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Article #77FLORA Press Release
From: Russell McOrmond
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:00
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FLORA COMMUNITY WEB RECEIVES 64Kbps INTERNET CONNECTION FROM IGS
OTTAWA, Ontario -- December 20, 1996 -- FLORA Community WEB, a
volunteer based service to the Ottawa community, announced its new
sponsorship agreement with Information Gateway Services (IGS), one of
Ontario's largest Internet Service Providers. IGS is sponsoring a
64Kbps dedicated ISDN Internet connection and Russell McOrmond
Consulting is sponsoring another 64Kbps connection. FLORA's connection
speed will now be 128Kbps.
"This new connection between IGS and FLORA will give FLORA access to
the support available through IGS, and will give IGS customers very
fast access to the community services and people at FLORA", remarked
Russell McOrmond, technical volunteer for FLORA Community WEB.
FLORA is a destination on the Internet that runs a variety of
technologies, including World Wide Web, Newsgroups, and Email. The
site allows people to participate with other volunteer groups and get
involved with their community. The groups now residing on FLORA are:
the Citizens for Safe Cycling, Auto-Free Ottawa, Home Based Learning
Network, Ontario Federation of Teaching Parents, and the West End
Family Cinema. Special services include the Pednet (pedestrian
network), Alternative Transportation and Lynx discussion groups,
Ask-the-Doctors, Visually Impaired Information, New Canadian Books,
and Canadian Home School Information Resources, and the R�pertoire
Outaouais (Ottawa area WEB directory). New groups are encouraged to
visit and take part at FLORA.
For further information contact:
http://www.flora.org
http://www.igs.net
Frank Kahle
Vice President
Information Gateway Services
(613) 592-5619
frank@igs.net
Russell McOrmond
Technical Consultant
(613) 235-7584
FAX: (613)230-1258
russell@flora.org
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Russell McOrmond, Consultant: <http://www.flora.org/russell/work/>
(Internet/Intranet server admin,CGI programming,Web,Email,News, ...)
Community Volunteer: <http://www.flora.org/> <http://www.ox.org/ox/>
Help fight Spam on the Internet! <http://www.vix.com/spam/>
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