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- Path: sparky!uunet!bsc835!ehunt
- From: ehunt@bsc835bsc.edu (Eric Hunt)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: America Online (and similar systems)
- Summary: Windows interfaces
- Message-ID: <245@bsc835bsc.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 20:54:35 GMT
- References: <Bzz2BD.n0q@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Birmingham-Southern College
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- In article <Bzz2BD.n0q@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, rusbasan@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Rusbasan) writes:
- > America Online says that it allows access to internet mail and
- > "other services." News, perhaps? Does any online service allow
- > you to read internet news?
-
- AOL allows Internet email only. There are no other services I know of. They
- actively discourage people from subscribing to mailing lists, etc. There is
- a 24k or so limit on the size of incoming email messages.
-
- > Has anyone tried America Online for Windows? Any comments?
- > Is the CompuServe Windows interface out? Has anyone tried that?
-
- You're asking about two products that are still under NDA, as far as I
- know. Don't expect too many responses.
-
- I can say that CIM/Win is due to be announced in January, at Networld, I
- believe.
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