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Re: A solution that would certainly help TFN

#361
From: Bruce Becker
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 00:00
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In article <En1rI4.JFH.0.bloor@torfree.net>,
Jordan Blanchard <cy328@torfree.net> wrote:
|Nabil Mohamed El-Khodari (ad613@torfree.net) wrote:
|
|: not know why there is also gts.torfree.net and csas.torfree.net. Please 
|: do not confuse the readers by saying that the GTS is Bruce's server. This 
|: is only partly true; www.gts.com IS Bruce's server, not gts.torfree.net. 


	www.gts.ORG & www.gts.NET live on the system I
	am currently typing on.  gts.torfree.net is also
	the exact same system, accessed via an alias.


|: : 3. When an office volunteer or visitor uses 'not' to connect to the TFN.
|: : 	This is the cheapest possible way to connect to the TFN
|: : 	from the office. Since 'not.torfree.net' is connected to the
|: : 	Ryerson network, we use it to telnet to the TFN. It uses no phone
|: : 	lines, and most of its use is very low bandwidth.
|
|: Duh. The Ryerson Network is directly connected to the TFN. You do not 
|: need to have a special server at the office to be able to connect to the TFN.


	The Ryerson network is not connected directly to
	the TFN at Roger's site in any way.  Rogers happens
	to have provided a connection to the Ryerson media
	centre, but that has no relation to the TFN's systems
	(packets from "not" to "torfree.net" are routed thru
	Ryerson's ONet connection).


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From: bdb@GTS.Net (Bruce Becker)
Subject: Re: A solution that would certainly help TFN
Date: 1998/01/19
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