==Phrack Inc.== Volume Three, Issue Three, File 4/12

==Phrack Inc.==

Volume Three, Issue 28, File #4 of 12

Network Miscellany

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by Taran King

June 1, 1989

ACSNET

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Australian Computer Science Network (ACSNET), also known as Oz, has its gateway

through the CSNET node munnari.oz.au and if you cannot directly mail to the

oz.au domain, try either username%[email protected] or

[email protected].

AT&T MAIL

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AT&T Mail is a mailing service of AT&T, probably what you might call it's

MCI-Mail equivalent. It is available on the UUCP network as node name attmail

but I've had problems having mail get through. Apparently, it does cost money

to mail to this service and the surrounding nodes are not willing to pick up

the tab for the ingoing mail, or at least, this has seemingly been the case

thus far. I believe, though, that perhaps routing to att!attmail!user would

work.

AT&T recently announced six new X.400 interconnections between AT&T Mail and

electronic mail services in the U.S., Korea, Sweden, Australia, and Finland.

In the U.S., AT&T Mail is now interconnected with Telenet Communications

Corporation's service, Telemail, allowing users of both services to exchange

messages easily. With the addition of these interconnections, the AT&T Mail

Gateway 400 Service allows AT&T Mail subscribers to exchange messages with

users of the following electronic messaging systems:

Company E-Mail Name* Country

------- ------------ -------

TeleDelta TeDe 400 Sweden

OTC MPS400 Australia

Telecom-Canada Envoy100 Canada

DACOM DACOM MHS Korea

P&T-Tele MailNet 400 Finland

Helsinki Telephone Co. ELISA Finland

Dialcom Dialcom USA

Telenet Telemail USA

KDD Messavia Japan

Transpac ATLAS400 France

The interconnections are based on the X.400 standard, a set of guidelines for

the format, delivery and receipt of electronic messages recommended by an

international standards committee the CCITT. International X.400 messages

incur a surcharge. They are:

To Canada:

Per note: $.05

Per message unit: $.10

To other international locations:

Per note: $.20

Per message unit: $.50

There is no surcharge for X.400 messages within the U.S. The following are

contacts to speak with about mailing through these mentioned networks. Other

questions can be directed through AT&T Mail's toll-free number, 1-800-624-5672.

MHS Gateway: mhs!atlas MHS Gateway: mhs!dacom

Administrator: Bernard Tardieu Administrator: Bob Nicholson

Transpac AT&T

Phone: 3399283203 Morristown, NJ 07960

Phone: +1 201 644 1838

MHS Gateway: mhs!dialcom MHS Gateway: mhs!elisa

Administrator: Mr. Laraman Administrator: Ulla Karajalainen

Dialcom Nokia Data

South Plainfield, NJ 07080 Phone: 01135804371

Phone: +1 441 493 3843

MHS Gateway: mhs!envoy MHS Gateway: mhs!kdd

Administrator: Kin C. Ma Administrator: Shigeo Lwase

Telecom Canada Kokusai Denshin Denwa CO.

Phone: +1 613 567 7584 Phone: 8133477419

MHS Gateway: mhs!mailnet MHS Gateway: mhs!otc

Administrator: Kari Aakala Administrator: Gary W. Krumbine

Gen Directorate Of Post & AT&T Information Systems

Phone: 35806921730 Lincroft, NJ 07738

Phone: +1 201 576 2658

MHS Gateway: mhs!telemail MHS Gateway: mhs

Administrator: Jim Kelsay Administrator: AT&T Mail MHS

GTE Telenet Comm Corp Gateway

Reston, VA 22096 AT&T

Phone: +1 703 689 6034 Lincroft, NJ 08838

Phone: +1 800 624 5672

CMR

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Previously known as Intermail, the Commercial Mail Relay (CMR) Service is a

mail relay service between the Internet and three commercial electronic mail

systems: US Sprint/Telenet, MCI-Mail, and DIALCOM systems (i.e. Compmail,

NSFMAIL, and USDA-MAIL).

An important note: The only requirement for using this mail gateway is that

the work conducted must be DARPA sponsored research and other approved

government business. Basically, this means that unless you've got some

government-related business, you're not supposed to be using this gateway.

Regardless, it would be very difficult for them to screen everything that goes

through their gateway. Before I understood the requirements of this gateway, I

was sending to a user of MCI-Mail and was not contacted about any problems with

that communication. Unfortunately, I mistyped the MCI-Mail address on one of

the letters and that letter ended up getting read by system administrators who

then informed me that I was not to be using that system, as well as the fact

that they would like to bill me for using it. That was an interesting thought

on their part anyway, but do note that using this service does incur charges.

The CMR mailbox address in each system corresponds to the label:

Telemail: [Intermail/USCISI]TELEMAIL/USA

MCI-Mail: Intermail or 107-8239

CompMail: Intermail or CMP0817

NSF-Mail: Intermail or NSF153

USDA-Mail: Intermail or AGS9999

Addressing examples for each e-mail system are as follows:

MCIMAIL:

123-4567 seven digit address

Everett T. Bowens person's name (must be unique!)

COMPMAIL:

CMP0123 three letters followed by three or four digits

S.Cooper initial, then "." and then last name

134:CMP0123 domain, then ":" and then combination system and

account number

NSFMAIL:

NSF0123 three letters followed by three or four digits

A.Phillips initial, then "." and then last name

157:NSF0123 domain, then ":" and then combination system and

account number

USDAMAIL:

AGS0123 three letters followed by three or four digits

P.Shifter initial, then "." and then last name

157:AGS0123 domain, then ":" and then combination system and

account number

TELEMAIL:

BARNOC user (directly on Telemail)

BARNOC/LODH user/organization (directly on Telemail)

[BARNOC/LODH]TELEMAIL/USA

[user/organization]system branch/country

The following are other Telenet system branches/countries that can be mailed

to:

TELEMAIL/USA NASAMAIL/USA MAIL/USA TELEMEMO/AUSTRALIA

TELECOM/CANADA TOMMAIL/CHILE TMAILUK/GB ITALMAIL/ITALY

ATI/JAPAN PIPMAIL/ROC DGC/USA FAAMAIL/USA

GSFC/USA GTEMAIL/USA TM11/USA TNET.TELEMAIL/USA

USDA/USA

Note: OMNET's ScienceNet is on the Telenet system MAIL/USA and to mail to

it, the format would be [A.MAILBOX/OMNET]MAIL/USA. The following are available

subdivisions of OMNET:

AIR Atmospheric Sciences

EARTH Solid Earth Sciences

LIFE Life Sciences

OCEAN Ocean Sciences

POLAR Interdisciplinary Polar Studies

SPACE Space Science and Remote Sensing

The following is a list of DIALCOM systems available in the listed countries

with their domain and system numbers:

Service Name Country Domain Number System Number

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Keylink-Dialcom Australia 60 07, 08, 09

Dialcom Canada 20 20, 21, 22, 23, 24

DPT Databoks Denmark 124 71

Telebox Finland 127 62

Telebox West Germany 30 15, 16

Dialcom Hong Kong 80 88, 89

Eirmail Ireland 100 74

Goldnet Israel 50 05, 06

Mastermail Italy 130 65, 67

Mastermail Italy 1 66, 68

Dialcom Japan 70 13, 14

Dialcom Korea 1 52

Telecom Gold Malta 100 75

Dialcom Mexico 1 52

Memocom Netherlands 124 27, 28, 29

Memocom Netherlands 1 55

Starnet New Zealand 64 01, 02

Dialcom Puerto Rico 58 25

Telebox Singapore 88 10, 11, 12

Dialcom Taiwan 1 52

Telecom Gold United Kingdom 100 01, 04, 17,

80-89

DIALCOM USA 1 29, 30, 31, 32,

33, 34, 37, 38,

41-59, 61, 62, 63,

90-99

NOTE: You can also mail to [email protected] or

userna[email protected] instead of going through the CMR gateway to

mail to NASAMAIL or GSFCMAIL.

For more information and instructions on how to use CMR, send a message to the

user support group at [email protected] (you'll get basically

what I've listed plus maybe a bit more). Please read Chapter 3 of The Future

Transcendent Saga (Limbo to Infinity) for specifics on mailing to these

destination mailing systems.

COMPUSERVE

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CompuServe is well known for its games and conferences. It does, though, have

mailing capability. Now, they have developed their own Internet domain, called

COMPUSERVE.COM. It is relatively new and mail can be routed through either

TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU or NORTHWESTERN.ARPA.

Example: user%[email protected] or replace

TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU with NORTHWESTERN.ARPA).

The CompuServe link appears to be a polled UUCP connection at the gateway

machine. It is actually managed via a set of shell scripts and a comm utility

called xcomm, which operates via command scripts built on the fly by the shell

scripts during analysis of what jobs exist to go into and out of CompuServe.

CompuServe subscriber accounts of the form 7xxxx,yyyy can be addressed as

7xxxx.yyyy@compuserve.com. CompuServe employees can be addressed by their

usernames in the csi.compuserve.com subdomain. CIS subscribers write mail to

">inet:use[email protected]" to mail to users on the Wide-Area Networks, where

">gateway:" is CompuServe's internal gateway access syntax. The gateway

generates fully-RFC-compliant headers.

To fully extrapolate -- from the CompuServe side, you would use their EasyPlex

mail system to send mail to someone in BITNET or the Internet. For example,

to send me mail at my Bitnet id, you would address it to:

INET:C488869%[email protected]

Or to my Internet id:

INET:[email protected]

Now, if you have a BITNET to Internet userid, this is a silly thing to do,

since your connect time to CompuServe costs you money. However, you can use

this information to let people on CompuServe contact YOU. CompuServe Customer

Service says that there is no charge to either receive or send a message to the

Internet or BITNET.

DASNET

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DASnet is a smaller network that connects to the Wide-Area Networks but charges

for their service. DASnet subscribers get charged for both mail to users on

other networks AND mail for them from users of other networks. The following

is a brief description of DASnet, some of which was taken from their

promotional text letter.

DASnet allows you to exchange electronic mail with people on more than 20

systems and networks that are interconnected with DASnet. One of the

drawbacks, though, is that, after being subscribed to these services, you must

then subscribe to DASnet, which is a separate cost. Members of Wide-Area

networks can subscribe to DASnet too. Some of the networks and systems

reachable through DASnet include the following:

ABA/net, ATT Mail, BIX (Byte Information eXchange), DASnet Network,

Dialcom, EIES, EasyLink, Envoy 100, FAX, GeoMail, INET, MCI Mail, NWI,

PeaceNet/EcoNet, Portal Communications, The Meta Network, The Source,

Telemail, ATI's Telemail (Japan), Telex, TWICS (Japan), UNISON, UUCP, The

WELL, and Domains (i.e. ".COM" and ".EDU" etc.). New systems are added

all of the time. As of the writing of this file, Connect, GoverNET,

MacNET, and The American Institute of Physics PI-MAIL are soon to be

connected.

You can get various accounts on DASnet including:

o Corporate Accounts -- If your organization wants more than one individual

subscription.

o Site Subscriptions -- If you want DASnet to link directly to your

organization's electronic mail system.

To send e-mail through DASnet, you send the message to the DASnet account on

your home system. You receive e-mail at your mailbox, as you do now. On the

Wide-Area Networks, you send mail to [email protected]. On the Subject:

line, you type the DASnet address in brackets and then the username just

outside of them. The real subject can be expressed after the username

separated by a "!" (Example: Subject: [0756TK]randy!How's Phrack?).

The only disadvantage of using DASnet as opposed to Wide-Area networks is the

cost. Subscription costs as of 3/3/89 cost $4.75 per month or $5.75 per month

for hosts that are outside of the U.S.A.

You are also charged for each message that you send. If you are corresponding

with someone who is not a DASnet subscriber, THEIR MAIL TO YOU is billed to

your account.

The following is an abbreviated cost list for mailing to the different services

of DASnet:

PARTIAL List DASnet Cost DASnet Cost

of Services 1st 1000 Each Add'l 1000

Linked by DASnet (e-mail) Characters Characters:

INET, MacNET, PeaceNet, NOTE: 20 lines

Unison, UUCP*, Domains, .21 .11 of text is app.

e.g. .COM, .EDU* 1000 characters.

Dialcom--Any "host" in U.S. .36 .25

Dialcom--Hosts outside U.S. .93 .83

EasyLink (From EasyLink) .21 .11

(To EasyLink) .55 .23

U.S. FAX (internat'l avail.) .79 .37

GeoMail--Any "host" in U.S. .21 .11

GeoMail--Hosts outside U.S. .74 .63

MCI (from MCI) .21 .11

(to MCI) .78 .25

(Paper mail - USA) 2.31 .21

Telemail .36 .25

W.U. Telex--United States 1.79 1.63

(You can also send Telexes outside the U.S.)

TWICS--Japan .89 .47

* The charges given here are to the gateway to the network. The DASnet

user is not charged for transmission on the network itself.

Subscribers to DASnet get a free DASnet Network Directory as well as a listing

in the directory, and the ability to order optional DASnet services like

auto-porting or DASnet Telex Service which gives you your own Telex number and

answerback for $8.40 a month at this time.

DASnet is a registered trademark of DA Systems, Inc.

DA Systems, Inc.

1503 E. Campbell Ave.

Campbell, CA 95008

408-559-7434

TELEX: 910 380-3530

The following two sections on PeaceNet and AppleLink are in association with

DASnet as this network is what is used to connect00 Finland