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 VOLUME 3 NUMBER 2                                         NOVEMBER 29, 1985
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 A weekly list of file servers, conference machines and electronic magazines
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³Please send additions, deletions and requests to get on the mailing list to³
³                        Chris Condon, BITLIB@YALEVMX                       ³
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³ Active file servers:                                                      ³
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BITSERVE  @ CUNYVM   - City University of New York
CANSERVE  @ CANADA01 - University of Guelph
CSNEWS    @ MAINE    - University of Maine
FORUM     @ BITNIC   - Bitnet Support Center
KERMSRV   @ CUVMA    - Kermit Users Server, Columbia University
LFCNET    @ ICNUCEVM - National University Computer Center - Pisa
MACSERVE  @ BITNIC   - Macintosh Users Server, Bitnet Support Center
NICSERVE  @ BITNIC   - Bitnet Support Center
NYSHARE   @ WEIZMANN - Weizmann Institute of Science
SERVER    @ TAMCBA   - Texas A & M College of Business Administration
SERVER    @ UOGUELPH - University of Guelph
VMBBOARD  @ WEIZMANN - Weizmann Institute of Science

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³ Active NETSERV file servers:                                              ³
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NETSERV   @ AEARN    - Austria EARN - Linz
NETSERV   @ BITNIC   - Bitnet Support Center
NETSERV   @ CEARN    - Centre Europeen de Recherche Nucleaire
NETSERV   @ DEARN    - German central node of EARN - Darmstadt
NETSERV   @ EARNET   - IBM SC - Roma
NETSERV   @ EB0UB011 - Universidad de Barcelona
NETSERV   @ FRMOP11  - CNUSC, Montpellier
NETSERV   @ GREARN   - Research Center of Crete - Heraklion
NETSERV   @ HEARN    - Katholieke University Ninjmegen
NETSERV   @ IRLEARN  - University College - Dublin
NETSERV   @ ISRAEARN - IBM Israel SC - Haifa
NETSERV   @ SEARN    - Sweden EARN - Stockholm
NETSERV   @ UKACRL   - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory - UK EARN

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³ Active database servers:                                                  ³
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QSPIRES   @ SLACVM   - SLAC Computer Center
DATABASE  @ BITNIC   - Bitnet Information Center

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³ Active name servers:                                                     ³
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BITSERVE  @ CUNYVM   - City University of New York
CSNEWS    @ MAINE    - University of Maine
FINGER    @ CUVMA    - Columbia University
LOOKUP    @ RITVAXC  - Rochester Institute of Technology
LOOKUP    @ RITVAXD  - Rochester Institute of Technology
VMNAMES   @ WEIZMANN - Weizmann Institute of Science

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³ Active conference machines:                                              ³
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CERITOR   @ TECHNION - Technion - Haifa
FKAI      @ DS0RUS1I - University of Stuttgart
FORUM     @ BITNIC   - Bitnet Support Center
SERVER    @ TAMCBA   - Texas A & M College of Business Administration

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³ The Relay conference machine network:                                    ³
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CSCML     @ CCNYVME  - City College of New York
CXBOB     @ ASUACAD  - Arizona State University
DSCAWAC   @ CFRVM    - Central Florida Regional Data Center
ENE11S    @ DE0HRZ1A - Universitaet Essen
K242804   @ CZHRZU1A - Zurich University
NETRELAY  @ FRECP11  - Ecole Centrale de Paris
PSUG      @ VPIVM2   - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
RELAY     @ AEARN    - Austrian EARN node at Linz
RELAY     @ BITNIC   - Bitnet Support Center
RELAY     @ CEARN    - Centre Europeen de Recherche Nucleaire
RELAY     @ CLVM     - Clarkson University
RELAY     @ DEARN    - German central node of EARN at Darmstadt
RELAY     @ DKTC11   - Copenhagen Technical College
RELAY     @ ISRAEARN - IBM Israel SC - Haifa
RELAY     @ JPNSUT10 - Science University of Tokyo
RELAY     @ NCSUVM   - North Carolina State University
RELAY     @ NDSUVM1  - North Dakota State University
RELAY     @ UREGINA1 - University of Regina
RELAY     @ UTCVM    - University of Tennessee - Chattanooga
RELAY     @ YALEVM   - Yale University Computer Center
RELAY     @ YALEVMX  - Yale University Computer Center
TRRLP11   @ TECHNION - Technion - Haifa
ZJD012    @ DMSWWU1A - Uni Muenster
8350428   @ UWAVM    - University of Washington

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³ Electronic magazines:                                                    ³
³ Mailing list information is included in each magazine.                   ³
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CRTNET               - Back issues available from LFCNET@ICNUCEVM
BITLIST              - Latest issue is stored on NETSERV as BITNET SERVERS
FSFNET               - Back issues available from NMCS025@MAINE & SERVER@TAMCBA
NUTWORKS             - Back issues available from FORUM@BITNIC
VM/COM               - Back issues available from CSNEWS@MAINE

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³ >>>B I T N O T E S>>>                                                    ³
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The implications are staggering...

Taped to the wall in some corner of my bedroom is a console listing of my
first experience with BITNET, dated December 4th, 1984.  It is less than
a page (a summary of commands for the legendary and dufunct CHAT at Penn
State) but it marks the foundation for BITLIB, the BITLIST, and perhaps
my future. It has been a year of great strides for me (and the network)
and I am looking foward to another one, and one after that, and one after
that... Wouldn't it be nice to make a career out of this?  Don't I wish it
were possible.  Maybe it is.

Breaking the chains...

A few days ago I was the lucky recipient of a chain letter.  For those
of you that don't know what it is or haven't seen one yet, it works like
this:  Somebody writes up a letter and sends it to four friends in BITNET,
with instructions to type their names at the bottom and pass it on to
four friends and so on.  Eventually you get a lot of letters clogging
up the network, as these things expand geometricly. Strictly speaking,
it is a waste of resources and a load on the network.  It certainly
doesn't fall under the heading of "mature and responsible" use of BITNET.
Next time you see a cahin letter either ignore it or write the person who
sent it to you a note explaining why chain mail is wrong.  Thank you.

News...

Just because some of us took a few days off to stuff our faces doesn't mean
that the network stood still while we were gone. June Genis was kind enough
to inform me about the database server QSPIRES@SLACVM.  You can get started
with it by sending it the HELPF command.

Thanks to Anndrew Derbyshire and Jeff Kell for the news that RELAY@UTCVM
is replacing UTCSERVE at the same node.  I'm glad to see that no Relays
died this week.  Things were getting pretty morbid.

Virtually;

Chris
(Fuzzyman)

In terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.