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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:48:13 CST
- Sender: "Campus-Wide Information Systems" <CWIS-L@WUVMD.BITNET>
- From: Don Riley <drriley@MAILBOX.MAIL.UMN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Justification for CWIS
- Comments: To: CWIS-L@WUVMD.Wustl.Edu
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- In message <199211102159.AA24426@mail.unet.umn.edu> "Campus-Wide Information
- Systems" writes:
- > > But I just wonder how many of the units that might be in a
- > >position to supply cwis-able information--schedules of events, notices of
- > >meetings, whatever--would be in a position to "gopher-ize" that
- > >information themselves. Perhaps someday, but it might be that the way to
- > >package a CWIS right now is as a way-station on the path to a network
- > >where information is exchanged desktop-to-desktop, with little in the way
- > >of "central" information services.
- > > Good luck.
- > >--
- > >FROM - Charles Forrest VOICE 404-727-0137
- > > Woodruff Library FAX 404-727-0805
- > > Emory University BITNET libcgf@emoryu1
- > > Atlanta, GA 30322 INTERNET libcgf@unix.cc.emory.edu
- >
- > In fact, this is what a gopher server on the back end of a
- > Macintosh can do today. So it is possible to publish a local
- > CWIS, and connect to others everywhere with gopher.
- >
- > Steve Cook, Computing Coordinator
- > College of Letters and Science, UC Santa Barbara
- > Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- > cook@bluemoon.ucsb.edu 805 893-4753
-
- Exactly. PLUS one of the beauties of Gopher is that Gopherizing is fairly
- simple to accomplish. You do not have to be a computer whiz to gopherize. That
- is one of the reasons why it has caught on so fast.
-
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