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===Mailbox upgrade===
A new messaging system was introduced in July 1989. This enabled messages up to five frames long, storing messages before sending, sending to multiple recipients (either individually or via a mailing list), message forwarding, and acknowledgment of receipt.<ref name=MboxUpgradeMicronetArticle>
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cite magazine
|magazine=Log On{{snd}}The magazine for Micronet members
|title=Mailbox Mark Two: so what's in it for you?
|issue=9
|pages=10{{ndash}}11
|date=Autumn 1989
}} An interview with Chris Ramsey, the Mailbox manager.</ref>
Sending a basic message without using any of these new facilities remained free: all the new options were charged at 1p per use per recipient. For the first time, sending [[E-mail spam|spam]] was permitted at a cost of 20p per message per recipient. In addition, the stored message facility was replaced by a summary page listing all the messages, both new and old, that were waiting: the user could then pick which message to view, rather than needing to read through them in chronological order.<ref name=MboxUpgradeCharges>
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