LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) (03/29/90)
This is clearly totally the wrong group for this question, but I have no idea where it really belongs. I apologize in advance. I am wondering how a company arranges for a link into the Internet system. For example, I can send e-mail to people at TANDEM, APPLE etc by sending to USER@tandem.com etc. Can any company with some internal network/mail system arrange to have access to some gateway, and if so, how? I apologize again for misposting this question - I do usually get it right. Thanks for any information Richard Stanton pstanton@gsb-what.stanford.edu
bbesler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Brent Besler) (03/30/90)
As much as I understand it, you need some way of connecting to a university site
which has access to Internet. This usually involves a digtial data link or a
T1 line leased point to point from the phone company. I believe MCI mail and
Compuserve have mail gateways to Internet.
Brent H. Beslermee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Kevin Kahl) (03/30/90)
In article <502@vela.acs.oakland.edu> bbesler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Brent Besler) writes: >As much as I understand it, you need some way of connecting to a university site >which has access to Internet. This usually involves a digtial data link or a >T1 line leased point to point from the phone company. I believe MCI mail and >Compuserve have mail gateways to Internet. > > Brent H. Besler So then, what you are saying is, that in your understanding, the Internet is basically driven by university sites? Worldwide? I would be interested in a general explanation of what the Internet PHYSICALLY is... How does it work and why? I know these are very general questions, but this system SEEMS to be so incredibly huge that it is mind-boggling. Any comments? Kevin Kahl mee@ucscb.ucsc.edu