Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!killer!dcs!wnp
From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The death of USENET
Message-ID: <114@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 88 13:03:17 GMT
References: <56228@sun.uucp> <8545@netsys.UUCP> <11929@mimsy.UUCP> <95@carpet.WLK.COM>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
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In article <95@carpet.WLK.COM> bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes:
>I got the impression that what
>AT&T said about mail was they would not allow my mail (non-AT&T) to go to
>Chuq or Charlie (non-AT&T) through the AT&T gateways but I could still
>correspond with Mark Horton (AT&T) and he with me, without restriction.
>I find it difficult to object to any company saying "we are now going to
>curtail the use of our resources to something more related to the benefit
>of our organization".  No, I don't like it either, but it sure sounds
>reasonable.

When I first read the announcement, I thought of flaming AT&T, and making
a suggestion on the lines of, "Well, if they refuse to pass our mail, then
we should refuse to pass their mail to third parties."

Then I realized that AT&T is (semi-officially) sponsoring a major public-access
UNIX system which provides most of the connectivity in the Dallas-Fort Worth
area and beyond; I am not aware of any other major commercial USENET player
doing anything remotely similar.

As for AT&T's commercial e-mail service: I tried to obtain information on it
a while ago to see if it would functionally replace our EasyLink account; all
I got were some slick colorful sheets with a lot of sales hype and not much
technical information at all.

Maybe Mark Horton or some other AT&T person reading this could make available,
on request by e-mail, a comprehensive description of AT&T mail, which answers
such questions as "how much does it cost", "what other systems does it gateway
to", "what international systems can it reach", "how does one access it from
overseas", "what software is required", etc, etc.

Another question for Mark Horton or anyone else who knows: with cbosgd being
phased out, what is the current address to send uucp map entries to?

Wolf Paul
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