Newsgroups: alt.med.cfs
Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:48:11 EST
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From:         Roger Burns <BFU@NIHCU.BITNET>
Subject:      Internet access / Today's Quote

Ann Perbohner sent me some very useful files she had come across
regarding Internet access.  I've included references to 2 of them
(the PDIAL and NIXPUB files) in the just-updated CFS RESOURCE file
and I excerpt the Internet-Access portion of that revised file below.
T obtain the entire CFS RESOURCE file, send an email message with the
subject GET FTP CFS.RESOURCE to the address SERVER@CU.NIH.GOV .

On a lighter subject, the following appeared in today's edition of
American Health Line:

         ==============  QUOTE OF THE DAY  ==============
"Even if Clinton can pass the proverbial managed-competition-
with-universal-coverage-and-strict-cost-controls plan, and even
if it works, most of his advisers believe that it won't start
saving money until halfway into Jack Kemp's first term (1998)."
                  -- NEWSWEEK's Joe Klein


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7.    ACCESS TO INTERNET, USENET AND FIDONET

  A. INTERNET AND USENET

"The Internet" is the name for the worldwide communications network
which uses electronic mail and other services to link mainframe
computers belonging to government offices, research organizations and
virtually all universities.  USENET is a system of electronic
discussions (called "newsgroups") which are available to many BBSs
and networked mainframes.

   1) Internet.  If you don't have regular access to an office that
has direct Internet connectivity but you wish to have Internet access
to the CFS-NEWS electronic newsletter and/or to the CFS-L discussion
group, then you may gain access through any of several large
commercial network services or through a variety of smaller services
(few of which are free) listed in the PDIAL or PUBNIX files described
below.  The major commercial services with e-mail links to the
Internet include CompuServe, America On-Line and MCI-MAIL, and plans
have been announced to connect Prodigy.  The service costs described
below may be neither complete nor up-to-date; introductory charges or
discounts are not listed.  Contact each service for complete
information.

COMPUSERVE offers Internet e-mail access and many other business,
recreational and educational services.  To join in North America,
call 1-800-848-8199.  They have 2 pricing plans.  The Standard plan
is $7.95/month for basic services; there is a $9/month mail
allowance, and Internet messages sent or read are billed at $0.15 per
1st 7500 characters, $.05 for each 2500 characters thereafter.  The
Alternative plan is $2.00/month and use of the mail area is simply
billed at the regular hourly rate.  The hourly rates (applied to
Standard non-basic services, or to all Alternative plan services)
are: 300 baud, $6.30/hr; 1200 or 2400 baud, $12.80/hr; 9600 baud,
$22.80/hr.  Prices are higher outside of North America.  For overseas
information call 1-614-457-0802 (Ohio, USA) or call toll-free in
Australia 008025240, New Zealand 0800446113, U.K. 0800289378, or
Germany 01303732.

AMERICA ON-LINE sign-up information can be found at telephone
1-800-827-6364.  The cost is $7.95/month and the connect-time rate is
$.10/minute after the 2 free hours given each month.

MCI-MAIL offers eletronic mail, faxes and other communication
services.  For sign-up information call 1-800-444-6245.  The annual
fee is $35.00.  There is charge for out-going messages depending on
the size of the message.  In-coming messages are free.  For service
outside of North America call 1-202-833-8484 in Washington, DC or in
the UK call 44-71-9281232 or in Germany call 49-89-4313071.

GENIE computer service, whose active CFS discussion area is described
above in section 5 (Network Services), also offers Internet e-mail
connectivity.  To join call 1-800-638-9636.  GENIE service is
$4.95/month.  The hourly rate is $6/off-peak, $18/peak (i.e., Mon-Fri
8am-6pm).  In addition, Internet messages are charged $.30 per 5000
characters sent or received.

UNIX NODES offer connectivity to USENET newsgroups, and some give
access to Internet.  Most charge user fees.  There are too many
access nodes to describe here; the PDIAL file gives descriptions and
cost comparisons; the NIXPUB file has many more items but doesn't
show costs.

The PDIAL file is available at the Project ENABLE BBS at 1-304-776-
7842 as filename PDIAL.TXT.  On Internet, send email with the subject
"Send PDIAL" to the address info-deli-server@netcom.com .  On USENET
the PDIAL list is posted regularly to alt.internet.access.wanted,
alt.bbs.lists, and ba.internet.  It can be ftp'd from GVL.Unisys.COM
or 128.126.220.104 as /pub/pubnet/pdial.

The NIXPUB file comes in 2 versions, long and short (1-line
descriptions).  They are available from the UNIX DEPOT BBS (7 bits,
even parity) at 1-215-348-9727; login as nuucp, enter the BBS
service, filenames /usr/spool/uucppublic/nixpub and *.short .  On the
Internet, send mail with the message text containing "get PUB nixpub"
or "get PUB nixpub.short" to mail-server@bts.com.  On USENET the
NIXPUB list is posted regularly to comp.misc, comp.bbs.misc and
alt.bbs.  It can be ftp'd from GVL.Unisys.COM or 128.126.220.104 as
/pub/pubnet/nixpub.long or /pub/pubnet/nixpub.short .
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU