mjohnsto@admin8780.shearson.com (Mike Johnston) (12/22/90)
Does anyone know if a gateway to GEnie is in place somewhere on the net?
I already know how to get my mail forwarded to MCI but GEnie would be
a nice touch too! Many thanks.
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"Unix Uber Alles!"ralphs@sumax.seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims) (12/22/90)
mjohnsto@admin8780.shearson.com (Mike Johnston) writes: > Does anyone know if a gateway to GEnie is in place somewhere on the net? There's no gateway in effect. There's rumors of an X.400 setup down the pike, but don't hold your breath.
dsc3rjs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Bob Stratton) (12/25/90)
In the 2nd edition of "!%@:: A Directory of Electronic Mail Addressing and
Networks, May 1990, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. the entry for:
AT&T Mail - Commercial Email Service (Page 44-45) states:
"AT&T Mail provides connections to ...., GEIS, ... and more."
GEIS in most contexts refers to General Electric Information Services...
Does this imply that either "Qwik-Mail" or GEnie are connected to ATTMail?
More importantly, is it true?? I know that AT&T has recently revealed
their Internet connection (who didn't know about that one??), but this
GEIS stuff sounds new/possibly bogus to me...
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| +1 703 823 MIND [PSTNet]fair@Apple.COM (Erik E. Fair) (12/28/90)
Actually, it's quite likely that GEIS ("QUIK-COMM") and AT&Tmail are
speaking CCITT X.400 to each other. Which is to say that you can
probably send E-mail through one to the other (assuming that you can
pay for it - you can bet that they'll charge), but you'd probably lose
your lunch after looking at the addresses and formats that they use.
I have implemented an Internet gateway (specifically, what the GEIS
people call a "connector" system) for QUIK-COMM, specifically for
AppleLink, Apple Computer's central E-mail service for talking to our
dealers, developers, and so on. It doesn't interact with the GEnie
service at all, which, while I understand it uses QUIK-COMM like
AppleLink does, is running on different mainframes on a different part
of the GEIS X.25 network.
Of course, it would be trivial for GEIS to get a copy of my software
and set up a gateway to GEnie on a 4 BSD UNIX box (either Internet or
UUCP on the other side). From my point of view, it is up to them to
decide that they want to do this and contact me.
Erik E. Fair apple!fair fair@apple.com