Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!fair From: fair@Apple.COM (Erik E. Fair) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Gateway's to GEnie? Message-ID: <47606@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 27 Dec 90 22:35:56 GMT References: <2u6Ju2w163w@halcyon.uucp> <1990Dec24.195135.23752@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> Organization: USENET Protocol Police, Western Gateway Division Lines: 20 Actually, it's quite likely that GEIS ("QUIK-COMM") and AT&Tmail are speaking CCITT X.400 to each other. Which is to say that you can probably send E-mail through one to the other (assuming that you can pay for it - you can bet that they'll charge), but you'd probably lose your lunch after looking at the addresses and formats that they use. I have implemented an Internet gateway (specifically, what the GEIS people call a "connector" system) for QUIK-COMM, specifically for AppleLink, Apple Computer's central E-mail service for talking to our dealers, developers, and so on. It doesn't interact with the GEnie service at all, which, while I understand it uses QUIK-COMM like AppleLink does, is running on different mainframes on a different part of the GEIS X.25 network. Of course, it would be trivial for GEIS to get a copy of my software and set up a gateway to GEnie on a 4 BSD UNIX box (either Internet or UUCP on the other side). From my point of view, it is up to them to decide that they want to do this and contact me. Erik E. Fair apple!fair fair@apple.com