I had an interesting conversation with another HA (which shall be nameless!)
where my contact indicated that they had to tell their network manager who they
expected to receive email from (with justifications!);  my email address has
now been added to the 'approved' list.  I suspect there is a perceived need to control 
volume of email to and from the NHSnet - because it is SO expensive!

Sheila

-----Original Message-----
From:	Adrian Midgley [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:	Wednesday, March 18, 1998 10:52 AM
To:	[log in to unmask]
Subject:	Re: NHS domain names

>From: TreforR <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: NHS domain names
>Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 03:23:50 EST
>
>In a message dated 17/03/98 12:09:05 GMT, you write:
>
><< 
> Mind you, if he has the same connection that N&E Devon have to NHS 
> Net, telephoning may be safer.  e-mails to N&E Devon simply bounce.  
>>
>
>I had a reply within 24 hours as follows;
>
>
><<The structure for nhs.uk domains is <org label>.<region>.nhs.uk
>
>
>Navin Solanki
>Networking Address Manager
>NHS Telecommincations Branch

Sorry, I may not have made myself clear.
e-mails from 

people using a variety of ISPs other than the NHSNet 
(which has not been made available to us regardless of anything 
else, so the LMC will be using outside providrers for a year or two 
whatever the future holds)

to

people we know in N&E Devon HA 
addressed by e-mail addresses which have sporadically worked in the 
past such as 

[log in to unmask]   Di Knighton the locality 
manager

[log in to unmask] teh prescribing adviser
and the (assumed address here of the pro tem acting IT manager)
[log in to unmask]

Bounce back to us three days later with a message about non-delivery 
which appears to originate in the NHSNet, and certainly not in the 
SMTP network at CIX or SWIS or Enterprise

A practice near me which was running an NHS demonstration project 
produced originally by the FHS CU and called White Box to give them 
comms to the HA, and COmmunity Trust, and lab results from the acute 
trust, have switched it off because it doesn't work anymore - it is 
based on Microsoft Exchange and the server is in the HA.

Basically there is something _very_ wrong there, and it doesn't seem 
to be getting fixed, nor does it bode well for the future 
reliability of NHS Net as a means for GPs to communicate.  We had 
similar reliability troubles a couple of years ago, and Alan Pewsey 
(recently departed to sell cable for Eurobell) seemed to fix it.  

A subsidiary issue, and one which demonstrates the critical need for 
encryption of clinical messages, is that a copy of the whole message 
goes to the vague and shadowy individual identified as 
nhspostmaster...

So, can anyone communicate with N&E Devon by e-mail?  Their NHS Net 
connection is a model for us all to observe, I think.
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