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Re: US West service

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From: David Saranen
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:04
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The service is called Community Link, and is available in the metro
area.  There is an office in St. Paul (2550 Universiy Ave. W, Suite
161 South).  THey also have a help desk in Omaha(or someplace)
available about 3/4 time at (800) 645-4654.  I think the number of the
local office is 641-1286.  The dial-in number is 370-9000.

To use this service, you need a calling card number and associated PIN
number.  They lease terminals, or you can obtain software for pc's or
mac's(I'm not sure of any others).  My notes say they are using
VT220-teletel (which probably contains some extensions from the
French software.)

If you already have the card and PIN numbers, you can call in and
connect by typing three periods and an enter. When it asks, type
the 14 digits of card+PIN.

I haven't tried this service yet. I happened to call last week, and
I still had the information handy. My understanding was that there
was no charge unless you actually did something. I may be wrong on that,
so caveat emptor.

Finally, I have no idea if this is related to the recent announcement
of directory information available on-line.

-Dave
saranen@epx.cis.umn.edu

oops... I guess the number (in Omaha) for more information is
(800) 678-5465.
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From: saranen@epx.cis.umn.edu (David Saranen)
Subject: Re: US West service
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Summary: US West Community Link
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