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From: composer@bucsb.UUCP (Jeffrey L. Kellem)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: USENET to IBM's VNET, is it possible?
Keywords: USENET VNET IBM
Message-ID: <2150@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 88 02:37:14 GMT
References: <530@icus.islp.ny.us> <223@arnold.UUCP>
Reply-To: composer@bucsb.bu.edu (Jeff Kellem)
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In article <223@arnold.UUCP> dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold) writes:
>In article <530@icus.islp.ny.us>, lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>> I have someone I would like to keep in touch with.  He is working for
>> IBM in Florida, and says he has an account on IBM's VNET.  Is there
>> a gateway from USENET, Internet, etc... to VNET.  If so, what would
>> the syntax be and where would I mail.
>
>Well,  looking at the "Notable Computer Networks" article from
>Oct. 1986 of CACM (Volume 29 number 10), it says that
>
>From ARPA Internet: USERID@IBM.COM should work.
>
>or from UUCP:
>
>gateway!ibm.com!USERID%HOST
>
>This article is old, so I don't know if it's still valid.
>-- 
>Dave Arnold (dave@arnold.UUCP)

Well, the address from the ARPA Internet above will only work if 
the user has an account on that machine (ibm.com).  If anything
would work, the UUCP *might*; I've never tried it.  But, you must
know the name of the machine in VNET (IBM's internal network).
As far as I know, if the user at IBM does not have access to a
machine that has contact to the outside world, then you cannot
reach him/her.  At least I didn't see an immediate way to do it
while I was employed there this summer.  (Of course, I didn't check
for UUCP or the Internet..so, who knows?)


Jeff Kellem

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