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From: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
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Subject: Re: Internetworking Guide
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Date: 13 Feb 91 20:24:54 GMT
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As a supplement, here are networks known *not* to have email gateways.

Network             Comments
-------             ---------------------------------------------------
American Online     Masato Ogawa (ogawa@sm.sony.co.jp) confirms
                    that there is no gateway.

Dialog              mcmahan@netcom.UUCP (Dave Mc Mahan) reports that
                    nobody responded to his query in October 1990.

GEnie               No gateway yet, but Bill Louden, the General Manager of
                    GEnie, has stated publically that they are currently doing
                    research into the feasibility of a gateway.  Trust me,
                    if such a gateway is set up, you'll hear about it.

                    By the way, the machine genie.com is a red herring.

HandsNet            oze3@quads.uchicago.edu (J. Daniel Ozeran) reports
                    that nobody responded to his query in January 1991.

Midas Internation headquarters in Chicago
                    IO00393@MAINE.BITNET (Pete) reports that nobody
                    responded to his query in January 1991.

Nifty-Serve         a Japanese BBS
                    suzuki@sai.vtt.fi (Makoto Suzuki) contacted the
                    system operators and confirmed that there is no gateway.

Prodigy             by IBM and Sears
                    censors email
                    charges the sender of the mail message
                    Censorship details available from comp.risks issue 10.46.

Robert Halloran (rkh@mtune.ATT.COM) notes:

[GEnie, Prodigy, and American Online] have all apparently been approached more
than once about gateways, and have refused to let all that un-screened (and
FREE!) mail onto their respective networks....

Denise Caruso (SF Chronicle, 11 Nov 1990, page D-14) writes:

    It's common knowledge that almost all the online services
    censor their membership to greater or lesser degrees.
    [Prodigy is] widely acknowledged to be losing money on the [email]
    service.