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because it does't implement the TCP/IP protocol suite to link with the
Internet via the leased line directly.that is why CANET is unable to do
FTP and R-Login recently.Also,this is the reason that CANET's user has to
pay the international communication fees not only for sending mail but
also for receiving mail.
8) First Hand Material: From <xiaofan.zhao@cnlab.nci.crn.cn>
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From xiaofan.zhao@cnlab.nci.crn.cn Sun Apr 12 17:19:05 1992
Date: 13 Apr 92 8:11 +0800
From: Xiaofan ZHAO <xiaofan.zhao@cnlab.nci.crn.cn>
To: Qiang Alex ZHAO <azhao@cs.arizona.edu>
Dear Alex,
Following is some information about CRN for your reference.
Regards,
Xiaofan Zhao, NCI, Beijing, China
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The Chinese Research Network (CRN), founded in 1987, aims at
* Providing electronic communication means, based on
the PSDN and any available communication networks,
to the Chineses scientsts, engineers, professors and
other reaserchers to facilitate them in exchanging information
and coordinating cooperation with their partners in China
and abroad.
* Supporting and coordinating the development and promotion
of OSI conformable applications ammong Chinese scientific
and research community.
* Organizing the cooperation among CRN members and their
foreign partners.
Eight members of CRN have been interconnected at present, including
research institutes, universities and academic organizations in Beijing,
Shanghai, Chengdu and Shijiazhuang. More institutions will join CRN in the
future.
MHS (email), VT (PAD), FTAM, X.11 have been installed at the member
institutions on VAX/VMS, VAX/ULTRIX, SUN/UNIX and APOLLO/UNIX. CRN has
established more than ten direct MHS connections with the member countries
of European Research Networks (RARE), including Germany, Norway and
Switchland, and could exchange e-mails with almost all the research
networks, eg Internet, in the world via RARE gateways.
Chinese MHS (CMHS), dased on DFN-EAN and enhanced by CRN, with Chenese
character and encryption capability has been also installed at some CRN's
member institutions on VAX/VMS and SUN/UNIX systems.
The CRN Board consists of the representatives from her member
organizations, which is responsible for
* Developing CRN's plans and rules
* Helping academic and research institutions to join CRN
* Maintaining the services provided by CRN
* Helping CRN's members to solve technical problems
* Organizig and coordinating the development projects
* Contacting and coopreating, on behalf of CRN, with the peers
in China and abroad
Help desk addresses are:
Beijing:
CRN's Help Desk <helpdesk@cnlab.nci.crn.cn>
North China Institute of Computer Tech. <postmaster@cnlab.nci.crn.cn>
China Academy of Electr. & Info. Tech. <postmaster@cc.caeit.crn.cn>
Computer System Engineering Institute <postmaster@dep9.cse.crn.cn>
Shanghai:
Fudan University <postmaster@cnl.fudan.crn.cn>
Shanghai JiaoTong University <postmaster@ee.sjtu.crn.cn>
Shijiazhuang:
Shijiazhuang Communication Lab <postmaster@tcl.scl.crn.cn>
Chengdu:
Southwest Communication Institute <postmaster@tulip.sci.crn.cn>
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In article <1992Nov16.131624.6963@abo.fi> abulsari@aton.abo.fi (A. Bulsari) writes:
It is futile to keep this newsgroup alive when most foreigners have
become taciturn in the company of Finns. Foreigners have nothing much
to say about anything. Perhaps foreigners are not interested in other
foreigners and neither are Finns interested in foreigners very much.