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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!ddkilzer
- From: ddkilzer@iastate.edu (David D Kilzer)
- Subject: Re: GEnie gateway (was Re: Applelink gateway)
- Message-ID: <BxvnC0.Jnq@news.iastate.edu>
- Sender: ddkilzer@iastate.edu
- Cc: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Nov13.015211.14189@news.acns.nwu.edu> <BxMtrs.IDG@news.iastate.edu> <1992Nov15.003311.7123@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:23:54 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >ddkilzer@iastate.edu (David D Kilzer) writes:
- >> >GEnie will soon have an InterNet gateway...
- >>
- >> They already do. The charge is $2 one-time fee, plus $.30 for each 5K
- >> chunk of text per letter plus $.30 for the left-over chunk. The address
- >> is:
- >>
- >> username@genie.geis.com
- >
- >To whom do they charge these fees? The only answer that makes sense
- >is the GEnie subscriber (i.e. the recipient of the mail message). Do
- >they get charged the $2 fee when they receive their first Internet
- >E-Mail message?
-
- No. The GEnie subscriber must sign up for this service. If you try to
- send a mail message to a GEnie user who has not signed up, you get a
- weird returned-mail message back, WITHOUT a copy of your original
- message.
-
- Also, note that the GEnie subscriber is charged for each 5K chunk of
- mail coming IN or going OUT! This means that they pay for mail they
- receive AND mail they send! I'd say that was pretty stupid....
-
- >How does a GEnie subscriber send mail TO an Internet address?
-
- I don't know...I'm not subscribed to GEnie. I DO know (thru a friend
- who has a GEnie account) that anyone you want to send e-mail to on the
- Internet MUST have an address of 35 characters or less (total). For
- example, my address, "ddkilzer@iastate.edu" is 20 charcters. This
- restriction sounds really funny...I have no idea why it would be placed
- on e-mail.
-
- Does anyone who has a GEnie account know any more about this?
-
- Dave
- --
- David D. Kilzer \ ST:TNG _Relics_
- ddkilzer@iastate.edu / Capt. Montgomery Scott ("Scotty")
- Computer Engineer 3rd Class \ "I may be a captain by rank, but I never
- Iowa State University, Ames / wanted to be anything but an engineer."
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