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From: barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P. Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone heard of SAPONET?
Message-ID: <1991Mar04.185613.17354@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>
Date: 4 Mar 91 18:56:13 GMT
References: <1991Mar2.094310.23147@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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In article <1991Mar2.094310.23147@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>,
s873561@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Michael Barnett) writes:
> A friend has recently arrived from South Africa, and wants to know if
> it is possible to get through to SAPONET from Internet.  Can anyone
> help me?

SAPONET is the South African Post Office's X.25 network (network number
6550 in the international X.25 scheme of things).  Many Internet systems
have X.25 connections, and can therefore send X.25 packets to systems on
SAPONET.  Whether or not that would be useful to your friend is a
different question altogether.  What is it that he *really* wants to do?

> Also, are there any South African (or anywhere in Africa for that
> matter) sites on Internet?

I don't know of any in Southern Africa, though it is possible that some
multinational companies have their African branch offices connected up
over IP, but keep such information to themselves.

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
Internet: barrett@ee.und.ac.za (or %ee.und.ac.za@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu)
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