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This is release 1.14 of the Chicago email FAQ, last updated 4/6/94.


This is a listing of Chicago area sites that offer email accounts for
new users, and uucp/highspeed news and mail accounts for new machines,
maintained by blair@obdient.chi.il.us and published bimonthly in
chi.mail.  This list includes only sites accepting new accounts.  If you 
would like your site to be included or to update this information please 
email blair@obdient.chi.il.us.

This listing is organized by County and includes a special section for the
City of Chicago.  Each site entry contains:

	1) Site name  eg:  garbanzo.domain.country
	2) Address to which you can send mail for more information,
		eg:  root@site.domain.country
	3) Voice phone number you can call for more information
	4) Data number you can call if the site accepts public logins
		or has a script that will accept new users
	5) Services field: a character for each of (M)ail, Usenet (N)ews,
		(I)nternet "live" connection, (D)ownloadable programs,
		(U)ucp mail & newsfeeds, (S)LIP mail & newsfeeds, and 
		(L)eased lines available. The first 4 of these (MNID) 
		apply to new individual accounts and the last 3 (USL) 
		apply to new connections for machines.  The first 4 mean
		that you will need to establish an account on a machine at
		that site and dial in to that site to use your account.
		The last 3 mean that you can connect your computer to that 
		site to transfer files (uucp) or to directly access the 
		internet on a temporary (slip/ppp) or permanant (leased) basis.
		The "F", "$" and "-" represent (F)ree service, ($) charge
		service and (-) unavailable service at this site. A "?"
		means my information is incomplete.
	6) Modem field: (1)=1200, (2)=2400, (9)=9600 V.32, (4)=14400 V.32/
		V.42 bis, (H)=USRobotics HST Protocol, (P)=Telebit PEP
		Protocol, (I)=Internet (telnet, etc)
	7) Operating system environment (Unix, BBS, Amiga, VMS, etc)


Site            Info    Voice           Data            Service Modems  OS
Name            Address Phone           Phone           MNIDUSL 1294HPI Type
--------------- ------- --------------- --------------- ------- ------- ----
                               City Of Chicago
                               ===============
mcs.com         info    312-BIT-UNIX    312-248-0900    F$$$$$$ 1294-PI Unix
infochi.com     support 312-889-7724    312-889-5396    $$$$??? -294--I Unix
interaccess.com help    800-967-1580    708-671-0237*   $$$$$$$ 1294--I Unix 
ripco.com       info    312-477-6210    312-665-0065    FF$--?? 1294--I Unix
tezcat.com      ilixi   312-850-0181    312-850-0112    $$$$-$$ 1294H-I Unix
wwa.com         info    708-367-1870    312-282-8605    $$$$$$$ 1294-PI Unix
   *in city of Chicago but served from Schiller Park phone switch
                         Cook County outside Chicago
                         ===========================
sandv.chi.il.us mithelen 708-579-1314   708-352-0948    F$-F$-- 129---- Unix
stephsf.com  postmaster 708-776-0286    Private         ---FF-- --94-P- Unix
ttd1.ttd.teradyne.com nichols 708-940-9000 Private      ----F-- -29--PI Unix
xnet.com        info    708-983-6064    708-882-1101    F$$$$$$ 1294--I Unix
                                DuPage County
                                =============
grayfox.svs.com ken     708-983-5240    708-983-5147    $$$$$-$ 1294HPI Unix
mcs.com         info    312-BIT-UNIX    708-637-0900    F$$$$$$ 1294-PI Unix
obdient.chi.il.us blair 708-527-8899    Private         ----F-- 1294-P- Unix
wa9aek.chi.il.us ken    708-983-5240    708-983-6693    $--$$-- 1294HP- Unix
vpnet.chi.il.us lisbon  708-833-8122    708-833-8126    FF--?-- 1294HP- Unix
xnet.com        info    708-983-6064    708-983-6435    F$$$$$$ 1294-PI Unix
                                 Kane County
                                 ===========
simon.chi.il.us info    708-513-6921    708-513-6922    $--F?-- 1294-P- Unix
unixuser.chi.il.us info 708-840-8043    708-208-5980    $F-F?-- 1294--- BBS
                             Lake County, Illinois
                             =====================
pshrink.chi.il.us info  708-487-5464    708-487-9727    FF--?-- 1294--- Unix
wwa.com         info    708-367-1870    708-367-1871    $$$$$$$ 1294-PI Unix
                             Lake County, Indiana
                             ====================
bbs.whiting.mcs.com sysop Private       219-763-2357    $$-F$-- 1294--- BBS
                                  Will County
                                  ===========
kiss.chi.il.us  n9bh    Private         815-436-7181    F---?-- 129---  Unix
worldbridge.com donl    815-254-0101    815-439-2512    FF-F?-- 129-P-  Unix

Telephone Information:

Chicago area local telephone service is provided by Ameritech and Sprint.
There are no "free" calls included with residential phone service. Calls
within an (aproximate) 8 mile radius are untimed and cost about a nickel.
Timed rates apply to calls in 8-15 mile, 15-40 mile and greater than 40
miles in the Northeast Illinois LATA. A small number of existing Sprint
customers have less expensive bulk calling packages, but these are not
offered to new accounts. 

Domain Address Information:

Electronic mail addresses of the form "user@sitename.domain" are known as
Fully Qualified Domain Names.  The use of FQDN's means that your mail will
be routed correctly and directly as soon as it reaches a smart host or 
internet site.  Generally speaking, bang-path addressing (sitename!site2!
site3!user) can be counted on to work only on locally connected networks or 
short hop uucp paths.  Please use a domain style address when mailing to
one of the sites above from outside the Chicago area.

.chi.il.us Domain Information:

Many of the sites listed above are members of the .chi.il.us mail domain,
the email project of Uniforum Chicago, often referred to as the Clout
Project, administered by volunteer computer professionals in the Chicago
area.  Joining this (or any) domain will allow your computer site to use 
internet style addressing, but you must still arrange a uucp connection
between your machine and an internet host.  For information about the
Clout Project email to postmaster@clout.chi.il.us.  For information about
uucp connections and internet hosts email the addresses listed above.

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