Message-ID: <199810251842.UAA03197@linux.lisse.na> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 20:42:35 +0200 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LINUX.LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: Accessing email away from base To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Shiv,In message <mailto:36334413.5943@mcmail.com>, Shiv Satchit writes:
> > For someone having had all the answers on previous occasions with
> > regards to Internet in rural areas that very question demonstrates
> > total and fundamental lack of understanding of the Internet.
> >
> This is your perception. This has got nothing to do with the
> understanding of the basics of the Internet.
Oh it does.
> If you had read the message correctly it says clearly that the
> problem is restricted specifically to Mauritius where there may not
> be a POP.
And why is that? Actually, you are, again, like the last time, prooving my points, albeit involuntarily.
But let's see, from the unix command prompt:
whois mauritius
comes back with many lines so we refine:
whois mu3-dom
and see that it is managed by UUNET Internet Africa and find three email addresses:
mailto:yann@NETBOX.COM (or yann@ID.MU)
and of course Colin Pinkham:
Then of course there is the Network Startup Resource Center http://www.nsrc.org and any decent web search will show you much more so you can make appropriate arrangements. In fact
http://paradigm.wn.apc.org/africa/countdet.CFM?countries__ISO_Code=MU
is quite interesting
> My work is in the specialist areas of setting up Satellite
> Broadcasting for video, audio and datacasting and I am currently
> involved with a IT project of setting up a newsagency to promote
> social development.(something you don't go along with, because from
> your previous response you asked why do I think poor villagers need
> ICT? I do not think it is up to anyone of to decide or to judge
> what villages need or not. We all know what humanity needs by way of
> necessities. IT is today one of them. This is not a substitute for
> water, electricity or food as you put it.
Gosh, do they *NEED* a newsagency to promote social development...
> > What you do is you go to the ISP in Mauritius and tell him something
> > like: "Hi, I am one of these high paid foreign Internet consultants
> > here to tell your government how to run your life, can you please
> > explain to me how to get on the Internet?"
> >Sarcastic and patronising as your attitude is, your response is not helpful
> >at all.
You are so right. Sorry, I apologize.
You of course go to the ISP in Mauritius and say: "Hi, I am one of these high paid foreign Internet consultants setting up another of these useless programs that nobody here wants nor needs but makes me a fortune in per diem alone, can you please explain to me how to get on the Internet?
> >You may be the only wise guy who must have been born Internet-wise
> >or genius. Some of us have to learn. You cannot possibly be Mr
> >Know-It-All.
How revealing :-)-O
> In "Dialup Networking" create a new connection with the parameters the
> > ISP will give you for the local dialup. In your Mail program (Eudora?)
> > you change *NOTHING*.
> >
> > This suggested solution assumes you have a POP or a Cybercafe on the island.
> > And on your final report, don't forget to change all instances of
> > Zimbabwe to Mauritius. Not the Great White Hope, eh?
Sorry, again, Zimbabwe is not an island, you knew that, right? And you do know that I live in Namibia, which is a developing country in Africa?
> Word of Advice: If you are not so inclined to help on this newsgroup or
> list you are not obliged to respond. Just ignore it.
Ignoring the likes of you and your unecessary projects is not enough, opposing is what is required.
el
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