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- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 05:42 GMT
- From: Tansin A. Darcos & Company <0005066432@mcimail.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Question on How to Get Internet Domain Access
- Message-ID: <telecom12.688.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- I don't have the kind of access to Internet that allows me to find out
- where to find this out, so I'll ask it here.
-
- I'd like to find out two things, which I've heard can be done, the
- problem is in finding them:
-
- 1. I have heard there are some sites that will register a domain(s)
- on Internet for anyone who needs DNS; does anyone know who that is or
- where to write? (I have MCI Mail which means I have mail access only
- to Internet; I do not have Telnet or News Group access. I need to
- know either the address to post a message to, or the place to ask.)
-
- 2. Does someone know of a low-cost access to send mail into and
- receive mail from Internet marked with user addresses within a domain
- name that one registers with the Internet Network Information Center?
- UUNET Technology of Falls Church, VA wants $30 a month plus $3 an
- hour; Digital Express of Greenbelt, MD, will provide internet access
- for $15 a month with 1 hour a day free and $1 for each additional
- hour; this would be {perfect} except that for them to add a domain
- they want at least 50 accounts on that domain!
-
- All I want is some place to handle taking some messages from BBS
- users, the way Fidonet does. (I don't want to use the "fidonet.org"
- domain as I am trying to arrange something for people who are not on
- Fidonet sites.)
-
- I'd like to find a way to do something for around $10 a month against
- $1 an hour or so, that will simply "dump" any mail sent to the
- domain(s) I use (if I have to purchase a separate account for each
- domain that's acceptable). I'm trying to do this on a shoestring
- budget. It's for transfer of some newsgroups and mail that are
- running on some non-internet networks, to allow their newsgroups to
- migrate into internet and allow Internet mail (and possibly Internet
- news groups) to migrate down to them. The networks are running on
- ordinary computer BBSs run by individuals. If the cost is low enough,
- I can foot the bill out of my own pocket as my attempt to contribute
- to something I get a lot of enjoyment out of. If the cost is higher,
- then I'll have to find out if the sysops who run these boards want to
- participate.
-
- Something in me says I should try to find out if the sysops who are
- providing this service to users are willing to foot the bill for this
- (or get the users themselves to pay for it.) I probably will do that,
- but what I'd like to do is find out what the best cost I can get for
- this service is. (BBS users are notoriously cheap and it's very hard
- to get them to pay much, if anything.) If it's low enough, I can
- "salami slice" the charges out to the individual BBSs that want it,
- (or if it's low enough, to all of them) and they don't have to pay a
- tremendous amount for this capability.
-
- The point is that trying to explain to someone who has never been
- online the benefits involved in it is difficult. To explain to people
- who use non-networked BBSs the benefits of networking is difficult.
- To explain to people on networks the advantages of being part of
- Internet is also difficult. (I am currently taking the APL ('A
- Programming Language') news list which is sent to me as Internet mail,
- so that a local BBS which is related to APL can take this material;
- the sysop never realized that when he had some books about APL to sell
- for those who'd want them, that he could have me post a message on the
- Internet APL news list. (I had to suggest it to him, and several
- people on the list were very interested.) Until you see the internet
- as a resource, you can't know the value of having it.)
-
- I also have to include in whatever it "costs" to get this, the costs
- to get to the material. If I can get free access to Internet to use a
- domain name, but I've got to call a site in Alaska, (I'm currently in
- the Washington, DC area) that's not much help.
-
- I will appreciate any information that anyone here can pass on to me.
-
-
- Paul Robinson: TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM or 0005066432@MCIMAIL.COM
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