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Information in this article was taken from the August 10, 1996 edition of The Internet TourBus (http://www.worldvillage.com/tourbus.htm).

Mercury Mail (http://www.merc.com/) is a free, advertiser-supported service that delivers only the news and information that you want, when you want it (Mercury Mail usually delivers its "stuff" to you on a daily basis, but that is completely up to you). Best of all, Mercury Mail does all of this through E-mail ...

Mercury Mail offers 8 services, all of which, with the exception of "Calendars," are absolutely free:

1. News
2. Weather
3. Snow
4. Stocks
5. Sports
6. Entertainment
7. Reminders
8. Calendars

To sign up for Mercury Mail, just go to their Web page at http://www.merc.com/ and then click on "User Profile." This will take you to the "New User?" page.

Once you are registered with Mercury Mail, you can start "customizing" Mercury Mail to E-mail you the news and information that you want. For example, if you click on the "News" icon, you are taken to the "NEWSpot" page. NEWSpot delivers a daily E-mail summary of news topics, including U.S. news, international news and special events. To customize "NEWSpot," you are given a page full of topics that you can select, like:

• General News: U.S; International; Science & Medicine; Technology
• Business: U.S. Business Headlines; U.S. Financial Markets; International Financial Markets; Commodities & Foreign Exchange; U.S. Government Statistics
• Politics: U.S.; International
• Sports & Entertainment: Sports Headlines; Entertainment
• Special/Timely Topics: U.S. Elections

Just select the topics that interest you and you are ready to go. Some of the Mercury Mail services even allow you to determine the delivery dates and times for the stuff that Mercury Mail sends you. Pretty neat, huh?

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