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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!ddkilzer
- From: ddkilzer@iastate.edu (David D Kilzer)
- Subject: Re: Applelink gateway?
- Message-ID: <Bxvno1.Ju8@news.iastate.edu>
- Sender: ddkilzer@iastate.edu
- Cc: psonnek@pro-algonquin.cts.com
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <BxMtrs.IDG@news.iastate.edu> <kg44279@pro-algonquin.cts.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:31:09 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- psonnek@pro-algonquin.cts.com (Patrick Sonnek) writes:
- >ddkilzer@iastate.edu (David D Kilzer) writes:
- >>
- >>>GEnie will soon have an InterNet gateway...
- >>
- >>They already do. The charge is $2 one-time fee, plus $.30 for each 5K
- >>chunk of text per letter plus $.30 for the left-over chunk. The address
- >>is:
- >>
- >>username@genie.geis.com
- >>
- >Who pays the charge? If I send a letter to joe@genie.geis.com do they
- >charge joe? I could see joe and alot of others demanding that genie block
- >them from receiving inet mail. or is the charge only applicable to outgoing
- >mail (which is how MCImail does it.)
-
- Only users who have subscribed (signed up for, etc.) this service will
- be charged. If you try to send a message to someone with a GEnie
- account and they have not signed up for this, your message will bounce
- (at no cost to them). Also note that your bounced message does NOT
- contain ANY text from the original file (so save a copy if you don't
- want to retype it).
-
- If the GEnie user HAS signed up for this service, they are charged (as I
- understand it) 30 cents for every 5K of text coming in OR going out!
- That means that they are charged for the mail they send *AND* the mail
- they receive. Kinda stupid if you ask me....
-
- One more thing. I heard from a friend who has a GEnie account that an
- Internet address which they want to send mail to must have NO MORE than
- 35 characters. This sounds really strange...can anyone confirm it?
-
- Dave
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- David D. Kilzer \ ST:TNG _Relics_
- ddkilzer@iastate.edu / Capt. Montgomery Scott ("Scotty")
- Computer Engineer 3rd Class \ "I may be a captain by rank, but I never
- Iowa State University, Ames / wanted to be anything but an engineer."
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