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Article #2533Re: Gateway's to GEnie?
From: Erik E. Fair
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 1990 22:35
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 1990 22:35
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Actually, it's quite likely that GEIS ("QUIK-COMM") and AT&Tmail are
speaking CCITT X.400 to each other. Which is to say that you can
probably send E-mail through one to the other (assuming that you can
pay for it - you can bet that they'll charge), but you'd probably lose
your lunch after looking at the addresses and formats that they use.
I have implemented an Internet gateway (specifically, what the GEIS
people call a "connector" system) for QUIK-COMM, specifically for
AppleLink, Apple Computer's central E-mail service for talking to our
dealers, developers, and so on. It doesn't interact with the GEnie
service at all, which, while I understand it uses QUIK-COMM like
AppleLink does, is running on different mainframes on a different part
of the GEIS X.25 network.
Of course, it would be trivial for GEIS to get a copy of my software
and set up a gateway to GEnie on a 4 BSD UNIX box (either Internet or
UUCP on the other side). From my point of view, it is up to them to
decide that they want to do this and contact me.
Erik E. Fair apple!fair fair@apple.com
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