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Article #180Re: mail to Dialcom
From: jwb
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 15:26
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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