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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!emv
- From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: ATTMail to MCIMail and X.400 gateway(?)
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 21:58:17 GMT
- Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- nauen@wrair-emh1.army.mil wrote:
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- : (It's nice to know that MCI and AT&T are not trying to cut costs by routing
- : mail between them via Internet, at someone else's expense.)
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- It's also a shame that MCI and AT&T don't recognize internet mail addresses
- for each other's systems and route them for you via X.400 (or whatever
- transport mechanism they use), rather than making the user learn the
- intricate details of their interconnection mechanism.
-
- Transit of commercial e-mail over the Internet need not be "at someone
- else's expense", either - if there is a preferred routing between the
- two sites that travels over commercial IP networks (e.g. CIX member nets)
- then there is absolutely nothing wrong with "cutting costs" by using
- those facilities.
-
- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
- Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 998 GLOB
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