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From: dattier@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David W. Tamkin)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: GEnie
Message-ID: <1991Jan13.161732.13766@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 13 Jan 91 16:17:32 GMT
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Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Wheeling, Illinois
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mvg@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Mitchell Gossman) wrote in <3784@orbit.cts.com>:

| Is there a way to get mail to GEnie users from internet?

Not through any existing connections, no.  You can't simply address mail from
here to GEnie as you can to CompuServe.

There does exist at least one Usenet personality who handles his GEnie mail
by having his computer phone GEnie, download all incoming mail, and put it up
on his Unix box for him to read and process there; his system also takes all
his outgoing mail to GEnie correspondents, phones GEnie, and mails it within
GEnie.  So it's possible, of course, for someone with both a GEnie account
and a mail address reachable from the Internet to do such a thing for his or
her own correspondence, and at least one person does it, so I can't answer
the question with a simple "no," but that's what I think Mr. Gossman meant.

GEnie said over a year ago that a mail link was in the works, but nothing has
happened yet.  I'm not sure whether to believe them about it in the first
place.

David Tamkin  Box 7002  Des Plaines IL  60018-7002  708 518 6769  312 693 0591
MCI Mail: 426-1818  GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN  CIS: 73720,1570   dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com