pve@cs.utwente.nl (Peter van Eijk) (06/10/91)
Does anybody know if there are uucp and/or internet sites in Kenya? What will be the Kenya toplevel domain? I am asking this for a friend who works for an international development agency there. please e-mail; summaries on request. Peter van Eijk -- Peter van Eijk University of Twente Dept Informatica / TIOS P.O. Box 217; 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands tel +31-53-893789 fax -333815 home +31-74-435813 email pve@cs.utwente.nl Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.
nauen@WRAIR-EMH1.ARMY.MIL ("1159-DIRECTOR/OVERSEAS OPS") (06/13/91)
In-reply-to: <1991Jun10.154500@cs.utwente.nl> > Does anybody know if there are uucp and/or internet sites in Kenya? > What will be the Kenya toplevel domain? If or when a top-level domain is registered for Kenya, it'll more than likely be KE, the ISO Country Code. As of the last I knew, there were Internet and other _users_ there, but no sites/nodes. To a certain extent the government has resisted improved connections with the rest of the world, but that may be changing. Thoughtless people may send you userids on such nets as PeaceNet or CGNET with full instructions for use. Should you receive any, please remember that they often belong to organizations operating on shoestring budgets and that their link to a host (in the UK or the US) will probably be over commercial telephone lines at considerable expense, costing them dearly for each character received. They may well be less than delighted to receive unsolicited mail which is not directly related to their missions. Ric <nauen@wrair-emh1.army.mil> <nauen%wrmain.decnet@detrick-emh1.army.mil> ^^^^^Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
jefu@twics.co.jp (Jeffrey Shapard) (06/15/91)
According to the bible (John S Quarterman's _The Matrix_), "the Insitute for Global Communications (IGC), parent of Peacenet, is setting up a system in Nairobi, Kenya". These folks now have sites in the US, Canada, UK, Sweden, Nicaraugua, Ecuador, Brazil, Oz, and the USSR under the coalition name Association for Progressive Communications. They use uucp connections to give global access to local areas, and even bear the freight for some of their more budget-strapped members. While some of the regional sites may have links into whatever internets they have going there, their main IGC/Peacenet/ECONET machine in Menlo Park CA USA does uucp links to various US hubs, has a network subscription through the DASnet forwarding service (which can get you to telex and fax as well), and recently got a direct Internet connection. I haven't heard anything more about the Kenya site, but I guess is may have something to do with the folks in Nairobi getting their side of things ready. Another possibility... Once upon a time the notorious cowboy netrider Colorado Dave Hughes talked about an associate of his who was putting up some sort of packet radio BBS network in the Kenyan bush. I wonder whatever became of that? --jefu * Jeffrey Shapard <jefu@twics.co.jp> "Connectivity * * Connect-activist and Operations Director, TWICS, Tokyo is our biz..." *