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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: 8 Sep 92 20:35:16 GMT
- From: backon@vms.huji.ac.il
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Disaster Reporting On Usenet
- Message-ID: <telecom12.698.7@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- In article <telecom12.690.4@eecs.nwu.edu>, tls@panix.com (Thor
- Lancelot Simon) w rites:
-
- > Perhaps it's worth bringing this up somehow with an appropriate
- > organization such as the Red Cross? What'd it take, a 386 box in
- > their national headquarters to run things from? Probably worth the
- > money!
-
- > [Moderator's Note: Actually, it would be quite easy. If someone wants
- > to donate the 386 and the required UUCP software, I'd set it up in the
- > Chicago Red Cross or else my own office. PAT]
-
- The National Headquarters of the American Red Cross in Alexandria VA
- seems to be on the Internet as: red-cross.org
-
- If I'm not mistaken, I think there *is* a BITNET/Internet moderated
- list on network emergency response planning called HELPNET which I
- think is available from Listserv@ndsuvm1
-
-
- Josh backon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL
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