Worm Breeder's Gazette 11(2): 5
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The Internet is an international computer network. It is much faster and more reliable than Bitnet and provides facilities for connecting to and running remote machines (Telnet), transferring very large files (FTP) and remotely querying other machines (finger) as well as for standard electronic mail. An Internet connection will be required to remotely access the electronic worm community library being developed by Bruce Schatz at the University of Arizona ( schatz@cs.arizona.edu). The Internet is physically based on the NSFnet and the many regional high-speed backbone networks in the U.S.; it is typically based on the national network (such as JANET in the U. K.) in other countries. Internet communication within the U.S. is essentially real-time; international Internet communication typically takes only a few minutes. As most academic institutions are already on the Internet, getting an Internet connection to your laboratory will be straightforward in most cases. Internet is very easy to use. For example: mail cfields@nmsu.edu will send me electronic mail. Similarly: telnet haywire.nmsu.edu will connect your computer - and hence your terminal - to our machine haywire at NMSU, allowing you to logon and run programs remotely, while: ftp haywire.nmsu.edu will connect your computer to haywire and allow you to transfer very large - many megabtye - files. The latter two functions often do not work internationally due to mismatches in communication protocols (they require the TCP/IP network standard), but sending international email is as easy as sending email within a single country. One of the following will probably work for getting an Internet (1) If your email address ends in .edu or .com (U.S.), .uk (U.K.), . oz (Australia), .ca (Canada), .jp (Japan) or one of a number of other national identifiers, you already have an Internet address. Please send me email (address above) with your address, so that I can add your address to a community Internet address list. (2) Talk to someone in your computer science department. They will probably be able to refer you to a campus networking person, or simply to give you an account on a machine that is already connected and that you will be able to access from a lab terminal. (3) Get in touch with me for help. I may be able to determine whether your site is connected, and if so, who to talk to, via the Internet itself. I have already assembled an initial list of worm community Internet addresses and emailed it to everyone on the list. This list will be updated and sent to everyone on the list periodically.