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From: seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: America Online mail
Message-ID: <1990Jun14.152708.238@ee.rochester.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 90 15:27:08 GMT
References: <139800011@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <24595@nuchat.UUCP> <saRjUlO00WB38BZYZN@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah)
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In article <saRjUlO00WB38BZYZN@andrew.cmu.edu> gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) writes:
>paulh@nuchat.UUCP (Paul Hutmacher) writes:
>> From what I understand it cannot be done.  There is no gateway between AO
>> and the rest of the net world.
>
>  I thought that sending mail to <user> on AO was as simple as:
>
><user>@applelink.apple.com

Nope. AppleLink and America Online are -=*NOT*=- the same thing.
America Online used to be that service known as AppleLink: Personal Edition.
AppleLink, the Apple dealer info network, existed before, and is completely
independent of ALPE/America Online.  America Online is operated by Quantum.

Why the name change?  I guess after Apple pulled out of AO (conflict of
management styles with Quantum?), they had to change the name.  Apple's
presence is not missed, except as the donator of cool hardware prizes :-)

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