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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: 25 Dec 92 17:46:32 GMT
- From: backon@vms.huji.ac.il
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Facilities For Low-Cost, Non-US Access to US BBS's?
- Message-ID: <telecom12.918.1@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 918, Message 1 of 9
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- In article <telecom12.914.7@eecs.nwu.edu>, ds@netcom.com (David
- Schachter) writes:
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- > I run a computer bulletin board system (BBS) for PenPoint developers.
- > The BBS is in the United States and folks in Europe and South America
- > have expressed interest in accessing it, but not while paying normal
- > voice phone rates for international calls! If y'all have information
- > about access methods that provide interactive data transmission (e.g.
- > PC Pursuit), please let me know. Thank you.
-
- Well, anyone with Internet access can pay a $50 one-time fee to MERIT
- and obtain a password to their DIALOUT-AA service. Local Ann Arbor MI
- calls are free, 800 number modem calls (like to MCI Mail) are billed
- $0.25, and if one has a phone card (Sprint, MCI, etc) one can use
- DIALOUT-AA to login to American BBS's. I've done this a few times.
- Incidentally, one can also login to a local BT Tymnet number in Ann
- Arbor as well as to local Ann Arbor SprintNet and Compuserve numbers.
- Sure beats overseas phone calls!
-
- For info on DIALOUT-AA:
-
- telnet hermes.merit.edu and type a ? at the WHICH HOST prompt. Check
- the menu for the section on DIALOUT-AA. To obtain an account, send
- email to: ITD_Accounts_Office@um.cc.umich.edu
-
- I'm in medicine and the only way I can access the 100 or so medical
- BBS's in the States is by MERIT.
-
-
- Dr. Josh Backon Cardiology backon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL
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