From: SMTP%"mv-admin@mv.mv.com" 3-MAY-1995 15:40:51.55 To: everhart@star.zko.dec.com CC: Subj: Information about MV Communications, Inc. This is an automatic response to your recent mail to info@mv.mv.com. Information about MV Communications is attached. If you wish to contact an actual person, send mail to mv-admin@mv.mv.com -- a copy of your original message (to which this is a response) is already automatically forwarded to mv-admin. Thank you for your request! --- MV Communications, Inc./ PO Box 4963/ Manchester NH/ 03108 Bus. Phone: 603 429 2223 Data: 603 429 1735 (login as "info" or "rates") Internet: mv-admin@mv.MV.COM uucp: {decvax|harvard}!mv!mv-admin Looking for news and mail in southern NH / northern MA? Try MV! ==================== M V C o m m u n i c a t i o n s , I n c . _______________________________________________ P.O. Box 4963 Manchester, NH 03108-4963 (603) 429-2223 Join the Net community! Millions of people worldwide converse, conduct business, do research, meet, read news, socialize, "commute" electronically, learn, and find enter- tainment on The Net. You can, too! MV Communications, Inc. offers electronic connections to the biggest technical networks in the world. With your telephone line, a modem, and a computer or a terminal, you can do all of these things. At your fingertips are whole online communities: universities, businesses, social organizations, ad-hoc groups, individuals. Within your reach are news stories, global dis- cussions, software archives, books, library catalogs, reference materials, and documents from thousands of repositories around the world. On line, you can obtain real world news and feature stories, keep up with technical information or with almost any special interest, and find out what's happening locally. You can keep in touch with your kids at college (and they with you!), friends or relatives at work, business contacts, or researchers around the world. MV can provide a place for the members of your group or organization to share information and get together electronically. What do you get? *Internet and uucp mail *Usenet news *Internet domain registration *Internet domain forwarding *Membership in our Internet "domain *V.32/V.32bis, and PEP modem access - park" (MV.COM) 1200 - 28800 baud *Electronic mailing lists *Remote on-line storage facilities *UUCP paths management *Online news and information *Telnet to remote sites *Gopher information services *IRC chat services *FTP (obtain programs and data from *Access to data resources from Internet thousands of sites around the world) *Electronic reminder services *Group accounts and group services *Custom services *Datacenter and operations support *Your data and information made avail- *Your files and data made available able for retrieval by the gopher sys- for FTP access by millions of users tem of the Internet around the world What do you need? All you need to get online is a terminal or a computer with terminal emu- lation software, a telephone line, and a modem. Contact MV Communications for an account on the Internet, and you're ready to go! Our UNIX systems give you the full power to explore the Internet, and we also provide you with easy-to- use menus to help you along. Our direct dial-in modems support speeds of up to 14400 baud, and we are reachable through NYNEX's InfoPath service for access throughout New Hampshire. How it works MV Communications is your gateway to the Internet - thousands of inter- connected computer networks linking over a million systems and several million people. Sophisticated routing software allows mail, news, and other elec- tronic traffic to be delivered from any one Internet system to any other Internet system, usually in seconds. This makes the Internet the best way to deliver information - and as the Net continues to grow in popularity, it becomes more important for you to have access to it, too. This constant con- nection of so many data resources has spawned new ways of gathering and presenting information. Today you can follow a lead that takes you through a computer in Minnesota, over to one in California, and next to one in Australia - without you even necessarily being aware of it. New formats and new ways of doing things are constantly appearing, and the Internet is truly the frontier of the information age. Electronic Mail From your account, you can reach millions of people through electronic mail. Mail to Internet sites is delivered in just seconds once it's sent from MV; similarly, mail from other Internet sites arrives at MV, and is available for you to pick up, within seconds of being sent by its Internet originator. Whom can you reach? Employees at most computer companies (including DEC, HP, Calcomp, Wang, Sanders, Data General); students and staff at colleges and universities around the world; the White House; users of public access sys- tems; owners of private sites connected to Usenet or other networks; Com- puserve, Delphi, America Online, and MCI mail users - the list goes on and on, and more people come on board every day. Through electronic mail you can also participate in any of hundreds of mailing lists of a wide variety of topics: making beer, living an urban lifes- tyle, constructing compilers, Pink Floyd, computers in education - you can even receive a thought for the day through the mail. With MV you can have your own registered Internet address. For businesses and other institutions, this can be invaluable, as having a work- ing, registered address is the only way to guarantee delivery of mail to you from Internet (and many Usenet) sites. For individuals, a registered address frees you from having to rely on resources provided by someone else: and the mail comes to your account (and with a UUCP or IP connection, to your com- puter, at your location), not an account provided at the whim of someone else (e.g., an employer). Usenet News Usenet News is an ongoing forum comprising thousands of discussion groups of all manner of topics. A large part of Usenet is its technical discussions groups: about various computer languages, types of computers, techniques, theories, computer games, etc.; Usenet news also includes many groups in which source code and binary programs for many types of computers are distributed. There are also entire suites of news groups devoted to recreational topics (individual sports, arts, activities, etc.), to general discussion (politics, jobs, current events, and more), to societal issues, to business concerns, New England-specific groups, and even MV topics. Although some newsgroups fall under the control of a human moderator, most are free-for-all, allowing anyone to post anything (subject to esta- blished rules of etiquette). While this means that discussions can (and do) degenerate easily, it also makes for lively interactive public conversation. When there is a hot topic, multiple postings from around the world can often be redundant; however, new insights and bits of arcane knowledge are nearly always added in the process. And no matter what the topic, experts seem to surface. As an example, several newsgroups deal with television. For many shows under discussion, someone will find a contact on the set or on the staff of the production, and the Net community often hears of events well in advance of the general public. Examples of interesting newsgroups abound. The RISKS forum, moderated by Peter G. Neumann, is a well-known digest dealing with the risks of using com- puters. Groups relating to the EFF (the Electronic Frontier Foundation) dis- cuss EFF's goals of retaining certain personal liberties in computer network- ing, and of furthering the pursuits of attaining unencumbered networking for all. K12 groups allow students and educators in grades K - 12 to communicate. There are groups for art, cinema, political theory, history, sports. And there are foreign language groups - remember that this is a world-wide forum, so you can participate in, say, Polish language newsgroups with people in Poland. There are far too many newsgroups - even too many areas - to cover here. Be assured that if you've an interest in something, you can probably find a place to discuss it on Usenet. FTP FTP stands for "File Transfer Protocol," a means of transferring files from one Internet machine to another. There is a vast repository of files available on hundreds of machines throughout the Internet. These files include documents, data files, and program sources for a wide variety of com- puter platforms. You can do FTP via an an online account at MV, but not via a UUCP account. However, you can arrange for a companion online account to go with a UUCP connection, or you can simply ask us at MV to perform FTP transfers for you and then pick up the files from your system via UUCP. Another Internet service, archie, allows you to find out where files are if you know what you want but don't know where to look. There are mail inter- faces to this and other services. WWW - World Wide Web The World Wide Web is a fast-growing part of the Internet, linking together multiple data sources which can contain images, sound, and text. WWW is accessed in terms of "home pages" - starting documents that lead you through the information you want, as you select hot links to other data or other home pages elsewhere on the Internet. WWW pages can include fill-in forms for you to interact with, or to help you find what you are looking for. Examples of services available through WWW are stock quotations, a fully indexed movie database, many shopping areas, real-time coverage of sporting events, images from the recent comet collisions with Jupiter, a financial investment game (with prizes), and monologues from the David Letterman show. gopher and other resources gopher is an online service that takes you through information paths on the Internet. gopher menus lead you from one system to another, from one topic to other related topics and to completely different areas. There are a number of other data-searching facilities available as well on the Internet. IRC is "Internet Relay Chat" and gives you a way to have online many-to- many conversations with people around the world. IRC supports hundreds of public and private discussion channels: in addition to the chats implied by its name, it can be used to hold distributed question-and-answer sessions between users and experts, or private meetings between people around the world. Other resources include hytelnet, WAIS, finger, whois, talk, and telnet. How to get online with MV ONLINE ACCOUNTS: The most common method is through an Online account provided on MV's computer systems. Once you dial into MV, you have access to hundreds of commands and countless Internet resources. You have 1.5 megabytes of space to keep files permanently, and a 10 megabyte capacity for transient storage so that you can get data to your own system. From an online account you can access a rich set of Internet resources, including all of those described above. You can browse FTP archives for files and programs, access data sources for information, participate in Usenet news discussions, and exchange electronic mail. You need not worry about running an Internet system- MV does that for you; it's there for you to access by dialing the phone. UUCP ACCOUNTS: A UUCP account lets you connect your computer, rather than yourself, to the network. This is generally for those who have the requirement to join their systems to the net. With a UUCP account, your com- puter can exchange electronic mail and news with MV. Your system dials MV only for the time necessary to send and receive this data, and you maintain one or more user accounts on your own computer for mail and news. DIALUP IP ACCOUNTS: Like a UUCP account, a Dialup IP gives your computer a connection to the net. Using SLIP or PPP protocols, this account puts your computer directly on the Internet; while your system is dialed into MV through a dialup IP account, you can reach any other Internet system and use the entire suite of Internet facilities. LEASED LINE SERVICE: MV provides direct Internet connection for your organization via high speed leased line digital circuit. This is a full-time connection to the Internet. How you can connect to MV MV Communications has local sites in Litchfield, Concord, Dover, Peterborough, and Salem, NH. Modem For these towns _________________________________________________________________ 424-7428 Nashua, Manchester, Bedford, Derry, Merrimack, Mil- ford, Litchfield, and Londonderry 888-NETS Salem, Hollis, Pelham, and Tyngsboro MA [888-6387] 645-NETS Candia, Chester, Deerfield, Goffstown, New Boston, [645-6387] Suncook, Weare, and Hooksett 228-7181 Concord, Canterbury, Chichester, Contoocook, Deer- field, Dunbarton, Epsom, Penacook, Pittsfield, and Suncook 740-9152 Dover, Barrington, Durham, Newmarket, Rochester, and Somersworth 924-0027 Peterborough, Dublin, Greenfield, Greenville, Harrisville, Jaffrey, Rindge, and Temple 890-NETS Salem, Hampstead, Atkinson, Windham, Lawrence MA [890-6387] From other New Hampshire locations, we're accessible through NYNEX's InfoPath service. InfoPath lets you dial a 1-800 number from anywhere within NH and connect to any service provider on the InfoPath network at a cost that is substantially less than long distance charges. For more information For more information (or to give feedback, which we welcome), please write or call at the above address, or, send electronic mail to info@mv.mv.com; you can also retrieve this information by dialing the appropriate modem number given above or telneting to mv.mv.com and logging in as info. MV Communications, Inc. Doc B14-941228 M V C o m m u n i c a t i o n s , I n c . _______________________________________________ Rate Schedule Effective August 1994 Online Account Rates schedule Online accounts are charged for connect time on MV as follows: First 5 hours each month: $2.00/hour Next 5 hours: $1.50/hour Next 10 hours: $1.00/hour Remaining hours: $0.75/hour There is a minimum monthly charge of $5.00 per month for online accounts. The first month, up to 3 hours, is free, with no minimum charge. A deposit of $20.00 which is credited against charges is required to continue the account past the free period. UUCP Account Rates schedule UUCP connections to MV are offered via a multi-tier rate schedule. There are 3 basic levels: 1. Casual access, for those who make occasional use of mail and/or a limited news feed. $7/month, billed mid-quarterly. Includes 1 hour of con- nect time per month. 2. Normal mail/news access. $20/month, billed monthly. Includes 3 hours of connect time per month. 3. Bulk, used on top of normal mail/news access. $20 for each additional 30 hours per month. Usage beyond what's signed up for will be billed at an hourly rate, scaled to actual use: $10/hour for the 2 hours beyond the initial 1 hour casual access and $2/hour for all other access. Telephone charges for message units and toll calls are passed on at cost. The first month, up to 20 hours, is free. SLIP/PPP Account Rates schedule Dedicated SLIP/PPP (reserved phone line for your account): ----modem type---- 14.4Kb 28.8Kb Installation fee (one time fee) $300.00 $300.00 Monthly fee $150.00 $200.00 6 month minimum commitment required. Occasional SLIP/PPP (shared phone lines): Hours per month Base fee Extra time 25 $25/mo $1.50/hour 60 $50/mo $1.00/hour 100 $75/mo $1.00/hour We also offer group plans and special discounts. MV Communications, Inc. Doc B12-940831 ================== RFC 822 Headers ================== Received: from mv.MV.COM by inet-gw-2.pa.dec.com (5.65/24Feb95) id AA16098; Wed, 3 May 95 12:35:07 -0700 Received: by mv.mv.com (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-940616) id PAA06392 for everhart@star.zko.dec.com; Wed, 3 May 1995 15:33:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 15:33:49 -0400 From: MV Administration Message-Id: <199505031933.PAA06392@mv.mv.com> To: everhart@star.zko.dec.com Subject: Information about MV Communications, Inc.