jdudeck@POLYSLO.CALPOLY.EDU (John R. Dudeck) (02/06/90)
In my previous posting where I asked about the future of X.400 acceptance, I specifically asked questions about Western Union's EasyLink e-mail system and whether it was likely to migrate to an X.400 compliant system in the forseeable future. Interestingly, almost all of the respondents were from Europe, and none of them knew anything about EasyLink. The only US respondents either mentioned AT+T mail which is an X.400 system, or that there are X.400 gateways to EasyLink from other systems. So I still am wondering if anyone knows anything about EasyLink's migration strategies. But rather than beat this one into oblivion, let me ask another question: What is the progress of availability of packet switched public networks and associated E-mail systems worldwide? How long before E-mail is available in say, Bangladesh or Burkina Faso? I understand that in reality packet network access is possible at the level of the local Ministry of Telecommunications, where satellite links are made into these countries, but the problem is the lack either of the will on the part of the Ministries, or the lack of private entrepreneurs to put local commercial packet service into operation. -- John Dudeck "You want to read the code closely..." jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549 Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.