What is Silver Xpress anyway?
   
   Silver Xpress is a electronic mail and fax system designed for
   practically every bulletin board system or remote system currently
   available on the PC market.
   
   Reading and replying to bulletin board mail is time consuming, often
   taking up  your entire allocated time on a BBS.  If you read lots of
   mail, spend a lot of time on-line replying to and entering new mail,
   and/or have large phone  bills from calling computer bulletin board
   systems (BBS's), then Silver Xpress is here for you!

   With Silver Xpress, you can collect mail in an organized manner and
   store it on your personal computer. Once you have collected it, you can
   then log off and begin reading your mail.

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   Silver Xpress scans for mail from pre-selected message areas (often
   called forums, conferences or echos). After it finishes scanning for
   mail, it will present the results to you. At this point, you can decide
   "How much Mail" you wish to collect using the unique Silver Xpress
   bundling commands called Flex Select<tm>.

   Flex Select <tm> collects or "bundles" the mail into a compressed format
   ready for downloading  to your PC.  This compressed file is called an
   Xpress mail packet.  Once you have downloaded the Xpress mail packet to
   your PC, you can log off and use the  interactive Silver Xpress Off-line
   Mail/Fax Reader program to read and reply to your mail.

   This is where the fun begins! The Silver Xpread Reader is the most
   advance system of it's kind. Yet it is very easy to use. The Xpress
   Reader, as most people call it, will recognize the Xpress Mail packet
   you just downloaded and present the mail to you in very friendly manner.
   At this point you can read, create new messages to your friends, and
   reply to your friends. There is a lot more to Silver Xpress, and trying
   it out is the best way to find out all it can do to save you money.

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   To get  started, find  a bulletin  board system that offers the Silver
   Xpress system  as a  service to  you,  a  communication  program  with
   download and  upload capabilities,  and a file compression system such
   as PKZip,  PAK, ARC, ZOO, or LHARC.  File compression systems are also
   called archival systems or archivers.

   You  can do this with any Xpressable BBS on which you are a user. Ask
   the BBS sysop if their system is set up to support Xpress.

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   In summary, the Xpress system lets you do the following:
   
     a) Select your favorite mail conferences,

     b) scan for your new mail
     
     c) bundle the mail into Xpress packet format
     
     d) compress the bundle using your favorite archiver
     
     e) transfer the  Xpress packet  to your  PC using  a  standard  file
        transfer protocol such as Xmodem, Ymodem, or Zmodem
     
     f) use the  special Xpress  Reader program after logging off to read
        and reply to the new mail
     
     g) log back  on the same BBS to upload the reply packet if you have
        created mail.
     
     g) repeat from the beginning

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   Silver Xpress  is fun to use but also has value by saving you time and   
   money.  Try it out.  Your electronic mailing will never be the same!     

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