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From: johnl@esegue.uucp (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: CompuServe <------>Internet gateway
Summary: MCI<-->internet link
Message-ID: <1989Aug15.223626.5291@esegue.uucp>
Date: 15 Aug 89 22:36:26 GMT
References: <13610@netnews.upenn.edu> <1280@hcx1.UUCP>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.UUCP (John Levine)
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Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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In article <1280@hcx1.UUCP> leoh@hardy.hdw.harris.com (Leo Hinds) writes:
>On a similar note ... is it possiple to use the compuserve/MCI mail link
>via the internet ?

No, but you don't have to.  MCI Mail has a very nice but totally
unpublicised gateway of their own that I stumbled across.  To send mail from
MCI to the Internet, tell MCI Mail you're sending to a REMS, give the REMS
name as "internet" and on the mailbox line, give the internet address.  To
go the other way, send to something like 0001234567@mcimail.com where the
number is the MCI Mail account number padded to ten digits.  Not all
internet hosts know mcimail.com, but uunet does.  Bang paths seem to work
too.
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