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From: darwish@eng.umd.edu (Mazen Mokhtar)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: What is PROFS??
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Date: 16 Mar 91 06:55:06 GMT
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In article <56720001@hpujsda.HP.COM> mzw_t@hpujsda.HP.COM (Matsuzawa Takashi) writes:
>Hi,
Hello.

>Does anybody know how to send/recieve e-mail messages to/from
>a network called 'PROFS'?  My friend is saying that her company
>is connected to (IBM's?) network PROFS so that if I can get
>access to PROFS I can send messages to her.
>
>I have no idea of what PROFS is. Is it a public netowrk, or just
>a name of IBM's network product?  Any suggestion is welcomed.
>BTW, her company is Rhone-Poulenc Japan, a subsidiary of French
>trading company.

PROFS is an IBM/VM office management system. It is not a network in itself.
The person who receives your message can receive it with or without PROFS.
One can think of PROFS as a combination calendar/mail manager/shell...

Your friend is almost certainly on bitnet. Sent her mail on her bitnet
address and she should receive it (in her reader, not through the normal
PROFS mail, but that should be OK.)