NetWeek 2/7/88

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  *********  A BITNET news summary for the week of February 7, 1988  ********

  NetWeek provides a brief look at recent events in Bitnet.  Items noted here
  will be covered in further detail in NetMonth.  For a subscription send the
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  publication of the Bitnet Services Library.

  Editor:  Chris Condon, CONDON@YALEVM                               Issue #3

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  * Those interested in attending the Winter '88 BITNET Technical Meetings on
  Feb 27,  1988,   please retrieve the following  files from NICSERVE@BITNIC:
  BITTECH AGENDA  and BITTECH DRECTION.   The  host will be  California State
  University at Fullerton;  one of the  19 CSU campuses served through BITNET
  node CALSTATE.

  If  you plan  to attend  one of  the meetings,   it is  suggested that  you
  subscribe to one of the following mailing lists (depending upon thw working
  group which interests you):

     Working Group             Suggested LIST for discussion
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     Futures                   FUTURE-L
     Node Management           NODMGT-L
     Tools                     TECH-L    (not TECH-C)

  To  subsscribe to  one  of these  lists,  send  the  following commmand  to
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  For example:

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  * In  the previous  issue of  NetWeek the  /PDDIR and  /PDGET commands  for
  LISTSERV@RPICICGE  were announced.    These commands  allow  access to  the
  SIMTEL20 software libraries.   The sever was flooded with requests, causing
  backlogs at YALEVM, CUNYVM, FRMOP11 and elsewhere.  Access to the sever has
  been limited so that  each user may only send  one  /PDGET command per day.
  Please take care when requesting files from this server:

  1. Make sure that you specify the correct data format and encoding.

  2. Do not resubmit a file request if it does not arrive the next day.  Many
  of the files are very large and take  quite a bit of time (days,  sometimes
  weeks) to make it across the network.

  3. Request only files that you cannot get from a local source (for example,
  a nearby BBS or your systems online software library).

  4. Do you really need this file, or are you just curious?


  * In the first  issue of NetWeek the nodename for  BIOSERVE was incorrectly
  typed as UMDCC.  The correct nodename is UMDC.


  * Thanks to everyone  who reponded to the request for  opinions on NetWeek.
  The reaction was overwhelmling positive.    We  hope to be seeing you every
  week for a long time...

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