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We have a direct connection to a very reliable Internet host, and are
using PMDF (an Internet MTA) on a VAX running VMS.

However, most people at work are ignorant of the potential that the 
world net offers.

Somebody once FAX'd a program listing to an employee at my work, and
the employee then typed the program in on our system!!

They either view electronic mail as something silly that you use
on somebody's PC or view electronic mail as something to complicated
to use, and to venerable and unreliable.

Note:  Not all people at my work are this ignorant, but most are.

Recently, the Director of R&D needed a E-Mail link to Northern
Telecom in Raliegh, NC.  I overheard the conversation, and told
him that we probably already had that (assuming NTI already had
world-net access).  He smiled in a disbelieving way, and told me
to look into it.  I look at the USENET maps looking for NTI, and
found them all over the place.  I then told him that there would be
no problem.  He sighed again in a disbelieving way.  End.
I later learned that we have plans to run a dedicated T-1 link
between ourselves and NTI.  We will probably use this T-1 link
for direct login's, and kermit for tranferring files.  AARRRRGGGG!

Most people are ignorant of the potential of using the PSTN, and
view it as being to slow.

Could some kind soul offer me some advise on how to get my company
into the 1980's?
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Dave Arnold			...!uunet!ccicpg!arnold!dave