e-mail to the Near East (122)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Thu, 20 Apr 89 20:04:10 EDT


The following is in response to my inquiry about electronic mail
connections to Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere in the Near
East.

W.M.
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Humanist Mailing List, Vol. 2, No. 867. Thursday, 20 Apr 1989.


(1) Date: 20 April 89, 09:46:36 SET (19 lines)
From: Marc Eisinger +33 (1) 40 01 51 20 EISINGER at FRIBM11

(2) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 89 16:15:04 EDT (62 lines)
From: David Sitman <A79@TAUNIVM.bitnet>
Subject: Humanists on GulfNet and elsewhere in the Near East?

(3) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 89 11:13:29 GMT (11 lines)
From: Alain Auroux <AUROUX@FRMOP11>
Subject: Connection of Egypt

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Date: 20 April 89, 09:46:36 SET
From: Marc Eisinger +33 (1) 40 01 51 20 EISINGER at FRIBM11

Gulfnet and other expansions.

Egypt is going to join EARN very shortly, the line between Cairo
and Montpellier (France) has been ordered and is expected within
a month from now. One machine will be first connected.
To my knowledge, one machine from Saudia Ariabia has been connected
directly to BITNET. I don't know if Gulfnet, a regional network
with some ten machines in Saudia Arabia and Koweit, will be
reachable through that first saudian machine.
TREARN is not a local network but the entry point for Turkey
(as BEARN for Belgium, GREARN for Greece and so on). If I
remember well TREARN is the Izmir University (but anyone can cheek
in the BITEARN NODES file available in various locations)
Finally, Jordan applied as well as Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia
and Jugoslavia.
Marc
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 89 16:15:04 EDT
From: David Sitman <A79@TAUNIVM.bitnet>
Subject: Re: Humanists on GulfNet and elsewhere in the Near East? (25)

Here's some information on the Saudi and
Egyptian nodes:



Date: Tue, 14 Feb 89 14:18:09 O
Reply-To: ILAN - improved Israeli academic network <ILAN-L@TAUNIVM>
Sender: ILAN - improved Israeli academic network <ILAN-L@TAUNIVM>
From: Hank Nussbacher <HANK@BARILVM>
Subject: SAKACS00 - new node in Bitnet

There is currently a new node in Bitnet that is in the process of
connecting - SAKACS00 - King Abdul Aziz City of Science and Technology
in Saudi Arabia. This node is connecting via GWUVM - George Washington
University in the United States.

Hank


Date: Thu, 6 Apr 89 12:39:45 O
Reply-To: ILAN - improved Israeli academic network <ILAN-L@TAUNIVM>
Sender: ILAN - improved Israeli academic network <ILAN-L@TAUNIVM>
From: Hank Nussbacher <HANK@BARILVM>
Subject: Egyptian node

Last month we had Saudi Arabia and this month we have EGFRCUVX - The Foreign
Relations Unit in Cairo University that now has a nodename and will be
establishing it's connection later this month.

Hank


:node.SAKACS00 :alias.GULFNET :nodenum.2749 :via.GWUVM :net.GULFNET
:aliasnum.2750 :site.King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology GULFNET
:abbr.King Abdulaziz City for Sci & Tech :system.VM/SP :machine.IBM 4361
:netsoft.RSCSV2 :msgs.YES :cmds.YES :files.YES :country.SA :longitude.046E 042
:latitude.024N 023 :connect.89/02/01
:postmast.(Mohammed Al-Tasan) AAIB01@SAKACS00 ((966) 147-7937) :mformat.PUNCH
:mclass.M :fformat.NETDATA :fclass.N :tformat.NETDATA :tclass.A
:contact.(Fahad Al-Hweimany) AAIC26@SAKACS00 ((966) 147-8800)
:inform1.(Mohammed Al-Tasan) AAIB01@SAKACS00 :info1.RSCS
:linkfail.(Mohammed Al-Tasan) AAIB01@SAKACS00 ((966) 147-7937) :planet.EARTH
:linkspeed.9600 :linktype.SATELLITE :addr.GULFNET;Riyadh, 11442 SA
:lastup.89/01/30


:node.EGFRCUVX :nodenum.2767 :net.EARN :lastup.89/02/18 :abbr.FRCU
:site.Foreign Relations Coordination Unit
:addr.Supreme Council of Universities;Cairo University Campus;GIZA;CAIRO - Egypt
:country.EG :gmtoff.+02.00 :planet.EARTH :director.(Mr Elkotb) (+20 2 728 174)
:contact.(Mr Elkotb) (+20 2 728 174) :system.VMS :netsoft.NJE :msgs.YES
:cmds.YES :files.YES :fformat.NETDATA :fclass.N :machine.VAX 11/780
:connect.89/03/01 :via.FRMOP22 :linkspeed.9600 :linktype.LEASED
:adjnodes1.FRMOP22 :adjtypes1.9L

Regards,

David
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 89 11:13:29 GMT
From: Alain Auroux <AUROUX@FRMOP11>
Subject: Connection of Egypt

This just arrived:

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
This is to inform you that the connection of Egypt to EARN is now operational.
The EARN Director for Egypt is Dr M. Elkotb (ELKOTB@EGFRCUVX).
The international line goes from Cairo to Montpellier.
Alain Auroux