dlv@CUNYVMS1.GC.CUNY.EDU (Dimitri Vulis) (11/03/90)
Regarding Bob Prohazka's query (sorry! lost your original message), it appears that FIAN (Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences, USSR) is reachable by e-mail. I don't know about its sibling IOFAN (Institute of General Physics). Here's a very interesting message: --- >From: peg@tommy.velham.su >Subject: send mail to FIAN >To: dlv@CUNYVMS1.BITNET >Message-Id: <AA0g9Cdaq7@tommy.velham.su> >Organization: VELHAM Dear Dimitri, We have mututal e-mail friends. I work with Mike Cole from UCSD. But I am now in Moscow and I have just witnessed the speedy hookup of FIAN to e-mail, via RELCOM. I hope that you have time to send some encouragement and information to them. It was an amazing thing to see the way that Alexandra Belyaeva could get Andrew Poskacheev from FIAN together with Valery BArdin and Aleksey Soldatov from RELCOm in her kitchen on Sunday afternoon, then, on Sunday night they were bussing over passwords and arrangements, and last night (Wednesday) I got my first e-mail from FIAN! (They have a Decnet, a bunch of VAX machines with lots of terminals over the Institute, so this one connection means a bunch of people. Plus, dear people that they are, I heard a rumor today that they were thinking of putting in a "host" machine so that people who had little machines like Pravetz and Apple II's or could dial in and get on-line!) Anyhow, if you or any of your colleagues sent mail to andy<at sign>stack.fian.msk.su for particular physicists at FIAN/Lebedev it would help to start it off with a bang and gain institutional support. Peg Griffin (usually at UCSD, now at IPAN/AN, Moscow for a few months) --- I guess, those who know someone at FIAN ough to send them a congratulatory note. :) Dimitri Vulis