From: torres@ee470.ee.mcgill.ca ( mario  torres )
Subject: El Salvador email service
Organization: EE Lab, McGill University EE Lab, Montreal
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 16:12:57 GMT


For the person who wanted info. on email services in El Salvador:

Hi!:
    There is a project which provides access to internet in Central America.
It is called the huracan project, and the person in charge is based in Costa
Rica. I have a whole list of the providers in Central America but I didn't
want to send it to you beacuse it's long. Here is the email of the person
who could tell you all the information you want:  hope@huracan.cr
write to him and ask for info.
Here some of the info:

The "Proyecto Huracan" began in August 1990 with funding from the United
Nations Development Programme's regional (Latin America & Caribbean) project
for non-commercial data communications networks.  Huracan was housed in the
Secretaria General ("Secretariat General") of the Consejo Superior
Universitario Centroamericano - CSUCA ("Higher Council of Central American
Public Universities") in San Jose, Costa Rica.  A project financed by the
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA, or ACDI in Spanish), and
managed by the University of Ottawa in conjunction with CSUCA, has paid for
all of Huracan's telecommunication costs (X.25 and to the Internet, see below)
since it began serving users in September 1990.

Huracan, a '386 with Interactive Unix, 8 MB RAM, 650 MB disk, etc., is an
X.25 host on the Costa Rican PDN, Racsapac.  Users connect to Huracan by calling
the PADs of Racsapac and its sibling PDNs throughout the region
(Mayapaq in Guatemala, Antelpac in El Salvador, Hondutel/Teledatos
in Honduras, Nicapac in Nicaragua, and Racsapac in Costa Rica and Panama).
Because of the terrestrial microwave links that span the Central American
region, X.25 rates from any of the countries to Huracan are quite inexpensive
(between US$ 0.03 and 0.05 cents per minute connect time, with no per-traffic
charge in most cases).

Huracan communicates with the Internet (via uunet.uu.net) three times a day
via dial-up call (Telebit T2500), and is registered in the maps as
"huracan.cr".

Huracan's user interface was designed for non-computer experts, and
is completely in Spanish.  Users have access to email (a version
of "elm" translated into Spanish), certain net newsgroups (a version of "nn"
translated into Spanish), and a few experimental databases of regional
interest online.

Huracan currently serves approximately 350-400 users throughout the six
countries; most of them are from academic, research, and non-governmental
institutions, though there is no restriction as to who can join.
Mail and news flow at approximately fifteen megabytes per month, with
approximately 3:1 ratio of incoming to outgoing data.

In January 1992, due to institutional problemas at CSUCA, Huracan was moved
to the Fundacion Nahual, a non-profit, non-governmental institution based in
Costa Rica which works in the areas of information and communication,
primarily in the Central American context.

The University of Costa Rica, which since October 1990 has had a 19.2kbps
line from one of its systems (UCRVM2) to Bitnet, plans to use the line for
an Internet link before the end of 1992.  When this happens, Huracan
as well as other systems in Costa Rica will share the link,
benefitting all the users in the region that currently use Huracan, and
reducing extra-regional communications costs.

All the service providers are "xxxxx@huracan.cr"


Pais: El Salvador

pball      Patrick Ball
tinac      Christina Courtright
celadesv   Centro Latinoamericano de Demografia - El Salvador
cescobar   Carlos Escobar / Sociedad de Cirujanos de El Salvador
cmora      Carlos Mora / University of Michican - El Salvador
fundesv    Fundacion Nacional para el Desarrollo - El Salvador
henao      Ana Maria Henao / OPS - El Salvador
ieeesv     Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - El Salvador
masvdtsa   Direccion Tecnica de Sanidad Animal - Min. de Agric. - El Salvador
oimsv      Organizacion Internacional para las Migraciones - El Salvador
pbielsa    Peace Brigades International - El Salvador
cidai      Centro de Informacion Documentacion y Apoyo a la Invest. - UCAJSC
ewood      Elizabeth Wood / UCAJSC
falt       Francisco Altschul / Facultad de Arquitectura - UCAJSC
ucabib     Biblioteca Central - UCAJSC
xobach     Xavier Obach / Proyecto de Video - UCAJSC
mjmijang   Maria Jose Mijangos / Centro de Computo - UES
monroy     Francisco Monroy / UES
oroman     Oralia Roman / Relaciones Internacionales - UES
sgerman    Salvador German / Facultad de Matematicas - UES
uesagro    Facultad de Agronomia - UES
uescuocc   Centro Universitario de Occidente - UES
uesdere    Facultad de Derecho - UES
ueshuma    Facultad de Humanidades - UES
uesiieco   Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas - UES
uesingya   Facultad de Ingenieria y Arquitectura - UES
uesmed     Facultad de Medicina - UES
uespara    Centro Paracentral - UES
uesplani   Secretaria de Planificacion - UES


I hope this is of help to you!!

                                  Mario