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Category 14,  Topic 8
Message 59        Sun Aug 26, 1990
GARY-S                       at 08:37 EDT
 
             
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 From: uunet!euskom.spritel.es!Marcos_de_la_Puerta_Borja
 Date: Sun, 19 Aug 90 12:23 +0100
 Subject: Re:  Received note in FidoNet
 To: RDA@CPD.UNAV.es, well!gars

      I am now convincing Spanish members to buy a modem and join the email
 world. I am also studying the possibility of setting up my own Eunet
(European
 UUCP) node to ease the message traffic between BBSs and c.l.f. I will keep
 you up to date about our progress.

      Ah, Jax told me that Leo Brotzman is going to close FIGI-L. Do you
 know anything about it? Do you know of any other path to continue receiving
 c.l.f in case FIGI-L disappears? (Sorry, but Spanish lines are awful.)
 I ha not direct access to Usenet, so I must receive the messages through
 a Bitnet Listserver.

      Regards,



      Borja Marcos.
 P.S. Ah, I have a proposal that might be interesting. Have you heard of
 AX.25? There is an amateur network over radio, running this packet-switching
 protocol and TCP/IP. Lis between countries can be established in Short
 Wave (for example 15 MHz) and local links in VHF.

 To: RDA@CPD.UNAV.es uunet!euskom.spritel.es!Marcos_de_la_Puerta_Borja
 Subject:|4r)e:  Received note in FidoNet

 Dear Borja,
  Lee Brotzman has not closed down his BITnet server - yet. He very
 much would like to get out of the net server business, but Lee is a
 class act and hopes to first locate a successor. If no volunteers
 come forward and the requirements of his work and home life become
 too great you can be sure the server will go down.

  X.25 is the current most common form a packet switching in use. There
 is a strong effort to replace it with X.400 and other protocols, but
 the X.25 (and TCP/IP) base of users will prevent a sudden and dramatic
 change.

  I wish you luck with your efforts to get more members e-mail connected.
 Several of us, including Jax and myself have been singing that same song
 here, but people who do not use e-mail can not imagine what a powerful
 tool it is. You may have to resort to placing it in a few hands and then
 take it away after they have discovered the rich world they can tap into.
 Then they will be eager to be included.

   Gary 
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