Subject: New Service Announcement

From: [email-masked] (Andrew Chan)
Date: 24 Aug 90 04:50:06 GMT

New Service Announcement

                            8.23.1990

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     FTP REPOSITORY FOR CHINESE NEWS ARTICLES AND CHINESE SOFTWARE

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     In an effort to further the exchange of network news written in
encoded Chinese as well as to promote public interest in developing
Chinese software, a semi-dedicated repository, provided on a resources
permitting basis, is brought into service today for the archival of
Chinese-related materials which could find their way onto the Internet.

     The servicing host, nicknamed "news.cc.umanitoba.ca", is located
at network address 130.179.16.10, and is currently connected to the
Canadian CA*net backbone at 56kbps, with an normal effective throughput
of approximately 4 kilobytes per second.  

     All interested parties of Internet community are welcome to
retrieve any publicly available material online at the repository, as
well as to deposit materials they want share with others users.

     The repository is accessed via standard "anonymous ftp".  Typical
system command to invoke ftp (file transfer protocol) to connect to the
repository on UNIX and VMS systems is "ftp news.cc.umanitoba.ca", or
alternatively "ftp 130.179.16.10".  Login with "anonymous" and any
non-null password.  Further information is provided in the "README"
file on the top level directory, which you could retrieve by supplying
"get README" if you're using UNIX or VMS ftp.  You're recommended to
read this file first for your convenience.

     Chinese articles from HKU and other prospective sources will be
made available once they're received, and also computer programs to
decode and display the articles.  You are welcome to deposit articles
encoded with encoding schemes different from big-5, epson or gb, though
it works to the best of your and other users' interest for you to
provide utilities to decode and display them.

     In addition to anonymous ftp, other methods of accessing the
repository are being planned and will be offered as soon as September
1990, which include automatic email servers for retrieval activities,
as well as automatic forwarding by email subscription.  These are
intended for sites that are not connected to the Internet by TCP/IP.

     It is hoped that you'll find the repository useful.

     All Suggestions are welcome, and please send to Andrew Chan at
"[email-masked]".