WANTED: List of Internet Providers
Craig Cockburn
In article <SHIAO.92J...@foo.ans.net>, sh...@ans.net (Dennis Shiao) writes...
Dennis,
Here is the UK list (additions welcome)
Craig
This is a summary of information gathered from the Internet on how private
individuals can connect up to the Internet for International email and/or
Usenet access from a PC in their house.
Craig
------- Forwarded mail received on 26-Jun-1992 at 17:13:51 -------
From: cl...@demon.co.uk
The facilities offered are: SLIP or PPP access to the Internet
via gate.demon.co.uk. This includes free international mail, free
bi-directional usenet news and ftp access to any Internet site in
the world. Other facilities available on the Internet are "Internet
Relay Chat" and telnet facility to any number of public-access
boards in the world.
The only charges are #12.50 joining fee and then #10.00 per
month (both plus VAT). These are collected monthly in advance from
your credit card. Other than that, it's a call to an 081 number.
To get started, you will need to mail the following details to
inte...@demon.co.uk. You should be set up the next day. Before
you log on with PPP or SLIP, you will need to do so with a terminal
emulator and, having logged in with your chosen site name, you will
be prompted to set a password. The modem number is 081-343 4848.
You then log on using ka9q or other IP package and become part
of the Internet. Don't forget to read any mail addressed to
postmaster at your site ... it's our standard way of getting in
touch with you.
The support number (voice) is 081-343 3881. Please do not
hesitate to ring us if you need any further assistance.
To get you started, we need to know:
1) Credit Card Number
2) Expiry Date
3) Address
4) Phone Number
5) Machine Name: <something>.demon.co.uk (from 4 to 8 characters)
6) Machine Type
7) SLIP or PPP
See you on the Internet!
Cliff.
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Cliff Stanford Email: cl...@demon.co.uk (Work)
Demon Systems Limited c...@demon.co.uk (Home)
42 Hendon Lane Phone: 081-349 0063 (Office)
London N3 1TT England 0860 375870 (Mobile)
------- Forwarded mail received on 1-Jul-1992 at 09:54:08 -------
From: al...@ibmpcug.co.uk "Alan Jay"
To: Craig Cockburn 30-Jun-1992 0936 <edieng::cockburn>
The PC User Group provides access to the Internet in the UK.
This can be anything from email and news to FTP and telnet.
News and Mail can be accessed as a single user either by
logging onto our computer or by using UUCP and a Shareware
package such as Waffle. FTP and Telnet are accessed via
our computer which is directly connected to the Internet.
We are based in London and our main dial in number in
081-863 6646.
If you would like more information please email me (I can
send you some further details if you would like by post if
you give me your mailing address).
Hope this is of help.
Regards
ALan Jay
--
Alan Jay The IBM PC User Group, PO Box 360,
Tel. 081-863 1191 Fax: 081-863 6095 Harrow HA1 4LQ, ENGLAND
Email: al...@ibmpcug.CO.UK Path: ..!uknet!ibmpcug!alanj
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Article: 135
From: ja...@spuddy.uucp (Jamie Allen)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,alt.internet.access.wanted,uk.telecom,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Internet access in the UK
Date: 10 Jul 92 08:15:31 GMT
Organization: Spuddy's Public Usenet Domain
Try Spud's Xanadu on (0203) 638780 or (0203) 638693.
Free to join (and no VAT)
No subscription charge (no VAT)
Outgoing international mail : 9 pence per kilobyte.
Incoming international mail : free
Bidirectional usenet, email and all other services : free
Jamie.
--
++ ja...@spuddy.uucp or !uunet!mcsun!uknet!spuddy!jamie ++
++ ++
++ Call Spud's Xanadu on >>0203 638780<< for FREE access to : ++
++ Usenet reading/posting, internet/uucp mail, SunOS unix, GNU archive ++
++ tonnes and tonnes of stuff to dowload or uucp, two MUD games & MORE ! ++
CompuServe info (information on US rates)
Craig-
The data you received on network ,sounded like it would do the job.
However the cost seemed high. I pay 10 Dollars a month for one level
above basic service. Out of that my connect time gets paid , connect
time is about 20 cents a minute. That comes to about 50 minutes.
To send a message takes slightly under a minute.
So my bottom line is check out charges in the UK.
ComPuserve customer service UK freephone 0800 289 458
I was talking to a old friend Who took the last package, he told me
that MCI mail was common link that they were heading towards. I believe
he quoted a charge of 35 dollars a year.. Would be interesting to know
if you have to pay more there for the same services than you do in the
states ( Compuserve charges 35 cents for each mail message to MCI .
This message to you has no surcharge , via internet with the service I
have.
More CompuServe info (this applies to the UK)
Their Information Services e-mail address is :
There is no access to usenet at all.
The charges are (in US$)
Standing Charge + Connect Charge + Communications Surcharge
The standing charge is free for the first month, thereafter $7.95/month
The connect charge is free for basic services, extended services cost at
the following rate (my leaflet does not say what is a basic service !!)
300 baud = $6.30/hour
1200/2400 baud = $12.80/hour
9600 baud = $22.80/hour
The communications surcharge is as follows - as Compuserve calls are quite
likely to be a local number, this charge covers the use of the comms network
to the central compuserve location, rather than you having to pay long distance
telephone charges.
UK: off peak (1900-0800) peak (0800-1900)
London FREE $7.70/hour
(Compuserve Network)
Rest of UK:
GNS Dialplus network $4.20/hour $7.70/hour
They also offer services in Germany, Switzerland and there's a 4th rate for
the rest of Continental Europe.
------- Forwarded mail received on 16-Jul-1992 at 14:27:28 -------
From: VBORMC::"sch...@psi.com" "Martin Lee Schoffstall"
To: Craig Cockburn 16-Jul-1992 0753 <edieng::cockburn>
Subj: Re: Internet access
our psilink service will be available in the uk no later than august. for
details send email to
the computer will respond with on-line info.
Martin
... and this is the message you get ...
------- Forwarded mail received on 16-Jul-1992 at 14:40:35 -------
From: VBORMC::"psilink-...@psi.com"
To: edieng::cockburn
Subj: Re: Request for info
[This is an automatically generated message.]
PSILink - Personal Internet Access
Email, Anonymous FTP, & USENet
Internet access is an important facet of all higher education institutions,
and most corporations throughout the US, Western Europe and the Pacific
Basin. It is also important for small organizations and individuals, yet
both the cost and usability have been barriers. The PSILink service is
designed to remove these barriers for the indivdual.
PSI provides local dialups throughout North America to provide PSILink service
and provide access to the 250+ million people available through the
Internet and electronic mail networks such as compuserve, mcimail, etc. Over
200 cities are served - in the US, Mexico, and Canada.
The PSILink 'Lite' service today provides unlimited electronic messaging
for a flat fee. PSILink Basic in addition to unlimited messaging provides
Anonymous FTP access to thousands of archive sites as well as USENET
NEWs the largest distributed bulletin board in the world.
PSI provides the necessary software for MSDOS based PC's to use this service
at no additional cost - the current Version is 3.1. Only PSI's software
can access this service.
Even the smallest PC with a Hayes compatible modem
can use PSILink. This software is available via anonymous ftp on
ftp.psi.com in the "psilink" directory as
psilink-3.0.zip
and in its compontent installation files un-zipped. Make sure you use
binary transfer. It is also available on a 3.5" 1.44Mbyte MSDOS floppy
when you register, no other distribution media is available.
A demonstration account is available, the
name is "guest" with the password of "guest". [The password will change
periodically, and only email is available through the guest account].
If you want to register for this service send email to
A PostScript registration information will be automatically mailed to you,
you will need to fill it out and send it in by usmail or fax.
If you can't print the PostScript documents send complete contact information
including postal address, name, and phone number to:
You will receive materials via the Postal system.
Alternatively you can call or write:
PSI
Attn: PSILink Information
Suite 1100
11800 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 22091
+1.703.620.6651
(fax) +1.703.620.4586
PSILink Monthly Pricing (after the one-time $19 registration fee) is:
@1200-2400baud @9600baud (V.32)
'Lite' $19 $29
Basic $29 $39
These flat fees apply to use of ClassA dialup cities. ClassB dialup cities
have an additional connection time costs - $6/hour prime time, $2.50/hour
non-prime time. City lists are available by sending email to
classa-n...@psi.com
classb-n...@psi.com
The computer will automatically respond with a list.
Basic Service provides 50Mbytes of USENET per month, each additional Mbyte
is an additional $1. It also includes 50Mbytes of FTP per month,
each additional Mbyte is an additional $1.
PSILink is billed on a monthly basis to your MasterCard or Visa, no other
payment plan is available.
Copyright 1991,1992 Performance Systems International Inc. All rights reserved.
Rev: 7/10/92
------- Forwarded mail received on 20-Jul-1992 at 11:41:37 -------
From: VBORMC::"d...@exnet.co.uk" "Damon"
To: edieng::cockburn
Subj: Our public-access system.
Okey-doke. Here's the LaTeX source for a one-page flyer for the computer-aware
summarising our services. A more detailed summary and details of how to
actually get access to our service can be had by sending us a snail-mail
address. We will then send you out an information pack and registration form.
Note that the first month is FREE.
If you actually want to LaTeX it you may need to adjust the \documentstyle line
for your machine.
Damon
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Damon Hart-Davis | Tel/Fax: +44 81 755 0077 |1.21|| ALL MAIL FREE.
Internet: d...@exnet.co.uk | Also: Da...@ed.ac.uk || Hotrod motor groups soon.
--------------------------+----------------------++ >12 mail&news polls / day.
Public access UNIX (Suns), news and mail for #5 per month. FIRST MONTH FREE.
Here it is:
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\documentstyle[parskip,A4wide]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\begin{center}\Huge
HelpEx
\end{center}
\underline{Q: Will ExNet's HelpEx service help {\bf me}?}
Well if any of the descriptions below fit, yes:
\begin{itemize}
\item
You are a consultant or programmer needing up-to-the minute access to the
latest facts and rumours in computing. Or maybe you've got a problem you
can't solve and you need some advice. And you don't want to splash out
lots of money.
\item
You are a in a small business needing cheap, fast, national and
international e-mail access.
\item
You are a student, ex-student, or private individual wanting cheap access
to USENET and e-mail.
\item
You want to use a bulletin board. USENET is the biggest with perhaps
over~2,000,000 readers at~40,000 sites. We carry about~500 `groups' or
boards and~8MB of traffic {\bf every day} at the moment. We are
steadily increasing the number of groups we carry. Every topic under
the sun has a group!
\item
You have a special interest. Talk to us about it---we may be able to set
up links for you for nothing to sites carrying specialist discussions.
High performance car (hotrod) and bike groups from Atlanta, Georgia, USA is
one of our first such specialist areas.
\item
You want UNIX access. We run SunOS, Sun's flavour of BSD and SVR4 UNIX.
We give unrestricted shell access, with various common shells.
\item
You want Internet access for remote logins (rlogin and telnet) and ftp. We
will have it soon. Ftp is possible via mail servers over e-mail in the
meantime.
\end{itemize}
\underline{Q: How much does it cost?}
\begin{itemize}
\item
Only~\pounds5 per month, three months in advance. There is a~10\% discount
if you pay six months in advance, or if you are a full-time student.
\item
{\bf Nothing} for full USENET access for receiving and sending articles.
About~3,000 messages in about~500 groups arrive each day. More is
available. Very frequent news exchanges with connected sites.
\item
{\bf Nothing} for full national and international e-mail access to send and
receive as much or as little as you like. Mail access to UK universities
over JANET is included. As little as an average~15 minutes to any Internet
site.
\item
{\bf Nothing} for access at up to~2400 baud~(V22bis) or down to~300
baud~(V21) or~1200/75~(V23).
\item
{\bf Nothing} for your first~1MB of disc space. Only~\pounds0.02 per~1MB
per day for any data left on the disc overnight. A small charge may be
levied for an expanded disc quota.
\item
Other facilities are being added all the time.
\item
Payment is by cheque drawn on a UK bank. All prices exclude VAT\@.
Services offered to you may be slightly different from those shown here,
and may also be tailored to fit your requirements---please enquire.
\end{itemize}
\underline{Q: Can I try before I buy?}
\begin{itemize}
\item
You can use HelpEx for up to one month for free before you decide if you
want to retain access to the service.
\end{itemize}
\underline{Q: How do I get in contact?}
\begin{itemize}
\item
Write to us (on paper or electronically) or 'phone and leave a message
telling us your normal postal address, and we'll send you an information
pack telling you how to get started.
\end{itemize}
{\tiny Version \verb|1.7 brochure.tex 92/07/20|, {\LaTeX}ed \today, +\number\time.}
\end{titlepage}
\end{document}
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Craig Cockburn, Digital Equipment Co. Ltd, Reading, England. Suas
Internet: cock...@edieng.enet.dec.com leis
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