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- From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Email to Genie
- Message-ID: <telecom12.900.11@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 17:10:00 GMT
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- Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Chicago, Illinois 60657
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- PAT replied to Gary Sanders's <telecom12.889.8@eecs.nwu.edu>:
-
- > [Moderator's Note: Compuserve also charges for mail on their network,
- > but they do give an allotment for the month as part of the service
- > fee. Since they have no way to collect mail charges from other
- > networks, they bill their own users 'collect'. But each user has an
- > option to accept or not accept collect mail from the internet. If the
- > user does not wish to accept it collect, then it is returned to the
- > sender. If the user does agree to accept collect charges on mail from
- > the internet, then much of it is covered by the monthly allowance so
- > they don't see any extra charges. I should imagine GEnie and Prodigy
- > would work on the same basis. PAT]
-
- It's not exactly that way on CompuServe either. To the best of my
- knowledge, a CompuServe customer does not have the option of rejecting
- all Internet mail.
-
- However, CompuServe charges only for reading (displaying, capturing)
- Internet mail, not for receiving it. If a customer deletes mail that
- came across the Internet without reading it or lets it expire unread,
- there is no charge against (nor beyond) his or her email allowance for
- that month.
-
- Thus a customer can look at the senders, sizes, and subjects of wait-
- ing mail and decide whether to read it (and pay for it if it came
- through the Internet gateway) or not.
-
- Contrarily, I believe that GEnie does charge for all inbound Internet
- mail delivered, whether it is listed (their word for "read") or not.
- For the record, the GEnie address that used to be in my .signature has
- been invalid for nearly two years. A GEnie customer does have the
- option of dropping gateway service.
-
-
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