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Newsgroups: bit.listserv.edtech
Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:44:59 EST
From:         Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject:      VITA's Distribution Service (from DEVEL-L)

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:14:00 EST
From: Volunteers in Technical Assistance <VITA@gmuvax.bitnet>
To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <DEVEL-L@auvm.bitnet>
Subject: VITA's Distribution Service

                        VITA Distribution Service

Use this free service. VITA now distributes articles, reports, and short
papers to persons requesting them. This is an extension of DEVEL-L to
better serve its community. Here is how it works:

1.  VITA invites subscribers and others who would like to share their
papers, longer writings, or speeches, to send them to VITA
electronically. On receiving them, VITA will announce their availability
on DEVEL-L. Shorter commentaries and reports are still appropriate for
direct posting to the larger audience of DEVEL-L.

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For your special attention:

>> VITA is especially interested in contributions from developing
countries. Since most authors in developing regions lack access to
networks, we kindly ask for your help in obtaining suitable material.

>> This popular service needs your articles! Please help by
                                             ^^^^^^ ^^^^
contributing papers and articles, especially your own writings.

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2.  Everybody stands to gain from this service. Authors get to share
their ideas with other subscribers and stimulate discussion of them
without the file-size limitations of DEVEL-L. Authors are not
burdened with individual requests. Persons who want particular reports
or papers get them quickly; persons who do not want them don't have to
process them or pay to receive them. Bandwidth is conserved. And VITA
benefits from giving better service to its community.

4.  The items you send to VITA should meet these requirements:

  -- Its topic is appropriate to this List.

  -- Not longer than about 50 kilo Bytes (20 pages).
     (Authors may want to offer to send tables and figures by
     postal mail, if these are necessary.)

  -- Has title, author's name, author's e-mail address if
     available, and a short abstract.

  -- Include copyright release if needed.

5.  You can easily get your free copy of any document with an
Anonymous FTP request to 155.135.1.1 . Documents are in the "vita"
subdirectory. At the * prompt, type GET [.VITA]VITA_INDEX.TXT (or CD
VITA followed by GET VITA_INDEX.TXT) to get a list of the documents.
You can also use a special e-mail message. Ask VITA for instructions
if you don't have them. Please do not send document requests to VITA.
Instructions include hints for persons who lack access to FTP.


Any comments on this service should be sent to VITA's address shown
below, not to the List address. Please do not include other topics in
the same message.



-Rafe-

R.R. Ronkin, VITA Volunteer
Volunteers in Technical Assistance
<vita@gmuvax> or <vita@gmuvax.gmu.edu>

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