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


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