Daily Digest for 94-02-01
The following are changes and additions to the WWW server yesterday.
* The interactive 'coffee house' (or 'talk-room') where interactive
discussion can be posted is now available. There are several 'rooms' devoted
to specific topics but you can also create your own 'part of the mansion'.
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 to the F&P server!
* Wayne Chinander, a Ph.D. student of Russian history at the University of
Kansas has put together a very important database of information which
is available by telnetting to ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu and providing a login
of ex-ussr. Lots of good information here -- including files of
current leaders of the various FSU republics, sources of on-line info and
e-mail addresses in the FSU. A hook to this has been provided from the
"More Information Resources" page.
* An excellent new WWW server has just been announced by Serge Naumov
at the University of North Carolina. Called "Dazhdbog's Grandsons"
(as Sergei tells us the ancient Russians called themselves), this server
is available at the following URL:
http://sunsite.oit.unc.edu/sergei/Grandsons.html
This is (definitely) worth the trip! Make sure to go to "EXHIBITIONS"
and then on to Moscow. Lots of beautiful photographs and other
interesting information. A hook to this has been provided from the
"More Information Resources" page.
By the way, we topped the 400 mark last night on the number of subscribers
to this list. (not sure if that's important but it's kinda interesting!)
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The following represents mail posted to the FRIENDS list on
January 31, 1994.
Please continue posting comments and suggestions to
friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu. Thank you!
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Sender: WAYNEC@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 08:35:10 -0600 (UTC -06:00)
. . .
I have a database (es-ussr) available via telnet that has files of
current leaders of the various FSU republics, sources of on-line info and
e-mail addresses in the FSU. I will soon upload a new file of Who's Who in
all 15 former republics and add friends to the Lists file.
Perhaps Friends can establish a direct link to ex-ussr for your subscribers.
The address: telnet ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu login ex-ussr
Thanks,
Wayne Chinander, University of Kansas
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Sender: NORWOOD.RICHARD@forum.va.gov
Subject: Friends - Email gateway
Hello.
I'm enjoying being a part of this. It certainly has potential. When
you have established the E-mail gateway, will you please be sure to
announce it and provide instructions?
I have an interest in corresponding with English-speaking Russians
(I can't speak Russian) who have become interested in the writings of
Watchman Nee and Witness Lee, who are in the churches in Moscow or
St. Petersburg or scattered elsewhere in the former Soviet Union. I
am interested in spiritual fellowship, if there is a mutual interest.
I understood that religious and cultural connections were also a goal
of this service.
Thank you.
Dick Norwood
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Sender: acw@vaxi.bton.ac.uk
Subject:
Hello Greg and Natasha
I was just wondering if there was any possibility that there are any
other Computing Students out there who want to communicate via E-mail
or over this network if they prefer
Adam
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Sender: verb@milne.geology.yale.edu
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 10:01:31 EST
Dear Greg: Do you know an e-mail address of American Embassy/Consulate in
Moscow and/or St. Petersburg ? Thanks a lot.
Best regards
Dr. Mikhail Verbitsky
Department of Geology & Geophysics
Yale University
P.O. Box 208109
New Haven, CT 06520-8109
U.S.A.
tel. 203 432 3159
fax. 203 432 3134
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Sender: rpatton@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Richard Patton)
Subject: Geologists?
Dear Greg & Natasha,
Congratulations for establishing this most welcome service. I hope it
succeeds beyond your fondest hopes. This is a good forum for those of us
who would *like* to establish friendships and contacts with Russians, but
who are not in the political/business circles that seem to be in the
forefront of such efforts.
Myself, I am a graduate student in geology, doing some work in the new
so-called "diamond patch" in northern Canada. I am aware that Russia has a
large diamond industry, and I would like to establish contact with anyone
involved with any aspect of that industry, orwith glaciology or glaciated
terrain. Or anybody, really...
I'm looking forward to figuring out how all this works, and actually making
use of it. Thanks!!!!
Rick Patton
Email: rpatton@lamar.colostate.edu
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NOTE: The following note was sent yesterday to an organization which
publishes an excellent E-mail directory listing addresses in the former
Soviet Union and the Baltics. Natasha and I were hoping to begin work on a
similar effort when we discovered this resource. The following letter
describes our hope for a collaborative effort on developing a
comprehensive computer accessible/retrievable e-mail bio/demo database on
people and institutions of interest to this effort. Comments and
suggestions are welcome!
Dear friends,
A colleage of mine at the University of Tennessee suggested that I contact
you about a project recently begun by friends in Russia and the US to help
draw together information resouces on the Internet regarding
US-Russia-E/C-Europe issues and relations. We have named this project
"Friends and Partners". It is a 'grass-roots' partnership begun several
months ago with a good friend, Natasha Bulashova, of Pushchino, Russia. I
am including below the announcement that we made of the service on the
Internet as well as the first posting we made last week to our FRIENDS
listserver.
My colleague shared with me the wonderful E-mail Directory which I
believe you published last summer. This is one of the most useful
resources I have run across in my work with this new information service.
We were just to begin work on a similar effort when I discovered your
publication. I was informed that it was not certain if it would be
re-printed and indicated that your organization might be willing to help us
place this information on our on-line server. What I would like to do is
to publish the same sort of information with a few additions:
1) maintain a brief biographic/demographic sketch for anyone willing to
provide the information via a specially formatted e-mail form;
2) maintain the information in a Wide Area Information System (WAIS)
database which will permit rapid, full-text searching of the contents
of the information base;
3) create a geographic locale index which will permit searching by
geographic region. We also propose to use the graphic image
mapping feature of the WWW/Mosaic software to permit browsing via
graphic maps;
4) create an on-line listserver to accept directory entries for anyone
in the NIS who wishes to be listed;
5) provide hooks to the WAIS database from our WWW server and from
other Internet-based information services (gophers, etc.);
6) and, of course, provide all of this at no charge to anyone (since
we won't have printing costs, we can do this -- only costs are for
disk space, CPU cycles, and a little programming / maintenance
support -- the information is worth it)
Because there will still be a ready market for the printed publication, we
could provide the raw data for that publication (published annually?) to
your organization (or whoever you would agree should have it).
The name / institution / address / email information is of vital importance
to our new effort and we will be happy to work with you in any way that
will enable us to help you and that will allow us to have the excellent
starting position which your directory information would provide.
Please let me know if there is interest or if there are other ways in which
we can or should be working together.
Thank you.
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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