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Access your mailbox conveniently via any Web browser through our Web Mail System.
Our Usenet News operations transit NNTP news with sites around the globe.
DSRS is a Usenet News abuse tracking engine, available to qualified applicants involved in the battle against abuse.
We sponsor interactive games on the Internet, including a number of popular Quake servers.
We maintain a multi-state backbone network to support our operations.
We gather a large variety of statistics from all of our equipment.
Web interface to our pager system.
User configurable web counters and mail forms for our virtual web users.
We offer Internet domain name registration services.
WHAT IS SOLARIA?
Solaria is a privately owned network of UNIX systems that I have chosen to
make available to the general computing community. I believe Milwaukee
needs a no-charge public access UNIX site, similar to what Lake Systems
once was, and I find myself in a position to fill some of that need.
WHAT CAN SOLARIA DO FOR ME?
Solaria offers several services that are not easily accessible to many people.
Bulletin board systems offer a limited set of services and files, due to their
design. Solaria is not a bulletin board system. It is a multiuser computer
which allows you access not only to information that is on Solaria, but also
on other systems via UUCP (and someday directly via the Internet itself).
Solaria offers Usenet news and Internet mail services, which are the UNIX
equivalents of the more commonly known FIDONET. Internet mail can reach
any site on the Internet, and most UUCP sites. Many major vendors of
software and hardware can be reached this way, and commercial data services
such as CompuServe can also exchange mail. Usenet news offers over ten
thousand newsgroups on many varied topics. Solaria also offers a complete
C development system, with both the traditional Sun tools and most of the
GNU project tools. All of the standard UNIX utilities are available. In
the future, we intend to gain a connection to the Internet itself, and to
offer interactive network services. If these things are all Greek to you,
Solaria is probably not something you would find useful.
WHAT DOES IT COST?
Nothing. However, Solaria's growth will be dependent largely on donations
from it's users. Equipment is expensive, and there are maintenance costs
including phone lines, repairs, and back-up tapes. With sites like MIX
offering what little they do for as much as they ask, it seems reasonable
to ask people to donate if more lines are wanted or if there are other
needs.
WHAT DO I GET?
All Solaria accounts have access to news and mail. Users are assigned a
standard quota of 10 megabytes of storage. This is not a license to use
it all, but it is often convenient to be able to temporarily use more than
the small quotas many other systems provide. Regular accounts have access
to the entire system via either a menuing system or a variety of UNIX
shells.
DISCLAIMER:
Solaria is a private system, and I can make no guarantees about what will
happen to it tomorrow or next year. I do not anticipate anything disastrous
happening. You are encouraged to use and enjoy this resource while it is
available. With any luck, we will be around for a long time!
Resources are always limited. Everybody will enjoy the system more as long
as nobody hogs resources, whether it happens to be dial-in lines, disk
space, or processor power.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Via modem: Please call:
(262) 789-4620 USR Courier V.Everything
and log in via the "help" login.
Via Internet: Please telnet to "login.sol.net"
Via Electronic Mail: Please send a message to "info@ns.sol.net"
