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From: hardarso@currituck.cs.unc.edu (Kari Hardarson)
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Subject: Re: What Is Telex? Is There an E-Mail Interface?
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Date: 3 Jul 90 19:17:43 GMT
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If I want to send someone a telex message from Usenet, is there a
service that will do it for me?  If it has to be Easylink, how do I
get in touch with them from the net? Are there alternatives? (I used
to access a U.K. service called One-to-one from X.25, I wouldn't mind
accessing them from the net either). Thanks to anyone who might reply.


Kari Hardarson         
217 Jackson Circle     
Chapel Hill, NC 27514  


[Moderator's Note: Since Usenet is a 'free' service, and telex
messages require payment, there is no direct connection where someone
will take your message here and convert it to telex. There were a
couple of sneak approaches using the gateway between Internet and AT&T
Mail, but the discovery of this abuse was one reason AT&T Mail clamped
down on accepting Internet traffic. You can obtain a telex number for
incoming telex stuff from AT&T Mail or MCI Mail. You can use either of
those services to send telex messages, at a surcharge. You can do the
same via GTE/Sprint Telemail. You would then send the message from
what you termed a 'Usenet' site to your own account at MCI or AT&T
Mail, and on its arrival there, forward it to a telex address
yourself, at the prevailing rate for the service, billed to your
account on the commercial email service.  PT]