Now that you’ve seen what’s currently being said on
The River....Want to Respond???
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Or maybe change the topic? You join a River conversation by using
telnet to connect to The River. Then you can read and post to the
topic.
So here’s how you can join the river-runners....
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SERVICES AND ACCESS
An account on The River provides:
- Conferencing (via Yapp, similar to Picospan).
- E-mail (yourname@river.org), with a POP3 server that you can use with, for example, Eudora, Microsoft Exchange, or Netscape Mail.
- Shell access (a UNIXspeak dialect). You can, for example, read your e-mail with Pine.
- Web pages (http://www.river.org/~yourname/) via a publicly-accessible subdirectory of your River directory.
The River is available only via
the internet: there is no direct dial-in access at this time (you’ll need net access separately, with telnet software), though we may provide modem access at some future time. Though we are discussing how to do it, there is currently no provision for reading and responding via web pages.
FEES
The River charges $10/month for an account, with no hourly fee.
MEMBERSHIP
The River is a member-owned, member-governed co-op. Any $10/month user can also become a co-op member by paying the annual membership fee of $100.
If you would like to sign up for The River now, just -
telnet to "river.org" (just click, if your browser is already configured to call up your telnet client)
- log in as
newuser
- using
guest as a password.
That will take you to the signup page. See you on the River!
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