Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Cut off AT&T? AN AT&T PERSON RESPONDS Message-ID: <599@bacchus.DEC.COM> Date: 14 Jul 88 17:04:52 GMT References: <651@scovert.sco.COM> <30.UUL1.3#935@aocgl.UUCP> <2761@ttrdc.UUCP> <271@mjbtn.UUCP> <84@holin.ATT.COM> <119@carpet.WLK.COM> Reply-To: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid) Distribution: na Organization: DEC Western Research Lines: 24 In article <119@carpet.WLK.COM> bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes: >It's not without precedent, DEC does restrict third party mail, IBM never >handled it. You're certainly welcome to feel that your employer has let >you down, but I don't think so. I don't want to venture an opinion on the ATT third-party mail issue, but I feel safe offering a fact. DEC has never, to my knowledge, treated third-pary mail any differently from any other kind of mail. I can believe that there may have been occasional bugs in our mail relays that caused some mail to get bounced, but our policy is that if we connect to uucp, then we connect 100% and we handle everything that is sent our way. More than half of the mail handled by decwrl in the last year has been third-pary mail. One thing that we do, however, is limit the number of contact points between the DEC network and the uucp world. DEC's network has more than 32,000 nodes on it. There are 2 registered gateways to uucp, decwrl and decuac. There are a couple of unregistered gateways also. But mostly we like all of the mail for dec to go through one or two gateways, so we can watch it and manage it. Non-disclaimer: in this instance I am actually speaking for DEC. Well, we're supposed to call it Digital, so I am actually speaking for Digital. Brian Reid DEC Western Research