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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume Three, Issue 28, File #4 of 12
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Network Miscellany
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by Taran King
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June 1, 1989
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ACSNET
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Australian Computer Science Network (ACSNET), also known as Oz,
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has its gateway through the CSNET node munnari.oz.au and if you
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cannot directly mail to the .oz.au domain, try either
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username%munnari.oz.au@UUNET.UU.NET or
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munnari!username@UUNET.UU.NET.
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AT&T MAIL
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AT&T Mail is a mailing service of AT&T, probably what you might
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call it's MCI-Mail equivalent. It is available on the UUCP
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network as node name attmail but I've had problems having mail
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get through. Apparently, it does cost money to mail to this
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service and the surrounding nodes are not willing to pick up the
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tab for the ingoing mail, or at least, this has seemingly been
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the case thus far. I believe, though, that perhaps routing to
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att!attmail!user would work.
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AT&T recently announced six new X.400 interconnections between
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AT&T Mail and electronic mail services in the U.S., Korea,
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Sweden, Australia, and Finland. In the U.S., AT&T Mail is now
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interconnected with Telenet Communications Corporation's service,
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Telemail, allowing users of both services to exchange messages
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easily. With the addition of these interconnections, the AT&T
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Mail Gateway 400 Service allows AT&T Mail subscribers to exchange
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messages with users of the following electronic messaging
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systems:
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Company E-Mail Name* Country
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------- ------------ -------
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TeleDelta TeDe 400 Sweden
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OTC MPS400 Australia
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Telecom-Canada Envoy100 Canada
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DACOM DACOM MHS Korea
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P&T-Tele MailNet 400 Finland
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Helsinki Telephone Co. ELISA Finland
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Dialcom Dialcom USA
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Telenet Telemail USA
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KDD Messavia Japan
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Transpac ATLAS400 France
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The interconnections are based on the X.400 standard, a set of
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guidelines for the format, delivery and receipt of electronic
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messages recommended by an international standards committee the
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CCITT. International X.400 messages incur a surcharge. They
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are:
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To Canada:
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Per note: $.05
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Per message unit: $.10
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To other international locations:
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Per note: $.20
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Per message unit: $.50
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There is no surcharge for X.400 messages within the U.S. The
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following are contacts to speak with about mailing through these
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mentioned networks. Other questions can be directed through AT&T
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Mail's toll-free number, 1-800-624-5672.
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MHS Gateway: mhs!atlas MHS Gateway: mhs!dacom
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Administrator: Bernard Tardieu Administrator: Bob Nicholson
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Transpac AT&T
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Phone: 3399283203 Morristown, NJ 07960
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Phone: +1 201 644 1838
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MHS Gateway: mhs!dialcom MHS Gateway: mhs!elisa
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Administrator: Mr. Laraman Administrator: Ulla Karajalainen
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Dialcom Nokia Data
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South Plainfield, NJ 07080 Phone: 01135804371
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Phone: +1 441 493 3843
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MHS Gateway: mhs!envoy MHS Gateway: mhs!kdd
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Administrator: Kin C. Ma Administrator: Shigeo Lwase
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Telecom Canada Kokusai Denshin Denwa CO.
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Phone: +1 613 567 7584 Phone: 8133477419
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MHS Gateway: mhs!mailnet MHS Gateway: mhs!otc
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Administrator: Kari Aakala Administrator: Gary W. Krumbine
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Gen Directorate Of Post & AT&T Information Systems
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Phone: 35806921730 Lincroft, NJ 07738
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Phone: +1 201 576 2658
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MHS Gateway: mhs!telemail MHS Gateway: mhs
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Administrator: Jim Kelsay Administrator: AT&T Mail MHS
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GTE Telenet Comm Corp Gateway
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Reston, VA 22096 AT&T
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Phone: +1 703 689 6034 Lincroft, NJ 08838
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Phone: +1 800 624 5672
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CMR
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~~~
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Previously known as Intermail, the Commercial Mail Relay (CMR)
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Service is a mail relay service between the Internet and three
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commercial electronic mail systems: US Sprint/Telenet, MCI-Mail,
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and DIALCOM systems (i.e. Compmail, NSFMAIL, and USDA-MAIL).
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An important note: The only requirement for using this mail
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gateway is that the work conducted must be DARPA sponsored
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research and other approved government business. Basically, this
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means that unless you've got some government-related business,
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you're not supposed to be using this gateway. Regardless, it
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would be very difficult for them to screen everything that goes
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through their gateway. Before I understood the requirements of
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this gateway, I was sending to a user of MCI-Mail and was not
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contacted about any problems with that communication.
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Unfortunately, I mistyped the MCI-Mail address on one of the
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letters and that letter ended up getting read by system
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administrators who then informed me that I was not to be using
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that system, as well as the fact that they would like to bill me
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for using it. That was an interesting thought on their part
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anyway, but do note that using this service does incur charges.
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The CMR mailbox address in each system corresponds to the label:
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Telemail: [Intermail/USCISI]TELEMAIL/USA
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MCI-Mail: Intermail or 107-8239
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CompMail: Intermail or CMP0817
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NSF-Mail: Intermail or NSF153
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USDA-Mail: Intermail or AGS9999
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Addressing examples for each e-mail system are as follows:
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MCIMAIL:
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123-4567 seven digit address
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Everett T. Bowens person's name (must be unique!)
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COMPMAIL:
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CMP0123 three letters followed by three or four digits
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S.Cooper initial, then "." and then last name
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134:CMP0123 domain, then ":" and then combination system and
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account number
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NSFMAIL:
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NSF0123 three letters followed by three or four digits
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A.Phillips initial, then "." and then last name
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157:NSF0123 domain, then ":" and then combination system and
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account number
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USDAMAIL:
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AGS0123 three letters followed by three or four digits
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P.Shifter initial, then "." and then last name
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157:AGS0123 domain, then ":" and then combination system and
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account number
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TELEMAIL:
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BARNOC user (directly on Telemail)
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BARNOC/LODH user/organization (directly on Telemail)
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[BARNOC/LODH]TELEMAIL/USA
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[user/organization]system branch/country
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The following are other Telenet system branches/countries that
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can be mailed to:
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TELEMAIL/USA NASAMAIL/USA MAIL/USA TELEMEMO/AUSTRALIA
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TELECOM/CANADA TOMMAIL/CHILE TMAILUK/GB ITALMAIL/ITALY
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ATI/JAPAN PIPMAIL/ROC DGC/USA FAAMAIL/USA
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GSFC/USA GTEMAIL/USA TM11/USA TNET.TELEMAIL/USA
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USDA/USA
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Note: OMNET's ScienceNet is on the Telenet system MAIL/USA and to mail to
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it, the format would be [A.MAILBOX/OMNET]MAIL/USA. The following are available
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subdivisions of OMNET:
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AIR Atmospheric Sciences
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EARTH Solid Earth Sciences
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LIFE Life Sciences
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OCEAN Ocean Sciences
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POLAR Interdisciplinary Polar Studies
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SPACE Space Science and Remote Sensing
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The following is a list of DIALCOM systems available in the
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listed countries with their domain and system numbers:
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Service Name Country Domain Number System Number
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Keylink-Dialcom Australia 60 07, 08, 09
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Dialcom Canada 20 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
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DPT Databoks Denmark 124 71
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Telebox Finland 127 62
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Telebox West Germany 30 15, 16
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Dialcom Hong Kong 80 88, 89
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Eirmail Ireland 100 74
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Goldnet Israel 50 05, 06
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Mastermail Italy 130 65, 67
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Mastermail Italy 1 66, 68
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Dialcom Japan 70 13, 14
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Dialcom Korea 1 52
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Telecom Gold Malta 100 75
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Dialcom Mexico 1 52
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Memocom Netherlands 124 27, 28, 29
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Memocom Netherlands 1 55
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Starnet New Zealand 64 01, 02
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Dialcom Puerto Rico 58 25
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Telebox Singapore 88 10, 11, 12
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Dialcom Taiwan 1 52
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Telecom Gold United Kingdom 100 01, 04, 17,
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80-89
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DIALCOM USA 1 29, 30, 31, 32,
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33, 34, 37, 38,
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41-59, 61, 62, 63,
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90-99
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NOTE: You can also mail to username@NASAMAIL.NASA.GOV or
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username@GSFCMAIL.NASA.GOV instead of going through the CMR gateway to
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mail to NASAMAIL or GSFCMAIL.
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For more information and instructions on how to use CMR, send a
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message to the user support group at
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intermail-request@intermail.isi.edu (you'll get basically what
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I've listed plus maybe a bit more). Please read Chapter 3 of The
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Future Transcendent Saga (Limbo to Infinity) for specifics on
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mailing to these destination mailing systems.
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COMPUSERVE
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CompuServe is well known for its games and conferences. It does, though, have
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mailing capability. Now, they have developed their own Internet domain, called
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COMPUSERVE.COM. It is relatively new and mail can be routed through either
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TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU or NORTHWESTERN.ARPA.
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Example: user%COMPUSERVE.COM@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU or replace
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TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU with NORTHWESTERN.ARPA).
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The CompuServe link appears to be a polled UUCP connection at the
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gateway machine. It is actually managed via a set of shell
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scripts and a comm utility called xcomm, which operates via
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command scripts built on the fly by the shell scripts during
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analysis of what jobs exist to go into and out of CompuServe.
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CompuServe subscriber accounts of the form 7xxxx,yyyy can be
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addressed as 7xxxx.yyyy@compuserve.com. CompuServe employees can
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be addressed by their usernames in the csi.compuserve.com
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subdomain. CIS subscribers write mail to
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">inet:user@host.domain" to mail to users on the Wide-Area
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Networks, where ">gateway:" is CompuServe's internal gateway
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access syntax. The gateway generates fully-RFC-compliant
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headers.
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To fully extrapolate -- from the CompuServe side, you would use
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their EasyPlex mail system to send mail to someone in BITNET or
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the Internet. For example, to send me mail at my Bitnet id, you
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would address it to:
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INET:C488869%UMCVMB.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
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Or to my Internet id:
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INET:C488869@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU
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Now, if you have a BITNET to Internet userid, this is a silly
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thing to do, since your connect time to CompuServe costs you
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money. However, you can use this information to let people on
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CompuServe contact YOU. CompuServe Customer Service says that
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there is no charge to either receive or send a message to the
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Internet or BITNET.
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DASNET
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DASnet is a smaller network that connects to the Wide-Area
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Networks but charges for their service. DASnet subscribers get
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charged for both mail to users on other networks AND mail for
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them from users of other networks. The following is a brief
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description of DASnet, some of which was taken from their
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promotional text letter.
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DASnet allows you to exchange electronic mail with people on more
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than 20 systems and networks that are interconnected with DASnet.
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One of the drawbacks, though, is that, after being subscribed to
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these services, you must then subscribe to DASnet, which is a
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separate cost. Members of Wide-Area networks can subscribe to
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DASnet too. Some of the networks and systems reachable through
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DASnet include the following:
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ABA/net, ATT Mail, BIX (Byte Information eXchange), DASnet Network,
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Dialcom, EIES, EasyLink, Envoy 100, FAX, GeoMail, INET, MCI Mail, NWI,
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PeaceNet/EcoNet, Portal Communications, The Meta Network, The Source,
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Telemail, ATI's Telemail (Japan), Telex, TWICS (Japan), UNISON, UUCP, The
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WELL, and Domains (i.e. ".COM" and ".EDU" etc.). New systems are added
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all of the time. As of the writing of this file, Connect, GoverNET,
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MacNET, and The American Institute of Physics PI-MAIL are soon to be
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connected.
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You can get various accounts on DASnet including:
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o Corporate Accounts -- If your organization wants more than one individual
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subscription.
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o Site Subscriptions -- If you want DASnet to link directly to your
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organization's electronic mail system.
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To send e-mail through DASnet, you send the message to the DASnet
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account on your home system. You receive e-mail at your mailbox,
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as you do now. On the Wide-Area Networks, you send mail to
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XB.DAS@STANFORD.BITNET. On the Subject: line, you type the
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DASnet address in brackets and then the username just outside of
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them. The real subject can be expressed after the username
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separated by a "!" (Example: Subject: [0756TK]randy!How's
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Phrack?).
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The only disadvantage of using DASnet as opposed to Wide-Area
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networks is the cost. Subscription costs as of 3/3/89 cost $4.75
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per month or $5.75 per month for hosts that are outside of the
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U.S.A.
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You are also charged for each message that you send. If you are
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corresponding with someone who is not a DASnet subscriber, THEIR
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MAIL TO YOU is billed to your account.
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The following is an abbreviated cost list for mailing to the
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different services of DASnet:
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PARTIAL List DASnet Cost DASnet Cost
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of Services 1st 1000 Each Add'l 1000
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Linked by DASnet (e-mail) Characters Characters:
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INET, MacNET, PeaceNet, NOTE: 20 lines
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Unison, UUCP*, Domains, .21 .11 of text is app.
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e.g. .COM, .EDU* 1000 characters.
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Dialcom--Any "host" in U.S. .36 .25
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Dialcom--Hosts outside U.S. .93 .83
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EasyLink (From EasyLink) .21 .11
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(To EasyLink) .55 .23
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U.S. FAX (internat'l avail.) .79 .37
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GeoMail--Any "host" in U.S. .21 .11
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GeoMail--Hosts outside U.S. .74 .63
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MCI (from MCI) .21 .11
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(to MCI) .78 .25
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(Paper mail - USA) 2.31 .21
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Telemail .36 .25
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W.U. Telex--United States 1.79 1.63
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(You can also send Telexes outside the U.S.)
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TWICS--Japan .89 .47
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* The charges given here are to the gateway to the network. The DASnet
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user is not charged for transmission on the network itself.
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Subscribers to DASnet get a free DASnet Network Directory as well
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as a listing in the directory, and the ability to order optional
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DASnet services like auto-porting or DASnet Telex Service which
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gives you your own Telex number and answerback for $8.40 a month
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at this time.
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DASnet is a registered trademark of DA Systems, Inc.
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DA Systems, Inc. 1503 E. Campbell
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Ave.
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Campbell, CA 95008 408-559-7434
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TELEX: 910 380-3530
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The following two sections on PeaceNet and AppleLink are in
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association with DASnet as this network is what is used to
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connect them to the Wide-Area Networks.
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APPLELINK ~~~~~~~~~ AppleLink is a service of Apple Computer.
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They have their own little network and there are a couple of
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things to know about it.
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First of all, there is an AppleLink-Bitnet Mail Relay which was
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created to "enrich the cooperative research relationship of Apple
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Computer and the higher education community by facilitating the
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electronic exchange of information." Any Bitnet user is
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automatically authorized to use the mail relay as well as all
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AppleLink users.
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To send to AppleLink from Bitnet, your header should be as
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follows:
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To: XB.DAS@STANFORD.BITNET Subject: username@APPLELINK!Hi, how
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are things at Apple?
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The username is the user's ID that you are sending to and the "!"
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separates the DASnet To: field from the real subject.
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To send to Bitnet from AppleLink, your header should be as
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follows:
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To: DASNET Subject: C488869@UMCVMB.BITNET!Please add me to the
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Phrack Subscription List.
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The C488869@UMCVMB.BITNET (my address) is any Bitnet address and
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as above, the "!" separates the address from the subject of the
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message.
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There is one other thing to mention. Apparently, sending to
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username@APPLELINK.APPLE.COM also will perform the same function.
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If this does not work, try routing to
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username%APPLELINK.APPLE.COM@APPLE.COM.
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PEACENET ~~~~~~~~ PeaceNet is a computer-based communication
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system "helping the peace movement throughout the world
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communicate and cooperate more effectively and efficiently,"
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according to their information flier. It is networked through
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Telenet and can be reached via dial-up. To subscribe to this
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service, it costs $10 to sign up. With this sign-up fee, you
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receive a user's manual and a "free" hour of off-peak computer
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time (which is weekday evenings, weekends, and
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holidays). Beyond this, you pay a monthly $10 fee for another
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hour of off-peak computer usage and you pay $5 for additional
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PEAK hour usage. They charge, also, for users who require extra
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space on their system. I guess peace carries a heavy cost in the
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long run! You do get 2 free hours of off-peak time though for
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every additional user you bring to PeaceNet. It is a project of
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the Tides Foundation, a San Franciscan public charity, and is
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managed by 3 national peace organizations (non-profit, of
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course!). Anyway, to join PeaceNet, send your name,
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organizational affiliation, address, city, state, zip code,
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telephone number, and who referred you to PeaceNet as well as
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your credit card number with expiration date (and the name on the
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card if it's different than yours) to PeaceNet, 3228 Sacramento
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Street, San Francisco, CA 94115 or call them at 415-923-0900.
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You can also pay by check but that requires a $50 deposit.
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FIDONET
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FIDONET is, of course, the ever-popular group of IBM bulletin
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boards that made it possible for networking to be incorporated
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into bulletin board systems. FIDONET seems to have a number of
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gateways in the Wide-Area Networks. First of all, it has its own
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domain -- .ifna.org -- which makes it possible to mail right to
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FIDONET without routing through UUCP gateways or whatever. The
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format for this gateway is:
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Username@f<node #>.n<net #>.z<zone #>.ifna.org
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In other words, if I wanted to mail to Silicon Swindler at
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1:135/5, the address would be
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Silicon_Swindler@f5.n135.z1.ifna.org and, provided that your
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mailer knows the .ifna.org domain, it should get through alright.
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Apparently, as of the writing of this article, they have
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implemented a new gateway name called fidonet.org which should
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work in place of ifna.org in all routings. If your mailer does
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not know either of these domains, use the above routing but
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replace the first "@" with a "%" and then afterwards, use either
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of the following mailers after the "@": CS.ORST.EDU or
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K9.CS.ORST.EDU (i.e. username%f<node #>.n<net #>.z<zone
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#>.fidonet.org@CS.ORST.EDU [or replace CS.ORST.EDU with
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K9.CS.ORST.EDU]).
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The following is a list compiled by Bill Fenner (WCF@PSUECL.BITNET) that was
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posted on INFONETS DIGEST which lists a number of FIDONET gateways:
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Net Node Node Name
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104 56 milehi.ifna.org
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105 55 casper.ifna.org
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107 320 rubbs.ifna.org
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109 661 blkcat.ifna.org
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125 406 fidogate.ifna.org
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128 19 hipshk.ifna.org
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129 65 insight.ifna.org
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143 N/A fidogate.ifna.org
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152 200 castle.ifna.org
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161 N/A fidogate.ifna.org
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369 17 megasys.ifna.org
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NOTE: The UUCP equivalent node name is the first part of the node name. In
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other words, the UUCP node milehi is listed as milehi.ifna.org but can
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be mailed directly over the UUCP network.
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Another way to mail to FIDONET, specifically for Internet people, is in this
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format:
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ihnp4!necntc!ncoast!ohiont!<net #>!<node #>!user_name@husc6.harvard.edu
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And for those UUCP mailing people out there, just use the path described and
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ignore the @husc5.harvard.edu portion. There is a FIDONET NODELIST available on
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most any FIDONET bulletin board, but it is quite large.
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ONTYME
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Previously known as Tymnet, OnTyme is the McDonnell Douglas revision. After
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they bought out Tymnet, they renamed the company and opened an experimental
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Internet gateway at ONTYME.TYMNET.COM but this is supposedly only good for
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certain corporate addresses within McDonnell Douglas and Tymnet, not their
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customers. The userid format is xx.yyy or xx.y/yy where xx is a net name and
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yyy (or y/yy) is a true username. If you cannot directly nail this, try:
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xx.yyy%ONTYME.TYMNET.COM@TYMIX.TYMNET.COM
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A subnet of Tymnet is called GeoNet. It is a private X.25-based
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subnet that is operated by the U.S. Geological Survey, a bureau
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of the U.S. Department of the Interior. It supports about 165
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host computers including about 75 USGS Primes, 50 VAXen, and 2
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Amdahls. One of their VAX systems is on BITnet at USGSRESV and
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they have SPAN nodes at IFLAG1.SPAN and EROSA.SPAN.
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THENET
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The Texas Higher Education Network (THEnet) is comprised of many
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of the institutions of higher education in the state of Texas.
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Its backbone network protocol is DECnet. THEnet has recently
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been designated as an NSF regional network, distributing Internet
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Protocol (IP) access over DECnet in some cases and utilizing
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multi-protocol routers in others. THEnet has a NIC (Network
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Information Center) at THENIC.THE.NET and addresses within THEnet
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are probably routed to user@destination.THE.NET.
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UUCP PATHS AND NODE INFORMATION
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Many UUCP Unix nodes have the commands uuhosts and uupath. The
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uuhosts command allows you to receive information about a
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specified UUCP node such as the path, node contact, how it is
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polled for USENET feeds, etc. The uupath command simply tells
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you the path from one UUCP node to another. Well, although at
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this time, this is only good for Bitnet users, this interactive
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message feature is good to know just in case you need to know a
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path to a particular node. For IBM systems using RSCS network
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software, use the command
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SM RSCS CMD PSUVAX1 UUPATH node1 node2 ...
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(For people on VAXen with JNET network software, the format is: )
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(SEND/COMMAND PSUVAX1 UUPATH node1 )
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to receive standard information listed above from the uupath command.
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Multiple nodes can be listed where node1 node2 represent separate UUCP nodes.
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I've found that this can be useful in finding surrounding nodes
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of the destination node in case you have a problem mailing
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through a particular path or node. You can, with this command,
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use alternate routings by specifying them with a "bang-path" that
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will indicate to the UUCP gateway where the message is to be sent
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to next. This is in the format of, say,
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"psuvax1!catch22!msp!taran@UUCPGATE" or whatever where UUCPGATE
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can be any UUCP gateway such as PSUVAX1 or UUNET.UU.NET to name a
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few.
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NICS
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~~~~
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The Network Information Centers (NICs) can be extremely useful in
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figuring out various problems on the networks, such as routings
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or the place at which the node resides, etc.
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BITNIC is the BITnet Network Information Center which is located
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in New Jersey. Its node name is BITNIC.BITNET and it contains a
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|
variety of resources which can be utilized via mail or via direct
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messages from Bitnet users.
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The DATABASE@BITNIC contains lists of all kinds. This database
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|
does not limit itself to information about the networks. It does
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|
contain this information, but also holds various trivialities.
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Send the HELP command either via direct message to
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DATABASE@BITNIC if on Bitnet or send mail to that address
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|
containing the command you wish to perform (i.e. send a message
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saying HELP to DATABASE@BITNIC.BITNET from another network or
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from Bitnet if you're at a node without direct message
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capabilities).
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LISTSERV@BITNIC contains the standard listserver files that you'd
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|
expect to find plus some other interesting ones. I'm not going
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|
to take the time to tutor you, the reader, in using these, so
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|
just send a HELP command the same as you would to DATABASE@BITNIC
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for more information.
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NETSERV@BITNIC is a file server which contains information files
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|
pertaining to various networks that are connected to Bitnet, as
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|
well as files about Bitnet. From here, you can get network node
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|
lists, information files on networks such as SPAN, ARPANET,
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|
NETNORTH, etc. and other network related files. This can be an
|
|
extremely useful resource when you're trying to mail someone at
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|
another network.
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|
The Data Defense Network NIC (DDN NIC) is located at SRI-NIC.ARPA
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|
and has various useful files about the DDN as well as the
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|
Internet.
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|
There are a number of ways to obtain information from the DDN
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NIC. First of all, people on the Internet with the Telnet
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|
capability can Telnet to SRI-NIC.ARPA and perform a number of
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|
procedures from the pre-login screen. First of all, you can get
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|
TAC News updates by typing TACNEWS. The NIC command allows you
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|
to find various facts about the whereabouts of network
|
|
information files, etc. The WHOIS command is probably the most
|
|
useful of these 3. The WHOIS program allows you to find
|
|
addresses for registered users of the networks as well as
|
|
information about networks and nodes on the networks, depending
|
|
on what you ask the WHOIS program for. To find only a certain
|
|
record type, you can use the following specifiers:
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Arpanet DOmain GAteway GRoup HOst IMp
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Milnet NEtwork Organization PSn TAc
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|
To search for a specific field, use the following specifiers:
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|
HAndle or "!" Mailbox or if it contains "@" NAme or a "." leading
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|
These features return whatever information is available from the DDN NIC
|
|
database. If you do not have the capability to use Telnet, mail can be sent to
|
|
SERVICE@SRI-NIC.ARPA with the "SUBJECT:" line containing the following
|
|
commands:
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|
HELP This will send you a help file for using the DDN NIC.
|
|
RFC nnn This sends you a Request For Comments file (where nnn is either
|
|
the number of the RFC file or else is INDEX to list them).
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|
IEN nnn This sends you an Internet Engineering Notes file where nnn is
|
|
the same as above.
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|
NETINFO xxx This feature allows you to get files about the networks where
|
|
xxx is the filename or else the word INDEX for a list of
|
|
available files.
|
|
HOST xxx This returns information pertaining to the xxx host specified.
|
|
WHOIS xxx This is the same as using the WHOIS command from Telnet. For
|
|
details on how to use this, send the WHOIS HELP command on the
|
|
"Subject:" line.
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|
There are other Network Information Centers throughout the networks but as far
|
|
as I know, their abilities are nothing near as powerful as SRI-NIC.ARPA. They
|
|
are the places, though, to mail to for answers concerning those networks if
|
|
you have some question as to the workings of the network or anything else.
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|
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