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From: WANCHO@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (Frank J. Wancho)
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Subject: Re: What is a "Cable Address"?
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Hmm.  I was under the now probably mistaken impression that cablegrams
had a slightly different connotation from telegrams.  Cablegrams were
a special category of telegrams that sent to overseas destinations via
undersea cable, rather than simply by wire (or wireless).  Thus, a
large corporation, such as a shipping firm, might have had two
addresses, one for telegrams, and one for cablegrams, i.e., a cable
address.

Frank


[Moderator's Note: The main difference, I think, was that 'cablegrams'
were telegrams going to overseas destinations on the cable. But a
network address via the cable was not a cable address. As per messages
in recent issues, a cable address was simply an abbreviated form of
the address for any subscriber who wanted to pay extra for the ease in
addressing and/or advertising value of the phrase.  PAT]