srz@CHARON.MIT.EDU (Stanley R Zanarotti) (06/06/89)
Discuss, an electronic conferencing system developed by the MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB), is now available via anonymous FTP from Athena-dist.mit.edu (18.71.0.38). Discuss is a distributed conferencing system that was described at the Usenix Winter '89 conference. Discuss clients contact Discuss servers using TCP connections. Discuss uses Kerberos to authenticate users over the network. Kerberos is available via anonymous FTP from the same machine. Export restrictions apply to Kerberos. Discuss is released "as is". We hope that it will be useful. It carries the same Copyright provisions as Kerberos or X. Since Discuss has been a part-time project, the release is not as polished as that of Kerberos or X. Discuss was developed for 4.3BSD UNIX and has been known to work on VAXen, RT's, NeXT machines, DECstation-3100s and Sun-3's. Bug reports can be sent to bug-discuss@athena.mit.edu. -stan zanarotti (MIT Student Information Processing Board)