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From: josh@polaris.UUCP (Josh Knight)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: VNET connections
Message-ID: <691@polaris.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Aug-86 19:24:21 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 14 19:24:21 1986
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Reply-To: josh@polaris.UUCP (Josh Knight)
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In article <1362@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
>From what I remember about postings of a few months ago, IBM axed the last few
>VNET gateways a few months ago; VNET now is not connected to any other
>network.
There is a gateway to the IBM internal RSCS network from CSNet at IBM.COM,
direct querys to postmaster@IBM.COM.  An authorized user at any IBM  
internal node can send and receive mail via this gateway.  The key word
here is authorized.  Most authorized users are in the Research Division
or ACIS (Academic Information Systems).  The gateway performs a "nick
name" to USERID at NODE mapping.  This means that the fact that my address
is both josh@ibm.comm and JOSH at YKTVMH is just convenient for me,
not a necessary correspondence between userid and gateway nick name.
-- 

	Josh Knight, IBM T.J. Watson Research
 josh@ibm.com, josh@yktvmh.bitnet,  ...!philabs!polaris!josh