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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Mail links to/from Australia.
Message-ID: <4930@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 10 Jul 89 16:04:15 GMT
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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Let's say I have a friend in Australia, who wants to engage in electronic
mail with me. Let's say, further, that this person is not on Usenet and
can't get on Usenet. What sort of E-mail systems are available in Australia,
and what commercial networks in the US are they gatewayed to?

I've been told that there is a gateway between Midas in Australia and AT&T
mail in the US, but that's all I know of. I'd rather not go with AT&T mail
here because I don't have my own site... and the non-uucp interface to AT&T
mail seems rather primitive.

Is this a real gateway, or is it just a packet network that lets you call AT&T
Mail from Australia a little more cheaply... this obviously won't do. The
AT&T Mail people I spoke to were kind of uncertain, and MCI also mentioned
Midas but referred to it purely as this kind of system.
-- 
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