NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/biz/comp/services/411

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Path: sparky!uunet!thehulk!munroe
From: [e-mail] (Dick Munroe)
Newsgroups: biz.comp.services
Subject: DMConnection: UUCP, NEWS, and much, much more
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 1 Jan 93 04:01:26 EST
Organization: Doyle, Munroe Consultants, Inc., Hudson, MA
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DMConnection
Doyle Munroe Consultants, Inc.
267 Cox St.
Hudson, Ma 01749
[phone]
(FAX) [phone]
[e-mail]
...!uunet!thehulk!postmaster

DMConnection provides UUCP connections, domain registration,
Usenet NEWS feeds (partial or full), FREE connections for K-12
schools located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, discounted
connections for DEC partners and BCS members as well, and other
services to customers requiring UUCP or interactive access to the
internet via UUCP in the New England area.

We automatically archive the following news groups:

    alt.sources
        biz.sco.sources
    comp.binaries.mac
    comp.sources.misc
    comp.sources.reviewed
    comp.sources.unix
    comp.sources.x
    vmsnet.sources

and have made these archives available via mail based archive
servers.  We will archive other news groups as requested by our
customers.

We also provide a number of speciality news groups, principally
gateways to various mailing lists of one form or another.
For example, we gateway:

    Desperado - a periodic news letter of great amusement.
    EJournal - a erudite journal on electronic
           communications.
    Gopher - discussions of the Gopher software.
        MacApp3Tech$ - Technical support for the MacApp framework.
        MIME - a multimedia mail reader.
    Think-C - problems and solutions programming the Mac in
          Think-C.

And provide them as newsgroups.  We will add gateways to mailing
lists as our customers request.  A full list of the DMConnection
gateways can be retrieved by sending a message containing:

SEND DMC-HIERARCHIES
QUIT

to [e-mail].

In addition, for Digital Equipment Corporation ISV/CSO/etc. 3rd
party partners, we provide access to the contents of the ISVNET
notes files as news groups.  In order to receive a feed of these
news groups you must request the feed by sending a message to
[e-mail] from ISVNET.

We also make contents of the latest DECUS Languages & Tools CDROM
available at all times for UUCP file transfer.

DMConnection will add gateways, archive servers, news groups, and
other services as requested by our customers.   We are evaluating
the cost/benefits of a direct connection to the Internet.  Stay
tuned for further information.

We currently have over 3Gb of on-line storage and 55Gb of near line
storage in a Kodak 560 Optical Disk Library fully integrated with
VMS by software provided by Acorn Software and Doyle, Munroe
Consultants, Inc.

Our modems are Telebit WorldBlazer modems which support V.32,
V.32bis, V.42, V.42bis, and PEP for the fastest and most reliable
possible asynchronous data communnications.  The machines
supporting this activity are all Digital Equipment Corporation
VAX computers running VMS.  The UUCP and NEWS distribution
implementations are provided by DECUS.

DMConnection provides a number of distinct types of accounts
depending upon your communications requirements.

1. Low Volume UUCP

   a. $5.00 per month
   b. Includes 1 free hour of communication.
   c. $4.00 per hour beyond the first hour.

2. Moderate Volume UUCP

   a. $10.00 per month
   b. Includes 3 free hours of communication.
   c. $3.00 per hour beyond the third hour.

3. High Volume UUCP

   a. $20.00 per month
   b. Includes 8 free hours of communication.
   c. $2.00 per hour beyond the eighth hour.

There is no charge for upgrading service (moving from low to
moderate or moderate to high).  A $5.00 fee is charged for
degrading service (moving from high to moderate or moderate to
low).

We also offer interactive accounts for customers who do not wish
to bring up UUCP.  The cost is $10.00 per month and $5.00 per
hour for any and all interactive time.

There is a one time $20.00 registration fee which covers updating
the UUCP maps, setting up the account for your host, etc.
Payment for services is required in full upon receipt of invoice.
Checks or money orders only.  Clients who prepay their accounts
receive a 10% discount on their account balance.  Members of one
or more of the following organizations receive a 25% increment to
their free communications time:

    Boston Computer Society
    DEC ISV/CSO/or other 3rd party organization.

Massachusetts schools in the K-12 grades will be provided a uucp
connection free of charge.  There are some restrictions and conditions
on K-12 accounts that are not part of the usual DMConnection terms and
conditions:

1. The school must have a computer that can run UUCP/NEWS (NEWS
is ESPECIALLY important) and, preferably, a FAST modem
(V.32/V.32bis + V.42/V.42bis or PEP).  The fast modem is crucial
if they are going to do any significant amount of news
collecting, e.g., the K12 groups.

2. The teacher/administrator in charge of the project must send a
letter to DMConnection on school letterhead (this is the authorization
part) requesting a connection. They must also fill out the DMConnection
subscription form and include it with the letter.

3. Any abuse of the connection, i.e., forged messages, attempts at
cracking DMConnection or other systems using DMConnection services,
etc. that are tracked to a school will result in loss of service and,
if possible, prosecution of the appropriate individuals.

4. Schools may not resell this service in any way.  This includes,
but is not limited to:

    a. establishing a BBS using the link to DMConnection
       for their NEWS and/or MAIL feed.
    b. establishing a UUCP network outside the school system proper,
       e.g., to individual homes.

Any school that does resell this service WITHOUT express permission
from DMConnection will loose their service AND be liable for the costs
of the service from the time they began to resell the service.

5. The only administrative identities recognized at the school will
be the postmaster and the postmaster's real identity.

6. DMConnection will not push data to schools.

Other that this, schools are full clients with full privileges to
DMConnection services.

Invoices are sent by electronic mail on the first of every month.
Special arrangements need to be made if this form of billing is
not acceptable.

Once your account is set up you will receive the necessary login
information by physical mail.  The registration form and terms
and  conditions follow.  To subscribe to DMConnection, please
fill out the registration form and return it by surface mail to
the address on the form.

For those of you who are interested, the following exchanges are local
to DMConnection:

    Berlin    838
    Bolton    779
    Hudson    562, 568
    Marlboro 460, 467, 480, 481, 485, 490, 624
    Maynard    461, 493, 496, 897
    Sudbury 443

DMConnection offers PUSHing data to customer sites instead of
requiring customers to PULL data from DMConnection.  For local
phone numbers, this service is offered free of charge.  For
numbers within the 508/617 area code, this service is provided
at a $12.00 per hour surcharge on top of any connection time.
For all other numbers, this service is provided at a $16.00 per
hour surcharge on top of any connection time.

Unfortunately, DMConnection is not connected directly to the
Internet. Therefore we cannot act as an authoritative name server
in the Internet sense.  Clients wishing to establish their own
domains will be provided with the necessary forms for
establishing them through UUNET.  UUNET charges $50 for this
service.  DMConnection acts as the official bridge between UUNET
and DMConnection client domains.

DMConnection offers UUCP file transfer access to our MX mail
server archives.  We continue to offer and support our MX mail
servers.  For full details on the current offerings of the
DMConnection mail servers, send a message to:

    [e-mail]

with the body of the message containing:

HELP
SEND INDEX

This file server will also provide you with details on the newsgroups and
mailing lists available to you via DMConnection.
--
Dick Munroe                Internet: [e-mail]
Doyle Munroe Consultants, Inc.        UUCP: ...uunet!thehulk!munroe
267 Cox St.                Office: [phone]
Hudson, Ma.                FAX: [phone]

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