Re: mailing IBM

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In article <u926135.721019823@tasman> u926135@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Adrian Hassall Lewis) writes:

>Can someone please help me?  Here in Australia IBM doesn't have internet
>access.  However, I want to contact a friend of mine in IBM who is helping
>me with a prospective purchase.  She has given me her local address as (eg)
>JCITIZEN at machine MACHINE where MACHINE is xxxVMx.

>Does anyone know how I can take this partial address and turn it into a full
>one?  Will I need to use a gateway machine in the US? and if so which one
>(will it have to be a VMS machine?) and how?  Also can she use the same gateway
>to reply?

>BTW, I am using standard unix mail (Sun OS), and I think she is using OS/2.

>Any help greatly appreciated,

>               Adrian Lewis

>u926135@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au

IBM is *very* protective about it's world-wide network.  It is possible to 
connect an IBM user into the internet, but the connection is only permitted 
to be one-to-one, and would probably require an order signed in blood from 
IBM management...

Stephen Baxter

(u9118802 @ cpc780.uea.ac.uk)

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