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- From: djd@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (david.j.daulton)
- Subject: Tell me all you know...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.154202.11567@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:42:02 GMT
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- I am a volunteer at a local 100-acre "metro" park (a regional type of park
- we have in Ohio), called Innis Gardens. It is one of the smallest metro
- parks in the state, but one of the most developed, with natural areas,
- a rose garden, a rock garden, and an herb garden with one of the largest
- collections of thyme in the world.
-
- From time to time I print and pass to the park staff various items from
- rec.gardens, such as postings on dealing with deer problems (a big problem
- in metro parks), and postings on pawpaws and other native plants.
-
- One of the parks's staff members recently asked me how they might go about
- using the park's PC (used to print the volunteer newsletters, to
- keep track of volunteer hours, etc.) to access gardening bulletin boards,
- such as rec.gardens.
-
- And I had to admit, I don't know! I access it simply because I work for
- AT&T, and was able to convince my boss to allocate $100 a year to
- subscribe to "cbnewsg" to I could read the "FrameMaker" (documentation tool)
- newsgroup, to help me with various work-related problems. Rec.gardens was
- just a neat extra.
-
- So my questions is "How would someone with a PC join?" In more detail:
-
- 1. I know they need a modem. How much do they cost? What baud?
-
- 2. How would they be charged? $100 a year, like me, or by the minute?
-
- 3. Who do they contact?
-
- 4. Can they get in through a local whatever, such as Ohio State University,
- (or even here at AT&T?)
-
- 5. I suppose they would want to look at rec.gardens, agro.forestry,
- and bionet.plants, all available through this "cbnewsg". Are there
- services other than cbnewsg that are better for plant info? If so,
- how do you acess them?
-
- Dave Daulton, Columbus, Ohio
-