@S1-A.ARPA,@MIT-MC.ARPA:Mills.Multics@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA (08/13/85)
From: Mills@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA A number of the Naturist groups along the east coast have been discussing methods of better coordinating their political activites. A major problem in doing this is effective communication between the different groups. Some people have suggested e-mail as a solution, but given that few if any of the groups have any computer equipment it would seem that the initial outlay for equipment and software would be rather high. I have investigated using utilities like the Source and Compuserve, but once again price becomes a major problem. This led me to think about non-computer networks that utilize telephones and/or U.S. mail. The only such network I have heard of is the "Phone-Tree"? that the L5 society uses. (This is why I am posting this to Space as well as Human-Nets). If anyone has any info on how the L5 net works, if it realy exists, or how any other phone/mail net works I would greatly appreciate it. Any references to books/articles on how to build such a net would also be very interesting. We are talking about approximately 30 groups east of the Mississippi, mostly on the coast, with about 5 people in each group that need to contacted with each "posting". John Mills send replies to Mills at CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA