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From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (avalon)
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Subject: Re: "Taking Advantage of the Internet"
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Date: 14 Mar 91 01:32:08 GMT
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brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:


> All but one of our faculty has a marked apathy towards being
>associated with Unix at all (we were an all-VMS shop 2 years ago). As
>a result, I do as many things as I can to sell my systems with the
>students, since they aren't even told of their existance in nearly any
>class. [I tally my success by how many people I can get to be
>comfortable with using Emacs on a regular basis. Hehe.]

> Anyway, I'm starting to write a small booklet about the various
>utilities & information available via our Internet link. I want to
>mentioning email, talk, school libraries, the archie ftp server,
>ftp in general, mailing lists, news, finger, whois, and considering
>including IRC. (Anything I missed?)

> I was wondering if anyone's ever written up something like this, for
>an undergraduate audience? (aka most of them haven't the slightest
>idea what the network is, but would get into it if they were given the
>right information)

I think that there would be an interested post-graduate or staff
audience too.  I'm sure there are many staff members in various
institutions arount the world who use unix for day- to day work
all the time and never even come close to using it to the maximum.

I'm sure there would also be an interest in the commercial sector
sooner or later for some sort of confernencing program to run on
top of their networks.

-avalon