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 VOLUME 4 NUMBER 2                                         FEBRUARY 20, 1986
   /                                                                     ›
 The weekly list of active file servers, list servers, name servers, relays,
 /     database 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
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+

BITSERVE  @ CUNYVM   - City University of New York
CANSERVE  @ CANADA01 - University of Guelph
CSNEWS    @ MAINE    - University of Maine
FORUM     @ TAMCBA   - Texas A & M College of Business Administration
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
SILMARIL  @ FINHUTC  - Helsinki University of Technology
TCSSERVE  @ TCSVM    - Tulane University
VMBBOARD  @ WEIZMANN - Weizmann Institute of Science

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³ Active NETSERV file servers/name servers:                                 ³
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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   @ FINHUT   - Helsinki University of Technology
NETSERV   @ FRMOP11  - CNUSC, Montpellier
NETSERV   @ GREARN   - Research Center of Crete - Heraklion
NETSERV   @ HEARN    - Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen
NETSERV   @ IRLEARN  - University College - Dublin
NETSERV   @ SEARN    - Sweden EARN - Stockholm
NETSERV   @ UKACRL   - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory - UK EARN

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³ Mail-based info servers:                                                  ³
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+

INFO      @ CSNET-SH.ARPA  - File server
REGISTRAR @ CSNET-SH.ARPA  - Name server
CIC       @ CSNET-SH.ARPA  - Register your name in the CSNET database

 All three servers accept *only* RFC822 mail.  Do NOT send interactive
 messages, IBM NOTEs or IBM Profs  mail.  For further  info on all the
 servers, send the following two lines to INFO@CSNET-SH.ARPA:

 Request: Info
 Topic: Help

NETLIB    @ ANL-MCS.ARPA   - File server

 To receive information mail the following command to NETLIB:

 Send index

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³ Active database servers:                                                  ³
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+

DATABASE  @ BITNIC   - Bitnet Information Center

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
³ Active name servers:                                                     ³
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
³ Active list servers:                                                     ³
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

LISTSERV  @ BITNIC   - Bitnet Support Center
LISTSERV  @ NCSUVM   - North Carolina State University
LISTSERV  @ NDSUVM1  - North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network
LISTSERV  @ TCSVM    - Tulane University
LISTSERV  @ UCF1VM   - University of Central Florida

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³ Active conference machines:                                              ³
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

CERNEWS   @ TECHNION - Technion - Haifa
FORUM     @ TAMCBA   - Texas A & M College of Business Administration
SERVER    @ TAMCBA   - Texas A & M College of Business Administration

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³ The Relay conference machine network:                                    ³
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

BASTILLE  @ UIUCVMC  - University of Illinois
CXBOB     @ ASUACAD  - Arizona State University
DSCAWAC   @ CFRVM    - Central Florida Regional Data Center
RELAY     @ FRECP11  - Ecole Centrale de Paris
RELAY     @ AEARN    - Austrian EARN node at Linz
RELAY     @ BITNIC   - Bitnet Support Center
RELAY     @ CEARN    - Centre Europeen de Recherche Nucleaire
RELAY     @ CLVM     - Clarkson University
RELAY     @ CMUCCVMA - Carnegie-Mellon University
RELAY     @ CZHRZU1A - Zurich University
RELAY     @ DEARN    - German central node of EARN at Darmstadt
RELAY     @ DKTC11   - Copenhagen Technical College
RELAY     @ HEARN    - Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen
RELAY     @ ISRAEARN - IBM Israel SC - Haifa
RELAY     @ JPNSUT10 - Science University of Tokyo
RELAY     @ NCSUVM   - North Carolina State University
RELAY     @ NDSUVM1  - North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network
RELAY     @ PURCCVM  - Purdue University
RELAY     @ TCSVM    - Tulane University
RELAY     @ UREGINA1 - University of Regina
RELAY     @ UTCVM    - University of Tennessee - Chattanooga
RELAY     @ YALEVM   - Yale University Computer Center
RELAY     @ YALEVMX  - Yale University Computer Center
8350428   @ UWAVM    - University of Washington

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³ Electronic magazines:                                                    ³
³ Mailing list information is included in each magazine.                   ³
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

CLUB ................. The Chat Laypersons User Bulletin
                       For back issues send mail to Bob Baker, BBAKER@MAINE
CRTNET ............... The Communications Research and Theorey NETwork
                       Back issues available from LFCNET@ICNUCEVM
BITLIST .............. You're reading it now
                       Latest issue is stored on NETSERV as BITNET SERVERS
FIGIL ................ The FORTH programmers digest
                       For more info send mail to UMFORTH@WEIZMANN
FSFNET ............... The Fantasy and Science Fiction NETwork
                       Back issues available from SERVER@TAMCBA, or send mail
                       to Dave Liscomb, CSDAVE@MAINE
NUTWORKS ............. The BITNET humor magazine
                       Back issues available from CSNEWS@MAINE
REXXyymm FORUM ....... The REXX programmers forum
                       Back issues available from LFCNET@ICNUCEVM
VM/COM ............... The University of Maine CSNEWS network newsletter
                       Back issues available from CSNEWS@MAINE


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³ >>>B I T N O T E S>>>                                         Issue # 38 ³
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A good week...

Not a bad amount of news this week.  Things seem to have temporarily toned
down so I can get some rest after the last few crazy issues.  Everything
seems to happen at once.

A new electronic magazine will be coming out soon.  Geert K. Marien
sent to me the following:


>The name is currently BITNET review.
>
>This will be an unofficial publication, but we will strive to have it
>be as prefect and as accurate as possible.  Copies will be available from
>a few sources, including by direct subscription.
>
>Everyone from systems and administrative level to students are encouraged to
>send news and articles to us.  I will act, for the time being, as the person
>to receive and distribute all incoming work to our editors, currently         g
>numbering 5.
>
>News and questions, as well as requests for subscriptions should be sent to me
>at GEERT@BITNIC.  Please note that this is in no way officially connected with
>either the BITNET Network Support Center (BITNIC) or the City University of   w
>New York - University Computer Center (CUNY/UCC), nor any other organization.


From out of Arpa...

Oren Yulevitch has told me about a new Arpanet information server.  It is
NETLIB@ANL-MCS.ARPA.  You may get information on how to use it by sending
it the following comand via elecronic mail ONLY:

 Send info

It is loaded with Fortran programs, subroutines and other neat stuff.

For example, here is one of the index categories:

EISPACK  A collection of Fortran subroutines that compute the eigenvalues
         and eigenvectors of nine classes of matrices.  The package can
         determine the eigensystems of complex general, complex Hermitian,
         real general, real symmetric, real symmetric band, real symmetric
         tridiagonal, special real tridiagonal, generalized real, and
         generalized real symmetric matrices. In addition, there are two
         routines which use the singular value decomposition to solve
         certain least squares problems.
         Developed by the NATS Project at Argonne National Laboratory.
         (d.p. refer to eispack, s.p. refer to seispack)


By any other name...

The conference machine CERITOR@TECHNION is now known as CERNEWS@TECHNION.
Otherwise it functions the same as before.  Thanks to Oren for that news,
also.

Bernhard Dolderer told me that NETRELAY@FRECP11 is now known simply as
RELAY at that node.  While he was at it he suggested that I correct the
NETSERV file server header to reflect that they also act as name servers.

Meanwhile, the Relay at CCNYVME is no longer operational.  Scott Hennig
passed on that piece of info.

Point of contention...

When I listed the electronic magazines I assumed that people would be
intelligent enough to check whether the userid@node they can get back
issues from is a file server or not.  Apparently it is not so, with people
receiving commands like SENDME FSFNET VOL4N01.  I have now made it
painfully clear whether you should send mail to someone to get back issues
of a magazine.

Until next week...

Virtually;

Chris
(Fuzzyman)

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³                             An ongoing request:                          ³
³ If the BITLIST is stored on  a public disk at  your  institution, please ³
³ send me a note with  the node and  name of  your university.  Thank you. ³
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