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From: schriste@uceng.UC.EDU (Steven V. Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Getting to IBM
Message-ID: <2888@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 22 Nov 89 06:53:51 GMT
References: <368@rocky8.rockefeller.edu>
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati, College of Engg.
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march@rocky2 (Gregory March) writes:


>Several members of my family work for IBM. I was wondering if
>there is some way I can send them mail from my internet account.
>Greg

I worked for IBM in Boca Raton, FL for about a year, before I got
really interested in the Internet. I knew what it was, though.
I had an account on one of their VM/CMS systems, and asked what
I had to do to be able to access the internet. 
I was told basically that unless I was a personal friend of the
CEO or had a _dire_ need to do it (i.e. relating to a _very_
important project), that it was *impossible* (emphasis *theirs*).
I know that only a few of their hundreds of systems are actually
directly reachable from the internet (Yorktown comes to mind), but
I am relatively confident that those machines are _very_ efficient
at only letting through authorized messages.

	Steven

>p.s. I hope IBM is brain-dead regarding their employees receiving
>mail from "outsiders" :-)

No such luck....-- 
Steven V. Christensen
U.C. College of Eng.
schriste@uceng.uc.edu