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From: hayes!tnixon@uunet.uu.net (Toby Nixon)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: AT&T Mail Info and Questions
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Date: 1 Dec 90 16:22:54 GMT
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In article <14874@accuvax.nwu.edu>, nelson%bolyard.wpd.sgi.com@sgi.com
(Nelson Bolyard) writes:

> So with no alternative left, I ask Pat and any other AT&T Mail users in
> telecom land, the following questions:

Pat said he's sworn to secrecy because he's an official beta-tester of
the gateway.  Well, I simply stumbled onto it, am not an official beta
tester, am not sworn to secrecy, and hopefully he'll post this message
to the group.

> 1.  How do you, as an AT&T Mail user, address mail to someone on the
> Internet. How would you address mail to me, nelson@sgi.com, for
> example?

I would address AT&T Mail to you as "internet!sgi.com!nelson".  Maybe
I'll try it and see if it works!  Might be necessary to throw a smart
mailer in there, like "internet!uunet!sgi.com!nelson".  I can send to
myself at Hayes as "internet!uunet!hayes!tnixon".

> 2.  How do I (an Internet mail user) address mail to you, an AT&T
> Mail user?  I invite you to send me some e-mail from your AT&T Mail
> account. I should be able to figure out the reply address from the
> mail I receive.

You can send mail to me at AT&T Mail as "tnixon@attmail.com" or
"uunet!attmail.com!tnixon".


Toby Nixon, Principal Engineer    | Voice   +1-404-449-8791  Telex 151243420
Hayes Microcomputer Products Inc. | Fax     +1-404-447-0178  CIS   70271,404
P.O. Box 105203                   | UUCP uunet!hayes!tnixon  AT&T    !tnixon
Atlanta, Georgia  30348  USA      | Internet       hayes!tnixon@uunet.uu.net


[Moderator's Note: Your instructions are correct. Although the gateway
was officially closed for some time pending software changes and the
making of policy decisions regarding traffic from ATT Mail to our net
and vice-versa, TELECOM Digest has been allowed to pass through to ATT
Mail subscribers for some time. I was asked to say nothing about it
until everything was finalized. I got a note several days ago saying
the documentation would be sent to me for publication, but it has not
arrived. When it does, I'll publish it. In the meantime, the use of
the gateway is very simple: username@attmail.com gets it from here to
there; internet!site!username gets it from there to here. For the
purpose of this discussion, Bitnet is considered a 'domain' of the
Internet, i.e. 'internet!nuacc.bitnet!telecom' would reach me as would
'internet!eecs.nwu.edu!telecom'. Likewise, Fido is a 'domain', meaning
you would write to: 'internet!fido.address!username. Always use the
bang (!) style of addressing from ATT Mail; never use '@'.  PAT]