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From: meulenbr@cstw68.prl.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: compuserve gateway ??
Message-ID: <1231@prles2.prl.philips.nl>
Date: 13 Mar 90 13:39:35 GMT
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Organization: Centre for Software Technology, Philips Eindhoven
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Hi!

I'm puzzled. 
I'm receiving messages from compuserve.com!postmaster that my message
could not be delivered (mail delivery failure, no room in mailbox)
I've posted these messages on UseNet, so I was highly surprised to get
this response.

Does this mean that there is some kind of gateway between comp.os.minix
and compuserve??
If not, what does this reply mean.
If yes, I'm not sure if I'm happy with this.
I don't remember that such a gateway was ever discussed. How long is it
operational??

A gateway also drags in some legal problems:
For instance my ST 1.1 to ST 1.5.0 upgrade contains the following notice:
"This upgrade kit carries a compilation copyright as far as the various
 source files concerns. This document is copyrighted by F. Meulenbroeks,
 1989. Everyone is granted permission to redistribute both the upgrade
 kit and this document freely. However, it is explicitly forbidden to
 make money from this in any way. "
A gateway to a commercial system would surely violate this notice.

Can someone shed a light on this?

By the way: I have the impression that the compuserve gateway could be 
through the bitnet mailing list, and not directly from usenet.

Frans Meulenbroeks        (meulenbr@cst.philips.nl)
	Centre for Software Technology
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