Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: MailStorm Project (Email to Saudi Arabia) Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 91 04:16:40 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 147, Message 10 of 11 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu zellich@stl-07sima.army.mil (Rich Zellich) writes: > The system, part of a natinwide effort called the MailStorm Project, > is open to anyone with a computer, a modem and the name of a soldier > in the gulf. The messages are transmitted over an electronic bulletin > * Call the bulletin board at 553-6475. > [The above phone number is in area code 314. I called it to make sure > the PD printed the right number; a modem answered, but I didn't try to > log in to verify it any further. -RWZ] This is the Optometry Online BBS, an IBM PC. It is running Opus, connected to FidoNet. I believe this is the same SaudiNet service that we've heard about that's just a FidoNet Echo that's Echomailed to a BBS in Saudi Arabia. Also note that Optometry Online supports USR HST modems up to 14.4 bps. Not sure on V.32. And they have lots of good IBM files, too! David Lemson U of Illinois Computing Services Student Consultant Internet : lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson