..Appendix E. - Community Network Technology.....

Software
Community Networking

Community Information Exchange, Inc. (CIX)
info@ix.net
513-321-7463
Cincinnati, OH
WWW: http://www.ix.net/cix


FreePort 
Many Free-Net systems use the FreePort software, which is available from
Case Western University, Cleveland, for $850 for NPTN affiliates. There
is fairly general agreement that this software - as it exists - is inadequate.
Many community networks use FreePort software that has been modified with
code developed by the National Capital Free-Net organization in Ottawa.
Contact NPTN for more information. 

Metasystems Design Group, Inc.
703-243-6622
fax 703-841-9798
info@tmn.com
WWW: http://www.tmn.com/
2000 North 15th Street, Suite 103
Arlington, VAÊ22201

InterLink (Also see Chester County [Pennsylvania] Interlink in Appendix C)
Eric S. Raymond
esr@locke.ccil.org
WWW: http://www.ccil.org/~esr/home.html

Bulletin-Board Systems

FirstClass
SoftArc, Inc.
905-415-7000
sales@softarc.com
100 Allstate Parkway 
Markham, Ontario, Canada

Galacticomm
The Major BBS, Worldgroup
(954) 583-5990
sales: (800) 328-1128
fax: (954) 583-7846
online service: (954) 583-7808
WWW: http://www.gcomm.com
sales@gcomm.com
4101 SW 47th Ave., Suite 101
Ft. Lauderdale, FL  33314

World Wide Web Browsers

About Java
http://www.javasoft.com/about.html

The HotJava Browser
http://www.javasoft.com/hotjava.html

Shareware, Public Domain, or Copyleft Software

GNU Software
Send mail to info-gnu-request@prep.ai.mit.edu.

I-COMM (Graphical Browser For Shell, VAX, and FreeNet Account)
icomm@talentcom.com
WWW: http://www.talentcom.com/icomm.htm

Linux Archive
WWW: http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/welcome.html

Linux Journal Web Site
WWW: http://www.ssc.com/

MUD Software
Essentially all MUD server software is freely available for FTP, although 
it is not technically in the public domain; usually the authors retain a 
copyright. For example, here's a URL for the latest release of the LambdaMOO 
server software:

   ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/MOO/LambdaMOO.tar.Z

MUD Resources
WWW: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/÷lwl/mres/mfaq.html

Delivery Channels
CableLabs, Inc.
WWW:http://www.cablelabs.com/

Internet Service Providers

WWW:http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/
  Internet_Service_Providers/Internet_Access_Providers/Regional/

@Home Home Page (TCI and Kleiner/Perkins/Caulfield collaboration)
WWW:http://www.home.net

The Glenview/Northbrook Community Model
WWW:http://www.ncook.k12.il.us/

Papers from MIT (both by S. E. Gillett)
WWW:http://www.tns.lcs.mit.edu/publications/
  1. Connecting Homes to the Internet: An Engineering Cost Model of Cable vs. ISDN
  2. Public Policies to Encourage Cable and ISDN Internet Access

Wireless Technologies and the National Information Infrastructure

WWW: http://otabbs.ota.gov/T218

Other Software

eVote: Frontier Systems
415-493-3631
e-mail: eVote@netcom.com

HyperMail
WWW: http://www.eit.com/software/hypermail/hypermail.html
3790 El Camino Real, #147
Palo Alto, CA  94306

Safe-Tcl Specifications (Documentation, working implementation, and examples)
WWW: ftp://ftp.fv.com/pub/code/other/safe-tcl.tar

Safe-Tcl Overview Paper
ftp://ftp.fv.com/pub/nsb/safe-tcl-ulpaa-94.{txt,ps}

Safe-Tcl Distribution List
Send mail to safe-tcl-request@cs.utk.edu.

World Wide Web Robots, Wanderers, and Spiders
WWW:http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/robots.html

I hope that this information is useful to you. Please feel free to send me (Doug Schuler) your questions, comments, and corrections. I will try to keep the information in these pages current.