From menlo70!hao!cires!harkins  Thu Jul 16 12:04:39 1981
Subject: the form
Status: R

Name of site:	University of Colorado
		CIRES
		Campus Box 449
		Boulder, Co  80309

What the site is all about:	Research, generally; specifically:
				Geophysics, rock mechanics, atmospheric
				chemistry-air and water pollution,
				climatology

Name of contact person at site:	Ernie Harkins
Electronic mail address of contact person:	ucbvax!menlo70!hao!cires!harkins
					or	menlo70!cires!harkins
U.S. Mail address of contact person:	Univ. of Colorado
					CIRES
					Campus Box 449
					Boulder, Co  80309
Phone number of contact person:	303-492-5528
			or FTS	320-6516

How the site is connected into usenet (what kind of link,
who the neighbor(s) are):	modified uucp,
				using Bizcomp's 1030 "smart modem"
				via Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research
				(NCAR)'s High Altitude Observatory (HAO)
				PWB site here in Boulder; they are the
				only formal "neighbor" so far; there are
				about a half dozen others that we may get
				into usenet fairly soon; we have a BUG--
				Boulder Unix Group that is growing fairly
				fast but few wizards about, so we have to
				do these things slowly; re: forwarding
				to other sites; yes we would be willing
				to do local calls once we get them up on uucp

Willingness (or lack thereof) to connect to new sites that
want to join usenet.  If you run uucp, tell if new sites can
call you, if you will poll them, what your policy is.
				Re: willingness; see above; re: policy;
				no formal policy yet, but we would probably
				want to do any forwarding overnight, especially
				if we become a nexus for more than 4-5 sites
				locally(I could be overridden on this "policy"
				but I doubt that I will be); If they would
				call us that would be that much better, but
				as yet, we have not raised the issue; we have
				only had uucp-usenet-netnews working for about
				a month, so wanted to make sure we had it solid
				before expanding.
If on the arpanet, are you willing to forward news on to new
sites by establishing an arpanet usenet connection?

				No direct ARPA access, though in the not
				too distant future our Computer Science Dept.
				is supposed to become a sub-host from the
				NBS(Nat'l Bureau of Stds) site here in Boulder.
				but they are extremely un-unixed at this point,
				ie, a lack of "true believers" who know what
				they are doing; they got off to a rough start
				by finding some bugs in the f77 compiler, so the				anti-unix forces in CS have gotten them to
				run VMS part-time and unix part-time; ugh!;
				Feldman was out here and after being shown the
				apparently real bugs reportedly is doing his
				rewrite; they already have the bell-vax dist,
				and have gotten also the ucb vax distribution,
				but at last report are awaiting the new f77
				to go whole hog to unix; we'll see how it goes.
If you want to publish your uucp phone number, login, and password,
include that info.
				I hate to sound dumb, but I'm a little vague
				on the protocols, etc. for uucp, since we were
				handed a package to install by USGS, without
				knowing what-all was going on; if this question
				refers to our normal dial-in number, that's
				303-492-5431, but wouldn't a would be dialer
				have to have a uucp account here?  as for the
				login and password, isn't that a function of
				the uucp account(s) that we might have elsewhere
				or am i really confused?
				In general, I would prefer to only have one
				path for all the incoming news, since I can
				see (and have already seen a few cases) where
				we could wind up getting the same stuff more
				than once if multi-paths existed; i understand
				that work is underway to try to avoid this, but
				a small number of paths seems surest to me; ??




