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From: fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,misc.legal,misc.misc,misc.forsale
Subject: Re: Portal Lowers Rates for Telenet Access
Message-ID: <25167@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 22 Jul 88 07:18:45 GMT
References: <7475@cup.portal.com> <2618@kitty.UUCP>
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Portal Communications Corp is not now, nor have they ever been
connected by an IP link to the ARPANET or to the Internet. They
have UUCP links to all their neighbors, and they use the UUCP maps
and the pathalias program to route mail to the Internet, BITNET,
etc.

Strictly speaking they should be advertising the ability to send
*mail* to the Internet, rather than a *connection* to the Internet,
since the difference is quite large. There are a lot more things
you can do with the Internet besides mail.

	Northern California UUCP map coordinator,

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu