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In article <196@houxj.UUCP> nelsn@houxj.UUCP (M.NELSON) writes:
>Is there a way to send from UUCP (or from any other net which
>connects to UUCP) to Compuserve?

NCR has a CompuServe/UUCP bi-directional gateway for internal use only.
It is used to connect between the two separate mail systems, both
of which are in widespread use within NCR.  I developed it to
communicate with the InfoPlex service of CompuServe, although
mail to and from normal Compuserve users (EasyPlex) also works.

The gateway software requires SysV and Honey Danber UUCP to
run.  Unfortunately the software is owned by NCR and I cannot
give it away.  I had enough problems with our mail router
and the lawyers that I eventually called it a rewrite of smail 1.3
and ripped out all the copyright notices (with approval from
management).

>Are there any other commercial BBoard operations which have
>connections/access to the net?

CompuServe charges on a per-message basis for the InfoPlex service.
I believe it costs $.45 to send a message from EasyPlex to InfoPlex;
I don't know about the other direction since I don't pay the bills.
There is no way that NCR (or any other entity) is going to pay
for a wide-open CompuServe/UUCP gateway as it would cost too much to
subsidize.

>I think this was asked by someone else a couple of months back,
>but I never saw an answer on the net.

I didn't post a response then because the news is not very good.
If you really want it bad, figure out a way for me to justify releasing
it to mod.sources.  The lawyers don't really care about not making
any money on it, since NCR has no plans to sell it.  They are worried
about NCR's image and possible lawsuits, lovely intangibles that
cannot be refuted.

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Matt Costello	<matt.costello@SanDiego.NCR.COM>
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