NetWeek 5/8/88

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  ***********  A BITNET news summary for the week of May 8, 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
  following command to LISTSERV@MARIST: SUB NETMONTH your_name.  NetWeek is a
  publication of the Bitnet Services Library.

  Editor:  Chris Condon, CONDON@YALEVM                              Issue #11

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  * Beginning this week two new file servers will bring the SIMTEL20 software
  archives to  Europe in  a timely  manner.  For  the  past  few months these
  archives have only been available from LISTSERV@RPICICGE, putting something
  of a strain on network  links at times.  Limits have been set on the amount
  of data a person  can request  in one day,  but some  larger files may take
  days to make it across the network.  For those  of you on "the East side of
  the Pond", the following servers have been created:

  PCSERVER@BANUFS11 - This server provides access  to a  limited and selected
  portion of the SIMTEL20 public domain archives.  It should be considered as
  a measure to relieve some of the burden on SIMTEL20 and RPICICGE from which
  or through where the  archives have been retrieved.  The archives available
  on PCSERVER are those for which the UFSIA academic community have requested
  for possible use. The local policy for downloading files determines what is
  available  on the  server.  This  policy states  that first  of all  "human
  readable" files should be extracted  to make possible  an evaluation of the
  needs the software could  cover.  This explains why the greater part of the
  collection consists of -catalog, readme and -doc files.

  PCSERVER only accepts interactive commands (not mail). For more information
  send the command HELP.  Thanks to Michel Daulie for this information.

  TRICKLE@TREARN - This server  provides the SIMTEL20  files,  and  directory
  listings, with its own cache,  where it keeps  its most  recently requested
  files.  If a file  that you request  already exists in the cache directory,
  then you may expect to receive your file  within a few minutes. If the file
  requested does  not exist in the cache directory, then TRICKLE will have to
  order the  file.  If  this is  the case, the  response time  of TRICKLE  is
  dependent upon  the list server from where the  file is requested.  TRICKLE
  will give up waiting for a file after five days after its request. For more
  information,  send  the /HELP command  to TRICKLE via  interactive message.
  Thanks to Turgut Kalfaoglu for this update.

  *NOTE* Users in the United States, Canada, Japan, and Mexico should not use
  these servers.   LISTSERV@RPICICGE  is  your  SIMTEL20  server  of  choice.
  Likewise,  if you are  on a European  node which can only send  commands to
  servers via mail, you must continue to use LISTSERV.

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