Re: local Internet access?

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From: Ellen Keyne Seebacher
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 23:30

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mcdougal@cs.uchicago.edu (Tom McDougal) writes:
>A friend of mine would like to get an internet account just so
>she can send/receive mail.  CompuServe is overkill, and she 
>hopes there is something cheaper available.  Any advice?

America Online's much cheaper than CompuServe and seems to reach more
places, but wouldn't it be even easier and cheaper to get her a public-
access account?

From news.announce.newusers -- "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions":

  38. Is there a public access Unix system near me?  How can I get
      access to system for news and mail?

      Phil Eschallier posts a list of open access Unix sites (he calls
      them "Nixpub" sites) on a regular basis to the following
      newsgroups: comp.misc and alt.bbs. ...  Furthermore, a list of
      open access sites that are not necessarily Unix sites is posted
      regularly in alt.bbs.lists; see the postings entitled "NetPub
      listing" for more information.

(Incidentally, Tom, we _do_ also put these articles on our Gopher server
 and in /usr/local/doc, just in case they expire in the usual places.)

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Ellen Keyne Seebacher            news@uchinews.uchicago.edu

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