cdixon@eagle.wesleyan.edu (10/08/89)
Does anyone have or know where to get an intro text to computer mail. I'm a stranger in this land and I'm confusing BitNets with UseNet with Telenet, etc... Thank you in advance. xxx Chris Dixon
ncas@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (clifford.a.stevens..jr) (10/10/89)
In article <1980@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, cdixon@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes: > Does anyone have or know where to get an intro text to computer mail. > I'm a stranger in this land and I'm confusing BitNets with UseNet with > Telenet, Please post the answer! But as far as I know "`dere `aint no such thing". ------- Who, me worry? Cliff Stevens MT1E228 (201)957-3902 att!cbnewsj!ncas
chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen) (10/11/89)
In article <1284@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> ncas@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (clifford.a.stevens..jr) writes: >In article <1980@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, cdixon@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes: >> Does anyone have or know where to get an intro text to computer mail. >> I'm a stranger in this land and I'm confusing BitNets with UseNet with >> Telenet, >Please post the answer! But as far as I know "`dere `aint no such thing". You may find "UNIX Communications" from the Waite Group very useful. It consists of three sections: Mail, Usenet, and UUCP. The mail section includes both Mailx of SYSV and Mail of BSD4.x. However, it doesn't help you much in mail bouncing. The Usenet section is quite well written. It starts how Usenet being organized, then talks about three news reader programs: `readnews', `vnews', and `rn'. The UUCP section is not as good as the first two, in my opinion. There are other better books on this topic. However, this book doesn't answer all your questions, such as Bitnet and Telnet. There's a good paper in ACM Communications about computer network (I'll dig it out later). The authors of the book are: Bart Anderson, Bryan Costales, and Harry Henderson.