Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: bovine!john@apple.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: AT&T Mail and the internet Message-ID:Date: 15 Aug 89 20:16:14 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: bovine!john@apple.com Organization: ATI Wares Team Lines: 24 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 300, message 2 of 8 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. -- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.uucp | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !