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- From: ronda@ais.org (Ronda Hauben)
- Newsgroups: alt.amateur-comp
- Subject: Net.Memory
- Message-ID: <1jsljpINN7aj@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 23:50:17 GMT
- Organization: UMCC
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- Following is an excerpt from the original invitation to
- join Usenet.
- (I think it is from the June 1980 distribution of A-News)
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- Stephen Daniel, James Ellis, and Tom Truscott
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- Duke University
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- A group of UNIX systems at Duke University and the
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, have established
- a uucp-based computer communication network. Admission to
- the net is open to all UNIX licensees. In addition to pro-
- viding the "uu" services available in the Seventh Edition of
- UNIX (remote mail, file transfer, job execution), it pro-
- vides a network news service. A prospective system must
- have a call-in facility, call-out facility, or some other
- means of communication with another UNIX net system. The
- system must have, or be able to legitimately obtain, uucp
- and related software.
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- Systems which do not call-out to the net must be polled
- occasionally. We will poll any system that so requests, and
- will bill the polled system for phone costs. Phone costs
- are typically $10-$20/month. There are no connection fees
- or other charges for using the network. Requests for an
- application should be sent to
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- James Ellis
- Department of Computer Science
- Duke University
- Durham, NC 27706
- Telephone: (919) 684-3048
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- A goal of USENET has been to give every UNIX system the
- opportunity to join and benefit from a computer network (a
- poor man's ARPANET, if you will). New systems will probably
- find that the rapid access newsletter is the initially most
- significant service. Via news (available on the Delaware
- conference distribution tape), any system can submit an
- article which will in due course propagate to all other
- interested systems. Most articles concern bug fixes,
- requests for help, and general information.
- _________________________
- |- UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories.
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