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cwilson@flash.pax.tpa.com.au (Christopher Andrew Wilson) writes:

>A friend of mine is looking for a public access unix service with AARnet
>connections in the Brisbane are. If you know of any could you please
>reply with any info about joining it.

I would be interested to know whether any such services - UNIX for the
public - is available anywhere in Australia.  Unless you are a member of
a University (staff or sometimes student), it seems almost impossible to
gain AARNet access.

Unless, of course, you have your own machine running UNIX, and can convince
your local campus to let you run a SLIP line...

While I realise AARNet is (by definition), for Australian academics, this
is putting an extremely unfair restriction on the rest of the country.  As
most would know, the American networks (joined to us via the Internet) are
open to almost everyone.

Is it time for another TCP/IP, nation-wide network, catering to commercial
and public services, here in Australia?