Patrick_A_Townson@cup.portal.com (07/09/88)
Henry Mensch asks if there is any routing to Datex-P other than via Telenet. You can always direct dial to their dial up number in one of the cities over there. But calling direct to their dialup is alot more expensive than Telenet. I really never thought Telenet was that bad on their rates. There was mention someplace, several months ago, of a gateway between MCI Mail and Datex-P, where a mailbox on MCI would actually function as a gateway to a specific user on Datex-P. I am not sure of the specifics, but the idea was, you would address the message to this box, and then the first two lines of the message itself had to be formatted a certain way where you would say FORWARD: and the name and box number of the Datex-P user. It would have been alot like the existing gateway between ARPA and MCI Mail which operates in that format now, but I don't think the one with Datex-P has gone beyond the talking stages yet.