roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (02/08/90)
One of our users asked me yesterday if he could send a telex using
electronic mail. I told him I didn't think it was possible but would look
into it. So, folks, is it possible? To be honest, I'm not 100% sure how
telex, TWX, and telegrams differ, but it sure seems like it should be
possible to set up a telex-SMTP gateway (with appropriate billing details
taken care of, I suppose). This guy says that in many parts of the world
(in particular, India, where he wants to communicate with) telex is the
most popular form of communication there is.
--
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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"My karma ran over my dogma"johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) (02/09/90)
In article <1990Feb8.145213.8264@phri.nyu.edu> roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: > One of our users asked me yesterday if he could send a telex using >electronic mail. ... Most of the email vendors, including at least MCI Mail, Easylink, and Compuserve, offer telex gateways to their subscribers. MCI Mail and Easylink also assign telex numbers for incoming telexes -- if you send a telex to 6501037498 it will end up in my MCI Mail mailbox. I have also seen a few mail to telex gateways in the uucp world; Interactive Systems used to have one and still may at their Santa Monica office for their internal use. I doubt that you'll find anyone who lets you pass random messages from the Internet to telex, since telex messages cost considerable amounts of real money, several dollars per minute for international calls at only 60 or 75 characters per minute. -- John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650 johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {ima|lotus|spdcc}!esegue!johnl "Now, we are all jelly doughnuts."