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In article <7105.27bab5df@cc.curtin.edu.au> Gumley_LE@cc.curtin.edu.au (Liam Gumley) writes:
>There is an electronic network accessible in Australia called OMNET.
>
>Does anyone know how to talk to this via Internet?

If by "talk," you mean "send mail," then you have two (maybe three) options.

OMNET is a reseller of time on a SprintMail system.  You can send email to
users on OMNET either through Sprint Internet relay, Sprint.COM, or through
the Commercial Mail Relay (CMR) at Intermail.ISI.EDU.  Both are store-and-
forward mail gateways.

The Sprint.COM relay uses a X.400-like syntax that is still buggy.  The
Commercial Mail Relay can use the SprintMail X.400 implementation (believe it
or not, different from Sprint.COM) and the older "Interconnect" format.

Through the CMR, you can send mail to OMNET users with this format:

	   "[omnet.user/OMNET]MAIL/USA%TELEMAIL"@Intermail.ISI.EDU

Users on OMNET will need to use an embedded header, i.e. in the body of the
message text (almost as ugly as X.400, but not quite) in a message to
"[INTERMAIL/USCISI]SM66/USA" to get mail back to you:

	Forward: Internet
	To: Gumley_LE@cc.curtin.edu.au
	<Blank-Line>

You can get more information about the Commercial Mail Relay from:

		     Intermail-Request@Intermail.ISI.EDU

The information address for OMNET is:

	 "[OMNET.SERVICE/OMNET]MAIL/USA%TELEMAIL"@Intermail.ISI.EDU

or just "OMNET.SERVICE" to OMNET users.  (The quotes around addresses in
sentences are just to set the addresses off; however, in the indented
addresses, they are recommended.)

(The Ames Research Center also runs a store-and-forward gateway to
SprintMail, but it is intended more for internal NASA use and may be more
restrictive than the CMR.  The CMR is limited to research and educational
uses and Sprint.COM is less restrictive because their users pay for the
service.)
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