Date: 9 Oct 92 02:00:00 UT
From: JIM.J.MURPHY@gte.sprint.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: GTE Addresses On Outgoing Email 
Organization: TELECOM Digest
X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 768, Message 4 of 12

We will submit future postings to this group with as much information
and complete addresses as we can give.  We're sorry if this caused any
problems, especially to our Moderator.  We thought the message was
more important than the header or other electronic addresses.
 
We've been hooked on TELECOM Digest since it was made available to
through our GTE Telemail service about 1 1/2 years ago.  TELECOM has
been an education to us for many topics, some that were completely
over our head and others that we could relate to.  It's been amusing
and informative, and we even look forward to reading a Higdon
observation.
 
Our access to Internet, or more specifically, to TELECOM Digest, is
through GTE Telemail.  I have the Telemail account that we use.  I
suppose Curt could get an account of his own, but it wouldn't gain us
much.  Let me explain that Curt and I report to the same building for
work.  Curt is a Switching Systems Technician and works on the GTD5
CO.  I am a Facility Maintainer and work outside on deregulated
customer equipment as well as regulated network cable, etc. In this
small town we can work together when the need arises, such as helping
to run some jumpers or testing a cable pair with the CO.

It's natural that we share our TELECOM Digest access.  It would be like
each department having it's own post office box.  We could have a box
for switching, one for service, and another for construction.  In a
large city this might be necessary, but here in rural Iowa it's not.
All the mail for GTE comes to one PO box.  Likewise, we use one Telemail
address.  It's not that we're ill-configured, it's just not needed.
 
We are aware of the Gloria Valle reference and I think theirs is the
same thing on a bigger scale.
 
Since this started out as a comment on our electronic address, I would
like to ask for more information about these things.  How exactly are
we connected with these gateways, why are some addresses so
complicated, how can we access the TELECOM archives from Telemail with
only a dumb terminal, how do you prefer us to address submissions to
this group, what is X.25, X.400, and the hardest question, can you
explain this in beginners terms?  Please reply to this directly to me
so as to not take Pat's valuable time.
 
BTW, even though we are the scourge of the Earth, GTE in this community does
strive to provide customer service.  After all, around here the customers
have our home phone numbers.  They know where we live!
 
 
Jim Murphy      Curt Lammers
AA0JG           SST
 
   Internet - JIM.J.MURPHY@gte.sprint.com
          Telemail - J.J.Murphy
       America Online - Big Daddy8


[Moderator's Note: I'll defer to others to answer your questions about
mail and gateways in more technical detail. My original observation
was only meant to be this: About 90 percent of this Digest is handled
automatically by a computer and software.  The Table of Contents at
the top of each issue is made up from the Subject and From lines in
the articles. I have to go back each time and remove Gloria from the
lines where it appears. If people do not include their actual name at
some point in the article or the header, then I can't always tell for
sure who wrote the piece and have to use just an email address without
a name where the author's name would usually go. If you write from a
GTE site using a generic mailbox name (or anywhere with a similar
situation) please put your actual name in the signature or somewhere
where I will find it. As for GTE people writing to this Digest,
*please continue doing so* -- you are just as welcome as anyone else
here and don't need to clear anything before you send it along.  PAT]