Email gateway to ALANET

There is now a gateway that allows transfer of electronic mail to and
from ALANET, an email service operated by ALA.  ALANET is one of several
commercial email services that make up Dialcom, a commercial venture
owned and operated by British Telecom.  The CMR (Commercial Mail Relay)
gateway is run by ISI (USC/Information Sciences Institute).  Those of
you who have been around a while may remember that there used to be a
CMR gateway to Dialcom (and hence ALANET) run by ISI under NSF
sponsorship, but it disappeared a while back when NSF pulled the
funding.

Complete instructions for using the gateway are appended below, but for
those of us on the Internet (or Bitnet) side sending mail TO folks on
ALANET is simple: just mail to ALA1234%ALANET [at] INTERMAIL__ISI__EDU (for
ALA1234, substitute the user's actual mailbox).  If you have trouble,
let me know and I'll work with you.

Now that this big user-base is reachable, if any of you know of
conservation/preservation people who have ALANET accounts but not
Internet/Bitnet accounts, please let me know and I will get in touch
with them and try to drag them aboard.

The following is an extract from the file by Westine, Ward, Refuerzo and
Tanner, CMR.INF, an updated version of which is available via the
FileList.  Send requests to <whenry [at] lindy__stanford__edu>

Appendix I

ALANET System (American Library Association) 

ALANET Addresses:

        ALA1234    -- three letters, followed by four digits
        B.Horne    -- initial "."last name


Internet Relay-Style addressing may be used only for INTERNET to ALANET.

    user_name%dialcom_system [at] INTERMAIL__ISI__EDU

    ALA1234%ALANET [at] INTERMAIL__ISI__EDU
    B.Horne%ALANET [at] INTERMAIL__ISI__EDU



The simple forwarding header format can be used from either the
INTERNET or ALANET

Simple forwarding header format INTERNET --> ALANET

    To: INTERMAIL [at] INTERMAIL__ISI__EDU
    Subject: <BLANK LINE>
    Forward: ALANET
    To: B.Horne, ALA1234, ALA5678
    <BLANK LINE>
    Text of Message

In the example above, copies of the message are sent to three ALANET
mailboxes.  Note that in the forwarding information section, the "To:"
field must start at the beginning of the line.  Continuation lines of
the "To:" field must be indented, and addresses must be separated by
commas (not spaces).


Simple forwarding header format ALANET --> INTERNET

    To: INTERMAIL
    Subject: <BLANK LINE>
    Forward: INTERNET
    To: INTERMAIL-REQUEST [at] ISI__EDU, COOPER%ABC.BITNET [at] CUNYVM__CUNY__EDU,
        DEF!LUCY [at] UUNET__UU__NET
    Cc: TRUMAN [at] ISI__EDU
    <BLANK LINE>
    Text of Message


In the example above, copies of the message are sent to three INTERNET
mailboxes with one carbon copy.  The "Cc:" field is optional.  Note
that in the forwarding information section, the "To:" field must start
at the beginning of the line.  Continuation lines of the "To:" field
must be indented, and addresses must be separated by commas (not
spaces).

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