telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) (01/02/91)
Over the New Year's holiday, AT&T announced that AT&T Mail is being merged with Easy Link, the older email / message service offering from Western Union, which was recently bought by AT&T. I'll provide more details here as I get them, but it appears the two services may be operated as one in the near future. I think that will be great when they get the merger complete, because Easy Link has always offered many good services not presently available from AT&T Mail, such as interactive, real time conversation with telex / twx machines, and the FYI News Service. All of the Western Union sales staff is now being relocated into AT&T quarters, and the new phone number for inquiries is 1-800-321-MSGS. Patrick Townson