The Online World by Odd De Presno
9962. In North America: InfoPro Technologies. Tel.: +1-703-442-0900.
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Telnet: brs.com (US$6/hr).
Canada Remote Systems
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is North America's largest bulletin board system (1992). It has a
software library of more than 500,000 programs and files, and over
3,500 public forums and discussion areas.
Canada Remote provides several news and information services,
including the United Press International and Reuters news wires,
North American stock exchange results, the twice-weekly edition of
Newsbytes, and other publications.
Tel.: +1-416-629-7000 (in the U.S.) and +1-313-963-1905 (Canada).
Canada Remote Systems, 1331 Crestlawn Drive, Unit D, Mississauga,
Ontario, Canada L4W 2P9.
CGNET
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is a network interconnecting a group of international research
organizations. Besides email, CGNET provides news clipping
services, airline reservation information, and database search.
(See Dialcom)
Contact: CGNET Services International, 1024 Hamilton Court,
Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. Telephone: +1-415-325-3061.
Fax: 1-415-325-2313 Telex: 4900005788 (CGN UI) .
CIX (England)
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British online-service available by telnet, through PDN services
and by direct dial. Telnet cix.compulink.co.uk.
Compulink Information eXchange Ltd. claims to be Europe's
largest conferencing system. Sign-up fee (1993): GBP 25.00. Monthly
minimum: GBP 6.25. Off-peak connect rate GBP 2.40. Peak rate is
3.60 per hour.
The service has full Internet access, and email exchange with
CompuServe and Dialcom. CIX has many conferences, ISDN access,
Usenet News, telnet and ftp.
Contact: The Compulink Information Exchange Ltd., The Sanctuary
Oakhill Grove, Surbiton, Surrey KT6 6DU, England. Tel.: +44-81-390-
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