SERVICES AND
ACCESS
An account on The River provides:
- Conferencing (via Yapp and Yapp Web).
- E-mail (yourname@river.org), with a POP3 server that you can
use with, for example, Eudora, Microsoft Exchange, or Netscape
Mail.
- Shell access (a UNIXspeak dialect). You can, for example, read your
e-mail with Pine.
- Web pages (http://www.river.org/~yourname/) via a
publicly-accessible subdirectory of your River directory.
The River is available only via the network. There is no direct dial-in
access.
FEES
The River charges $10/month for an account, with no hourly fee.
Users are allowed 5 Megabytes of free disk storage. Additional storage is
charged at the rate of $1 per meg per month.
NEW USERS : The first two months now include one free month. Sign up, pay
$10, and get the second month free!
If you would like to sign up for The River now, just
- Click Here to sign up on
the web
or
- telnet to "river.org" (just click, if your
browser is
already configured to call up your telnet client)
- log in as
newuser
- using
guest as a password.
That will take you to the signup page. See you on the River! |