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- From: SHALEV@HUJIVMS.BITNET (Michael Shalev)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
- Subject: Attention Network Users!
- Message-ID: <NOTABENE%92101509225470@TAUNIVM>
- Date: 15 Oct 92 07:23:00 GMT
- Sender: Nota Bene List <NOTABENE@TAUNIVM.BITNET>
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- Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
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- Since not a few of the interventions on this list are (usually pleasantly)
- unrelated directly to NB stuff, I venture to exploit your good fellowship
- with a rather general query about the uses and abuses of working on LANs
- in a university environment. I urge anyone who has already had this experience
- to read on, and share their thoughts with me. Unless you feel the subject
- is of general interest, please write directly to me at SHALEV@HUJIVMS
- (add .bitnet if you're at an Internet-only site). I could post a summary of
- what I receive at a later date.
- Now, to the point of all this. Our very conservative university, in which
- computing has long been held in a stranglehold by heavy mainframe users in
- the "exact" sciences, has finally undertaken to equip the Social Science
- Faculty with an ethernet network (although we shall all have to pay
- non-trivial hookup and annual usage fees for the pleasure!). The network
- will offer two kinds of access, independent of one another: the possibility
- of using software and copying files to and from a Novell server; and a TCP
- connection that will allow us to use Telnet and FTP on other sites (including
- library catalogs and, when it buys the hardware, a CD-Rom server in our
- own library). [Fellow political economists note: although this technology
- COULD allow us to establish personal Internet addresses on the server, we
- will be obliged to keep doing e-mail via the existing mainframes. Wonder
- why...]
- My own interest in what we do with these new facilities is not only personal
- (how will it make my life easier and better; or worse?). I am the chair of
- the faculty's Computing Committee, which is responsible for making grants
- to departments to aid in the purcahse of hardware and software. I want to
- develop a Marshall Plan that will encourage departments to exploit the
- potential of the ethernet infrastructure to the maximum. In your experience,
- what should be the top priorities?
- In addition, any pitfalls and useful tips regarding putting our NB4 onto
- the server (assuming it becomes real-live-ware here some day) would be
- much appreciated.
- Thanks a lot. ...Michael
-