Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!usenet From: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Internetworking Guide (frequent posting) Message-ID: <1991Mar23.015752.5374@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 23 Mar 91 01:57:52 GMT References: <9103222000.AA28621@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 140 In-Reply-To: ajay@CS.BUFFALO.EDU (Ajay Shekhawat) It would be nice if Mr. Shekhawat could keep my name attached to Part II of the referenced article. I've spent over a year collecting that information; all I ask is a little recognition (sob). (That `Part II' is Chapter Two of the file math.princeton.edu:pub/rjc/misc/gateway.Z.) Here's the most recent version of same: Network Comments (and userids of people who asked about it and didn't post summaries) ------- --------------------------------------------------- American Online Masato Ogawa (ogawa@sm.sony.co.jp) confirms that there is no gateway. British Telecom rbatt@adam.adelaide.edu.au (R Batt) reports that Gold BT is a member of DialCom (qv). DialCom The gateway was shut down in March 1990 for financial reasons. Individual customers may have established private relays through the Commercial Mail Relay (CMR). Information available on the CMR is available from Intermail-Request@Intermail.ISI.EDU Dialog mcmahan@netcom.UUCP (Dave Mc Mahan) reports that nobody responded to his query in October 1990. Easylink a Western Union service bruceh@CV.HP.COM (Bruce Hauge) reports that as of March 1991 there is no gateway yet, but they're working on it. ECONET rchen@draco.rutgers.edu reports that you send mail to cdp!user@labrea.stanford.edu Eurokom christ@issun3.stc.nl (Brian Christiansen) reports that nobody responded to his query in February 1991. Fidelity Investments ea47916@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Eric Adams) reports that (Dallas) nobody responded to his query in February 1991. 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. GoldNet chaim@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Chaim Dworkin) reports that GoldNet is part of DialCom (qv). 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 querh 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. OMNET Craig E. Ward (cew@isi.edu) explains: Go either through Sprint Internet relay, Sprint.COM, or through the Commercial Mail Relay (CMR) at Intermail.ISI.EDU. Through the CMR, you can send mail to OMNET users with this format: "[omnet.user/OMNET]MAIL/USA%TELEMAIL"@Intermail.ISI.EDU Users on OMNET will need to use an embedded header, i.e. in the body of the message text (almost as ugly as X.400, but not quite) in a message to "[INTERMAIL/USCISI]SM66/USA" to get mail back to you: Forward: Internet To: Gumley_LE@cc.curtin.edu.au You can get more information about the Commercial Mail Relay from: Intermail-Request@Intermail.ISI.EDU Paranet vac163w@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (vacation) 4 Dec 90 No summary has yet been posted, and personal email to this person is not answered. PC-Relay davidl@cix.compulink.co.uk (Dave Lambert) 21 Feb 91 No summary has yet been posted, and personal email to Mr Lambert is not answered. Prodigy by IBM and Sears censors email charges the sender of the mail message Censorship details available from comp.risks issue 10.46. PROFS (general) PROFS is not a network. It is an electronic office system that has electronic mail as one of its components. Many companies purchase it from IBM and install it locally. PROFS (IBM) gt5116b@prism.gatech.EDU (Gaby Turek) reports that you send to username@vmmachine.iinus1.ibm.com, but the recipient must first have registered for internet access. QUICK-COMM GE Information Services E-Mail pegah@pleiades.cps.msu.edu (Mahmoud Pegah) reports that as of February 1991 there is no gateway, though one is under development. SABRE American Airlines' in-house reservation network. savel@hoss.unl.edu (Bharat P. Savel) reports that it has no gateway to any other network, and they intend to keep it that way. SAPONET the South African Post Office's X.25 network (#6550) s873561@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Michael Barnett) reports that the alleged gateway via user%sapo.net.com@ames.arc.nasa.gov simply bounces. There seems to be some way to sneak in via FidoNet; send mail to MAILSRV.RURES@f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org containing the message `SEND UNINODE' for details. The postmaster for Saponet appears to be Barrett.UNDEE@f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org Telemail stevenst@infonode.ingr.com (Todd Stevens) 20 Feb 91 Use the gateway at sprint.com This requires knowledge of the recipient's X.400 address on Telenet (now Sprintnet). Your SMTP address will look like this: smtp%"/dd.un=username/admd=telemail/o=gte/c=us/@sprint.com" the username will be the recipient's username on the system and o will be the organization. VNET (IBM) kkrueger@zeus.unomaha.edu (Kurt Krueger) 16 Feb 91 Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL) basiji@milton.u.washington.edu (David Basiji) reports that you send mail to username@well.sf.ca.usa