Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!ctrsol!samsung!rex!wuarchive!texbell!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: ATTMAIL Access? Message-ID: Date: 17 Nov 89 18:32:17 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA Lines: 27 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 518, message 1 of 11 In article you write: >I have an aquaintance who works at the Shreveport, LA AT&T location. >When we meet (in person) he gave me the following email address >"attmail!sp3ba!wcseal". As you can see I am on BITNET. I also have >INTERNET access. Is there a way to get a message to him? Probably not. AT&T Mail looks to the outside world like a giant uucp site. One can either dial in to an AT&T Mail machine as a user, as one does to MCI Mail, Telemail, and most of the others, or else have mail delivered via uucp to one's Unix machine. For this reason, there are lots of people in the uucp community who have links to AT&T Mail. Unfortunately, AT&T Mail charges for each incoming message from a site whether the site is sending it itself or relaying it for someone else, so you can understand why there are no publicly available attmail relays. Now that Compuserve and MCI Mail are relaying to the Internet directly without charge, and Telemail has a kludge interface that is also free, it would make sense for AT&T to reconsider their charging policy. Unless they can distinguish between uucp mail coming in from subscribers (charged) and uucp mail coming in for subscribers (no charge) I can't see how they can technically do it. John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650 johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {ima|lotus|spdcc}!esegue!johnl "Now, we are all jelly doughnuts."