Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!percy!m2xenix!quagga!hippo!ccml From: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie) Newsgroups: comp.society.development Subject: Re: Who is on the net? Message-ID: Date: 27 May 91 10:30:47 GMT References: <1991May23.115550.966@darwin.ntu.edu.au> <1991May23.211452.17937@netcom.COM> Sender: usenet@quagga.ru.ac.za (Rhodes University NNTP server) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Lines: 20 In <1991May23.211452.17937@netcom.COM> jms@netcom.COM (John Schonholtz) writes: >The net reaches South Africa. It doesn't seem to make it anywhere else >on that continent, at least not yet. From the SAfrican gateway, we forward Fidonet mail to Botswana, and are busy getting a newly registered .NA on the air. Negotiations have been going on a long time in an effort to link to the University in Harare (Zimbabwe). We are willing and keen to link to any other site in Africa. We have some experience with low-tech problems, and in dealing with places for which 1200 bd is a moderate speed. Mike -- Mike Lawrie Director Computing Services, Rhodes University, South Africa ............................................... Rhodes University condemns racism and racial segregation