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From: hansen@pegasus.att.com (Tony L. Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Email to BIX??
Summary: commercial connections: CompuServe, MCIMail AND AT&T Mail
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.133520.253@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 15 Apr 91 13:35:20 GMT
References: <568@racerx.UUCP> <1991Apr11.210543.1374@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <6910@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com>
Sender: hansen@cbnewsk.att.com (tony.l.hansen)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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<< ken@racerx.UUCP (Ken Hardy) writes:
<< ....  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.

No, the Internet commercial business prohibition does not apply. The commercial
services are like telephone common carriers: they provide connectivity, but the
individual is still responsible for the content.

< From: jt@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Julian Thomas)
< Actually, there is precedent.  Both CompuServe and MCIMail are
< interconnected (for mail only) with Internet in both directions.

AT&T Mail has fully been connected since the end of last year.

					Tony Hansen
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