telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) (05/16/89)
U.S. Sprint's subsidiary, Telenet has announced an interconnection agreement between Telemail, Telenet's electronic mail product, MCI Mail, and AT&T Mail. The new arrangement, scheduled to be in effect later this summer, will allow the 300,000 worldwide users of Telemail, the 100,000 users of MCI Mail and the 50,000 users of AT&T Mail to conveniently send email messages to each other. The exact logistics have not yet been announced, but I wanted to get the word to you as soon as I heard about it. When more details are available, a message will be posted. Patrick Townson
bg0d+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bernard Goldsmith) (05/17/89)
I asked MCIMail as soon a s I had read your post. They promised to answer later this week -- I'll be glad to share that reply with you.I've been using MCIMail for about 3 years and ATTMail since last July. I had started with EasyLink, but it was a disaster, even though their special deal with Boston Computer Society promised very low rates. Their billing was riddled with errors and inattention. ATTMail has been disappointing, but its growth has accelerated MCIMail's expansion of services. MCIMail support is MUCH better than ATT's, and the protocol is much more rational.
avr@mtgzx.att.com (a.v.reed) (05/20/89)
In article <telecom-v09i0168m04@vector.dallas.tx.us>, bg0d+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bernard Goldsmith) writes: > ATTMail has been disappointing, but its growth has accelerated MCIMail's > expansion of services. MCIMail support is MUCH better than ATT's, and > the protocol is much more rational. I wonder - what exactly is this "protocol"? From a machine registered with AT&T Mail, you send a letter by invoking your favorite mailer - whatever that happens to be - with an address like attmail!adamreed or attmail!othermachine!user. For more complicated stuff, I use ksh functions, like this one for sending a business letter, formatted with mm macros, to a FAX: function sendfax { NUMBER=$1;ATTENTION=$2;shift;shift (echo "To: attmail!fax!$NUMBER(/$ATTENTION)";\ nroff -mm -rL60 -rW65 $@ | col -bx)|\ /bin/mail attmail!dispatcher } What exactly is this "much more rational protocol" from MCI Mail? In what ways is it "more rational" than the above? Note that while I am from AT&T BL, I am NOT a company chauvinist, and I firmly believe that learning from everyone - definitely INCLUDING one's competitors - is the essence of wisdom. This is a serious request for more information, NOT a flame. Adam_V_Reed@att.com