[73] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
[TLIMONCE%ASGARD@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU: Re: competition [answer to the question]]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bob@MorningStar.Com)
Wed Oct 31 16:12:13 1990
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 90 15:48:26 EST
From: bob@MorningStar.Com
To: karl@cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Cc: tlimonce@asgard.BITNET (Tom Limoncelli), com-priv@psi.com
Karl, the Compu$erve gateway's author, can check me on this one...
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 90 14:53 EST
From: "Tom Limoncelli @ Drew University" <TLIMONCE%ASGARD@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 90 13:54:58 EST
From: bob@MorningStar.Com
services without involving the Internet at all. Some links (e.g.
Compu$erve to ATTmail) don't exist because they would need to cross
the Internet and are explicitly blocked by implementations of the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
acceptable-use policies. Perhaps someday Compu$erve will get a UUCP
link to ATTmail and "acceptable use" will be a non-problem.
(...or perhaps they'll all wire into PSI or AlterNet or CERFnet...)
Compu$erve has a link to the internet. ATTMail has a link to the
internet. I thought you'd be able to use the internet link the
two. Are you sure about blocking?
Oops, I was wrong. Only traffic to and from MCImail and DASnet are
blocked from traversing the Internet before or after passing through
the Compu$erve gateway. Such a message is be met with a bounce-o-gram
containing the following politely-worded slap on the wrist:
The enclosed note was blocked by the Internet/CompuServe mail
gateway; delivery has not been attempted to any of the
intended recipients. It is against the policies of the FRICC
(Federal Research Internet Coordinating Committee) to allow
use of the Internet as an intermediate transport between two
non-Internet entities. Please address further queries
regarding this restriction to postmaster@compuserve.com. Note
that, for MCI destinations in particular, it is possible to
send mail from CompuServe addressed to
">MCIMAIL:mci-username."
It seems that there's already a private link from Compu$erve to
MCImail, like the one I had postulated with ATTmail. I don't know why
ATTmail or others besides DASnet or MCImail might be excepted from the
filter. Or perhaps I'm simply missing something, God knows that
gateway's a twisted, ugly beast to behold :-)
