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Date:      Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:05:53 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Internet service
Message-ID:  <20020103140553.GA8194@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020103130727.A2569@tisys.org>
References:  <039001c19435$3b6f9330$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200201031158.g03BweV12218@lurza.secnetix.de> <20020103130727.A2569@tisys.org>

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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



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