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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!monymsys!david
- From: david@monymsys.mony.com (David Kozinn)
- Subject: Re: email to General Electric Information Network
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.185129.24905@monymsys.mony.com>
- Organization: Mutual of New York
- References: <1993Jan9.212222.15619@ncsu.edu> <1993Jan11.195641.8178@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 18:51:29 GMT
- Lines: 50
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- In article <1993Jan11.195641.8178@leland.Stanford.EDU> karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan9.212222.15619@ncsu.edu> dghumphr@eos.ncsu.edu
- >(David Humphrey) writes:
- >>This may no be the best place to post this, but I'm hoping that
- >>someone here can provide some help for me. I have a friend with
- >>some type of an account on the general electric information
- >>network and I know his login on that network. What I would like
- >>to know is: can I send him email? And if so, how? His login on
- >>the G.E. network is of the form X.YYYYY
-
- Before I go any farther, I should mention that GEnie is GE's consumer
- information service, and that there are a fairly substantial number of
- corporate mail users using "private" mail systems on the GEIS network that
- have nothing to do with GEnie.
-
- If, however, your friend is on GEnie, this is correct:
-
- >GEnie now has a facility for exchanging mail with
- >Internet hosts. Your friend has to subscribe to
- >a special service on GEnie. They charge something
- >like $9.40 a month for a mailbox for incoming mail,
-
- It's actually $4.95/month for a base fee (US users only; I'm not familiar
- enough with non-US rates to post about them), and it includes a pretty wide
- variety of services (with no connection-time charges) in addition to just
- mail.
-
- >and $0.40 per outgoing message.
-
- I believe that the current pricing is now $0.30 per 5,000 bytes of text on
- both the inbound and outbound sides. In addition, a small charge ($2, I think)
- is payable as a "signup" fee. Without signing up, you won't be able to send
- mail to your friend.
-
- >For more details on how to do this, call your friend
- >on the phone and suggest that he download the relevant
- >information from the Internet roundtable.
-
- Actually, the Unix RoundTable on GEnie is providing support, but the first
- place to look for information is on the Internet gateway page (p 207) on
- GEnie. (There is no "Internet RoundTable" as such.)
-
- After your friend has registered, you can send him mail by appending
- @genie.geis.com to his GEmail name. For example, my GEmail is D.KOZINN, so to
- send to me the address is d.kozinn@genie.geis.com.
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