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From: jt@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Julian Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.misc,news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Email to BIX??
Message-ID: <6910@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 19:26:11 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.154134.272@otago.ac.nz> <568@racerx.UUCP> <1991Apr11.210543.1374@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Apr11.210543.1374@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes:
>ken@racerx.UUCP (Ken Hardy) writes:
<stuff deleted>
>....  I think the
>reason is that it's hard for commercial (for profit) services like
>BIX to get Internet connections, since it's all such a non-profit
>sort of thing.

Actually, there is precedent.  Both CompuServe and MCIMail are
interconnected (for mail only) with Internet in both directions.

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