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From: dean@truevision.com (Dean Riddlebarger)
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Subject: Very Long Distance Email ... a Question
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Date: 14 Jun 90 16:21:00 GMT
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One of our employees is about to embark on a fairly long [roughly six
months] stint in Europe, and I'd like him to be able to stay in touch
with the office through our internal email setup.  Line quality issues
notwithstanding, I suppose that I could simply have him dial into the
server from his foreign location and conduct a standard remote login
session.  But I suspect that there should be a better way to handle
this from a cost and efficiency standpoint.

So, for all in the group who are savvy in international telecom: What
recommendations can you make for this situation?  Should I try to find
a foreign server for him, and forward his mail back and forth?  Should
I investigate one of the commercial mail carriers like attmail, again
with a local forward from our site?  Or is direct dial likely to be an
acceptable alternative given the time-frame and expected volume?

I'll summarize email replies.  Thanks.


<:>   Dean Riddlebarger             
<:>   MIS Manager - Truevision, Inc.
<:>   [317] 841-0332                
<:>   uucp: uunet!epicb!dean   dean@truevision.com