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From: David A Horne <David.Horne@octacon.co.uk> To: sghuter@psg.com Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 14:25:48 -0400 > Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 20:38:49 -0400 > Reply-to: albnet-l@info.irex.org > From: Albania Networking Forum <albnet@info.irex.org> > To: dah10@goole.octacon.co.uk > Subject: Re: Is this Albania link for real? > > Following is Petraq Papajorgji's response to Mr. Blank's recent query. > I'd like to take the opportunity to mention that we seem to have > lost the connection to Diane Hambley's Internet group in Tirana. > If anyone has any news on their activities, or on how Bill Eldridge's > work is going at the Fultz Schoolp, please let the list know. > > - Ian Watson > Albnet-L moderator Let me introduce myself. I am the manager of two projects part-funded by the European Commission under the "COPERNICUS" programme. They are called "ETCETERA" and "HANNIBAL" - don't ask what the names mean! We are working with Gudar Beqiraj and Neki Frasheri at INIMA in Tirana to develop Internet services (mainly World-Wide-Web). They are implementing web servers and dial-up service (yes - really!). The projects also include partners in Bulgaria, Romania and Poland. I agree that at present there is NO Internet connectivity within Albania. Our project is developing the necessary know-how and infrastructure in INIMA to provide the standard Internet applications (email, ftp, www etc.) so that this can be rolled out quickly when there IS connectivity. At present, we talk to INIMA via mailboxes in Italy, sending always to 2 in parallel - they dial up with terminal emulator from Albania and pick up the mail with basic file transfer - line noise is a big problem. These mailboxes are:- inima@inima.it inima@saritel.it Please feel free to contact them if you wish. (Actually the projects are about WWW trading over Internet, but that's a different story........) I hear that there is a chance of Internet for at least the academic community via a PHARE project in which organisations like DANTE are involved, but probably nothing before next year at the earliest. Regards, David Horne, Technical Director, Octacon Ltd. -- David.Horne@octacon.co.uk (Octacon Ltd Tel/Fax:+44 1642 210087/518) "ONYX" - Internet service provider to Northern England and Ulster
