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When I wrote this:
|    CompuServe does charge for [sending] mail within CompuServe.

Karl_Kleinpaste@cs.cmu.edu followed up in <C1FHr5.MIH.2@cs.cmu.edu>:

| That didn't ring quite true to me, so I asked someone at CompuServe
| about this.

OK.

| If you are a pay-as-you-go subscriber, there are no charges aside from
| connect time.

Right.

| If you are a flat-rate subscriber, you are charged based on the size
| of the message, but there is an initial allowance of approx 60
| 1-2Kbyte messages before those additional charges start.

Again right.

| That would cover quite a lot of email, for most folk.

Yes, but whether you're using up your allowance (and getting charged if you
go past the $9 monthly credit) or getting charged for connect time, it still
costs something.

I suppose one can include the electric bill in telecommunicating costs and
say that email within a local BBS isn't free of charges either.

David W. Tamkin   Box 59297   Northtown Station, Illinois  60659-0297
dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com    CompuServe: 73720,1570    MCI Mail: 426-1818