Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!apple!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: psrc@mtunq.att.com (Paul S R Chisholm) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T Mail Info and Questions Message-ID: <15229@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 5 Dec 90 06:03:52 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 43 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 866, Message 5 of 9 In article <15164@accuvax.nwu.edu>, wsrcc!wolfgang@uunet.uu.net (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht), in response to a question about how to get form the Internet from AT&T Mail, replies: > psuvax1.psu.edu!WOLFSYS!attmail! Well, no; it's not WOLFSYS. But please *don't* follow Mr. Repprecht's suggestion. (I'm sure his suggestions was made helpfully, and I don't mean to criticize; but it does have problems.) Yes, some systems are registered with AT&T Mail and reachable via the Internet. It's possible to send e-mail through those systems, thus causing them to be billed by AT&T for your e-mail messages. That makes our customers unhappy. When our customers are unhappy, I'm unhappy. You wouldn't want to make me unhappy, would you? (There are ways for administrators to limit pass-through traffic.) This is the kind of problem that could be solved by someone funding an AT&T Mail/Internet gateway. I have discussed this with AT&T Mail management at length. At, in fact, great length. However, AT&T has not announced any such gateway. I won't discuss any unannounced AT&T products or services. Is the suspense killing you, or what? Paul S. R. Chisholm, AT&T Bell Laboratories att!mtunq!psrc, psrc@mtunq.att.com, AT&T Mail !psrchisholm I'm not speaking for the company, I'm just speaking my mind. Pat (an open note): Yes, I did ask product management to send you an announcement for a new feature of AT&T Mail. That is, to send the announcement to you after it had been announced, or with an embargo date and a request not to say anything until just after we make an official announcement. Sorry for the confusion. --Paul [Moderator's Note: Mr. Chisholm is the person who arranged for the Digest to be delivered to ATT Mail readers, and the person who asked that I not discuss it further until an official announcement came out. I assumed (from the note he alludes to above) that the memo I was to receive (but still have not received) was regarding the gateway. PAT]