gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (01/26/86)
(We've been around for a while but wanted to get our new name settled in before posting.) =Name of Site: hoptoad =System Type: Sun3/160M-4; Sun Unix 3.0 (4.2BSD) =Organization: Nebula Consultants =Contact Person: John Gilmore, Laura Creighton =Electronic Address: hoptoad!gnu, hoptoad!toad =Telephone Number: +1 415 931 4667 =Postal Address: 1805 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, California, USA 94115 =Longitude/Latitude: 122 27 W / 37 48 N =Who Edited the Entry: hoptoad!gnu; Sat Jan 25 16:31:21 PST 1986 What the site is all about: We consult on a variety of hardware, software, design, and writing projects. John was the first software employee at Sun Microsystems and was a key team member in the development and production of the Sun-1, Sun-2, and Sun-3 workstations. Laura writes technical documentation and fiction and is an experienced Unix systems programmer; her current project is a book on portable C programming. We also maintain a large archive of public domain Unix software, including most of net.sources.* from the last four years. Contact us if you need a copy of something. Systems with whom news articles are exchanged. (what kind of link, who the neighbor(s) are). ptsfa:net,mod,na,usa,ba,ca,fa,to.ptsfa:F:/usr/spool/batch/ptsfa well:net,mod,na,usa,ba,ca,fa,to.well:LF:/usr/spool/batch/well sun:net,mod,na,usa,ba,ca,fa,to.sun:L: lll-crg:ba,ca,to.lll-crg:F:/usr/spool/batch/lll-crg lll-crg:net,mod,na,usa,ba,ca,fa,to.lll-crg:LF:/usr/spool/batch/lll-crg Willingness (or lack thereof) to connect to new sites that want to join usenet. Willing to connect to new mail and news sites. We actually pay our phone bills out-of-pocket, so we can only forward news via local calls or polls. We'll make mail connections to anybody, assuming we expect to talk to someone on the other end. We try to pick up our fair share of the costs the net incurs for our traffic. UUCP map entry: hoptoad well(DIRECT), ptsfa(DIRECT), ucsfcgl(DIRECT), sun(DEMAND), micropro(DEMAND), nsc(DEMAND), leadsv(DEMAND), unisoft(DEMAND), portal(DEMAND), rtgvax(DEMAND), lll-crg(HOURLY+LOW), octopus(HOURLY*3), ihnp4(DAILY), frog(DAILY), decisions(WEEKLY), gatech(WEEKLY), darwin(WEEKLY) hoptoad = l5 -- # I resisted cluttering my mail with signatures for years, but the mail relay # situation has gotten to where people can't reach me without it. Dammit! # John Gilmore {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,nsc}!hoptoad!gnu jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa