> Try the Well, Natalie.  It's $10/month and $6/hour via CompuServe's
 
Thanks for the info!  I'm answering on the list because I thought others
might be interested in this topic.  If I'm wrong about that, I apologize.
 
> Packet Net; you use the same dailup numbers as you're using now. Just
 
I was just about to go to CIS and download a list of numbers for the
various places I'm going to be during the first couple of weeks in
July.  Do you mean that all the CIS numbers will work for the Well?
Here in my little town I have to use a telenet number, but usually when
I travel I find direct CIS numbers.  (Actually, I rarely use the telenet
number anymore -- instead I telnet to CIS from my own system via hermes.)
 
> hit <Enter> instead of <Ctrl-C>, and you'll get a 'Host Name:'
 
This confuses me a bit since I've never hit <Ctrl-C>.  I've always hit
<Enter>.
 
> the 'login:' prompt.  Well user accounts come up in Picospan, a Unix BBS
> package, but you can start a Unix shell by typing "!sh" in Picospan,
 
I like the sound of this since I find Unix by far the most pleasant
operating system to find myself on.
 
>     use sweeper or elm to pick it up there.  Of course, you could do
>     this right now, forwarding the mail to your CompuServe account...
 
Not really.  I knew CIS had a very limited space for incoming mail but
just found out that it's *extremely* limited -- 100 messages.  If I had
mail forwarded to my CIS address, I would have to stay online constantly
to keep the mail cleared out.  I sometimes get 100 messages in an hour.
 
You have convinced me to try the Well.  Thanks again!  I still prefer
finding telnet access at universities, of course, and am still convinced
that it's very easy to do so.  If I wanted to plan my upcoming trip
better, I could probably arrange right now to have telnet access waiting
at every stop on the route from Mississippi to Rhode Island by way of
various out-of-the-way places, probably including Quebec.  But I don't
want to plan that carefully.  I will drive each day until I get tired,
find a place to stay, and probably not want to hunt around at that point
for a university Computer Center.  The Well may be the ideal answer on
those nights -- assuming that the motels have the right kind of phone
jacks, which more and more do seem to have these days.
   --Natalie ([log in to unmask])