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From: steve@thelake.UUCP (Steve Yelvington)
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Subject: Re: USENET -> GEnie uplink now working
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Date: 19 Dec 89 17:17:34 GMT
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In article <15097@well.UUCP>,
     dsmall@well.UUCP (David Small) writes ... 

(lots of stuff about Usenet <--> GEnie link.)

>	Systems like Compuserve and BIX could also fairly easily be done,
>now that the methodology is hacked through; also, other areas on GEnie are
>expressing great interest in having a USENET uplink. Basically, folks, 
>USENET is perceived as the place where the people who know what they're
>doing post notes.

I don't think any Usenet news is available on Compu$erve, but it already
has an e-mail link to the Internet via Ohio State University. In theory,
e-mail to 71234,567 would be addressed to

  71234.567@compuserve.com 

    or (from BITnet or other balky mail sites)

  71234.567%compuserve.com@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu 

Note that the comma in the CIS userid has been changed to a dot in order
to meet RFC822 standards.

From Compu$erve to the Internet, it's

    >internet:user@host.domain

John Chew <poslfit@gpu.UTCS.UToronto.CA> maintains a list of internetwork
E-mail methods and posts it monthly to comp.mail.misc and
news.newusers.questions.

Last I heard, Delphi was carrying the Usenet rec.humor.funny newsgroup
(with Brad Templeton's blessing). I don't think it has hooked e-mail into
the free world, even though it would be quite easy -- plenty of other VMS
sites have done so. It does exchange e-mail with other commercial
services.

BIX is not, to my knowledge, e-mail accessible from the Internet and UUCP.

However, Jefferson Software in Phoenix (the Modula-2 folks where kbad used
to work) has developed a program for the ST that allows the transfer of
BIX public conferences into RFC1036 (Usenet news) format, stored in a
standard Usenet batchfile, and vice versa. 

It currently is being used to internetwork BIX with several Citadel/STadel
BBS network discussion topics (rooms). I think the software is capable of
dumping Usenet news into BIX, and vice versa.  

-- 
   Steve Yelvington at the (frozen enough to skate!) lake in Minnesota
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