Friends -- Friends and Partners List
About Friends	English (USA)
Welcome to "Friends and Partners", a mailing list designed to help coordinate and communicate information concerning the new U.S.-Russian jointly developed information service by the same name. Because of the confusion and traffic usually associated with such lists, we have implemented this this as a moderated list. We will 'digest' all postings and send out to subscribers 2-3 times a week. The purpose of this list? Basically, we feel that a listserver will provide the best mechanism for communicating with each other about the development of a new information service designed to: (1) help educate citizens of the United States and Russia (and the other states of the former Soviet Union) about our countries and cultures; (2) provide a common base of information about issues affecting relations between our countries; and (3) provide a common 'meeting place' where folks can find and communicate with each other. The primary motivation of this service is to help introduce new friendships and partnerships between our peoples. It hopes to build upon the excellent work already being accomplished by our governments and by the various groups, centers, and institutes who have been working for so many years towards this same goal of cooperation and friendship. It also hopes to build upon and contribute to the already excellent listservers in existence on the Internet dealing with U.S.-Russian-East European issues. If you wish to visit, the following uniform resource locator (URL) will allow you to connect to the World Wide Web server: http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/ (US site)<br> http://www.friends-partners.ru/friends/ (Russian site) If you do not have a WWW browser, you can use our 'friends' account. Telnet to solar.rtd.utk.edu. At the login: prompt, enter friends and press return (make sure to enter friends in all lower case). This will place you in a non-graphic WWW browser called 'Lynx' (on-line help is available). (Note: you must be emulating a vt100 terminal to use this method of access.) At the moment, it is more a 'framework' of an information system -- more 'heart' than substance. The goal is to help others build upon the framework -- to create and link together information on our nation's histories; our art, music, literature, and religion; our educational and scientific resources; our geography and natural resources, our languages; and our opportunities for communicating, travelling, and working together. The 'end product' -- an evolving and continually changing information resource -- should be useful to many and will hopefully help bridge the gap of understanding that exists between our nations. It will hopefully also demonstrate the potential for good that exists with this wonderfully chaotic, global resource we call the Internet. Please send us your comments, criticisms, suggestions (and offers of help! :-) ). Natasha Bulashova <br> Greg Cole <br> Friends and Partners Foundation <br> natasha@friends-partners.org <br> gcole@ friends-partners.org <br> To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Friends Archives.
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