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Article #3392

Re: Email trivia

#3392
From: Ken Jongsma
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:08
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emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:

>Ken Jongsma (ken@wybbs.mi.org) wrote:

>: If you are on the pay per message plan, you have the option of
>: returning a message unread to avoid paying for it. That generates the
>: postage due message.

>Hm.  Do they get to see the "Subject" line?  Sounds like a good free
>way to send very short messages to Compuserve subscribers...just like
>the old "make a collect call home to yourself" trick to tell someone that
>you arrived at your destination.

I couldn't say. I subscribe to the pay by the minute plan.

Ken
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Ken Jongsma                                     jongsma@benzie.si.com
Smiths Industries                                    ken@wybbs.mi.org 
Grand Rapids, Michigan                      73115.1041@compuserve.com 
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From: ken@wybbs.mi.org (Ken Jongsma)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,mi.sun,mi.misc
Subject: Re: Email trivia
Message-ID: <1992Dec16.000857.26727@wybbs.mi.org>
Date: 16 Dec 92 00:08:57 GMT
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