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From: dcaulkins@cdp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Modems badly needed in the U.S.S.R
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Date: 6 Jan 91 21:01:00 GMT
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!dcaulkins    Jan  6 13:01:00 1991


This request for modems is from two GlasNet staff members in our
Moscow office.  For those who may not know about it, here's some
information on the GlasNet project.

The International Foundation (Moscow, Washington DC,
Stockholm, Sofia) is working on a project called "GlasNet," a
computer network to be created in the Soviet Union.  The
International Foundation is registered as a non-profit in the USA;
the US addresses are:

GlasNet West
437 Mundel Way
Los Altos, CA 94022
(415)948-5753 voice
(415)948-1474 fax
cdp!dcaulkins@labrea.stanford.edu Email

International Foundation
11 Dupont Circle
6th Floor
Washington, DC 20036
(202)745-1900 voice
cdp!intldc@labrea.stanford.edu Email

The purpose of GlasNet will be to offer easy and inexpensive
information exchange between diverse groups within the USSR,
including scientists, educators, cultural groups, journalists,
environmentalists, computer enthusiasts, etc.; it will also
enable these Soviet groups to correspond electronically  with
their counterparts in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

GlasNet will be part of the Association for Progressive Computing
(APC), a global network-of-networks with host computers in
Australia (Pegasus), Brazil (AlterNex), Canada (Web), Great
Britain (GreenNet), Nicaragua (Nicarao), Sweden (FredsNaetet),
and the USA (PeaceNet,EcoNet).  The first GlasNet host computer
will be a 386 computer running UNIX; it will use the standard APC
electronic mail, conferencing, and networking software. The
initial hardware configuration will support 5,000 user accounts;
of these 10 to 30 can be on line simultaneously.  Present plans
call for GlasNet to be operational in early 1991.

Dave Caulkins
GlasNet Director