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- From: leong%etdai2.decnet@MDCGWY.MDC.COM (ETDAI2::LEONG)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.win3-l
- Subject: RE: Compu$erve and WIN3-L
- Message-ID: <WIN3-L%92122218050750@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:56:00 GMT
- Sender: Microsoft Windows Version 3 Forum <WIN3-L@UICVM.BITNET>
- Lines: 26
- Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
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- Chris,
-
- CI$ only provides mail access to the Internet for its subscribers. You can
- subscribe to any mailing list just as you do now. The format of an Internet
- address for CI$ is :
-
- >INTERNET:user@domain
-
- So one can send mail to any listserv and get added to the list. HOWEVER...
- CI$ has a limited mailbox capacity and the time you spend reading mail counts
- on the old CI$ taxicab machine. I think someone once posted (long ago) that
- the CI$ mailbox will only handle up to 70 messages at a time. Messages beyond
- that are simply tossed into the bit bucket. If you sub to several lists, then
- you'll likely get over 100 messages a day. So be prepared to process them
- all each day. (Apparently they, CI$, get kinda perturbed if you don't empty
- out the inbox on a regular basis...) You'll need TAPCIS or OZCIS or CIM if
- you want an automated way to pull down all your messages.
-
- This all sounds like a downer, I know, but CI$ does offer some cool capability
- that you can't get elsewhere, even on the net. So consider it all carefully.
-
- And for Pete's sake, don't go running off to Prodigy. Now there's a service to
- avoid... Oh I should be nicer, it is the Christmas season...
-
- Chee Woo Leong
- St. Louis, MO
-