dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold) (02/12/89)
We have a direct connection to a very reliable Internet host, and are using PMDF (an Internet MTA) on a VAX running VMS. However, most people at work are ignorant of the potential that the world net offers. Somebody once FAX'd a program listing to an employee at my work, and the employee then typed the program in on our system!! They either view electronic mail as something silly that you use on somebody's PC or view electronic mail as something to complicated to use, and to venerable and unreliable. Note: Not all people at my work are this ignorant, but most are. Recently, the Director of R&D needed a E-Mail link to Northern Telecom in Raliegh, NC. I overheard the conversation, and told him that we probably already had that (assuming NTI already had world-net access). He smiled in a disbelieving way, and told me to look into it. I look at the USENET maps looking for NTI, and found them all over the place. I then told him that there would be no problem. He sighed again in a disbelieving way. End. I later learned that we have plans to run a dedicated T-1 link between ourselves and NTI. We will probably use this T-1 link for direct login's, and kermit for tranferring files. AARRRRGGGG! Most people are ignorant of the potential of using the PSTN, and view it as being to slow. Could some kind soul offer me some advise on how to get my company into the 1980's? -- Dave Arnold ...!uunet!ccicpg!arnold!dave