roy@ms.uky.edu (Kill Roy) (02/13/90)
Hello,
We are piloting a project to set up a regional computer network
throughout the Appalachian Chain (in southeastern North America).
We are trying to convince administrators at various small colleges
that it is in their interest to provide all members of their
science faculty easy access to either:
a personal computer tied into a campus network
or
a terminal onto a mainframe which supports e-mail.
We anticipate this would allow science faculty:
easier access to fellow campus science faculty,
practical access to faculty at other Appalachian colleges,
and
practical access to faculty at major universities
throughout the U.S. and the World.
Typical questions are:
We have other, more pressing concerns. Why should we
bother with computer networking?
Who is going to pay for all those long-distance calls
to link into regional and international networks?
What can our science faculty do with e-mail that they
can't do with a telephone and postal mail?
Why does each faculty person need to have their own
PC or mainframe terminal?
Of particular interest is the possible effective use of e-mail
to allow science faculty at these regional colleges to participate
in research with faculty at research-oriented institutions, thus
allowing them to remain abrest of developments in their discipline.
If you have any suggestions, opinions, or comments, please let
us know what they are. We are trying to demonstrate both the
utilitarian value of e-mail and the wealth of information available
from the international networks.
Thank you,
Roy Vignes
Faculty Scholars Program
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
40506
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