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NetMonth, June 1987
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* The guide to BITNET servers and services *
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* Volume 1 Number 12 June 1987 *
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* Editor: Chris Condon CONDON@YALEVM *
* Assistant Editor: Steve Sutter SUTTER@YALEVM *
* NetMonth Staff Supervisor: Gary Moss MOSS@YALEVM *
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Bitnotes ................................................................ 1
TAKE NOTE__________________________________________________________________
Scuttlebut .............................................................. 2
SPECIAL NETWORK TOOLS SECTION______________________________________________
LOOK .................................................................... 4
CROSSNET ................................................................ 5
MAILMERGER .............................................................. 5
BITSEND ................................................................. 6
BITRCV .................................................................. 6
CHAT .................................................................... 7
GONE .................................................................... 8
BITLIB .................................................................. 9
DEPARTMENTS________________________________________________________________
Feedback ................................................................ 9
Policies ............................................................... 10
NetMonth is a network service publication distributed free of charge to
students and professionals in BITNET and other networks. This magazine and
it's companion file, BITNET SERVERS, are the work of the Yale Computer
Center BITNET Services Library (BITLIB) staff. The BITLIB is a local
online help facility designed to inform Yale network users about what
services are available to them through BITNET, and provide instructions
and utilities for their proper use. In publishing NetMonth the BITLIB
staff members hope to share the fruits of their labor with institutions
outside of Yale in order to promote a productive and enjoyable networking
environment for everyone.
BITNET SERVERS is BITNET's most complete and up-to-date list of servers
and services. It is sent to NetMonth subscribers at the same time as the
magazine. BITNET SERVERS is dependent on your support to remain accurate.
If you know of servers and services not listed in BITNET SERVERS, or of
those listed in the file that are no longer available, please contact the
NetMonth staff at BITLIB@YALEVM.
For information on subscribing to NetMonth and BITNET SERVERS, see the
"Policies" section on the last pages of this issue. Within "Policies" there
are also instructions for submitting articles, sending Letters to the
Editor, and printing this file.
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A publication of the Bitnet Services Library "Because We're Here."
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* Bitnotes Issue 11 *
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"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it."
Sometimes I think that you are all ********* Network Tools *********
crazy. * *
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That's OK, I am too. Oh, we're * *
nowhere near the fashionable padded- * __---__ *
wall and straitjacket set, but we * /_______[ *
have our moments. How many of us * ] ] ] ] ] ] *
spend a day working in front of the * ] ] ] ] ] ] *
Cathode Ray Tube, only to find * ] ] ] ] ] ] *
ourselves at the keyboard of a PC * ] ] ] ] ] ] *
when we get home? Here it is, a * ] ] ] ] ] ] *
glorious, sunny, Saturday and I am * ] ] ] ] ] ] *
typing my mind away. I could be * ] ] ] ] ] ] *
getting a TAN for once. * ] ] ] ] ] ] *
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Crazy. * )_________( *
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I don't know how many hours you spend * *** *
working and playing on BITNET. If * *** *
you spent that much time on your lawn * *** *
you would... well... have a NICE * *** *
lawn. There aren't enough hours in * *** *
the day to do all of the things you * *** *
have to do or want to do, are there? * *** *
You have to be a bit more efficient, * *** *
use your time a little better, a * *** *
little faster, to get your time in * *** *
the sun. * *** *
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This special issue of NetMonth is * *** *
dedicated to those of you who would * *** *
like to be at the beach right now, or * *** *
in the park, or at the game, or * ***** *
wherever you go when you are not * ******* *
playing with computers. (The software * ***** *
store, perhaps?) Here we present to * ***** *
you information on many of today's * *** *
network tools so you can gain those * *
extra hours in the sun. We don't * *
even begin to pretend that it is all- * *
inclusive, but it's a start, and we * *
hope you enjoy it. Catch some rays. *********************************
Chris Condon@YaleVM
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* Scuttlebut *
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* New Listservers: Bill R. Cazemier Jr. has passed along the news about
the new LISTSERV@UOTTAWA (10 guesses as to what university that is).
Meanwhile, Univerisity of Akron now has a LISTSERV@AKRONVM. Thanks to Gary
Sponseller for that information.
* Growing (slowly): Thanks to Jeff Kell for this announcment: A new Relay
has been established at VTVM2 as CSRLY@VTVM2. This will be a test
installation over the summer by the VTVM2 Academic services staff. The
VTVM2 contact is Ron Jarrell, JARRELLR@VTCS1.
* According to Marco Sommani (who we have no reason to doubt) the Italian
NETSERV has been moved from EARNET to ICNUCEVM.
* The latest from NICSERVE:
The following are the current descriptions of the roles of the network's
Institutional, Technical, and Information Services Representatives to the
BITNET Board of Trustees through the agency of the BITNET Network
Information Center. These roles will evolve based on feedback from the
user community, the representatives themselves, and the BITNET Board of
Trustees.
BITNET Institutional Representative (BIR) -- an individual appointed by the
BITNET member institution's president/chancellor who can speak for overall
institutional BITNET policy; typically a senior-level manager or
administrator with fiscal and/or policy responsibility for computing at an
institutional level. This individual (or proxy) will vote on matters
requiring a vote of the BITNET membership, appoint the institution's
official Technical Representative and Information Services Representative,
and represent his/her BITNET member institution in policy and fiscal
matters.
BITNET Technical Representative (TECHREP) -- an individual appointed by the
member institution's BITNET Institutional Representative who can speak for
the status of all the computers connected to BITNET at that institution;
typically a systems programmer knowledgable about and responsible for at
least one of the connected computers. This individual will interface with
the BITNIC regarding such things as technical operations, routing tables,
the BITNET database (as the only official source of database changes), and
various software such as mail user agents and mail transfer agents within
that institution.
BITNET Information Services Representative (INFOREP) - an individual
appointed by the member institution's BITNET Institutional Representative
who is responsible for local BITNET information services support; this
includes dissemination of information about BITNET to end-users of each
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BITNET node at the institution, answering questions from local BITNET
users, etc.; typically a senior information/user services staff. This
individual will be the point of contact between the BITNIC's information
services and the institution's user community and will be in ongoing
communication with BITNIC staff.
* And still more... this time on the BITNET-UUCP gateway:
To send BITNET messages through gateways, you must create a file with your
message text and ARPANET-style headers. In addition, to use the UUCP
gateway at Penn State (PSUVAX1), you must embed BSMTP (Batch Simple Message
Transfer Protocol) commands in your file so that it can be transmitted
through the gateway. For more information on BSMTP, see Alan Crosswell's
paper on the subject, which is available through NICSERVE@BITNIC (file
CUVMB BSMTP).
The SENDGATE EXEC, which assists users in sending files through gateways,
is available from the developers. For VM/CMS, contact Paul Kunz at SLAC
(PFKEB@SLACVM). For the VAX/VMS version, contact Ed Miller at SLAC
(ESMP09@SLACTWGM). For sites that do not run MAILER, SENDGATE creates an
appropriate set of headers and BSMTP commands for a message file and sends
the file in the appropriate format to the gateway. However, with MAILER
and RICEMAIL, the mail is sent automatically. If users at your site send
many messages through gateways, using SENDGATE or a similar facility is
recommended over the alternatives presented below.
Once your file is created in the format indicated, you should PUNCH it
(CLASS=M) to the node and id listed for the gateway you want to use.
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UUCP using Penn State node=PSUVAX1 id=MAILER
HELO yoursite.BITNET
VERB ON
TICK nnnn
MAIL FROM:
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