Re: GEnie gateway (was Re: Applelink gateway)

[ddkilzer@iastate.edu (David D Kilzer)]

David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>ddkilzer@iastate.edu (David D Kilzer) writes:
>> >GEnie will soon have an InterNet gateway...
>> 
>> They already do.  The charge is $2 one-time fee, plus $.30 for each 5K
>> chunk of text per letter plus $.30 for the left-over chunk.  The address
>> is:
>> 
>> username@genie.geis.com
>
>To whom do they charge these fees?  The only answer that makes sense
>is the GEnie subscriber (i.e. the recipient of the mail message).  Do
>they get charged the $2 fee when they receive their first Internet
>E-Mail message?

No.  The GEnie subscriber must sign up for this service.  If you try to
send a mail message to a GEnie user who has not signed up, you get a
weird returned-mail message back, WITHOUT a copy of your original
message.

Also, note that the GEnie subscriber is charged for each 5K chunk of
mail coming IN or going OUT!  This means that they pay for mail they
receive AND mail they send!  I'd say that was pretty stupid....

>How does a GEnie subscriber send mail TO an Internet address?

I don't know...I'm not subscribed to GEnie.  I DO know (thru a friend
who has a GEnie account) that anyone you want to send e-mail to on the
Internet MUST have an address of 35 characters or less (total).  For
example, my address, "ddkilzer@iastate.edu" is 20 charcters.  This
restriction sounds really funny...I have no idea why it would be placed
on e-mail.

Does anyone who has a GEnie account know any more about this?

Dave
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