From: ray@dup.fsu.edu (Indrajit Ray)
Subject: B.E. College (Sibpur) Alumni Assosciation
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 00:18:00 GMT

The following is an e-mail message I received from one of our
Alumni, Mr. Sourav Kundu (1990 ARCHITECTURE) currently at the
University of Sydney. Many of you might have already received 
it. But for those who have not - please spare a few moments from
your precious time to read it. This is a sincere effort in 
re-instating our favourite Alma-Mater in her due position in the
world of technical education. Any comments / suggestions will be
deeply appreciated.

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Dear B.E.C. Alumni Members,

This is the first ever email, you are receiving from
an official "Bengal Engineering College Alumni Association"
e-mail server. It took me some effort, but I have succeeded in
setting up an independent account dedicated totally
to B.E.College Alumni Association. This is a full fledged
UNIX account and is running on a SUN multi server. The 
machine we have here is quite powerful. This sun multi 
processor has about 12 Sun Workstations as its X-server.
Out of them, two are brand new IPX's with a peek speed of
about 28 MIPS ! And there are five colour SUN sparcstations.
The rest are  black & white SUN ELC's.

BECA even has an account in the RICS 6000's that we have here.
These machines have very high speeds. So BECA has now got her 
technology and speed............... 

IT ONLY NEEDS PEOPLE TO RUN IT !

I hope you all will come forward to help each other in this
matter. BECA needs to have a database first. We have INGRES
(a very powerful and commercial database software package)
installed, and running on the RISC 6000's here, and I am inclined
to have a big database (accessible to all its members through
the email or network) which will provide online information
about the latest whereabouts of our Alumni Members. Alternatively
we could have a database for each country/city and make the
data bases accessible to others by the network. We could have 
many local databases connected globally thru the net. This
would require everyone of us to use a same software. If you know
something about databases, you would agree with me that INGRES
would be the best technology available at the moment (or POSTGRES)
to have such a distributed database.

I will be getting in touch with Dr. Bimal Sen, the present Principal
of B.E.College, to get as many addresses of alumni members
as possible. I had briefly discussed with him about having BECA
on the network last time when I was in India and he seemed to
be very enthusiastic about this idea. He has already extended
all possible help for this.

This UNIX account for "BECA" will in future be accessible
to anyone around the world. I am trying to set it up
properly. I have system of password now but soon (as soon 
as I can give a look into the system security stuff) there will 
be no passwords required to 'rlogin' into this account from 
other machines around the globe. But I will be incharge 
of the  file permissions and accesses. I will eventually also
setup a ftp directory for public access and retreival of
information which will come handy. Once we have a database all 
the data will be "ftp-able" from archsci. Then no-one around
the globe will have to fish around for informations of B.E.C.
graduates ! I will soon mail you all the FTP informations for 
our BECA directory in the annonymous ftp site of archsci.
I have put a finger information on BECA. To see this just type 
the command :

%% finger beca@archsci.arch.su.edu.au

from your unix prompt and you can see it. So friends the first
leap has already been taken. Please send me all your suggestion.
Also please send me a precise description about your present
work , adresses and contacts. It will be good if you can devote 
some time to make the BECA project successful. 

Please send me whatever names and and email numbers and phone 
numbers you have of our past graduates. I will start building 
up the database soon.

bye, and regards to all of you; and lastly - please direct
all the beca mails to; 

beca@archsci.arch.su.edu.au

and personal mails to me to :

sourav@archsci.arch.su.edu.au


Warm regards,
Sincerely,

-sourav- (ARCHITECTURE 1990)


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