The new 56 K digital phone equipment purchased in July will allow up to 96 users at a time to connect to the Chebucto Plus dialup service at 56 K speed, the maximum speed possible over a dialup connection. The 16 kg (36 lb) rack-mountable Ascend 6096 has 96 digital 56 K modems, kept cool by eight high-velocity fans.

So far no locusts....

Still, everyone should recognize that this is all a continuous ongoing process. We would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that Chebucto is mostly run by volunteers so if you have skills to offer, particularly if you possess technical skills, you should consider volunteering some time with us. We can always use the help.

Chebucto in Montréal
for Global Community Net Conference

Conference delegates compared notes on a staggering variety of obstacles facing groups trying to bridge the so-called "Digital Divide", the gap between those who have internet communications access and those who do not. Pictured here is South African delegate Peter Benjamin holding a handicraft bowl made from the ripped out telephone wires laid down to bring communications to remote areas of his country. Other delegates spoke about special needs of various language groups, women's problems with communications access, economic issues and a host of other challenges.

Good Crowd at Word On The Street!

New spam filters catching lots of rubbish!

All Chebucto mail users can go to the spam filtering preferences page at http://nospam.chebucto.ca and set spam filters to delete spam, store spam in a separate folder for inspection and deletion later, or not to filter mail. Chebucto text users can access this page using the new go spam shortcut as well. Full instructions can be found on the spam filtering preferences page.

Chebucto now accepts four credit cards

Windows XP Service Pack 1 released

Low-Cost Custom Web Addresses Now Available

Non-Profit groups on Chebucto can have the website address name.chebucto.org, where name would be replaced by the organization or group name. Small businesses on Chebucto can customize the website address name.chebucto.biz; individuals and families can customize name.chebucto.net with their family name; and Chebucto-based information resources can customize the web address name.chebucto.info.

Email aliases to registered Chebucto sub-domain names are also available for $10 per year per alias. These email aliases can redirect mail to any email account.

Membership Reward Plan continues

For each new Sustaining or Family Sustaining member who tells us they were referred to us by you, we'll give you a $20 credit good towards your next Sustaining or Family Sustaining membership. "Word of mouth" advertising can now get you free internet: five referrals are good for a free Sustaining membership, including a year of our famous Chebucto Plus full graphical access.

Chebucto Users still tops in *.NS.CA SETI processing

Of all the computer domains ending in the letters NS.CA, denoting Nova Scotia, chebucto.ns.ca now ranks number one, beating out both the government of Nova Scotia and the vast resources of EdNet, the schools network. Current stats here. Chebucto users have sent in more than 16,000 results, representing more than 35 years of CPU time that would otherwise have been wasted.

Outlook user email advisory

Windows Users can find a selection of email programs available for download here and Macintosh users can find a selection of email programs here.

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