6675%mneuxg@uunet.uu.net (U.K. Tony) (09/04/89)
The TYMNET code for Compuserve is not "compuserve" but CIS02 The CIS DNIC is 3132. Compuserve provide a FREE login service under the ID 74.74 password NETWORK. This lists phone numbers and access methods. You can also try ID 77770.101 Password FREE-DEMO. This gives a guided tour of the service and the same phone list. BTW Patrick, just what is the NUA of the Hong Kong info database? Is it open access like Telenet/Tymnet/IPSS? Tony [Moderator's Note: Off hand, I don't remember. The place to get all these NUA's is from Telenet. Access Telemail (@mail on your Telenet switch) and log into a public mailbox named "Intl. Associates" with the password INTL. Follow the menus given and locate Hong Kong Telephone Company. Caution!!! Persons with PC Pursuit accounts may NOT make international connections under threat of severe penalty including loss of account. And Hong Kong Telephone's Help/Info address does not accept collect calls, so you have to give some ID, of the form @C 0????etc,id,pw. Well! A couple years ago I discovered that in fact PCP ID's would in fact be accepted by the network, and I visited the help files of many different international networks. In my paper on the same topic, I listed the network addresses for the help files, as well as other fun places to visit, such as the British Telecom 'packet switch stream' test line; the British Telecom Master Clock; the network 'drops'; the addresses for the online customer service positions; and more. The Japanese data network has a master clock and an address for testing purposes. Telenet was furious with me! I got a call from someone there who bawled me out good, and said any PCP'ers who accepted my counsel would be banned forever. Shortly thereafter they made a change in the software so that any PCP account which make an international connection is immediatly referred to network security. When I told them it was all listed in their own international help files on Telemail, they got madder still! We kissed and made up, but I don't post network addresses any longer. PT]