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- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!vchang
- From: vchang@cory.Berkeley.EDU (V. Chang)
- Subject: Re: Other services besides Netcom?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.092040.21841@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Summary: FREE USENET AND EMAIL!
- Sender: nntp@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU (NNTP Poster)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: cory
- Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
- References: <1992Aug12.165430.2789@clipper.ingr.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 09:20:40 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <1992Aug12.165430.2789@clipper.ingr.com> mgm@clipper.ingr.com (Mike Marfell) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug7.000526.17111@mrspoc.Transact.COM>, mwallis@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Michael Wallis) writes:
- >>
- >> If all you're looking for is a news and mail site, there are several free ones
- >> in the Bay area. Tsoft in Mountain View has a full news feed and would even
- >> be likely to provide you a personal feed of the groups you read if you want to
- >> put something like WAFFLE on your DOS or UNIX system and run it as a single-user
- >> site.
- >> My BBS (Club Zen) carries about 30 newsgroups (mostly space and science fiction
- >> related) and provides email. It's also free.
- >> If you want Telnet, FTP, IRC etc services, you're currently stuck with places
- >> like NetCom and PSI, though NetConnect should be running soon. Once it's up,
- >> there'll be more options for small companies and individual users.
- >> ______________________________________________________________________________
- >> Michael Wallis mwallis@transact.com
- >> Transact Software, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA (Windows Development For HealthCare)
- >
- >
- > Do you know the phone numbers to these free sites!
- >
- >
- > -Mike
-
- Yes I do indeedy! Tsoft just happens to be run by a
- friend o'mine! no really! small world eh?
-
- ok, nuff waste of bandwidth. The number for Tsoft (the main number.
- There are about 6 lines) is.....
-
- (415) WOW PUKE
-
- no, I'm serious. No, the sysop didn't do it on purpose. it just came out
- that way. Unbelievable eh?
-
- (that's 415 969 7853 for those who are to lazy to figure out the number)
-
- anyway, use 2400 for the above number. there are faster modems available,
- but I forget what their numbers are. You can find out when you login.
-