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- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!porthos!navaho!kenton
- From: kenton@navaho.cc.bellcore.com (gidewall,kenton c)
- Subject: Re: freenet
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 04:45:13 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.044513.5123@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- References: <1em1buINNbp9@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <bpn.95.722400751@po.CWRU.Edu>
- Sender: netnews@porthos.cc.bellcore.com (USENET System Software)
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- In article <bpn.95.722400751@po.CWRU.Edu> bpn@po.CWRU.Edu (Brian Nelson) writes:
- >In article <1em1buINNbp9@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bp979@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark D. Rabinowitz) writes:
- >>From: bp979@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark D. Rabinowitz)
- >>Subject: Re: freenet
- >>Date: 21 Nov 1992 19:06:38 GMT
- >>
- >> I have been able to get on the Cleveland Freenet from a gopher
- >>server without being asked for my University of Michigan account.
- >>It involved going through a series of menus to get from the U-M
- >>gopher ("um-gopherblue"--I forgot the telnet number) to the
- >>Michigan State University gopher. The MSU gopher allowed me to
- >>telnet to the Cleveland Freenet. (I'll get the telnet number and
- >>the menus I went through in a message to be posted November 22
- >>or 23.) So getting on a freenet without being asked for some
- >>university or company account depends on what access you have to
- >>a "gopher server"--all the gophers are pretty much interconnec-
- >>ted, so anyone can get to the MSU or U-M gopher with the right
- >>sequence of menus. -Mark Rabinowitz
- >> bp979@cleveland.freenet.edu
- >Nope. if you want access to Cleveland FreeNet, just telnet to freenet-in-a.
- >cwru.edu and apply for an account.
- >
- >Brian Nelson
- >bpn@po.cwru.edu
-
- I think that maybe Mark is asking a different question here. If he isn't,
- I want to ask the one I think he is asking. :-)
-
- Is there a way to telnet to a computer in a different part of the
- country without first getting on to a computer. For example, I want
- my dad to be able to send me mail via Internet, however, he doesn't have
- an account anywhere. I can get him one on the Cleveland Free Net, but
- is there a way for him to access the account from Chicago short of
- dialing it directly long-distance and incurring LD charges?
-
- I know something about what Mark is talking about. I used to go to
- Michigan State and you could do something similar to that with the
- "merit" system. That is some sort of network connecting all Michigan
- .edu computers. I never actually tried it, though, because I already
- had access. Anyways, is there a way to do that?
-
- Kenton Gidewall
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