Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!yap From: yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap) Subject: Re: Sending email from CompuServe to the Internet Message-ID: <89Aug13.034413edt.18549@me.utoronto.ca> Organization: University of Toronto Mechanical Engineering References: <8908130008KP@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 89 03:44:01 EDT In article <8908130008KP@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) writes: >[Give this to your friends who have CompuServe accounts. -- Keith] > >Now you can send Email back and forth through CompuServe to Internet, >Arpanet, Bitnet, and others. > > - The amount of time it takes to deliver an Internet message varies > from a half hour to two days. This is a function of Internet and > CompuServe is not responsibe for this time frame. Nope. This just ain't true. Mail between Internet sites takes place practically immediately. Most mail gets delivered in a matter of minutes, regardless of how far apart the sites are physically. If you're really impatient you can talk directly to the sendmail daemon on the receiving machine (if you know how ;-). Remember the Internet virus; it used smtp to transfer itself. Perhaps you're refering to Usenet, which has uucp connections (intermittent and of questionable reliability) at its extremeties. You can get messages to uucp sites by routing them through an Internet site; this situation may account for the two day delay mentioned above. Another possibility is that CompuServe (a bunch of creaky old Dec-10s and Dec-20s - from their uucp info) IS responsible for the time frame :-). >-- >Keith Petersen >Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, and MISC archives >Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil [26.2.0.74] >Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz -- GOAL: To dance the light fan- |Davin Yap, Mechanical Engineering, U of Toronto tastic in the face of derision,| yap@me.toronto.edu yap@me.utoronto.bitnet from those bland at heart. | ...{pyramid,uunet}!utai!utme!yap