ANNOUNCING EMAIL JOTA'94
John Young (yo@SYDNEY.SYDNEY.SGI.COM)
Wed, 20 Jul 1994 07:08:42 EST
G'day
1st Balmoral Sea Scout Group, located in Sydney Australia, invite you and
your Scout/Guide unit to participate in EMAIL JOTA'94.
I would appreciate email feedback from you if you are interested in
participating. I would also welcome suggestions on other elements that
we could add to the basic concepts set out below. For example someone
has already suggested we should set up an IRC "chat line".
Please let me have your feedback as soon as possible.
Yours in Scouting
JOHN YOUNG (GROUP LEADER) phone: 018 973 143
1st BALMORAL SEA SCOUT GROUP international: +61 18 973 143
PO BOX 193 SPIT JUNCTION NSW 2088 fax: t.b.a.
AUSTRALIA email: yo@sydney.sgi.com (temporary)
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF AN EMAIL JAMBOREE
IN PARALLEL WITH JOTA'94
OVERVIEW
The objectives behind the Scouting & Guiding Movements all round the
world running their annual Jamboree of the Air (JOTA) is for
Scouts/Guides to make friendships with other Scouts/Guides all round
the world. This year Mosman District Scouts, located in Sydney
Australia, will extend the basic concept of JOTA to include the use of
electronic mail (email). This will be brought about by creating a
direct connection for Mosman District Scouts and Guides to the
Internet. Internet is an international network of some 20 million
computers which can exchange email messages and news broadcasts with
each other.
Most international, commercially-based and hobby-based email networks,
such as AT&T Easylink, Compuserve, MCIMail, The Source, GEnie, FIDOnet,
Applelink The many commericial email services which can gateway to the
Internet, such as Compuserve, MCImail, Applelink, Pegasus, Genie,
Source and Prodigy have "gateways" to the Internet, which means that
many Scouts and Guides can participate in JOTA'93 from the comfort of
their home, school, university or place of work.
HOW WILL IT HAPPEN
At 1st Balmoral Sea Scout Hall Mosman District Scouts, Guides,
Brownies, Cubs, Rovers, Rangers, Venturers and their Leaders
will be broadcasting on 2 or 3 amateur radio rigs provided by
a local radio club. There will also be a dial-up
phone link between a UNIX computer called 'scoutnet', and a
commercial UNIX email service. This service is linked to AARNET,
which in turn is linked, via an international gateway located at
the University of Melbourne, to the Internet.
In the weeks leading up to JOTA which happens worldwide on
during October Scouts and Guides will be able to use the email service
to pre-arrange times and frequencies for radio contact with other
Scouts/Guides.
They will also be able to use internationally distributed news
groups to broadcast written articles to people associated with
Scouting/Guiding in one role or another. One of the most
appropriate newsgroups for Scouts/Guides is called
"rec.scouting".
If you know the email address of another Scout/Guide then they
can send a persoanl message to them.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
John Young
Group Leader
1st Balmoral Sea Scout Group
PO Box 193
Spit Junction NSW 2088
Australia
phone: 018 973 143
international: +61 18 973 143
UNIX email: yo@sydney.sgi.com (temporary)
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