Daily Digest for 94-01-31
Greetings,
The following are changes and additions to the WWW server made over the
weekend.
* Changed the initial graphic map. Moved the "Cuisine" section to the
"Life" section and added a new 'button' for "More Information Resources".
* One of the items pointed to by "More Information Resources" is Vadim
Maslov's excellent FTP archive of Russian-related information.
* Added a whole series of documents from the "Funding Opportunities" section
on the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) - an organization
devoted to encouraging / facilitating collaborative and intellectual
exchanges between the scholarly communities in America and in the successor
states to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
There is a fascinating article here entitled "Boosting the Baud Rate:
Email and Connectivity in the Former Soviet Union". Thanks to Tony
Byrne of IREX for all of the IREX information.
* Added a new "Health Care Issues" page from the "Life" section. This is the
first step towards creating a forum for discussion and information sharing
on medical and health care issues.
* New hook to American Political Science Association Gopher from the
Economics/Business page.
* Updated RFE/RL daily reports, as well as Moscow/St. Petersburg weather,
and the current ruble exchange rates.
* For those using the friends account to access the WWW server, we have
changed the initial page so that you don't have to read our 7 page
letter upon every visit! (thanks to Tom Torriglia for the suggestion)
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Coming soon . . .
The following are some changes and new features of this service that
you will see shortly. Some of these will probably be made available
this evening:
* An interactive 'coffee house' (or 'talk-room') where interactive
discussion can be posted. There will be several 'rooms' devoted
to specific topics. Thanks to Dirk-Willem Van Gulik, a student
in the Department of Biophysics at Twente University in Holland,
for putting together this very innovative addition.
* An email gateway from our FRIENDS listserver to the FRIENDS
WWW service. This will enable those without direct IP access to our
server have full access to all of the information.
* Our first digitized music -- from Tom Torriglia and his band "Those Darn
Accordians", a light-hearted song entitled "Lithuania" performed on
their recent trip to the city of Vilnius.
* A possible new news service -- daily posting of the FBIS reports. Thanks to
Bonnie Phelps who is working on making this possible for us.
* A new "services" service -- devoted to information sharing on
practical services such as freight and shipping, computer
communications, travel accommodations, etc. Thanks to Greg Smith
for getting this going.
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The following represents mail posted to the FRIENDS list over the
weekend.
Please continue posting comments and suggestions to
friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu. Thank you!
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Sender: MARKRUCHMAN@delphi.com
Subject: physicans and russian healthcare
I am a physician in the USA interested in Healthcare in Russia/NIS
I would like to exchange ideas with my medical colleagues on ways to
improve medical care in Russia with particular interest and emphasis
on innovative telecommunications/publications.
lets talk!
thanks
Mark Ruchman M.D. FACS
Box 1446 Washington, Connecticut 06793
USA
fax 1-203-868-2736
email markruchman@delphi.com
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Sender: bphelps@cscns.com
)From: bphelps@cscns.com (Bonnie Phelps)
Subject: general comments
Greg -- my commendation to you all for creating friends. I'm sure that as
it grows it can be a good place for people to become friends and
colleagues, and for those of us in various research fields to collaborate
or exchange data and information, when it is not easy to acquire in one's
own country.
An area that I am particularly interested in, and would love to see
correspondence from, is the non-Russian republics. IMHO, this could be
the real linchpin of the future of how the country develops, and views
from those regions would be fascinating.
I do a lot of political/economic and business risk research and training,
so I am very interested in the WWW project.
BTW, the weekly RFE/RL Research Reports (available through SOVSET, I
think, as well as by subscription) is a very useful tool for Americans
who want to learn more about Russia and the former Soviet republics and
East Europe. Also, FBIS daily reports translate significant press,
official, legal, etc. writings and are organized in regional daily
publications. It is published by the U.S. government, and is available
by subscription and at government depository libraries in the U.S. The
JPRS reports are the same idea, only published "occassionally" because
they are longer and not time sensitive.
I tried to subscribe to the listserv group, but kept getting system error
messages. Would you please add me to your list? Thanks.
Looking forward to a dynamic group.
Bonnie Phelps
Strategic Planning Analyst
Russia and Eastern Europe --
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Sender: GSMITH@cc.weber.edu
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 14:02 MST
)From: GSMITH@cc.weber.edu
Subject: A section for Sercives in your new service
To: gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu
Hello Greg!
I would like to know what you think about the idea of setting up a
section for services offered, transportation and shipping in particular.
I am in touch with a company that is the major transportation expert in
freight shipments between the US and Russia. My contact at that company
has expressed an intrest in the Internet and I'm fairly certain that
he could provide valuable information for anyone interested in sending
packages to Russia.
I am faxing him information about your new service today and I will
run the idea past him as well.
I am very impressed with the service so far and I am scrambling to get
access through a browser so that I can take full advantage of it.
Keep up the good work!
Talk to you later,
Greg
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Hi Natasha & Greg!
My name is Joe Hughes. I hope I am not bothering you, but I have some
questions as I just logged onto the Internet today, and the only thing I can
do reliably at this point is send e-mail.
First, let me say congratulations on the marvelous work the two of you
have done getting this link going in the first place.
I am interested in space photos from Russia spacecraft. US pictures are
all over the US nets, but not Russian. Can either of you put me in touch
with someone, or some server which has them? (In GIF or BMP format
preferably)
I am particularly interested in the photos from the Russian Luna 9
spacecraft during the month of Feburary 1966, in the Ocean of Storms area.
The two Russian scientists originally involved were Dr. S. Ivanov who
has won the Laureate of the State prize and Dr. A. Bruenko and Alexander
Abramov.
Supposedly, these individuals and the agency they worked for
also have pictures from the American Orbiter 2 probe, which have been
withheld from the American public. The Orbiter 2 pictures were taken
in November 1966 in the Sea of Tranquility.
This is of particular interest right now because the US Clementime probe
will begin detailed mapping of the moon's surface Feb 24th. If there
really is something unusual in these two areas there is still time to
cause enough of a ruckus on the Internet, to ensure that these areas are
re-mapped and nothing is withheld.
My internet address is
jhughes@dri.mgh.com
My mailing address is
DRI/McGraw-Hill
1200 G St. NW 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Thank you for your time!
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Sender: Reino.Lipponen@kemka.tokem.fi
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 10:51:00 +0200
)From: REINO LIPPONEN (Reino.Lipponen@kemka.tokem.fi)
Subject: friends and partners
To: gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu, natasha@ibpm.serpukhov.su
Mime-Version: 1.0
Dear Natasha and Grec !
My name is Reino Lipponen and am working in and for The City of Kemi.
Kemi is a little but avanced City on industrial and artficial branches.
Thanks for your Friends and Partners-forum. I`m very impressed by your
"New Russia-American World Wide Web Server".
Until now I have visited once your solar.rtd.utk.edu - but I`ll get
more active as soon as I`ve got my gopher client and WWW programm.
What we need here in Northern Finland, is the contacts between people
in Russia and Finland. Contacts with business people we have. But people
in Kola Science Center we have lost.
If you know people in Kola Science Center with interest in business,
education, e-mail trafic etc, please transmit their e-mail adresses
to me.
Yours sincerely
Reino Lipponen
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NOTE: The following was posted this afternoon (01-30-94) to the
comp.infosystems.www USENET group. We are trying to locate a method
of providing email access to the material on our Friends and Partners
WWW server. This is for folk who do not have any sort of Internet
access other than email-access.
I will keep the group posted as to progress here . . . (and if we
don't find such a gateway product, we'll build it ourselves -- this
is important)
Greetings,
We have just established a new www server to which many of our interested
users (primarily in the republics of the former Soviet Union, but
also in other countries) cannot connect because many folk still do not have
direct IP access. I have heard of email gateways to the World Wide Web
which permit users to interact with a WWW server via email (slowly,
of course) but I haven't been able to find anything about them.
Can anyone suggest a solution? I am running NCSA's httpd_1.0 server (soon
to upgrade to 1.1) on a Sun Sparc10 running unix 4.1.3. I am also running
Anastasios Kotsikonas' excellent ListProcessor version 6.0. Ideally, I
would like a gateway between the ListProcessor and the httpd server. Do
such products already exist?
Thanks so much for any help.
Greg
P.S. Anyone wanting to visit the httpd version of this new server can
connect with: http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/home.html
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Sender: Reino.Lipponen@kemka.tokem.fi
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 10:51:00 +0200
)From: REINO LIPPONEN (Reino.Lipponen@kemka.tokem.fi)
Subject: friends and partners
To: gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu, natasha@ibpm.serpukhov.su
Mime-Version: 1.0
Dear Natasha and Grec !
My name is Reino Lipponen and am working in and for The City of Kemi.
Kemi is a little but avanced City on industrial and artficial branches.
Thanks for your Friends and Partners-forum. I`m very impressed by your
"New Russia-American World Wide Web Server".
Until now I have visited once your solar.rtd.utk.edu - but I`ll get
more active as soon as I`ve got my gopher client and WWW programm.
What we need here in Northern Finland, is the contacts between people
in Russia and Finland. Contacts with business people we have. But people
in Kola Science Center we have lost.
If you know people in Kola Science Center with interest in business,
education, e-mail trafic etc, please transmit their e-mail adresses
to me.
Yours sincerely
Reino Lipponen
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Sender: roberts@stolaf.edu
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 15:51:53 CST
To: gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu
Dear FRIENDS,
I am a professor of psychology at St. Olaf College, a liberal arts college
of 3,000 students located in Northfield, Minnesota. My colleague, Craig
Rice, and I have made some connections with college and university
classrooms globally so that our students in Cross-cultural psychology
might correspond with other students globally via email as friends, and as
collaborators on academic projects of their own choosing. We had a very
succesful contact with two university classes in Japan last semester. Are
there university teachers in Russia who would like to explore such a
partnership with our class of about 30 students this semester? (We could
make global connection by March 2, and our semester ends by May 5 or so).
We look forward to this possibility for exchange.
Bruce Roberts
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Sender: SCRUTON@delphi.com
Subject: help!
Hey, if you need any artwork designed for your efforts, just let me know;
I'll do some nice raytraced stuff fer ya!
.. complimentary, on the house, gratis, etc!
Dave Scruton
Fractallonomy
"reality is a sandwich I did NOT order"
- Zippy the Pinhead
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Sender: WLink@world.std.com
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 15:33:55 -0500
)From: WLink@world.std.com
Congratulations on this new service. I think more of those services on
the internet can only make this World a more understandable place. I
look forward to receiving the group's regualr postings.
Are you planning to promote business development between the two
countries as a part of your services? I would appreciate receiving
your early reply.
Best Regards & Good Lunk.
Asad
Wlink@world.std.com.us
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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