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From: cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan)
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Subject: Re: What is a "Cable Address"?
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In article <10932@accuvax.nwu.edu>, The Moderator writes (in a note):

>Orchestra). This was all 1950/60-ish stuff. I did not know they were
>still making them available. I guess any telex carrier can do it.  In
>your example, you would call Western Union and tell the operator to
>send a message to the cable address "Broadcasts". That is, *IF* s/he
>even knows what you are talking about! :)  PAT]

Cable addresses are alive and well.  To contact a friend of mine in
Western Samoa, for instance, the procedure is to either cable UNDEVPRO
APIA (the U.N. Development Program office in Apia, the capital of
W.S.), or failing that, to cable AGGIES APIA (Aggie Grey's Hotel in
Apia).  I'm not quite sure what "failing that" means in this context,
unless it means that the UNDEVPRO machine is off-line or busted -- not
unlikely in W.S. conditions. 


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