The Online World resources handbook

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CompuServe
For years, I used CompuServe for Internet access when far away from home. Today, I
have it in case EUnetTraveller should fail to deliver.
The service has local nodes in a very large number of countries around the world.
Type GO PHONES to get phone numbers in your destination cities. If your mail
normally goes to a Unix mailbox, use the .forward file to redirect it to CompuServe
before leaving home.
If you are in a country with no local access, or in a place where you have to make
an expensive long distance call to a slow node, consider calling direct to CompuServe's
own nodes in the United States at high speed.
Example: In Lagos, Nigeria, I connected successfully at 14,400 bits/s with
compression to a CompuServe node in the United States. This was much cheaper and
better than calling nearby South Africa at 2400 bits/s through an Infonet network node
(1994).
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