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From: szh20@ccc.amdahl.com (Stuart Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: What is PROFS??
Message-ID: <07h202C106BG01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 20:24:44 GMT
References: <56720001@hpujsda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: szh20@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Stuart Hayes)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <56720001@hpujsda.HP.COM> mzw_t@hpujsda.HP.COM (Matsuzawa Takashi) writes:
>
>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 IBM's electronic mail offering.  It runs under VM.  Though I
understand a version of it now called Office Vision, runs as a CICS
application under MVS.  IBM usually maintains a connection to its customer
base so that IBM's account teams can mail to their customers.  It is
usually not possible for customers to mail one another, to the best of my
knowledge.  If it controlled anything like IBMLINK, it is very secure type
of a system IBM<>CUSTOMER1, IBM<>CUSTOMER2, but NOT CUSTOMER1<>CUSTOMER2.

So I don't believe you can email, through this connection.

Regards...
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