site administrator,
you may want to circulate this note to your departments.  We have received
a particularly large number of requests from Unix-based vendors like Sun.