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- DDN MGT Bulletin 79 DCA DDN Defense Communications System
- 21 Dec 90 Published by: DDN Network Info Center
- SUPERSEDES DDN MGT 70 (NIC@NIC.DDN.MIL) (800) 235-3155
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- DEFENSE DATA NETWORK
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- MANAGEMENT BULLETIN
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- The DDN MANAGEMENT BULLETIN is distributed online by the DDN Network
- Information Center under DCA contract as a means of communicating
- official policy, procedures and other information of concern to
- management personnel at DDN facilities. Back issues may be read
- through the TACNEWS server ("@n" command at the TAC) or may be
- obtained by FTP (or Kermit) from the NIC.DDN.MIL host [192.67.67.20]
- using login="anonymous" and password="guest". The pathname
- for bulletins is DDN-NEWS:DDN-MGT-BULLETIN-nn.TXT (where "nn" is the
- bulletin number).
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- USAGE SENSITIVE BILLING (USB) SERVICE DESK CHANGE
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- In April 1990, DCA established the Usage Sensitive Billing (USB)
- Service Desk at the DDN Network Information Center (NIC). This
- bulletin announces that the USB support service will be merged
- with the ongoing DDN User Assistance services provided by the
- NIC.
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- No change will occur in the level of support provided to DDN users.
- User Assistance (UA) staff will continue to respond to general billing
- questions, as well as specific queries regarding network usage,
- network connections, network traffic volume, dial-up time, network
- addresses, and so on.
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- The main change is that users are now asked to call the NIC
- hotline phone number at 1-800-235-3155, rather than the previously
- announced USB phone number. In addition, the USB support hours have
- been extended to 6 a.m. through 5 p.m., Pacific time.
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- In order to accurately and efficiently respond to billing questions,
- the UA service desk staff will continue to have several sources of
- reference information available.
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- Billing questions can be asked of the UA service desk via telephone,
- electronic mail, or U.S. postal mail. Note that although the toll
- free telephone number is now the same as the NIC hotline phone number,
- the separate electronic mailbox BILLING@NIC.DDN.MIL has been retained.
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- Contacting the Usage Sensitive Billing service:
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- Telephone: 1-800-235-3155 (Monday - Friday, 0600-1700, Pacific time)
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- E-mail: BILLING@NIC.DDN.MIL
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- U.S. Postal Mail: DDN NIC
- SRI International, Room EJ219
- 333 Ravenswood Avenue
- Menlo Park, Ca 94025
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