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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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