On 09/20/2018 11:06 PM, James Knott wrote:
There were also commercial networks such as Compuserve, Telenet, etc. that did email, but they were all proprietary. The company I worked for provided Telenet in Canada. Even then, it wasn't until 1989 that I used a PC for email.
BTW, back in the 90's there were gateways, to connect from one network to another. For example, I had an account on Compuserve. I couldn't send directly to an Internet email users. As I recall, I had to send to the Internet address via the gateway. When I started at IBM, in 1997, we used Lotus Notes (and PROFS) for email. Intially we had to use a gateway so send email to the Internet, but not long after, it we also got @ibm.com addresses on Lotus Notes. LN also had to be updated to work over IP. Also, if you wanted to send from one proprietary network to another and both were connected to the Internet, you'd need to specify 2 gateways. One to get to the Internet and one to the destination network, from the Internet. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org