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Started by Azael Barrera
Mon, 24 Jun 1991 06:38
Re: DECUS Questions Answered
Author: Azael Barrera
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 06:38
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 06:38
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Hello, dear fellow DECUS netters: In article <43@gobi.cs.utexas.edu> ctp@cs.utexas.edu (C.T.Poole) writes: >Some basic answers to DECUS questions: ... >3) What services does DECUS provide to its members? ... > i) DECUShare, a new service to allow subscribers to access the SIG > Symposia Distribution Tapes and a subset of the DECUS Library > on-line. This service is not yet available but funding has been\ > approved. Watch for the announcement of availability. Now, I have a couple of specific questions, and please forgive if I sound naive. - Does the access will be at the anonymous(or member name)-FTP level, or like a fee-paying service as a commercial site? If the fee is the policy in study to make available this service, is it going to be more expensive than the regular fee to get the tapes/disks? - Are the regular fees to obtain stuff from the Library going to be increased in a substantial way to mantain this new service? Any opinion, answer, or suggestion will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Azael barreraa@lamar.colostate.edu
Re: DECUS Questions Answered
Author: dsroberts
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 14:14
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 14:14
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In article <15659@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, barreraa@lamar.colostate.edu (Azael Barrera) writes: >>3) What services does DECUS provide to its members? > ... >> i) DECUShare, a new service to allow subscribers to access the SIG >> Symposia Distribution Tapes and a subset of the DECUS Library >> on-line. This service is not yet available but funding has been\ >> approved. Watch for the announcement of availability. I'm surprised at this. DECUShare has been on-line via DECUServe for some time now. The only thing un-implemented is seperate DECUShare access. Hmm... My understanding is that it is going to be a seperate subscription service with access similar to DECUServe when it is finally a seperate entity. > > Now, I have a couple of specific questions, and please forgive if I > sound naive. > - Does the access will be at the anonymous(or member name)-FTP level, or like > a fee-paying service as a commercial site? If the fee is the policy > in study to make available this service, is it going to be more > expensive than the regular fee to get the tapes/disks? If you are a DECUServe subsriber (currently $60 per year), it is NOW available via member name-FTP or dialup. If you access via dialup, I'm sure the line charges would end up being more expensive than library tape fee. But, for those of us with direct internet access ... :-) > > - Are the regular fees to obtain stuff from the Library going to be > increased in a substantial way to mantain this new service? > I haven't heard anything like this. It seems unlikely -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don Roberts Internet: don@beckman.com Beckman Instruments, Inc. Yellnet: 714/961-3029 2500 Harbor Bl. Mailstop X-12 FAX: 714/961-3351 Fullerton, CA 92634 Disclaimer: Always ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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