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From: jholland@mango.zw To: sghuter@psg.com Date: Tue, 30 May 95 11:55:26 +0200 G'Day sghuter@psg.com! On May 25 at 18:40, you wrote: > Do you have any papers or reports about Mango that you could make publicly > available in the database? Unfortunately not. > If not, even a brief technical description of your current setup/link would > be greatly appreciated. See notes below. > Date of Entry: 30 May 1995 > Contact Name: Jim Holland > Organization Name: Mango > Street: 13 Bath Road, Avondale > City: Harare > Postal Code: > Country: Zimbabwe > Telephone: 738695 > Fax: > E-mail: sysop@mango.zw or Sysop 5:7211/1 > Node/Host Name: Mango > URLs: Regards, Jim INFORMATION ABOUT MANGO ----------------------- Mango (Microcomputer Access for NGOs) is a voluntary organisation for Zimbabwean individuals and organisations who wish to communicate by email. It is not intended to service commercial organisations who need to communicate commercial material. Current membership (June 1995) is 260 users. Mango uses Fidonet technology to communicate inside Zimbabwe and to Fidonet nodes outside the country. It also has a gateway to the Internet that allows it to exchange messages with people having an Internet address. Mail transfer outside the country via the gateway in South Africa takes place three times a day. Mail is stored on the Mango PC in Harare which is accessed via a modem and local (Harare) phone call using Fidonet software (Marimba or FrontDoor, which use Binkley and Squish, for PC users and MacWoof/ZZWoof for Macintosh users). Mango also provides a number of external conference feeds on a variety of subjects, as well as various local conferences of interest to its members. Mango's current charges (in Zimbabwe dollars) are as follows: Joining fee $50 Monthly fee $20 Local messages free International mail $0,15/kB Contact address: sysop@mango.zw or Sysop 5:7211/1 TECHNICAL DETAILS ----------------- Hardware: 486DX33 + 8 MB RAM + 240 MB HDD Telebit WorldBlazer modem Software: MSDOS 6.2 FrontDoor 2.02 GEcho 1.01 Netmgr 0.99 Phone lines: 1 NETWORKING IN ZIMBABWE ---------------------- Mango is a FidoNet node (host) using Fidonet software: Host uses FrontDoor, GEcho and NetMgr. Points (callers) use Marimba User software consisting of MsgEd, Squish and BinkleyTerm. Contact: sysop@mango.zw or Sysop 5:7211/1 Mango's Internet mail is routed through 5:7101/26, which links to Worknet in South Africa, by dial-up connection. Worknet is an Internet/BBS system, with live links to the internet, offering SLIP/PPP connections for email, ftp, gopher, WWW, etc. They run SunOS and RFMAIL to send/receive to Fidonet. Contact: support@wn.apc.org Healthnet (for public health professionals) and ESAnet (for academics) are Fidonet systems operating at the University of Zimbabwe, routing their mail through Mango. Their Fidonet addresses are 5:7211/2 and 5:7211/3 respectively. Contact: sysop@healthnet.zw or sysop@esanet.zw Zimbix runs at the University of Zimbabwe, on a XENIX PC, with uucp mail, which can be browsed by dialing in using a terminal emulation package and then using ELM. OR Zimbix mail can be collected using uucp and the SNUUPM collection including Pegasus Mail, rmail, snews and uucico. Contact: johnux@zimbix.uz.zw Data Control is a full live Internet/BBS system in Harare, running Linux, with users using Trumpet Winsock TCP/IP and Eudora/Pegasus Mail for Windows for mail, as well as Telnet, FTP, Gopher and Mosaic/Netscape. Contact: robn@harare.iafrica.com
