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- From: Karl_Kleinpaste@cs.cmu.edu
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- Subject: Re: Compuserve Access via Telnet.
- Message-ID: <C18EoH.9n9.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 01:26:25 GMT
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- pstott@igc.apc.org writes:
- >Telnet to HERMES.MERIT.EDU, and at the prompt "Which Host," type
- >"compuserve".
- >It's not a cheap means of accessing Compuserve, however !
-
- clark@umbc.edu writes:
- What do you mean?
-
- The CompuServe access via hermes.merit.edu employs Telenet, Inc's X.25
- connection to CompuServe. Therefore, there are additional surcharges
- to pay for the Telenet packet-passing involvement, over and above your
- regular CompuServe connect time charges. I don't know what those
- extra charges are (my CServe account is not permitted access via that
- route), but they're known to be not trivial.
-
- --karl
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