From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 3 6: 6: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1D6A37B41A for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 06:05:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16M8VH-0002OU-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 03 Jan 2002 14:05:55 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id 5D5AA1176; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:05:53 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:05:53 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internet service Message-ID: <20020103140553.GA8194@raggedclown.net> References: <039001c19435$3b6f9330$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200201031158.g03BweV12218@lurza.secnetix.de> <20020103130727.A2569@tisys.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020103130727.A2569@tisys.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:07:27PM +0100, Nils Holland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:58:40PM +0100, Oliver Fromme stood up and spoke: > > > > Not necessarily. You can do that in a lot of countries, > > and it might be convenient for some people. There are > > also services which let you write a text with your cell > > phone (as an SMS message) and have it being sent as an > > e-mail message. > > Well, there are many more similar things. I remember that CompuServe even > let it do you the other way round: You could send an eMail to a special > address at CompuServe, and they'd print that message and deliver it via > postal mail. So, if you were in the US and wanted to send a postal letter to > Germany, you could use CompuServe's service. They'd simply make sure that > your eMail got printed in their German office, and then sent via postal > mail to the destination address in Germany. Of course, this was faster than > sending a message all the way via postal mail from the US to Germany. > > On the other hand, though, I wonder if anyone actually used this service > ;-) > Mmm, didn't used to be called a telegram :) -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message