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In article <1993Jan11.195641.8178@leland.Stanford.EDU> karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish) writes:
>In article <1993Jan9.212222.15619@ncsu.edu> dghumphr@eos.ncsu.edu
>(David Humphrey) writes:
>>This may no be the best place to post this, but I'm hoping that
>>someone here can provide some help for me.  I have a friend with
>>some type of an account on the general electric information
>>network and I know his login on that network.  What I would like
>>to know is: can I send him email?  And if so, how?  His login on
>>the G.E. network is of the form X.YYYYY

Before I go any farther, I should mention that GEnie is GE's consumer
information service, and that there are a fairly substantial number of
corporate mail users using "private" mail systems on the GEIS network that
have nothing to do with GEnie.

If, however, your friend is on GEnie, this is correct:

>GEnie now has a facility for exchanging mail with
>Internet hosts.  Your friend has to subscribe to
>a special service on GEnie.  They charge something
>like $9.40 a month for a mailbox for incoming mail,

It's actually $4.95/month for a base fee (US users only; I'm not familiar
enough with non-US rates to post about them), and it includes a pretty wide
variety of services (with no connection-time charges) in addition to just
mail.

>and $0.40 per outgoing message.

I believe that the current pricing is now $0.30 per 5,000 bytes of text on
both the inbound and outbound sides. In addition, a small charge ($2, I think)
is payable as a "signup" fee. Without signing up, you won't be able to send
mail to your friend.

>For more details on how to do this, call your friend
>on the phone and suggest that he download the relevant
>information from the Internet roundtable.

Actually, the Unix RoundTable on GEnie is providing support, but the first
place to look for information is on the Internet gateway page (p 207) on
GEnie. (There is no "Internet RoundTable" as such.)

After your friend has registered, you can send him mail by appending
@genie.geis.com to his GEmail name. For example, my GEmail is D.KOZINN, so to
send to me the address is d.kozinn@genie.geis.com.
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David Kozinn                  | UUCP:   uupsi!monymsys!david
Mutual of New York  MD 75-14  | Domain: david@mony.com
Glenpointe Centre West        | GEnie:  D.KOZINN 
Teaneck, NJ 07666-6888        | Phone:  +1-201-907-6990