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- From: plante@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Mike Plante)
- Subject: Re: FREE worldwide network access in Canada??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.090012.10461@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
- References: <1dqfjfINNhrc@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <g1P5TB1w165w@cithara.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 09:00:12 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <g1P5TB1w165w@cithara.uucp> william@cithara.uucp (William Ross) writes:
- >twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
- >
- >>
- >> Hello all. I just got an email from someone I used to know on a local
- >> BBS who said that he just heard about a service that will be starting up
- >> in Canada called "Free Net". It's supposed to give "anyone with a
- >> computer and a modem" "free worldwide network access and services"....
- >> by this I take it means internet access. Supposedly, the government and
- >> private industry is putting up 200 grands to get this going and it's
- >
- >Hmmm, That sounds good, though I wonder what the folks at Performance
- >Systems would have to say? Just got off the telephone with my
- >brother-in-law in B.C and he remarked that virtually everything on the
- >West Coast, bbs and usenet wize, is a pay as you go thing, a sad state of
- >affairs indeed. I'd certaily like to know more about *Freenet* comming
- >to Canada and is it connected with the Freenet organization that
- >operates out of Cleveland in the good ol U.S.A?
- >
- >
-
- The Victoria Freenet Association will be having their official opening on
- November 17th. The system is currently running and being setup. It's a
- SPARCstation-2 (donated by Sun Canada) and currently housed by Camosun
- College, and uses their Internet connection. The Freenet will offer free
- e-mail to the Internet and Usenet access. Other services are planned and
- will be incorporated into the user menu system.
-
- For more information on the Victoria Freenet send e-mail to:
-
- vifa@freenet.victoria.bc.ca
-
-
- --Mike
-
- Mike Plante, Systems/Network Services,
- Camosun College
- plante@camosun.bc.ca
-