0002293637@mcimail.com (Krislyn Companies) (01/23/91)
Our esteemed Moderator comments .... >[Moderator's Note: There are numerous services which include telex >sending and receiving capabilities. Three which come to mind here in >the USA are MCI Mail, AT&T Mail, and Sprintmail (we used to call it >Telemail). All three are electronic mail services which will assign a >telex number to a mailbox on request, and accept outgoing telexes. Just a small technical correction ... MCI Mail subscribers don't have to request a telex number - they get one automatically. It's 650 + the seven-digit MCI ID. Paul Wilczynski Krislyn Computer Services MCI Mail Agency
0004133373@mcimail.com (Donald E. Kimberlin) (01/26/91)
In addition to MCI Mail automatically providing each E-Mail user an international Telex number based on their account number, in fairness to the competition, we should post that AT&T Mail does the same, as, I believe, does SprintMail. The difference will occur in what US international Telex carrier the numbers come from. That will make a difference in how the overseas Telex caller must dial to reach them. If on MCIMail, their number is on WUI. On ATTMail, it is FTCC Communications, while the former Easylink is via WUTCo. I do not know what carrier SprintMail's deal is with. Those who want to use this option (needed for receiving only; you can transmit to international Telex on all, even without a number) will want to check to find out how to instruct correspondents to call them. MCI Mail certainly is smartest about this. They publish the details in their instruction book. With the others, expect the incompetence we so often suffer. International Telex is unknown to most Americans including the "sales" and "customer service" people of too many locations.
wrs@mcshh.hanse.de (Wolfgang R. Schulz) (01/30/91)
0002293637@mcimail.com (Krislyn Companies) writes: >Just a small technical correction ... MCI Mail subscribers don't have >to request a telex number - they get one automatically. It's 650 + >the seven-digit MCI ID. And even better: if you are at some odd place where you have no phone line nor a computer handy, you can access your MCI mailbox through telex, just dial 6700 or 650-0000000. And there you are. Wolfgang R. Schulz Hamburg-Germany wrs@mcshh.hanse.de * wrs@mschh.UUCP * 0002412526@mcimail.com ...unido!mcshh!wrs * No BTX (German Videotex) address anymore