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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada
From: matthew_-at-_davin.ottawa.on.ca (Matthew Darwin)
Date: 6 Aug 1999 20:32:17 -0400
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9908062012450.28138-100000@calcutta.flora.ottawa.on.ca>
Ian is porting everything to Solaris for y2k reasons. I would expect large amounts of downtime this fall as they move from SunOS. On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Russell McOrmond wrote: > > I don't know the authenticity of this, but the National Capital Freenet > is still running the FreePort junk that came from here. I realize that > NCF admins have been bandaiding that stuff since then but are there plans > to move the NCF to Chebucto or similar for their TTY dialup users? > > --- > Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://russell.flora.org/work/> > Is the inheritance you are leaving your children in the form of debt? > http://www.flora.org/flora.action-forum/709 > Lets live up to our responsibilities. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 12:47:08 -0500 > From: Paul Nielson <pnielson@ILOS.NET> > Reply-To: Universal Access Canada / Canadian Coalition for Public > Information <CPI-UA@CCEN.UCCB.NS.CA> > To: CPI-UA@CCEN.UCCB.NS.CA > Subject: [CPI-UA] FW: the end of an era... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike O'Connor [SMTP:mike@haven.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 6:54 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: the end of an era... > > > a passing... a sad thing. > > m > > - - - - - > > August 5, 1999 > > Y2K knocks out first U.S. free-net > > CLEVELAND (AP) -- Cleveland Free-Net, the first free U.S. community computer > network, is a victim of the Year 2000 bug. > > The system, which started as an electronic bulletin board in 1984 at Case > Western Reserve University, is scheduled to go out of business on Oct. 1. Its > operators said the system would self-destruct at year's end because the > computer program written for it can't recognize the year 2000. > > Operators have decided to get out early. > > "It's just sad to see it go," said David Bunsey, who has used Free-Net almost > since its inception. "It's an institution." > > Raymond Neff, vice-president for information services at the university, said > rewriting Free-Net's computer program would take too much time and personnel. > And it still wouldn't have the "glamour of the Web," he said. > > As its name suggests, free-net is free service and a tool for computer > users to > communicate. But does not offer flashy graphics or services offered by > commercial Web sites. > > At one time, Cleveland Free-Net had 10,000 users a day. Now there are about > 7,000. Many major cities in North America have similar free-nets. > > -- Matthew Darwin Westend Family Cinema Community Volunteer The home of great family movies! matthew@davin.ottawa.on.ca webmaster@familycinema.org http://www.davin.ottawa.on.ca/~matthew/ http://www.familycinema.org
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