Farcast, the agent-based news and information service

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

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I. Welcome!


    Welcome to Farcast, the agent-based news and information service.  Farcast
    lets you browse and search its collection of news, pan-industry press
    releases, reference material, and stock quotes, 24-hours a day.  Or you
    can arrange for Farcast to automatically send you news articles from a
    wide range of topics.  You can even create your own information robots
    that search for and retrieve news of interest to you.  And since you
    access Farcast through your ordinary e-mail account, you're probably
    ready to start using it today.  But best of all, you get the complete
    Farcast service for one flat-rate price, less than $1 a day!


    * Just News and Information - No chat, no talk, no BBS-ing!


    If you're interested in getting national, international, sports, weather,
    business, and entertainment news as it happens, Farcast is the system for
    you.  Farcast's Newsstand collects and organizes news as it comes off the
    news wires, from sources including The Associated Press, United Press
    International, Businesswire and PR Newswire.  These are the same indus-
    trial strength sources newspapers use, but you'll see stories at least
    a day before they appear in print, without an editor getting in your way!


    In addition to real-time news, you can easily browse or search Farcast's
    news and information sources, as well as retrieve the full text of as many
    articles as you like.  But no matter how much you search and retrieve, you
    still pay one flat-rate price!


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