Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: jimmy@denwa.uucp (Jim Gottlieb) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T Mail and the internet Message-ID: Date: 20 Aug 89 04:38:31 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Jim Gottlieb Organization: Info Connections, West Los Angeles Lines: 35 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 311, message 8 of 10 In article crum%lipari.usc.edu@usc. edu (Gary L. Crum) writes: > >What is the relationship between AT&T Mail and the internet? > >If there exists a two-way gateway service between the AT&T Mail >Network and the world UUCP network, then I would consider AT&T Mail >part of the internet (not Internet > >Perhaps AT&T Mail is closer to MCI Mail. Well, that's how they seem to push it to the public. When I originally called to order the service (wanting to hook up to it via a UUCP connection), the representative told me that I must have an IBM-compatible to use the service. I told her she was wrong, but she insisted. The literature states something like "You may connect to UNIX sites (only registered sites)..." meaning only Unix sites that subscribe to AT&T Mail. There is a gateway between the Internet and att, and by extension attmail, but I don't think they advertise that. They would rather that every Unix site be a registered (read "paying") user. In any case, I am now a happy subscriber. I love being able to send faxum by e-mail. I do have an on-site fax machine, but I'm often willing to pay the fee to avoid the hassles of printing it out, taking the paper over to the fax machine... Especially nice is being able to send an e-mail message to friends with e-mail and those with a fax, all at the same time. -- Jim Gottlieb E-Mail: or or V-Mail: (213) 551-7702 Fax: 478-3060 The-Real-Me: 824-5454