>I agree. I'd much rather see this Newsgroup used as a way of
>connecting Native American communities and further Native American
>causes, then try to explain basic premises of the Lakota religon to
>bored NASA employees.
>
>How can I help?
Yeah, how can she help?
I thought the Net was used for R&D only - you know, non-commercial
people can buy it to exchange notes and schools can exchange knowledge.
I guess Usenet is commercial - i don't know.
So can individual communities/nations/rezs get on the net
without being part of some big school/R&D lab? Who would pay?
IP machines are a pain to maintain, T1s are expensive (X.25 would
work better but require PADs and money and pain) and rezs are
rather dispersed. One could run slip, but even then you need
someone to run the machine (like SLIPing off a university)
and the performance is poor. Would NSF/Arts pay for something like
this? Is Gore going to extend Net access?
I would be really interested in this if it's possible -
hey, something i could finally help with!
(i'm graduating soon - anyone want to hire a nearly
knowledgeable MIS kid?)
- baylor