[HECnet] What use are *you* making of HECnet?

Steve Davidson wrote: Johnny, Could you expand on the "mail bridge"? That sounds useful. If I remember right, it was/is Robert Armstrong who had that up and running. It basically meant that you could send mail to anyone on the Internet from anyone on HECnet, and vice versa. You just need to know the correct syntax for the mail address. I'll leave it to Robert to expand on this, if he still have the gateway up. I haven't tried it in over a year now. Johnny Thanks. -Steve -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 04:26 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] What use are *you* making of HECnet? Steve Davidson wrote: Hi, I was wondering what use everyone is making of HECnet. My environment (DECnet area 19) has just come up. Johnny and I have done simple tests and everything that we have tried so far seems to work quite well. Comments? For me, I use it a lot to transfer files between my own systems and MIM (and occasionally other systems as well). I occasionally use it for mail to some people as well (once in a while, we even have a mail bridge to the internet, which is fun). And of course, on MIM, there is a guest account for anyone to play. And then I use LAT and MOP a lot, both for printers and terminal sessions. (But I don't bridge LAT to anyone else.) What else...? Hmm, it's a way to keep in touch with other odd people who thinks this kind of stuff is fun. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol