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In a message dated 08 Oct 92  09:23:12, limited shell account - Roy Wood wrote:

 RW> From: rrwood@canrem.com (limited shell account - Roy Wood)
 RW> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 23:22:13 GMT
 RW> Organization: Canada Remote Systems
 RW> Message-ID: <1992Oct07.232213.16296@canrem.com>
 RW> Newsgroups: k12.ed.math

 RW> I'm currently working on some Macintosh software with the goal of
 RW> providing UseNet access in the Mac lab at school, and I'm curious as to
 RW> whether anyone else has done something similar on other platforms.  I'd
 RW> like to hear how well the kids have taken to mail/news, and what sort of
 RW> pitfalls I'm likely to encounter (e.g. posting of obscene messages,
 RW> alt.binaries.pictures.erotica, etc.).

 RW> Just for those who are interested, I'm going to use UUPC as the uucp
 RW> agent for a server machine, and ToadNews as the news unbatcher/expirer. 
 RW> The kids will be able to use a program I'm writing to "log in" to the
 RW> server over AppleTalk, and then read/send mail and news.  For starters,
 RW> I'll introduce my computer classes to it and make it available
 RW> before/after school, but I hope I can eventually lure the non
 RW> -technophobes from English, History, etc. into getting involved with it.

Well, I used to carry k12net via USENET for the local area (city of Medicine Hat) schools.....along with a variety of other USENET groups....like rec.humor.funny, comp.risks, comp.newprod, misc.consumers.house, comp.sys.amiga.*, etc.

I found that reception was varied.  Those who were into computers caught on quickly and some even wrote messages.

The rest either lurked about for a few days and then stopped, or others didn't come back after the initial log on.

Part of the problem, could be that USENET is quite a big jump from what they can handle....since its quite a different structure from other types of BBSs.

The main thing I guess would be to get the students comfortable with USENET, before seeing how it works.

This is something that'll probably have to be done when we get an Internet connection for area schools....too bad k12net won't be a part of this.


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