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Re: Anyone heard of SAPONET?

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From: Chris Pinkham
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 06:58
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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 X.25 network. It has links
into X.25 networks overseas, and you should be able to reach any
SAPONET DTE address from any established X.25 network your way.

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

Not directly on the Intenet, but a number of universities, research
organisations (under the umbrella of a networking body called Uninet),
and private organisations (through the local UUCP network) have
access to mail and news. There is a ZA domain registered, and 
subdomains of that domain are starting to appear all over the place.
-- 
Chris Pinkham			Internet: pinkham@ucthpx.uct.ac.za
Systems Programmer		UUCP:     ...!m2xenix!quagga!ucthpx!pinkham	
University of Cape Town	
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From: pinkham@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Chris Pinkham)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone heard of SAPONET?
Message-ID: <1991Mar05.065856.8316@ucthpx.uct.ac.za>
Date: 5 Mar 91 06:58:56 GMT
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