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From: 0004133373@mcimail.com (Donald E. Kimberlin)
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Subject: Re: MCI Mail Issues Telex Numbers Automatically
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Date: 26 Jan 91 14:57:00 GMT
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In addition to MCI Mail automatically providing each E-Mail user an
international Telex number based on their account number, in fairness
to the competition, we should post that AT&T Mail does the same, as, I
believe, does SprintMail.

The difference will occur in what US international Telex carrier the
numbers come from.  That will make a difference in how the overseas
Telex caller must dial to reach them.  If on MCIMail, their number is
on WUI. On ATTMail, it is FTCC Communications, while the former
Easylink is via WUTCo.  I do not know what carrier SprintMail's deal
is with.

Those who want to use this option (needed for receiving only; you can
transmit to international Telex on all, even without a number) will
want to check to find out how to instruct correspondents to call them.

MCI Mail certainly is smartest about this.  They publish the details
in their instruction book.  With the others, expect the incompetence
we so often suffer.  International Telex is unknown to most Americans
including the "sales" and "customer service" people of too many
locations.