Return-Path: Received: from CMU-CS-IUS.ARPA by CMU-CS-A.ARPA; 20 Apr 85 16:55:30 EST Date: Saturday, 20 April 1985 16:52:32 EST From: Peter.Highnam@cmu-cs-ius.arpa To: Bovik@cmu-cs-a.arpa Subject: Communicating with (IBM) VNet users. Message-ID: <1985.4.20.21.45.3.Peter.Highnam@cmu-cs-ius.arpa> I'd heard that the only way to get to a user on the IBM Corporate Job Net (or VNet !!) was via csnet-relay and so I sent mail to the administration of that host, eliciting the following (satisfactory) recursive response. Note: You must make sure that the person with whom you wish to communicate (within IBM) is registered at their side of the gateway (see below). The person in charge of this registration process is Sten Andler, (andler.SJRLVM1%IBM-SJ@csnet-relay.arpa). Ptr. - - - - Begin forwarded message - - - - Received: from CSNET-SH.ARPA by CMU-CS-IUS.ARPA; 23 Aug 84 15:23:38 EDT Date: Thu, 23 Aug 84 15:01:19 EDT To: pth@cmu-cs-ius.arpa cc: cic@csnet-sh.arpa, breeden@csnet-sh.arpa Subject: CSNET-VNET communications From: Laura Breeden Peter, Your inquiry was forwarded to the CSNET Coordination and Information Center here at BBN. We are under contract to provide user information (among other things!) for CSNET. I am attaching a message from David Alpern at IBM explaining the registration process. As you can see, your correspondent within IBM needs to be a registered user so that the IBM gateway will accept mail for him or her. Contact David directly for more information. If we can be of additional help, let us know. Laura Breeden CSNET CIC User Liaison ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Date: Wed, 27 Jun 84 13:19:36 PDT From: David Alpern To: Ron Natalie cc: "Kyle D. Henriksen" , info-nets%mit-oz@Mit-Mc Subject: Re: IBM internal mail network Ron, et al., I assume you received my message last week, so I won't repeat it. If you didn't, please let me know and I'll mail you a copy privately. But to try to clear up a misconception: IBM's VNET (or CJN - Corporate Job Network) has mail gateways set up to both CSNET and BITNET. A person within IBM needs to register, with various approvals, in order to either get or receive mail. Once (s)he's registered, mail can freely flow in either direction, to anyone outside. It's not generally necessary that the outsider be registered as well; this is only true of the old BITNET gateway at Cambridge. The new one at Yorktown, and the CSNET gateway, do not have this restriction. In general, people from the Research Division (Yorktown, San Jose, Zurich) and the Scientific Centers stand a pretty good chance of being registered, others within IBM probably aren't. If you wish to try to reach someone, you need to know their userid and host name within IBM. Then try: USERID.HOST%IBM-SJ@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA This will either get through, or get you an automatically sent message informing you that the IBMer you are trying to reach needs to register. The CSNET gateway can support any registered IBMer on any internal machine, the BITNET gateway at Yorktown can handle mail to only those hosts at Yorktown (YKTVM*) and San Jose (SJRLVM*) that are in the CUNY BITNET (RSCS) node table. - Dave David Alpern IBM San Jose Research Laboratory, K65/282 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, CA 95193 Phone: (408) 284-6521 Internet: Alpern%IBM-SJ@CSnet-Relay.ARPA Alpern@SJRLVM4.BITNET - - - - End forwarded message - - - -