psrc@pegasus.att.com (Paul S. R. Chisholm) (12/06/89)
In article <telecom-v09i0542m05@chinacat.lonestar.org>, psrc@pegasus.att.com (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes: > Yes, it would be nice if there was a gateway. Yes, there are gateways > to MCI Mail and CompuServe. I know it. AT&T Mail management knows > it. As of right now, there isn't one. In article <1809@accuvax.nwu.edu>, FLINTON@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Fred E.J. Linton) writes: > Gentle pressure on the AT&T Mail Customer Assistance Center reps at +1 > 800 624 5672 may, in time, cause AT&T Mail management to realize that > permitting inbound mail at no charge to the site last handling it > before it arrives in attmail can only be _good_ for business -- a fact > MCI Mail and C'Serve have already realized (and _that_ fact may help > convince AT&T Mail!). Fred, I realize your intentions are good; but my efforts to pass this message along to AT&T Mail management have been much more sucessful than the Customer Assistance Center's. I have a large (well, virtual) sign over my telephone that says "CTFC" (call the CAC), and I'm one of their biggest fans; but, *please*, if you want to apply pressure on AT&T on this topic, contact *me* (e-mail, please), not the AT&T Mail Customer Assistance Center. (If you need help with AT&T Mail products, please call the CAC instead of me.) > As to how the Moderator finds his way into AT&T Mail accounts, > I'd be curious to know -- perhaps the attmail recipients have an > agreement with the gatewaying machine to reimburse expenses, or the > gatewaying machines haven't yet realized they're being taken advantage > of, or... > > [Moderator's Note: Sorry, but I have to differ with you > > on the 'no gateway to attmail' statement. TELECOM Digest is sent to > > a few people who recieve it in their attmail boxes at their request. > > I send control copies of the Digest to my own attmail box from time > > to time to test the link. > ... or maybe they'll just up and plug the leak, with no warning, and no > bounce report... (-: ? I suspect most of the people at AT&T who want the Digest are also reachable via the .att.com domain. I have no idea whether non-AT&T employees on the service have other paths. (As far as I'm concerned, and speaking as the person who plugged at least one Internet to AT&T Mail leak, I'd rather help you find a better link. *Please*, oh kind Moderator, don't publish this path to the hole (:-) world, lest it become a problem.) Paul S. R. Chisholm, AT&T Bell Laboratories att!pegasus!psrc, psrc@pegasus.att.com, AT&T Mail !psrchisholm I'm not speaking for the company, I'm just speaking my mind.