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- From: vlad@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com (Vladimir Gershkovich)
- Subject: Re: Is there a way to get stock, commodity etc. quotes via email?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.200457.5940@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com>
- Organization: Motorola Codex, Canton Mass.
- References: <ACSvd2h8Q9@ct.perm.su> <1992Nov23.133626.19376@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:04:57 GMT
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- skrenta@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Rich Skrenta) writes:
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- >kes@ct.perm.su (Eugene S. Kolonsky) writes:
- >> Friends, does anybody know a way to get quotes by email?
-
- >This isn't email, but you may be able to get a stream of 9600 baud data
- >out of your cable TV, containing stock quotes, investment house news
- >blurbs, AP & UPI news stories, weather reports, and other junk.
-
- >Call Xpress (1-800-7PC-NEWS) and they'll tell you whether your cable system
- >carries their service. There is no monthly fee for the first tier. All you
- >need to do is buy their box and software.
-
- >I have a Unix daemon eating their feed, saving away quotes for stocks that I
- >watch and stuffing the news stories into local USENET newsgroups. I love the
- >thing; it's great to be able to pop into a newsreader and read "AP Top stories
- >as of 9am EDT".
-
- >--
- >Rich Skrenta
-
- Good idea, BUUUT I don't think they can get cable TV or call
- 1-800-anything from anywhere.su (SU - Soviet Union: see the originator's
- domain).
-
- Other then that - GREAT IDEA :-)
-
- Vlad.
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