jay@hqda-ai.ARPA (Jay Hiser) (08/23/88)
I have recently taken over as the system administrator of a large OA system that had virtually no connections to the outside world before I added some outgoing modems. I have a number of users who are (or will be soon) using a cu interface to the OA software to call TYMNET and access ON-LINE (correct me if my spelling is off -- I've never used the system myself). They are using it to send & receive e-mail. I probably have users who are accessing many of the national e-mail systems. I've also implemented uucp & uucp mail. I'd like to know how to get in touch with some of the commercial services that will forward uucp mail. I'm also interested in any especially good or bad experiences that anyone has had in dealing with such a service (hint: my users are extremely unsophisticated). Thank you, Jay Heiser jay@hqda-ai
john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US (John Owens) (08/24/88)
In article <10065@hqda-ai.ARPA>, jay@hqda-ai.ARPA (Jay Hiser) writes: > I've also implemented uucp & uucp mail. I'd like to know how to get > in touch with some of the commercial services that will forward uucp mail. I'm not sure if you're asking about commercial services that will forward uucp mail to the rest of the "UUCP network" (all of us out here), or commercial services that will forward their mail to and from uucp. If the first, I know of uunet and attmail. uunet "just" provides full mail and news feed capabilities, as well as Internet forwarding. attmail provides a standard uucp mail connection, or an interactive dialin uucp mail service for novice users. attmail also, I think, lets you send physical mail and mail to fax machines, but this is just hearsay, since I've never used it. If the second, I don't know of any. Good luck! -- John Owens john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US SMART HOUSE L.P. uunet!jetson!john (old uucp) +1 301 249 6000 john%jetson.uucp@uunet.uu.net (old internet)