From: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Minitel (France) Internet mail Gateway?
Date: 23 Dec 1992 16:07:46 +0100
Organization: INSA Informatique, Lyon, France
NNTP-Posting-Host: grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr

In article <1h9tm2INNpka@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ce349@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott M. Kempf) writes:
>The following question has probably been brought up in this newsgroup
>before-- 

As well as in other newsgroups.

>Does anyone know of a E-Mail gateway between the French Minitel
>videotex system and the Internet?...or any other E-Mail system?

From the soc.culture.french.faq, last posted on 19 Dec 1992 16:19:21 +0100
in part1, question 12:

Subject: 12. If at all possible, how can a Minitel get access to Internet ?

[...]
In summary : To be able to exchange mail or data with people in france
first find a machine (or a network) where both of you have access
(at a reasonable price). And if you plan to get one one machine which is on
Teletel you need either a minitel or a modem (remember most american modems
dont do V23) plus an emulation programm for you computer.
There does not yet seem to be a publicly accessible service allowing
to access the Internet. Except by a personnal arrangement with an
organization already connected that would allow you to use their
ressources, you might want to consider an "email-only" solution.
Several seem to be around...
[...]

Subject: 13. How to connect to French Minitel by internet or modem?

[ several points on how to call teletel services from outside of
  France ].

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Note: 1993 might see a few commercial services providing email
      access over a Teletel-accessible service.

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If your site does not have the FAQ anymore on-line and if you did not find
it on a local site:

Subject: 0. Where is this FAQ archived?

As this FAQ is posted in both soc.culture.french and news.answers it is
automatically archived at the sites archiving all other news.answers
articles.  If you can't find the FAQ near your site, you may try the
following:

- If in Europe:
   + By anonymous ftp to grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr [134.214.100.25], get the files
     in the directory /pub/faq/culture-french-faq.
   + By listserv: send the following commands to listserv@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr
       get faq culture-french-faq/part0
       get faq culture-french-faq/part1
       get faq culture-french-faq/part2
     The commands must *not* be in the subject line.

- If in North America:
   + By anonymous ftp to pit-manager.mit.edu [18.172.1.27], get the files
     in the directory /pub/usenet/news.answers/culture-french-faq.
   + By mailserver: send the following commands to
     mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu
       send usenet/news.answers/culture-french-faq/part0
       send usenet/news.answers/culture-french-faq/part1
       send usenet/news.answers/culture-french-faq/part2

- The list of other publicly known archive sites is given in
  the document "Introduction to news.answers" published regularly i
  by Jonathan I. Kamens in news.answers.

-- 
Christophe Wolfhugel    |    Email: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
  "Pour le bien-etre de tous, il est interdit de pisser dans le metro."