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From: ralphw@IUS3.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralph Hyre)
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Subject: Re: RELAY (on bitnet)
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Date: 5 Apr 88 02:11:16 GMT
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In article <8804022356.aa21746@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET writes:
>For those of you not on bitnet, relay is a netwide "chat" facility.
>I gather it's analogous to the "CB" function on compuserve.  Alas,
>since it's on-line, it can't be accessed through a gateway.
It would seem that all that is needed is a bitnet node with software
to support chatting.  I can imagine that there'd be policy reasons for
not doing this, rather than technical ones (it's just software!)

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