How to use:
Message Mail allows you to leave a message on a dataterm; this message is stored in all dataterms in the city and can only be accessed if the reciepient has a secret 7 letter/number code which you have previously agreed on. You can also post General Messages to the Message Mail as well. These messages can be accessed by any dataterm without a seven letter code.
To use Message Mail, you keyboard in your message (no longer than 50 words), and assign it a seven letter/number code (such as HOTSTUF or NETRUN2). The message cannot be retrieved unless the exact code is entered.
If two exact codes are entered into the dataterm, the term accepts the first and tells the second to select a new code. To retrieve a message, you must place a phone debit card with your ID on it into the dataterm, and use the right code word in combination with that ID. Messages are erased after 48 hours.
Most people use several dataterm "blind drops"; they have one code they give to all friends; this drop lists all the codes for other message areas.
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