Re: GEnie via InterNet

[mhackett@vaxxine.com (Michael Hackett)]

In article <3n1qp7$5s2@stork.qut.edu.au>, yeo@wattle.qut.edu.au (Willie
Yeo) wrote:

>       I know there was once a talk on how to access GEnie via
> Telnet to a site to enter SprintNet to connect to GEnie.

Telnet to "hermes.merit.edu".
At the "host:" prompt, enter "sprintnet-313171".

If it works, you'll then get the regular GEnie "U#=" prompt.  I've found
that I can't always get a connection, but if I try a bit later, it
works.  Note that this is only a 7-bit channel, so you can't download
binary files over it.  (If you pay for an account at Merit, you can get
an 8-bit connection, I believe.)

Officially, this is unsupported, but as long as it works, it's saving me
a whole lot of money!  For those outside North America, you could really
save big!

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