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From: jgs@merit.edu (John Scudder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: How to mail out of AppleLink to Internet?
Keywords: AppleLink, Internet
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Date: 6 Nov 90 14:17:14 GMT
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In article <8558@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Donald Burr) writes:
>In article <400@ub.d.umn.edu> halam1@ub.d.umn.edu (Haseen I. Alam) writes:
>>
>> [question about how to get mail from AppleLink to the Internet deleted]
>>
>
>Uhh, where have you been for the past year or two?  For quite a while now,
>AppleLink has been under Quantum Computer Services jurisdiction, and is
>called America On-Line.
>

Beg to differ.  AppleLink is a service of Apple Computer, and is only
available to Developers, retailers and their ilk.  You have to be
qualified before they'll sell you a subscription.  Apple and Quantum
had once planned to market what is now AO under the name "AppleLink Personal
Edition," but for some reason Apple backed out of the deal, so Quantum
had to change the name.

>P.S.  How >>DO<< you send mail from AppleLink (America Online) to Internet?
>I'd like to do that...

Yeah, me too.  However, AO doesn't have a connection to the Internet,
so the answer is "you don't." AppleLink, which is a separate service,
does have such a connection.

--John Scudder
  jgs@merit.edu
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|John Scudder                                                                  |
| MERIT/NSFNET                                                                 |
| jgs@merit.edu                                                                |