[HPFGU-Movie] Email at pay phones

[Chris M. Dickson]

Warning: this is almost entirely off-topic, except for the fact that I
used one of these to mail my first notes to the Magical Mods and hence
here. Would it be appropriate to redirect this to OT-Chatter or
elsewhere?

In message <20011108.203426.-468601.7.MindyCL at juno.com>, Mindy C.L.
<MindyCL at juno.com> writes
>I am amazed at the payphone emails. I have not seen them in the US. Is
>there such a phenomenon in the US, or only in the UK?

It's not that common in the UK. I had to look at over a dozen payphones
before I found one which offered e-mail facilities - and even that was
just one out of eight (four on each side of the road) on one of the most
important shopping streets in Leith, a suburb of Edinburgh. To be
honest, that may have been the first one I've seen which wasn't in a bus
station, train station, shopping centre or the like (ie indoors).

Public access web terminals are also not unknown; it would have been
easy enough to use one of those, if I had encountered one, to bash out
an e-mail from some webmail service.

I can't recall seeing any of these in the USA, though, er, I'm not
American. (I've spent about three weeks Stateside in the last 20 months,
though.)

They must exist, though!
Chris

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