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- From: noah@apple.com (Noah Price)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Locating someone on AppleLink (from the Internet)
- Message-ID: <noah-070193170831@noah.apple.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 01:11:32 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.155352.28308@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <1993Jan4.205307.667@cs.uoregon.edu> <noah-050193102428@noah.apple.com> <1993Jan6.132738.28176@prz.tu-berlin.de> <lsr-060193100446@lsr.taligent.com>
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- In article <lsr-060193100446@lsr.taligent.com>, lsr@taligent.com (Larry
- Rosenstein) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1993Jan6.132738.28176@prz.tu-berlin.de>,
- > pcastine@tubkom.prz.tu-berlin.de (Peter Castine) wrote:
- > >
- > > sure if this was some special service provided by the QuickMail<->AppleLInk
- > > gateway, or if the mail was simply sent on to AppleLink. On the assumption
- >
- > My impression was that this function was provided by the gateway. It would
- > take your request, call up AppleLink and do the find using the AppleLink
- > service.
-
- This is correct. The QM-Link software logs in as you (or as the AppleLink
- account configured for your QM account), performs the search, and sends you
- the result via QuickMail.
-
- In article <1993Jan6.132738.28176@prz.tu-berlin.de>,
- pcastine@tubkom.prz.tu-berlin.de (Peter Castine) wrote:
- >
- >... let me pass on the following tidbit: Subject
- > line 'UserID Search*' (with the asterisk, without the qoutes), content
- > of the message was the search string.
-
- That subject allows the QuickMail MailCenter to recognize the form, but it
- has no meaning to AppleLink.
-
- noah
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