Friends and Partners ListServer
Greetings!
We are pleased to *finally* make this first posting to the new Friends
and Partners listserver. We have been a bit overwhelmed by the volume
of email since the announcement of the new information service last
Wednesday. We want to thank each of you for your interest in this effort
and, for those of you who have written, we want to thank you again for your
kind and encouraging words.
It has been a busy week.
Over 14,000 accesses of the world wide web server, over 360 subscribers to
this listserver, and more than 100 very generous expressions of help have
made this a most rewarding (if sleepless!) week. Many have expressed their
enthusiasm for this attempt to use the Internet as a means of encouraging
friendships and new working partnerships between peoples in all of our
countries -- and to bring together information about the excellent
efforts of so many individuals and organizations who are working towards
this same end.
While answering email has slowed our own development activity this week, it
has been most exciting to witness the beginning of a truly international
team of people willing to contribute to the development of this service.
In this first posting, we want to do three things: (1) list some
statistics about the use of the World Wide Web server this week -- we think
that many will find this of interest (but we quickly add that this will
*not* be a regular feature of such postings!); (2) briefly introduce some
new material on the WWW server; and (3) summarize some of the contacts,
developments, and offers of assistance we have received during the past 6
days.
Natasha and I want to make so clear that our role in this effort is but
to provide a 'home' for this information and to help facilitate work
between people who wish to contribute. Whether this effort remains but
a curiosity or evolves into a truly helpful service will depend completely
upon the interest and efforts of others. We invite your comments, your
suggestions, your criticisms, and, most of all, your offers of help!
For everyone's sake, we hope that our writings will make up only a small
portion of the activity on this list. Please send your suggestions, hopes,
fears, etc. to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu. We will 'digest' these postings
and transmit the resulting file each evening.
Let the postings begin . . .
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Server Statistics
We thought that many of you might find of interest these summary statistics
of WWW access during Jan 19 - 25. The full file of statistics is available
from the home page of the F&P WWW server.
Files Transmitted During Summary Period 14910
Bytes Transmitted During Summary Period 80870101
Average Files Transmitted Daily 2130
Average Bytes Transmitted Daily 11552872
Access by Client Domain
---Domain---------------------Accesses--------Bytes--% Files-% Bytes-----
Australia 164 807955 1.10 1.00
Belgium 5 16759 0.03 0.02
Brazil 2 7379 0.01 0.01
Canada 291 1156306 1.95 1.43
Switzerland 135 583276 0.91 0.72
Czech Republic 6 21059 0.04 0.03
Germany 227 1109917 1.52 1.37
Denmark 25 177205 0.17 0.22
Spain 2 13569 0.01 0.02
Finland 116 497509 0.78 0.62
France 140 776481 0.94 0.96
Hong Kong 1 6909 0.01 0.01
Hungary 13 51245 0.09 0.06
Ireland 26 132145 0.17 0.16
Israel 5 35993 0.03 0.04
Iceland 10 22954 0.07 0.03
Italy 118 1772054 0.79 2.19
Japan 83 527362 0.56 0.65
Mexico 8 39473 0.05 0.05
Netherlands 236 1210018 1.58 1.50
Norway 96 514378 0.64 0.64
New Zealand 2 13569 0.01 0.02
Portugal 7 34771 0.05 0.04
Sweden 111 535553 0.74 0.66
Singapore 12 50209 0.08 0.06
Slovenia 6 28078 0.04 0.03
Soviet Union 136 672968 0.91 0.83
Taiwan 8 53177 0.05 0.07
United Kingdom 354 1611336 2.37 1.99
United States 28 141235 0.19 0.17
US Commercial 1749 8059985 11.73 9.97
US Educational 7127 41853181 47.80 51.75 ****
US Government 932 5491369 6.25 6.79
US Military 118 516806 0.79 0.64
Network 153 712964 1.03 0.88
Non-Profit 233 1180740 1.56 1.46
unresolved 2083 9664484 13.97 11.95
**** Over 2,000 of these accesses are from our own host machine --
reflecting over 400 telnet sessions from all over the world
for our special 'friends' account.
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What's New
News Service. The excellent Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty daily postings
are now being archived under the news section. Some additional items have
been posted to the Moscow Summit archive.
Weather information for Moscow and St. Petersburg has been updated
(this should soon be done automatically each day).
Server statistics (including access by country) are now included as
an option from the home page.
Current exchange rates for the Russian currency have been updated (on
the economics/business page).
Notice of the The Financial / Economic Network has been added to the
economics page as well as a description of the The Russian Graduate School
of International Business. We have also added a link to a gopher server in
Vienna, Austria at the University of Economics and Business Administration.
A hook to the World Wide Web server about the East-West International
Conference on Human-Computer Interaction has been added to the Funding
Opportunities page. This server also contains hooks to several other
interesting resources.
A new section under "Education" is being prepared on The Alliance of
Universities for Democracy. This is a consortium of over 70 universities
devoted to "Enhancing the role of higher education in promoting democratic
institutions, economic development, and common moral and social values."
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What's Coming (and recent developments) . .
We are very excited about the new relationship with Sergei Naumov from the
University of North Carolina. Sergei has already developed
collections of Russian artwork, poetry, news, etc. and is in process of
developing a WWW server of such material. We are hoping to work together
in several areas. We have placed a hook to Sergei's gopher material
from the home page of the 'friends' server.
We welcome the efforts of "The Alliance of Universities for Democracy" --
more information will appear soon -- look on the Education page.
Under the music section, we have had two very generous offers for some
digitized music: from the University of Oregon, we are hoping to receive
some ulaw files by the Irkutsk Philharmonic Society. From San Francisco,
we will soon be posting some music played at the International Accordion
Festival in Vilnius this past year. These audio files should be available
for your 'listening pleasure' in a few more days.
)From site eskimo.com, we will soon provide a WWW version of their excellent
GlasNews newsletter.
We have received several generous offers of software, fonts, etc. for
helping with the display and printing of Cyrillic text. We are planning to
establish an ftp archive of such on our system with a hypertext reference
from the F&P server.
We have had several suggestions and offers of help for telecommunications
and computing assistance from various companies and from the International
Science Foundation.
We received an offer from a school principal in the northeastern U.S.
to begin work on an information 'exchange' program with Russian schools.
We have had offers from Vienna, Austria and from Moscow for the
establishment of
'mirror' servers to help speed access to the material from Russia and
from Central and East European sites. Natasha is actively working to
establish a mirror server in Pushchino.
Dirk van Gulik is working to establish for us an interactive 'talk-room'
(fascinating project -- you will see!)
We have received several offers to assist with such efforts as typing,
transcription, and translation.
We have received several offers to provide us with photographs and slides
for publishing on the server. The server should have much additional
'graphic' material in about a week.
We received a very generous offer from the City University of New York for
material describing all aspects of computer-aided language activities and
natural language processing (e.g., machine translation, text data- bases,
language instruction -- native and foreign -- text analysis, and the
linguistic dimensions of electronic communication).
We have received several notes from people who have made very open-ended
offers of help.
Several more suggestions and offers of assistance will be
summarized and posted here in the next digest.
Finally, in answer to a question we have seen a few times, there is (no)
charge for access or use of this service (other than your own local
computing / telecommunications fees (if any)).
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Once again, we thank each of you for your interest and hope
to hear from many as we begin our work together on this service.
Please write with your comments, criticisms, and suggestions
(and, of course, those offers of help).
Natasha Bulashova Greg Cole
Pushchino, Moscow Region Knoxville, Tennessee
Russia USA
natasha@ibpm.serpukhov.su gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu
PHONE: 615/974-2908
FAX: 615/974-6508
Greg Cole
Research Services
The University of Tennessee Phone: (615) 974-2908
211 Hoskins Library FAX: (615) 974-6508
Knoxville, TN 37996 Email: gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu
From gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu Thu Jan 27 23:29:12 1994
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 23:35:23 -0500
To: friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu
From: gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Greg Cole)
Subject: January 27, 1994 Digest
Greetings,
The following are changes and additions made to the F&P WWW server today. In
particular, you may wish to look at the new materials on the Global
University and the U.S.-Russia Electronic Distance Education System (EDES).
* The RFE/RL daily postings are updated through January 27.
* The full text of US President Bill Clinton's state of the union
address is now available under the News section.
* Some interesting material on the Global University and the U.S.-Russia
Electronic Distance Education System (EDES) is available from the
Education page. Many thanks to Dr. Takeshi Utsumi, President, Global
University in the U.S.A. for providing these materials.
The following represents some very interesting mail posted to the
FRIENDS list today, January 27, 1994.
Please continue posting comments and suggestions (and offers of help) to
friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu. Thank you!
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Sender: RHamburg%SPEA%IUSB@Vines.IUSB.Indiana.Edu
Subject: re: Friends and Partners ListServer
Thank you. Now that I have cleared up the confusion about my new
password (thanks to Greg!) I am most pleased to be a part of "Friends and
Partners".Computers and internet in particular have truly made the world a
"neighborhood", at least technologically. Most impressive and I know that your
hard work will be rewarded.
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Sender: sides@sdsc.edu (Stephanie Sides)
Subject: another offer of help translating Russian to English
Hi Greg and Natasha --
What a wonderful service you are facilitating! I have long wondered how I
could more practically join my previous life (8 years studying Russian,
obtaining an MA in Russian translation and interpretation...no jobs...) and
my current life (mgr of information services at the San Diego Supercomputer
Center). Now I seem to have found it!
Please mark me down for offering help in translation Russian to English --
while my Russian is a bit rusty (particularly the spoken variety), I'm
still pretty adept at reading and translating and would like to help in
that area. I'm even willing to take on some technical/scientific subject
areas, given the world I work in -- I could probably find help from
colleagues in most major sciences, particularly chemistry, and obviously
high-performance computing (parallel processing, networking/communications,
scientific visualization, etc.). And my husband is a researcher in
underwater acoustics and could probably help out there!
Stephanie Sides
619-534-5131 (work)
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Sender: Yuri.Semenovsky@Eng.Sun.COM (Yuri Semenosky)
Subject: Re: Friends and Partners ListServer
Dear Greg and Natasha,
Let me introduce myself.
My name Yuri Semenovsky. Currently I am working as Consultant in SUN
Microsystems, Inc. 4 years in the USA.
In 1985-1989 I was very involved in Human Rights Movement in Russia.
Member of Press-Club Glasnost. Coordinator of the first in soviet history
The International Seminar on Human Rights - December, 1987. And so on. In
1992 I went on a trip to Moscow and for 7 months worked as Political
Director of Russian-American Bureau on Human Rights. At that period I
established the first professional independent journal on Political Science
"Russian Political Review". This publication attracted political experts
from Russian Parliament, Government, several independent groups of experts.
We succeded to publish 4 issues /more than 100 pages each/.
I continue to be in touch with some russian politicians, with my old
friends - former russian dissidents.
Your project F&P is very attractive and important. To enlarge
communication between the USA and Russia is extreme important in this very
unstable time of Russian history.
I would be happy to help you as much as I can. I will be very glad to help
F&P in a field of Political Science - my strongest skills are there. I am
political analyst and very, very independent. If you have some ideas how I
can participate in your project please send me letter or give a call.
Good luck,
Dr. Yuri Semenovsky
59 E.Rosemary Ln., #B
Campbell, CA 95008
Phone/FAX: 408-866-5143
E-mail: yuri.semenovsky@eng.sun.com
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Sender: pw@shannon.tellabs.com (Peter Wise)
Subject: Contact in Shannon, Ireland
Hello,
I'm Peter Wise. I live and work in Shannon, Ireland.
As Shannon Airport is a major stop-over point for flights between Russia etc.
and the Americas, and a venue for pilot training, we have quite a contingent
of Russians, Ukrainians and so on, courtesy of Aeroflot.
I would be happy to act as a contact person. If, for example, if anyone
wants to contact someone specific here, I will gladly try to contact them.
My wife and I had actually thought to hold a party, "A Russian Evening"
perhaps, to make friends with some of the Russians etc. here. I have heard
also that a Catholic Priest nearby (Bunratty or Kilaloe I think it was)
holds events especially for Russians.
I will not, unfortunately, be able to actually use the WWW facilities as,
at present, I have only Email access to the Internet (not real-time access),
so I will have to keep in touch via this forum.
I'm sure that this forum and the WWW will prove that International
Friendship is alive and well and LIVE on the Internet!
All the best,
Peter Wise,
Tellabs Ltd. ------------------------------------------
Shannon Industrial Estate, | Knowledge is as wings to man's life, |
Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland. | and a ladder for his ascent - |
Tel/Fax: +353-61-471433/471000 | Baha'u'llah. |
Email: pw@shannon.tellabs.com ------------------------------------------
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)From: IN%"edunn@well.sf.ca.us" "Highgate Road Social Science Research
Station-Ethel Dunn" 26-JAN-1994 11:51:50.69
To: IN%"GuroffA@Sovset.ORG"
CC:
Subj: Russian journals need a home
Please, can you put this on your net? Highgate Road Social Science
Reseearch Station needs to dispose of old Russian jornals from the
1970s-1980s, e.g. Novyi Mir, Filosofskie nauki, Voprosy filosofii, and the
Vestniks in social sciences of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmeniaand
Moldavia, one year (1972) of Sovetskaia muzika, a file of Vestnik drenei
istorii, and Sovetskaia arkheologii. Some issues have been ripped up to
serve as texts for translation, but most are in good to fair condition.
We'll give them to any library that can pay library rate postage. Ethel Dunn
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Sender: Christina Stockton (SPORTS@UCSFVM.BITNET)
Subject: Re: Friends and Partners ListServer
I am very interested in pre-Revolutionary Russian History. specifically
the period of 1600 - 1918. I would like to hear from people who share
this interest. Thank you.
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Sender: Roger Leger (roger8@u.washington.edu)
Subject: Re: Friends and Partners ListServer
Dear Greg:
Thank you for your report on the encouraging take-off of yoiur friends
and partners project.
I note from your access report 6 accesses from Slovenia. Is it possible
to get the e-mail addresses of those who called from Slovenia?
And, in general, how do you see your activity relating to initiating and
sustaining specific connections between parties in these various countries?
Thank you for taking time to deal with this message. We have someone
going to Slovenia on January 30 and are anxious to see what net
connections might be facilitated by this trip.
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Sender: "Cefola, Raymond N." (CEFOLA@druginfonet.pharm-epid.pitt.edu)
Subject: member list
Hello
I just want to thank you for taking the time to organize this
remarkable undertaking. The better we understand each other, the
better off we ALL will be.
To that end I would like to make a suggestion. Other groups to
which I belong have a MEMBER LIST as well as a brief BIOGRAPHY
including areas of professional specialty. Nothing fancy, just a few
facts to let us know about the interests of the membership. This may
come about further down the road but it might be worth beginning.
Thanks again.
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Sender: brunwin@knoware.nl (Robert Brunwin de Jong)
Subject: BIO new subscriber
Dear friends. I want to introduce myself as a new 'friend'.
I have spent half of my career in newspaper journalism, the second half in
public information on development co-operation issues. I finished being
employed in 1988 and went on free-lancing since, spending my time, amongst
many other things, on script consulting for a TV-series assigned by
Canadian CIDA, marketing research for the EC and UNDP in the field of
tv-production and distribution, writing narration for a few institutional
film productions, and training broadcasters from so called 'developing
countries' in the philosophy and methodology of public interest
communication.
In between career activities, I studied Sociology (Leyden University) and
added public information as an extra package to that (same university). A
few times a year I still have the pleasure to write for enjoyment and
'profit', for instance for the "Kampeer- en Caravan Kampioen", a monthly
magazine in Holland for people who like camping with tents or caravans. I
DO enjoy that change of focus.
I am a nominated member of the Board of Advisers of Radio Nederland
Training Centre, which develops and gives upgrade courses to professionals
from Radio and TV from everywhere, except North-America and Europe.
Recently, the centre has been organising some (irregular) courses from
professionals who came from Central Europe and the Middle-East. And I am
now preparing, together with a colleague from Leyden University, a
potential course for Public Information professionals and young political
journalists from Romania and maybe some other central European countries.
I have traveled extensively (except in the former 'Socialist Bloc', where
members of the Netherlands Foreign Office weren't encouraged to go except
for a term of duty (embassy or things like that) or official mission. But
because I only covered the relations between my Minister and the so called
developing countries, 'the rest of the world was mine'.
I am now trying to use a commercial set up (a private company with limited
liability, officially since January 1st this year) to do things and use my
talents and experience for aims I see as worthwhile and necessary. Like
good training which can open the eyes of often wonderful and sympathetic
professionals, who're often so fascinated by all the thrilling aspects of
technology that they forget that it is content and human quality of
communication that counts, not machines, tricks and gadgets.
That may be enough for now, but I'll answer any question that may come up,
of course!
Robert Brunwin de Jong, Wassenaar, The Netherlands.
OFFERING INFORMATION WITHOUT THE CONTEXT THAT GIVES IT MEANING NOT ONLY
DOESN'T MAKE SENSE BUT VICTIMISES THOSE IN NEED TO BE INFORMED. IT IS
UNJUST, CARELESS AND WRONG ALTOGETHER.
Greg Cole
Research Services
The University of Tennessee Phone: (615) 974-2908
211 Hoskins Library FAX: (615) 974-6508
Knoxville, TN 37996 Email: gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu