To:    Dorothy Chan
       Hong Kong University
       Hong Kong
Centre of Compuer Studies and Applications
Fax: 599 7904
EMail: dchan@hk.hku.compsci (?)

From:  Jonathan Harston
       AFE Computer Services

Date:  ??-Apr-93

RE:    Electronic mail, Internet, JANET


I was given your name some time ago by someone on HKIEEE-BBS about six
months ago when I was originally trying to find some information about
sending electronic mail from Hong Kong on the Internet, specifically to
places connected to JANET in the UK.  I then had a lot of work to do, and so
personal projects had to get put on hold for a while.  However, my work and
my personal interests are converging again, so I am now contacting you.

Here we have a UNIX system that we use for central file-storing and for
in-house electronic mail.  I am exploring the feasability of being able to
send and receive email externally.  From my understanding, our UNIX system
would just need to be connected to you.  Mail we send would go to you, and
it would get passed to the UK along with all the other mail you have going
to the UK.  Mail coming to us would go from the UK to you along with all
your mail, and then our mail would come from you to us.  We would need to
discuss how to pay for IDD charges, etc.  It is likely that we would only be
mailing a small amount of mail, probably a few messages per week.  Mostly,
they will be to our associate UK company Acorn Computers, uk.co.acorn, and
to some Universities and some third-party Acorn companies.

Our UNIX system runs a version of BSD 4.3 UNIX.

I hope that it is possible for us to take this further, and possible meet to
discuss it.

 



Jonathan Harston