Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!vsi1!altnet!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!PHil 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) Lines: 19 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.