[Fwd: Re: [seul-edu] BBS?]

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:

> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> From: Jim Laffey <cilaffey@showme.missouri.edu>
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] BBS?
>
> Alan,
> I suggest that you consider shadow networkspace as an option. It would
> allow you many of the features  you mention, as well as provide a means for
> setting up classes or workgroups.
>
> You can learn more about it at sns.internetschools.org
>
> We also provide pointers to many other systems with similar goals.....check
> out our support section.
>
> Jim
>
> >Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 10:31:42 -0400
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> >Eugene Davis <adavis@saipan.com>]
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> >From: Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@saipan.com>
> >To: seul-edu@seul.org
> >Subject: BBS?
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> >Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 00:29:15 +1000
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> >I have installed a network of four linux boxes in my classroom.  The
> >DC wants has a grant to install a dept-wide network, and I want to
> >connect.  We will also be on the Inet backbone "RSN" (soon).
> >
> >There has been some one-way discussion by the DC.  His grant required
> >him to set up this departmental  network  so that we can share
> >"desktops," etc.  He is a windoze man.
> >
> >I think to install a BBS, to facilitate real sharing among department
> >members, and to beat him to the punch, while he dreams up more ways of
> >"sharing" by way of spying on each other's desktops.  A BBS, I
> >reason---with little to no knowledge of the technology, and not even
> >having used any BBS for any time at all---might enable us to post and
> >share our ideas.  Perhaps files, images, etc.
> >
> >Meanwhile, I have been rewriting my web page---on my own
> >nickle---taylored toward my classes both at this school (public hs)
> >and the local college where I teach as an adjunct, part time.
> >
> >These  are perhaps two poles on the spectrum of the technology of
> >sharing.   As I say I am clueless.
> >
> >Does anyone have any ideas how this functionality can be had,
> >cross-platform?  Keeping it simple?  Yet secure.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Alan Davis
> >Marianas High School
> >
> >
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> >----- End forwarded message -----
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