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PSILink, email and delayed ftp, is $19 a month
for 2400 baud service or
below, $29 per month for 9600 baud service.

GDS (Global Dialup Service) includes telnet,
rlogins at $39 a month,
2400 baud, 24 hour access.

Host DCS (Dialup Connection Service), at about
$2000 per year,
includes a full suite of internet activities (mail,
news, ftp, telnet).

Performance Systems International, Inc.
11800 Sunrise Valley Dr. Suite 1100
Reston, VA 22091
800/82PSI82 or 703/620-6651 FAX: 703/620-4586
[email protected]. [email protected] generates an
automatic reply response
containing summaries of various PSI products.


Software Tool & Die

Software Tool & Die offers The World, a public
access Unix system:
The basic rates are $2 per hour and a $5 monthly
account fee.
Services offered by The World include internet
electronic mail,
USENET news, ClariNet -UPI, AP, and satellite news

services,
real-time chat, Unix Software, Archie, the Online
Book Initiative
(a publicly accessible repository for freely
redistributable
collections of textual information, a
net-worker's library.)
AlterNet Access - Users have access to AlterNet
via ftp/telnet.
The World can also be accessed over the Compuserve
Packet Network.
You do not have to be a Compuserve subscriber to
use this network,
but you will be billed for its use.

The WORLD
Software Tool & Die
1330 Beacon Street
Brookline, MA 02146
617/39-0202

Daniel Dern also provides the following definitive
information file on
how to get connected:
Daniel Dern's Short Answer to "How do I get a list
of Internet
Service/Access Providers for Individual
Accounts":

For a list of Internet Service Providers contact:

NSF Network Service Center (NNSC)
BBN Laboratories Inc.
10 Moulton St.
Cambridge, MA 02238
617/873-3361
[email protected]

The NNSC info-server utility can also
automatically e-mail you a copy of
this list and other documents. Simply send an
e-mail message to:
[email protected]

with the following text in the body:

request: nsfnet
topic:
topic:
request: end

You don't need to put anything in the subject line.

"referral-list" gets you the NNSC's referral list
of Internet Service
Providers based in the U.S. (possibly providing
international service).
This is generally agreed to be the most
comprehensive and least-biased list.
"limited-referral" gets you the NNSC's referral
list of Internet providers
for "limited service," which includes Dial-Up IP,
Internet E-mail.

"help" (recommended) gets you the Help document
for the info-server facility.

For a list of dial-up-accessible Public-Access
Internet Hosts (Unix BBSs
that can do telnet, ftp, etc., that can you can
access by calling from
your PC and modem), see the PDIAL list, maintained
by Peter Kaminski.
Kaminski periodically posts an updated version
to the usenet groups
alt.bbs.lists and alt.bbs.internet; also, the
most recent edition may
be obtained by sending e-mail to:
[email protected]
with the
`Send PDIAL'

i n the subject. To be placed on a list to receive
future editions
automatically, send e-mail to:
[email protected] with `Subscribe PDIAL' in the

subject.