[1383] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
The REAL news about SIMTEL20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (DOV - DR. ART ST. GEORGE)
Fri Sep 20 13:48:09 1991
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 91 11:08 MDT
From: "DOV - DR. ART ST. GEORGE" <STGEORGE@bootes.unm.edu>
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Art, I received this message regarding the status of SIMTEL 20 from
Elwood Baas, the Director of Operations at WSMR. I think that you can
consider this "hard data". Let me know if I can do anything else to
help.
Marianne
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> From: SMTP%"EBAAS@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL" 19-SEP-1991 22:27:31.35
> To: GRANOFF@TECHNET.NM.ORG
> RE: SIMTEL 20 STATUS
>
> Marianne,
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Yes, "the untimely death of the Simtel has been highly exaggerated." It
> was rather irresponsible that Keith Peterson who kept one of the librar-
> ies on the Simtel sent a message which said that there was no funding for
> the task. He knows that we must fund the project from customers, and that
> we do not always have the money on "opening day" (Oct 1). We hope to have
> the money soon; if not we will have someone in-house perform the work.
>
> ---Elwood
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