Xref: utzoo comp.admin.policy:123 comp.protocols.nfs:2378 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!bu.edu!wang!elf!lee From: lee@wang.com (Lee Story) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: Question about Internet access Message-ID: Date: 28 May 91 19:09:15 GMT References: <1991May20.150134.11699@panix.uucp> Sender: news@wang.com Distribution: na Organization: Wang Laboratories, Inc. Lines: 44 In-Reply-To: joseph@panix.uucp's message of 20 May 91 15:01:34 GMT In article <1991May20.150134.11699@panix.uucp> joseph@panix.uucp (Joseph R. Skoler) writes: I'm associated with a large (nationwide) tractor-trailer distributor, and would like to know what benefit it would be to the company for it to get Internet access. [....] Also, how does a large corporation become connected? I've read some of the other responses to this, and am surprised that most posters are as ignorant of the rules and mechanics as I am. Here goes: Advantages: 1. Fast and pretty reliable email to virtually all universities and computer/communications R&D-related companies, plus most smaller colleges and many other corporations. 2. INTERACTIVE access to public data archives (uunet, government, many colleges and universities) by ftp. This greatly improves on access by email only (getting a directory listing one day, downloading through a mail server the next, or paying a service like uunet to perform the retrieval). 3. Possible high-speed net news feed (though you'll have to arrange for this IN ADDITION to the Internet access). Contacts: (these folks might be able to sell you service, or point you to the right place) 1. AlterNet, run by UUNET Comm. Services, phone 703-876-5050, email info@uunet.uu.net (I'm not sure that AlterNet is directly interconnected with the research networks. Can someone confirm? UUNET also offers net news services.) 2. NEARnet, phone 617-873-8730, email jrugo@nic.near.net (Research users only?) 3. PSInet, (no address) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lee Story (lee@wang.com) Wang Laboratories, Inc. (Boston and New Hampshire AMC, and Merrimack Valley Paddlers) ------------------------------------------------------------------------