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From: bovine!john@apple.com (John Higdon)
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Subject: AT&T Mail and the internet
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Date: 15 Aug 89 20:16:14 GMT
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In article , crum%lipari.usc.edu@usc.
edu (Gary L. Crum) writes:
> If there is a gateway between AT&T Mail and the "world UUCP network", then
> it seems that the services provided by AT&T Mail and UUNET overlap somewhat.
> Perhaps AT&T Mail is closer to MCI Mail.

For those that prefer it, AT&T mail offers a UUCP connection to a
subscribing site. Hence, all communications is done on the subscriber's
existing mail software and the fact that it is carried by AT&T Mail is
invisible to the users.

> The AT&T Mail technical representative didn't know what I meant by
> world UUCP network, USENET, Internet, and TCP/IP.  She started talking
> about gateway interface products (e.g. MHS X.400) when I asked about
> gateways.  Maybe I should have used the word "relay".

I subscribe to AT&T Mail via UUCP, therefore my site has AT&T Mail as a
UUCP neighbor. There is no "gateway" as such, unless you consider all
of AT&T Mail's subscribers who use UUCP to be gateways. When talking to
an AT&T Mail technical person say "UNIX" rather than "UUCP" and you
will probably get farther.
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