telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) (08/14/89)
I am pleased to announce that Telenet Communications Corp. is now making
each issue of TELECOM Digest available to users of their Net Exchange BBS.
The Net Exchange is their on-line information service for subscribers to
PC Pursuit, which of course is Telenet's evening/overnight/weekend network
service package for modem users.
The Net Exchange is reachable free of charge through the Telenet Network
by subscribers to PC Pursuit. There is no charge to use Net Exchange or
read TELECOM Digest via that location. Users would follow the instructions
given by Telenet, which in summary are (1) call into the local Telenet
switch in your community; (2) request connection *on a collect basis* to
them (@C PURSUIT); (3) log into Net Exchange in the normal way; (4) read
files section 5, which is now the location for each day's issues of this
Digest.
No direct response to us is possible from that location at present. Users
who wish to write the Digest must either do so from a Unix mail site of
their choice, writing to 'telecom@eecs.nwu.edu' or 'telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu';
or via a Bitnet site writing to 'telecom@nuacca.bitnet'. All three addresses
terminate here in Evanston at my office. An alternative address for Fidonet
sites is as follows:
Write to user: UUCP
Fido Address: 1:16/390
The first line of text MUST say: "To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu"
The second line of text MUST be blank.
And unlike Fido, where carriage returns are not required (and frequently
not desired in the body of the message), either hard or soft carriage returns
are required in the text messages sent through this gateway to us.
I appreciate Telenet's interest in TELECOM Digest, and the assistance given
by David Purks, System Administrator for the Net Exchange in making our
little Digest available to readers there.
Patrick Townson