paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash) (12/05/90)
I am a member of the Pretoria branch of EarthLife Africa, a South African environmental activism group. We are non-racist, -sexist, -ageist, and work with activists in other fields. We would like to gain access to EcoNet and similar networks, such as Greenpeace's Greennet. However international dial-up links are prohibitively expensive, which makes it extremely difficult. We have a local UUCP-based network, linking various commercial and privately-owned machines, and a TCP/IP-based network for the Universities. We have about three UUCP dial-up links to the USA, and use these for news and mail. Does anyone know whether it is possible to get EcoNet, GreenNet and other environmentalist or activist systems gateway'ed to UUCP mail? I currently subscribe to Rich Winkel's ACTIV-L mailing list, which gets burst into a local newsgroup very successfully. I have sent mail to bleland@cdp.UUCP (who, I believe, is the director of EcoNet). Is there anyone else whom I can contact, either at Eco- and PeaceNet, or at GreenNet? Is anyone currently running such a gateway (other than Rich's [manual] PeaceNet -> ACTIV-L gateway)? Are there any other networks that I should try to contact? If so, please mail (or post) contact names and e-mail addresses. All responses will be valued, and if I get any useful information (and especially if such a gateway is feasable) I will pass it on. paul ---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=--- Paul Nash Flagship Wide Area Networks (Pty) Ltd paul@frcs.UUCP ...!uunet!ddsw1!proxima!frcs!paul ---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=--- Paul Nash Flagship Wide Area Networks (Pty) Ltd paul@frcs.UUCP ...!uunet!ddsw1!proxima!frcs!paul