[Rhodes22-list] International Email; reply to Rummy

[Hank]

Ed,

Maybe email can get through from my google mail account.  If you'd like me
to try, I'd be willing to send a test message for you and then, if it works,
I'll send you the invite to get google mail (Gmail).

Hank


On 2/1/06, ed kroposki <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>
> Rummy:
>        Some international email works fine.  Remember that I was in
> Ukraine
> and not Russia.  Ukraine and especially western Ukraine wants out from the
> Russian Bear.
>        Email address that end in the suffix .ua which is the code for
> Ukraine work fine.  However many in Ukraine still must route their
> communications thru Russia, which ends in .ru. The email addresses that
> end
> in .ru do not work in USA. MJM spotted the reason immediately.  That is
> some
> countries are blocked because of SPAM.
>        However, this stops legitimate email users.  MJM suggested trying
> Yahoo, which I am attempting to do.  So far, after two email using Yahoo,
> they have not bounced.  However, I have not received a reply yet.
>
>        Looking back, Michael has a point.  There is one person in Rivne,
> Ukraine that used a Yahoo email that worked, so this may be an
> answer.  Or,
> if they use Yahoo it may not be a problem.  Again, I can communicate to
> some
> anyway just not those who use service going thru Russia.
>        Keep in mind that there are many who are building successful
> internet      access businesses in the Ukraine.  However, they charge
> money.
> Many of      those who I am attempting to communicate with have to use
> local
> public      access, or very inexpensive methods left over from the days of
> the big      bear.
>        Also, the independent providers are moving aggressively.  When I
> went over, my host was Ternopil State Medical University (TSMU).  They
> were
> very proud of their web site.  I told Dr. Kovalchuk, the head of the
> University that the site was good and he had very competent computer
> personnel. However, at that time in the USA, it took several minutes just
> to
> load the home page.   I showed him the baud rate he was using.  I had met
> with a local independent provider of internet access and had measured his
> baud rate at the incoming server.
>        He looked at the speed and said that the problem was going to be
> solved in  6 to 8 weeks.  They were laying optical cable to his servers
> and
> would have optical service speed then.  In fact he knew how many
> kilometers
> of optical cable were installed each day.
>        Obviously, both he, that is the internet provider and Kovalchuk
> were
> on the same page.  A couple of months later, TSMU became a fast access
> site.
> See:  http://www.tdma.edu.te.ua/english/data/general/common.php/
> or: www.ternopilmedicalacademy.com/
>        The home page that takes seconds now, took about 15 minutes last
> year this time.  Also, Kovalchuk was over here in May, I was able to send
> his staff video clips taken in Greenville of him meeting here.
>        If you know of anybody who wants to go to a foreign medical school,
> have them contact me and I can arrange an introduction to the admissions
> staff for TSMU.   It is a competent medical school in need of
> students.  At
> one time they got students from the whole Soviet Union, but get fewer from
> Russia today.  They use the European method of study and now recruit
> students from all over the world.
>        Another interesting thing is that the Ukraine is going into
> elections again.  They will elect every political level, from Parliament
> to
> local.  So expect to hear occasional news reports on that subject.
> If you know anybody who wants to go as a tourist, again I have contacts.
> And I emphasis my contacts are honest who want Ukraine to be seen in the
> best way.  I would say that the costs are very reasonable.  Also, Lvov, in
> western Ukraine has a long history that most of us never heard of.  See:
> http://www.franko.lviv.ua/
>        Again, my problem is only certain email addresses, not all.
>
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC USA
>
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