parnes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Gary Parnes) (09/19/89)
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but: Does anyone out there happen to know if CompuServe can send e-mail to USENET computer accounts, and vice-versa? Gary /=============================================================================\ | "You're obviously misinformed... everything | Gary Parnes | | EAST of the San Andreas Fault is going to | Computer Science Engineer | | fall into the ATLANTIC Ocean." | University of Pennsylvania | | *** parnes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu *** | *NOT* Penn State, Dammit! | \=============================================================================/ Gary /=============================================================================\ | "You're obviously misinformed... everything | Gary Parnes | | EAST of the San Andreas Fault is going to | Computer Science Engineer | | fall into the ATLANTIC Ocean." | University of Pennsylvania | | *** parnes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu *** | *NOT* Penn State, Dammit! | \=============================================================================/
hallett@positron.uucp (Jeff Hallett x5163 ) (09/20/89)
In article <14553@netnews.upenn.edu> parnes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Gary Parnes) writes: > >Does anyone out there happen to know if CompuServe can send e-mail to USENET >computer accounts, and vice-versa? > The following article was posted to the Info-Mac digest a little while ago. Hope it helps. ---------------------------------8<------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 17:43:38 -0400 >From: Karl Kleinpaste <karl@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU> Subject: Mail access to CompuServe [This is going simultaneously to comp.mail.misc on the Usenet and info-nets@think.com.] To clear up some confusion and squash several dozen rumors which have been floating around since sometime this past Wednesday or thereabouts, I'm telling people about this now, although more official (officious? :-) announcements will be forthcoming sometime Real Soon Now. CompuServe is email-accessible. The machinery to do so has actually been in place for some months, but there has been an arbitrarily large number of reasons why official, live status has not yet been granted to the gateway. Technically, this is true, even as I write this. To reach a CompuServe subscriber account of the form 7xxxx,yyy swap the `,' for `.' and add @compuserve.com: 7xxxx.yyy@compuserve.com This is necessary for RFC compliance. To reach employees of CompuServe, they have somewhat more typical usernames inside the csi.compuserve.com subdomain. CompuServe subscribers can reach people Out Here from CompuServe's mailers via the specification: >internet:user@host.domain The use of ">stuff:" is CompuServe's general gateway-access syntax; it does not appear in anything on the Internet side of the gateway, but rather RFC-compliant headers are generated. Internet nameservers for compuserve.com are alive and responding, and pathalias data for a (fictitious) host "compuserve" has been published since last fall. Internet mailers must support MX records in order to reach CompuServe. The MX host is saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu, a.k.a. osu-cis. I understand that there is some magic that must be performed on BITNET VM hosts in order to get there due to lack of MX support; details from other BITNETters, not me. [That's 7xxxx.yyy%compuserve.com@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu - Ed.] Saqqara speaks with CompuServe approximately half-hourly, though this will probably change as load is observed. There are NO charges accrued to ANYBODY on either side of the gateway for its use. CompuServe subscribers are charged their usual hourly rates, but there is no gateway-specific surcharge. The reason for this posting is that the gateway was mentioned rather casually to info-nets@think.com, resulting in a rather impressive flurry of queries, explanations, and test notes through the gateway. The load has been, ah, remarkable. There were quite a number of misconceptions about it (notably regarding charging, there being none but others claiming that there would be), and I am hoping to prevent further rumor-mongering. Vint Cerf presented this on CompuServe's behalf to FRICC just this past Monday; there is "agreement in principle" on the gateway's existence, but the formalities of the situation have yet to be finalized. Disclaimer: I speak for myself, not CompuServe. Questions about the gateway => karl@cis.ohio-state.edu Questions about CompuServe => postmaster@compuserve.com Cheers, --Karl Kleinpaste Personification of the Mailer Daemon Ohio State Computer Science Instigator of the Internet/CompuServe mail gateway no longer acting "postmaster@compuserve.com" ___________________________________________________________ (cccc) / \ ( 0 0 ) | (Prof) Murph Sewall <Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET> | (| > |) ___/ Marketing Department <Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu>| ( \__/ ) <___ School of Business ...psuvax1!uconnvm.bitnet!sewall | (____) \_ U. of Connecticut *standard disclaimer applies* / \__________________________________________________________/ (This .sig "borrowed" from Johnson Earls <Jearls@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu> Thanx!) -------------------------------------8<------------------------------------- -- Jeffrey A. Hallett, PET Software Engineering GE Medical Systems, W641, PO Box 414 Milwaukee, WI 53201 (414) 548-5163 : EMAIL - hallett@gemed.ge.com