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Re: mail to Dialcom

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From: jwb
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 15:26
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In article <1991Nov18.112200.163676@dstos3.dsto.oz.au>, jwb@dstos3.dsto.oz.au writes:
> The following is an extract from a previous post I submitted on the subject...
> 
>     According to "The Matrix" (by John Quarterman ?), one sends mail to
>     Intermail@isi.edu, and the text begins as follows....
>        Forward: COMPMAIL
>        To: user:host
>        (blank line)
>        (text of message)
> 
>     I tried it, and the result was
>       a) it didn't arrive
>       b) I didn't get a bounce message
>     which means it went into a black hole somewhere.  
> 
> Quarterman must have had a high confidence that it would work to put it in
> his book, so I I must have done it wrongly, but I don't know how. 

I have been informed that this gateway service was cancelled about a year ago 
because it was costing the service provider money to pass messages for other
people. 

Regards,

John Bennett,                                 E-mail : jwb@dstos3.dsto.oz.au
Head, Networks Group                          Phone  : +61 8 259 5292
Information Systems Branch                    FAX    : +61 8 259 6726
DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   Postal : Bld 73 Labs Area
AUSTRALIA                                              PO Box 1600 Salisbury 
              "Lord Warden of the Sync Ports"          South Australia  5108
                  (DSTO Network Manager)               AUSTRALIA
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From: jwb@dstos3.dsto.oz.au
Newsgroups: aus.mail,comp.mail,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: mail to Dialcom
Message-ID: <1991Nov19.092618.163679@dstos3.dsto.oz.au>
Date: 19 Nov 91 15:26:18 GMT
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