[6624] in APO-L
Re: How about a bulletin board?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Nyman)
Tue Sep 7 17:29:47 1993
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 15:01:11 EST
Reply-To: Rick Nyman <enyman@vt.edu>
From: Rick Nyman <enyman@vt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
In message (no message ID) you write:
=>Instead of an FTP site for our national office with Internet or UUCP
=>access, how about setting up a bulletin board?
The FTP site is not in any way related to the national office. It is
being run on a host on the Tech ethernet where the Eris development
team has allowed me to use a few meg of disk space, partially to test
some stuff that they are working on.
Just as APO-L is run on Purdue resources and APOSOC-L is run on Penn
State resources, the ftp archive is being run on Virginia Tech
resources.
=>Get a 486 pc with a 1 gig hard drive and a 9600bps modem with multiple
=>lines and run something like Bobcat! on the PC.
This is running on some form of unix machine with a 10baseT ethernet
connection (10 megabits per second).
=>That would probably be easier (and cheaper!) to maintain than a true
=>Internet feed.
No, the cost of brothers calling would keep most people from calling.
Also it would be alot more expensive. This method costs the
fraternity nothing and Va Tech is not affected by the additional
bandwidth. More students have internet access than large wallets, and
everything that I do for the fraternity, I do for the brothers at
chapters everywhere, no other reason (Other than the fact that it is a
nice status symbol, just kidding)
If you have any ideas that you would like to implement, feel free, but
nationals is not in any way working with the network TO THE BEST OF MY
KNOWLEDGE. When I graduate, unless our chapter gets a new geek, the
ftp site will disappear, even though the sectional mailing list will
be passed down (less maintanence and it is in the chapter's name, not
mine.)
Rick....
