From: trin@tlaeng.enet.dec.com (Trin Tantsetthi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
Subject: Re: Thailand e-mail addresses
Date: 18 Nov 92 05:32:41 +0700
Organization: Digital Equipment (Thailand), Ltd.
Reply-To: nettalk@decth.co.th

In article <1992Nov17.171459.18836@athena.cs.uga.edu>, lopez@athena.cs.uga.edu (Felix Sherwin Lopez) writes:
> I have also received quite a number of inquiries about what addresses
> and e-mail sites are avaialable.  It seems that there is a need to
> put together a "phonebook" or "directory" of some sort.

None of addresses in the list requires explicit routing through
chulkn.chula.ac.th. Chulkn is Thailand's official mail exchanger anyway.
There are 14 FQDN hosts being supported at this moment.

  nwg.nectec.or.th      ThaiSarn Public Access Computer, NECTEC, NSTDA
  cs.ait.ac.th          Computer Science Dept, AIT
  cmu.chiangmai.ac.th   Computer Service Center, Chiangmai
  chulkn.chula.ac.th    Academic Resource Center, Chulalongkorn
  ladwff.kmitl.ac.th    Chemistry Dept, KMIT-L
  ipied.tu.ac.th        Information Processing Inst for Education and 
                        Development, Thammasat
  ratree.psu.ac.th      Computer Science Dept, Prince of Songkhla
  ram1.ru.ac.th         Chemistry Dept, Ramkhamhaeng
  u6000.kmitl.ac.th     Computer Service Center, KMIT-L

  bug1.bbs.or.th
  decth.co.th
  malisa.acl.co.th      (down)
  hp2.hpth.co.th
  sunoct.co.th

Only chulkn has IP. Most hosts of academic sites use MHSnet software from
Australia. 

If you ask different people, you will probably get a different answer. But
I'll call the domestic academic and research network as ThaiSarn. More info 
about ThaiSarn can be anon-FTPed from snake.mcs.kent.edu. It was also on
june.cs.washington.edu but last time I checked, the file has disappeared.
The file is called thaisarn.zip. An arguable big picture of ThaiSarn can be 
found in the file pubnet.zip located in the same directory (if you can find
it ;-)

> Finally, I am making this list available to others out there as a
> service -- I do not know how these users (possibly faculty members, 
> businessmen, journalists, etc.) would welcome receiving junk e-mail.
> Please use your discretion and observe utmost courtesy.

Thanks for putting up this word. It's not that these people are anti-social
but the whole network is relying on a low speed link (9600bps) between
Chula and UUNET. Such a link cannot cope with too much traffic.

ThaiSarn has a few mailing lists/listserv type of discussion running on
decth.co.th. There are currently 11 lists, namely:
  test         whatever one may want to do in order to familiarize oneself
               to the facility
  chitchat     social events and all nonsense topics
  it-stds      information technology standards -- more of a formal list
               for members of the IT committee/subcommittees of the Thai
               Industrial Standards Institute
  lnews        local news distribution; same as those posted to s.c.thai by
               Khun Kamol et al
  nettalk      network discussion
  pc           pee cees and related discussions
  politik      local politics and conspiracies
  qol          quality of life and NGO-type of activities
  s-c-thai     local re-distribution point for s.c.thai articles; currently
               inactive awaiting for some kind soul to mail news article to 
               the list that will re-distribute each article to local
               network users. currently not many people in Thailand can read
               s.c.thai, therefore, there is virtually no participation from 
               the homeland. contact postmaster@decth.co.th for arrangement.
  soc-econ     socio-economic discussions 
  unix         huh!

While the facility can serve all international subscribers, this is
_discouraged_ by the fact that we don't have high international bandwidth.
Sending multiple copies of same mail content and sink the link is not a good
idea. It would be much better if there will be re-distribution point(s)
outside Thailand. Please contact postmaster@decth.co.th for such an
arrangement.

A gateway to local BBS networks is under development.

-Trin