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From: Albania Networking Forum <albnet@info.irex.org> To: sghuter@psg.com Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 20:38:58 -0400 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 ------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jul 95 07:44:07 EDT To: albnet-l@info.irex.org From: petraq@agen.ufl.edu (Petraq Papajorgji) Subject: Re: e-mail services in Albania >Subject: Is this Albania link for real? > While I was in Albania two weeks ago, this month, I > found out about a promising possibility > for email service to be offered by a Tirana firm, > INFOSOFT. Mr. Grigor Joti (Tirana tel. 355-42-32990) > of INFOSOFT met with me and implied that the necessary > telephone connection to Italy had been arranged for and > that it should be available momentarily. This may turn > out to be vapor, like so much that is promised in > Albania but, if it materializes, it will be very > reasonably priced. For a one-time 500L registration > and 5L for 2KB of transmission one would obtain a phone > accessible mailbox, (boxname)@VOL.AL. > > Would those of you in Albania keep track of this > development and inform me whether or not this works out? > >******************** > Albert A. Blank <u1555@f.nersc.gov> > Prof., Computer Science Department, 1N215 > College of Staten Island > 2800 Victory Boulevard > Staten Island, NY 10314-6600 > > Tel. 914 738-7678 > FAX: 718 918-7617 > email 1: blank@postbox.csi.cuny.edu.us > email 2: u1555@f.nersc.gov.us > >======================================================== There have been many efforts, done by different groups, to establish e-mail services in Albania. The most interesting group has been INIMA (Institute of Informatics and Applied Mathematics) in Tirana. They already have network connections in place developed during the famous Tirana network project. This was an old french project applied in Albania that never gave the excpected results. Anyway the phisical telephone connections are in place. University of Tirana has been dealing with this problem too. The main problem that all different groups are facing is the MONEY, who is going to finance the project, who is going to pay the bill. Of course neither INIMA nor the University have the financial means to afford and give the professors the possibility to communicate for free with the rest of the world. Harry Fultz school in Tirana recently was about to buy the necessary equipments and using UNDP's or SOROS's (I am not sure) satellite dish to establish connection with the rest of the world. I think the network is initially design to provide Albanians NGO (Non Governmental Organisations) with e-mail services. I do not think that INFOSOFT has the capabilities to provide such a service and less with a "reasonable" price. This problem is far beyond INFOSOFT capabilities. Very few private companies will afford to pay INFOSOFT such a service. The best source to get information about this problem are people at Harry Fultz school or Agim Cami who installed the network for UNDP. Regards, Petraq Papajorgji Postdoctoral Associate Agricultural Engineering Department University of Florida Gainesville, Fl. 32611 tel: (904) 392-7721 fax: (904) 392-4092
