Newsgroups: news.newsites
Path: utzoo!lsuc!dave
From: dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman)
Subject: Re: Map Update For 'attcan'
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Date: Thu, 8-Dec-88 21:15:57 EST
Summary: Now you know why Canada's a different country
Message-ID: <1988Dec8.211601.4616@lsuc.uucp>
References: <3536@vpk3.UUCP> <2701@sultra.UUCP>
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto

In article <2701@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
>In article <3536@vpk3.UUCP>, bob@attcan.UUCP (Bob Kyryliuk) writes:
>>
>> #N	attcan
>> #O	AT&T Canada Inc.
>> attcan	utzoo(DIRECT), lsuc(DIRECT), cops01(LOCAL),
>> 	cind01(LOCAL), cott01(LOCAL), cvan01(DEMAND), cmtl01(LOCAL),
>> 	cbur01(DEMAND), uunet(EVENING), sobeco(EVENING), nebulus(DEMAND),
>> 	utgpu(DEMAND), telly(DEMAND), ontmoh(DEMAND)
>
>'Scuse my ignorance, but as I understand it, AT&T will not forward mail.  Does
>this apply to AT&T Canada as well?
>
>The reason I ask, is if this is the case, then the above-quoted routing
>information is useless to say the least.  Comments?

The policy does not apply to AT&T Canada, which is (mercifully)
able to make its own decisions.  Canada being a different country
and all that...

AT&T Canada does not have the historical baggage of AT&T in the
US, which had the whole world routing through ihnp4 and decided
enough was enough.  (While I think AT&T-US overreacted, I understand
why they implemented the policy.)

attcan became active on the net fairly recently, and to their
credit, AT&T Canada has formed an official corporate policy of
supporting Usenet.  They are backing this up with large dollars
spent in phone bills to bring megabytes of netnews daily from uunet.
And, within reason like everyone else, they are willing to carry mail.

AT&T Canada is to be commended for this approach.  It was originally
encouraged by Michael East, who has now moved on to another company.
The current front-line support for news & mail are attcan!bob (Kyryliuk)
and attcan!colin (Dijkstra), both of whom work hard at keeping stuff
flowing.  They, and the company, deserve our thanks.

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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