CCN News!
Updated: 25 November 1998
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Old CCN Domain Names Expire!
Chebucto users may be experiencing slower logins as their
file directories, addressbooks and web pages are checked for
the now outdated domain names when they login. The search is
a one time event. Users are urged to remove any references to the
old domain names and may choose to
automate this process
if they wish.
The old CCN domain names
ccn·cs·dal·ca and
cfn·cs·dal·ca are
being officially retired at the request of our upstream service provider,
the Network Operations Centre at Dalhousie University.
All links and bookmarks to pages and addresses on CCN using these names will
soon no longer work. Please change these links and addresses to
chebucto.ns.ca to
ensure continued access to them.
All references to these outdated addresses are
being purged from CCN files and documents including user files.
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Fund Raising Canvass Continues!
Chebucto volunteers continued to call CCN users in Day 2 of
the CCN fund raising canvass. "We're getting a lot of
positive responses to CCN from our users", said organizer
Richard Rudnicki, "and one in three are donating."
Johnathan Thibodeau, a Grade XI student and member of CCN Youth added,
"We've even had a person call us back after we had gotten no answer
from his line. He used Caller ID to get our number and made a donation!"
The canvass will run
Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons for the next two weeks and has
a goal of raising $1500 from Chebucto users to help offset the costs
of upgrading aging modems and other system needs. It has raised
$395 to date.
Volunteers
are needed to help man phones and
stuff envelopes. Free munchies and prizes are available. Please
come on down and help out!
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CCN's First Monthly Social A Success!
About Thirty Chebucto Community Net users packed into Bob and Lori's Food Emporium
for the first CCN monthly social gathering. Regular CCN Users, volunteers and
members of the CCN Board mingled and traded tips and info in the two hour
gathering. The age of attending users ranged from eight months to seventy years.
Judged a success by organizers, the Social enabled members of the Chebucto community
to put faces to oft-read names from email and Usenet and to hear from other people on CCN
how things were going. Your humble correspondent has to report the coffee was quite good
too and recommends that attendees of future Socials held there bring their appetites along
with them.
A date for the next Social has not yet been set. Watch here for more as it comes in.
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CCN Needs Your Help!
We're a volunteer-run net which means we need people
to volunteer to keep it going. Got a skill that is not
being used to its best advantage out in the real world? Just want to help
pitch in? Check
here for more
information on what you can do to help.
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