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From: wlui@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Wayne Lui)
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Subject: How to read JUNET news?
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Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 15:28:47 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  2 15:28:47 1987
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I've learnt from Wada-san of Nagano University that starting October, 
Tokyo University will charge Y170 (~$1.13) per kilobyte of message either 
sent to or received from outside of Japan via JUNET -- the Japanese 
counterpart of ARPANET. This is a good enough reason to explain why there 
aren't that many Japanese speak up on our net, he said. Language barrier, 
on the other hand, is also a suspect. 

To open up another channel of communication across the Pacific, it would
be a good idea to allow the netters in the U.S. to read the news on JUNET; 
and to contribute if possible. The only problem is that at present, the 
volume of news articles on JUNET is about 2Mb every week but nobody seems 
willing to foot the bill whee transmission fee is Y170/Kb. 

Recently, thanks to my friends in Japan, my Macintosh finally speaks Japanese. 
The software required include:

	*	KanjiTalk
	*	Fonts for KanjiTalk
	*	Japanese MacWrite
	*	System and Finder
	*	NinjaTerm 1.0
	*	Other misc. programs

With NinjaTerm, KanjiTalk and other utility programs, one should be able 
to read the articles on JUNET using the Macintosh. I haven't tried them 
out yet. In fact, I'm still looking for ways to read JUNET news in the U.S. 
without paying the Y170/Kb fee. Does anybody on the net know who and where 
I should turn to? Free lunch anywhere?  :)