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- From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.org.sug
- Subject: Re: Mail-Server
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 22:48:10 GMT
- Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Steve Simmons (scs@iti.org) wrote:
- :
- : Mail parks in general are a good thing. We've had workshops on them at
- : the LISA conferences the last two years; it was quite disappointing to
- : see that some of the same folks from the first workshop came to the
- : second but hadn't made one. As a commercial provide I should probably
- : regard that as a Good Thing, but I'd hoped for more action.
-
- Steve, you know this is one of those things that national user
- groups who have local affiliates (e.g. Sun Local User Groups, Usenix
- local technical groups, etc) could really push for. For one thing,
- it's the sort of endeavor that is likely lead to a metro area IP
- network (a la RAIN), and it's also the sort of effort that makes
- a Freenet or other public access Unix seem to have a chance to take
- off. Both of those sort of environments are real good ones to make
- for effective organization of user groups.
-
- Michigan I guess is pretty exceptional; there's sort of three domain
- parks running in parallel, a <host.city.mi.us> collection, a <host.mi.org>
- collection, plus Michigan User Group members can get a <host.mug.org>
- address as part of their membership dues. My rough count is six or seven
- machines ready to MX in one way or another, ranging from best-effort free
- at universities to small one-time fee (for people attached through another
- Msen customer who's willing to carry the traffic) all the way to people
- still calling out of state to hit UUNET.
-
- From the commercial side of things, Steve, I'd say that the lack of a mail
- park would be a Bad Thing if I was thinking about starting up a business
- in the area. Free services are great for getting people up to speed, making
- sure there's lots of skilled labor in the area, keeping your for-pay service
- honest, and generally upping the expectations that people have about how their
- mail should work. Now just off the top of my head I can think of
- Michigan .mi.org, .mi.us
- Minnesota .mn.org
- Oregon (RAIN)
- Texas .lonestar.org
- Chicago, IL .chi.il.us
- in the US that have functioning parks going, plus
- Germany .sub.org, .open.de, IN
- Italy .sublink.org
- and no doubt plenty of others around. *Not* everywhere tho.
-
- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
- Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 998 GLOB
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