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Carolyn: Your question about BITNET access is a good one and I'll give the
best answer we have NOW. Last year UGA had difficulty supporting AERA members
who needed to sign on to bitnodes where they were using CMS operating systems
to gain access to their accounts on BITNET. The computing services group
from UGA did a GREAT job last year with limited resources and no prior
precident for having net access at an AERA meeting. But this year we HOPE for
better support.

AERA ENET SIG (Electronic Networking Special Interest Group) will be working
to establish a remote ethernet node off Tulane's ethernet backbone. On that
node we will support NCSA Telnet and tn3270 to connnect with your home systems.
It is our understanding that tn3270 should allow those of you with CMS and
BITNET at home to connect and check your mail. This is the system that was
used at EDUCOM this past year and it was seemingly successful there.

Now, having said that... please understand that what we are working to realize
at AERA is pretty tricky from a telecommunications standpoint. We are using
a voice line between the Sheraton and Tulane to connect a remote ethernet
hub through two routers (from Transware Inc.). One router will be connected
to the backbone on one side and an inbound modem on the other. The second
router will be attached to an outbound modem in the Sheraton on one side and
an Asante smart hub on the other side... to which will be connected six
machines (DOS & Mac) using Telnet or tn3270 (I hope I got those numbers
right this time...). We are prototyping the connection THIS WEEK and we hope
to have it tested before Monday AM.

But in the event that the Internet Daemons get us... everybody PLEASE
understand that in ENETSIG the difficult we do today... the IMPOSSIBLE takes
a little bit longer.

Bob Blomeyer
Techno-Gopher
AERA ENETSIG