[net.railroad] Proposal

GEERT%BITNIC.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU (Geert K. Marien) (12/25/85)

The purpose of this mail is to see if there is interest in the following
project, and to obtain some general comments from the railfan public.


I propose that a non-profit organization be established.  The goal of this
organization will be:

  1) To keep and preserve information on all transportation carriers, and
     related organizations, including Rail, Air, Sea, Surface (Bus), and
     Municipal organizations;

  2) To publish various books related to same, at a price that is affordable to
     all;

  3) To publish a monthly newsletter, keeping members up to date on all trans-
     portation carriers included above;

  4) To establish a world-wide network for the gathering of such information;

  5) To establish a library for the preservation of this information.

** Note:  Other goals may be added.


I have 5 people lined up locally to start this project.  Our initial thought is
that $25 would be an acceptable fee, given that there will be a monthly news-
letter, and that we will be providing for some books at a very low price to our
membership.  These items will NOT be sold over-the-counter, only through mem-
berships.

Our plans call for the computerization of this information on an IBM/PC or a
TRS-80 Model II.

Please forward me mail with your comments as soon as possible.

My network addresses are:

   BITNET:    GEERT@BITNIC
   ARPANET:   GEERT%BITNIC.BITNET.WISC.EDU
           or GEERT%BITNIC.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA
   UUCP:      GEERT%BITNIC.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA
   CSNET:     GEERT%BITNIC.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA

ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (12/30/85)

> 
> The purpose of this mail is to see if there is interest in the following
> project, and to obtain some general comments from the railfan public.
> 
> 
> I propose that a non-profit organization be established.  The goal of this
> organization will be:
> 

For USENET people, this article originated on the RAILROAD arpanet mailing
list.

While probing for information is probably reasonable within the scope of
this group, you use the term NETWORK, which can be applied to both people
and computers.  You should note that conducting this sort of operation
using DDN facilities as you are now, would be likely to get some people
upset.

-Ron