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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: 7 Jan 93 14:51:40 GMT
- From: atoscano@attmail.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Alternate to AT&T Mail Delivery
- Message-ID: <telecom13.14.14@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 14, Message 14 of 14
- Lines: 33
-
- In TELECOM Digest V13, #9, Tom Lahey <toml@batfish.attmail.com> asks
- about alternatives to AT&T Mail, believing he will pay an average
- $2.05/issue to receive the Digest via AT&T Mail.
-
- In actuality, there is *no* usage charge to *receive* messages on AT&T
- Mail -- *unless* they are sent "COD." ("COD" messages must originate
- within AT&T Mail. If the recipient doesn't wish to pay for the message
- (s)he may DELETE it without reading it, in which case the sender is
- billed for its cost. An on-line mailbox may also be flagged to reject
- "COD" messages at the time they are submitted by the sender. Messages
- from the Internet, such as the Digest, may *not* be sent "COD.")
-
- Aside from any applicable recurring monthly and annual charges, AT&T
- Mail's only *usage* charges are for *sending* messages, receiving
- "COD" messages, and accessing "shared folders." This can be confirmed
- by calling the AT&T Mail billing office in Atlanta: 800 MAIL672
- (option 2).
-
- BTW, AT&T Mail now expects to finally implement its previously
- announced, but as yet unimplemented, Minimum Usage Billing requirement
- of $25/month/invoice, sometime next year (1994). That is when they
- expect to convert to a new billing system. Before anyone panics,
- remember that several mailboxes may be billed together in a single
- invoice.
-
-
- A Alan Toscano
- Internet: atoscano@attmail.com or atoscano@taronga.com
- P O Box 741982 AT&T Mail: !atoscano AT&T Enhanced FAX: !0200607
- Houston, TX CIS: 73300,217 AT&T TELEX: 406232556 UI
- 772741982 USA Work: +1 713 216 6616 Work-FAX: +1 713 216 2193
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