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From: ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: INTERNET vs Internet
Keywords: INTERNET MCI
Message-ID: <13830@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 90 05:00:08 GMT
References: <940@eplunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: ergo@netcom.uucp
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In <940@eplunix.UUCP> ijs@eplunix.UUCP (Ishmael) writes:



>In today's mail I received a flyer from Gerber Electronics describing
>all the various ways to contact them, and in addition to the usual
>phone, FAX, cable, MCI, EZlink, GEISCO addresses, they had the following
>paragraph:

>	Our MCI Mail number is xxx-xxxx.  This is particularly useful
>	for customers connected to INTERNET.  They can send messages
>	to us via MCI MAIL by addressing them:
>	  TO:	Gerber Electronics/MCI IC: 403-8582
>	  EMS:  INTERNET/MCI IC: 403-8582
>	and of course we can reply to them via MCI MAIL if they
>	furnish their INTERNET address.	

>The above bears no relation to any Internet address I have seen before.
>Do we have another trademark fight in the offing?  How many Internets
>can we have before overloading the language?

Hey, chill out!  Obviously whoever wrote this never used any mailer
except MCI's, and thought all mailers have the same user interface.
Apparently an MCI user has to specify the above "EMS" (whatever that
is) to send to somebody on the internet.

According to the Nutshell handbook, the internet form of an MCI
address is xxxx@mcimail.com, where xxxx is the "accountname", "mci id"
or "full user name".  Never having used MCI, I've no idea what those
terms correspond to in Gerber's example, but I'd guess you could write
them at 403-8582@mcimail.com.

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>	|\___/|		Ishmael J. Stefanov-Wagner
>	|/. .\|		Eaton-Peabody Laboratory
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