News from: M V C o m m u n i c a t i o n s , I n c . P.O. Box 4963 Manchester, NH 03108-4963 (603) 429-2223 May 1993 Note: text copies of all issues of the monthly newsletter can be found on mv in the public archive; look in /pub/mv/inews. Also note, the entire public archive is now under the path /pub; it was under /news2/pub previously. MV's Internet presentation to the Boston Computer Society - NH Chapter Recently the Boston Computer Society (reportedly the world's largest and most prestigious such organization) formed a chapter in New Hampshire. After an organizational meeting in Manchester, the chapter continued with a meeting with an Internet focus at the New Hampshire Technical Institute on May 18. The meeting was well attended, with nearly 150 people there. MV Communications was on hand to lead two presentations on Inter- net: one for novice users, and one for those who had some idea what the Internet was all about. Kenn Goutal and Mark Mallett gave the talks, using live connections to MV to discuss and demonstrate such things as electronic mail and news, network routing paths, gopher, FTP, telnet, finger, whois, and so forth. If you would like information about the NH BCS chapter, contact Marlene Archer at the main BCS number (617-252-0600). This number is also the contact for general BCS information. MV will give a 10% discount on online accounts for BCS members. And, if you know of a group that would like us to give a presen- tation on Internet, give us a call. Networking meeting at the Nashua Library Internet is a hot topic all around these days. The day of the BCS presentation, we received an invitation to attend a talk by Jeanne Ryer (co-author of an introductory guide called The Internet Compan- ion) at the Nashua Public Library. This was a talk to involve librarians in networking, and to open up discussion of regional net- working in Nashua as well. Jeanne gave a really good talk, discussing how from her home in North Sandwich she was able to collaborate with a co-author she didn't meet until long afterwards on a book on informa- tion technology that she was not an expert on. Her role, she MV Communications, Inc. May 1993 - 2 - explained, was as guinea pig and professional writer. (It seemed quite appropriate that the very technology she was writing about enabled her to use and explain very advanced subjects from practically a wilderness environment.) She then spoke about networking, what it can do for librarians and people in general, and how to get connected. Jeanne is reachable by mail, incidentally, as j_ryer@pub.mv.com. AP focus on Internet Over the weekend of May 22-23, the Associated Press newswire car- ried a series of feature articles about the Internet, what it pro- vides, how to get connected, and some of the implications of being connected. We've heard reports from around the country that many newspapers ran these articles; hereabouts, the Manchester Union Leader was inspired to run a 3-day series about Internet (during which, we might add, MV Communications was mentioned). We know that more and more people in the media, and in the local media, are taking an interest in networking. This is a trend that can only increase. For instance, Ira Flatow devoted an hour of National Public Radio on May 21 to talking about the Internet with what was advertised as a direct Internet connection online (taking questions and comments elec- tronically in parallel with his broadcast). At this time there was also an Internet Treasure Hunt, where participants were invited to use the net to find answers to a list of questions. SLIP/PPP now available through MV Through a normal telephone line and V.32/V.32bis modem, you can connect your computer to the Internet using SLIP or PPP TCP/IP proto- cols. This means that you can directly access all of Internet right from your computer. MV has been testing SLIP connections for a couple of months now, and some of our clients have tried SLIP via a demo account that we've set up. As of June 1 SLIP and PPP will become part of our service offerings. We can set up a dedicated line for your exclusive use for a fixed monthly fee, or we can give you an on-demand SLIP connection at reasonable rates. Send mail to mv-admin@mv.mv.com (or call us at 603-429-2223) for more information. Things to remember about MV * We're looking for quotes to put into various press releases and the like. If you have any good words about how you're helped by connectivity in general, or us in particular, we'd love to hear from you. (We'll mention you and your company or keep it anonymous, as you prefer.) Thanks! MV Communications, Inc. May 1993 - 3 - * Feedback is always welcome by sending us mail (mv- admin@mv.mv.com) or calling us at (603) 429-2223. As we hope you understand, the office is often unmanned, but an answering machine will take your message. In an emergency, you can try to reach one of us via our home or daytime numbers: home day Mark Mallett (603) 424-8129 (603) 645-5069 Marta Greenberg (603) 429-2280 (603) 883-9300 * Have a special requirement? Let us know. For instance, if your system is shutting down for a vacation, we can install special handling of mail for your system (for instance, returning a recorded message to the sender, forwarding the mail to another place, or simply keeping your mail from being returned while you are down). * MV maintains an archive of files related to UUCP and networking, and of files of recent interest. This archive is in /pub on mv; a directory (updated nightly) is in the file /pub/ls-lR, with a compressed version of /pub/ls-lR.Z. Files in the archive include mail and news software for MSDOS and the Macintosh as well as UNIX; Ian Taylor's alternative UUCP package for UNIX; information about Internetworking; uucp maps for all of the USA and Canada; MV, NEARnet, and NSFnet policy statements; program listings from Doctor Dobbs Journal; etc. MV Communications, Inc. May 1993 .