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From: mcardle@nvpna1.prl.philips.nl (Owen McArdle)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: USENET to IBM's VNET, is it possible?
Keywords: USENET VNET IBM
Message-ID: <204@prles2.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 10:46:52 GMT
References: <530@icus.islp.ny.us> <223@arnold.UUCP> <2150@bucsb.UUCP>
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Reply-To: mcardle@nvpna1.UUCP (Owen McArdle)
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In article <2150@bucsb.UUCP> composer@bucsb.bu.edu (Jeff Kellem) writes:
--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

 Well I tried the UUCP mail address, with local VNET machine tacked in
 in the proper place, and got a bounced reply from the mailer with a 
 message of the form :

  "User <name> unknown, or not authorized to receive incoming mail",

so maybe there's a little more required from IBMs end - like willingness
to let people get IN. After last Xmas' 'joke' I can't really blame
them.

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