Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!hobson From: hobson@rutgers.rutgers.edu (Kevin Hobson) Newsgroups: soc.college,comp.edu Subject: Re: Access to USENET for non-comp sci majors at undergrad institutions Message-ID: <5402@rutgers.rutgers.edu> Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 15:41:48 EST Article-I.D.: rutgers.5402 Posted: Sun Nov 1 15:41:48 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 21:14:12 EST References: <515@unirot.UUCP> Sender: pleasant@rutgers.rutgers.edu Distribution: na Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 60 Keywords: USETNET ACCESS Xref: mnetor soc.college:964 comp.edu:753 To: gib@unirot.UUCP In article <515@unirot.UUCP> gib@unirot.UUCP (the gibster) writes: > In examining several colleges and universities for a friend of mine, > the question of USENET and internet access has come up. > > Do most colleges and universities give access to USETNET and the Internet > if they have it? Are there any special restrictions that usually apply? > At Rutgers, anyone taking a higher level computer science (> 300 level course) automatically get access to Usenet, Internet (combination of all interconnected networks), CSnet, NSFnet, FIDOnet and BITNET. The problem is that most students do not know this! We use usenet as internal electronic bboard. Each class has its own bboard for questions/answers. Next, we have ru.qa (rutgers questions and answer) bboard for user questions (How to send mail to so in so? How do you use this function on a sun?) from any machine using netnews software (most of unix machines here). Center for Computer Information Systems (CCIS) is a organization that helps let non-computer science departments get access to the computers. But each individual department is in its own little world and do not know these services exist (macintosh and ibm-pc will do just fine). > This friend is looking seriously at the following institutions of higher > learning, and a response from faculty, current students, or administrators > from said schools would be greatly appreciated: > Brown University > Carnegie Mellon > Dartmouth College > Duke University > Hampshire College > New York University > Princeton Univeristy > Pomona College > Wesleyan University > Yale University Is Rutgers University that bad? > Also, any information regarding the transfer of electronic mail from the > outside world to campus residents without computers is welcome. If you have a computer and modem, you can dialup to the systems. Each campus have just be revised so high speed lines (T1) go to Newark, Piscataway, Camden and New Brunswick campus. So each campus has access to ANY of the computer systems on any campus (Piscataway is the main hub). Sorry, dormitory and/or mail delivery of electronic mail is not possible :-) > ..rutgers!unirot!gib > ..unirot!gib@rutgers.edu Public access unix machine with news feed from rutgers. -- - Kevin Hobson - ARPA: hobson@rutgers.edu - UUCP: {ames, harvard, ucla-cs, cbosgd, moss}!rutgers.edu!hobson - BITNET: hobson@cancer.bitnet - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (201) 932-2260 (201) 932-5027 (201) 932-2492