Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: intercon!amanda@uunet.uu.net (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Compuserve and the Internet Message-ID: Date: 25 Aug 89 19:12:29 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Amanda Walker Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 20 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 326, message 7 of 9 In article , gb7%prism@gatech.edu (Joe Bradley) writes: > Does anyone know if there is a direct connection to Compuserve from the > Internet? It would save a lot of money and time if you could telnet directly > in. At least 50% of my time on-line is spent waiting for stuff to print to > the screen at 2400 baud. Well the mail gateway is a little daemon that runs on one of Ohio State's Pyramids--the actual connection is a normal dialup, as far as I know... I don't think CompuServe is connected to any real networks (aside from their own packet-switched service). -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation amanda@intercon.uu.net | ...!uunet!intercon!amanda [Moderator's Note: Compuserve has an NUIC which is reachable via Telenet and most foreign PTT data networks. PT]