Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!pollux!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: langz@asylum.sf.ca.us (Lang Zerner) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Internet Gateways to Commercial Networks Message-ID: Date: 4 Sep 89 15:48:08 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: langz@asylum.UUCP (Lang Zerner) Organization: The Great Escape, Inc Lines: 33 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 347, message 2 of 9 In past postings to the Digest, I recall there has been mention of addressing syntax for sending mail to users of various commercial info services such as Compuserve. Naturally, I didn't bother jotting them down, holding the anive belief, I suppose, that I wouldn't need them. Of course, it turns out I now *do* have a use for them, so I wonder if Patrick or some other kind soul would be willing to post a summary. To satisfy an utterly idle curiosity, I would be interested to know what gateway software and hardware is behind the addressing syntaxes (syntaces?) as well. -- Be seeing you... --Lang Zerner langz@asylum.sf.ca.us UUCP:bionet!asylum!langz ARPA:langz@athena.mit.edu "...and every morning we had to go and LICK the road clean with our TONGUES!" [Moderator's Note: They are getting easier to use all the time. In years past, the addressing schemes were pretty convoluted, but now, it is quite simple, at least to get from *here* to *them*, if not necessarily the other way around. A few examples I use frequently: attmail!username@att.com mailbox.number@mci.com 7xxxxx.yyy@compuserve.com first.last@zone.net.node.fidonet.org Going to Fido, 'fidonet.org' causes the mail to route to the assigned gateway or the default gateway, based on the node and net. To write us, Fido people address their mail to username: uucp; at one of the gateway addresses. The first line of text MUST say: "To: username@site.domain" and the second line of text MUST be blank. As for AT&T, MCI and Compuserve, maybe someone from those places reading the Digest can send along the methodology involved in getting mail to the Internet. PT]