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From: HHackerH@***.com HHackerH@***.com
Subject: Matrix Email (was Re: [OT] Filter Test)
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 23:27:48 EST
In a message dated 2/5/1999 2:46:35 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
shaung@**********.net writes:

>
> On a similar note, how do you think email is handled or has been replaced
> in the matrix? Do you think that the standard user would still be shooting
> off ascii files, or is there another technlology that might actually prove
> more practical (what about web-based e-mail from a public terminal that
> gangers w/o datajacks can use)?

On a related topic, I have heard of things like creating "Video Capable Public
Access" in much the same way that payphones now currently exist. It would be
potentially possible to connect them to the "private email accounts" of
people, and be able to check messages, visual, avi, sound, etc...., all with
one terminal.

-K

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