From: yo@skippy.sydney.sgi.com (John Young)
Subject: EMAIL JOTA'94
Date: 16 Jul 1994 20:50:44 GMT


G'day

Mosman District Scouts, located in Sydney Australia, invite you and
the girls and boys in your  Scout/Guide unit to participate in EMAIL JOTA'94.

I would appreciate email feedback from you if you are interested in
participating.  I would also welcome suggestions on other elements that
we could add to the basic concepts set out below.  For example someone
has already suggested we should set up an IRC "chat line".

Please let me have your feedback as soon as possible.


Yours in Scouting




JOHN YOUNG (GROUP LEADER)            phone: 018 973 143
1st BALMORAL SEA SCOUT GROUP           int: +61 18 973 143
PO BOX 193  SPIT JUNCTION  NSW 2088    fax: t.b.a.
AUSTRALIA                            email: yo@sydney.sgi.com

		     ANNOUNCEMENT OF AN EMAIL JAMBOREE
			IN PARALLEL WITH JOTA'94

OVERVIEW

	The objectives behind the Scouting & Guiding Movements all round the
	world running their annual Jamboree of the Air (JOTA) is for
	Scouts/Guides to make friendships with other Scouts/Guides all round
	the world.  This year Mosman District Scouts, located in Sydney
	Australia, will extend the basic concept of JOTA to include the use of
	electronic mail (email).  This will be brought about by creating a
	direct connection for Mosman District Scouts and Guides to the
	Internet.  Internet is an international network of some 20 million
	computers which can exchange email messages and news broadcasts with
	each other.

	Most international, commercially-based and hobby-based email networks,
	such as AT&T Easylink, Compuserve, MCIMail, The Source, GEnie, FIDOnet,
	Applelink The many commericial email services which can gateway to the
	Internet, such as Compuserve, MCImail, Applelink, Pegasus, Genie,
	Source and Prodigy have "gateways" to the Internet, which means that
	many Scouts and Guides can participate in JOTA'93 from the comfort of
	their home, school, university or place of work.


HOW WILL IT HAPPEN

	At 1st Balmoral Sea Scout Hall Mosman District Scouts, Guides,
	Brownies, Cubs, Rovers, Rangers, Venturers and their Leaders
	will be broadcasting on 2 or 3 amateur radio rigs provided by
	a local radio club.  There will also be a dial-up
	phone link between a UNIX computer called 'scoutnet', and a 
	commercial UNIX email service. This service is linked to AARNET, 
	which in turn is linked, via an international gateway located at 
	the University of Melbourne, to the Internet.

	In the weeks leading up to JOTA which happens worldwide on
	during October Scouts and Guides will be able to use the email service 
	to pre-arrange times and frequencies for radio contact with other
	Scouts/Guides.

	They will also be able to use internationally distributed news
	groups to broadcast written articles to people associated with
	Scouting/Guiding in one role or another.  One of the most
	appropriate newsgroups for Scouts/Guides is called
	"rec.scouting".

	If you know the email address of another Scout/Guide then they
	can send a persoanl message to them.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

	John Young 
	Group Leader 
	1st Balmoral Sea Scout Group 
	PO Box 193
	Spit Junction NSW 2088
	Australia 

	mobile:         018 973 143 
	international:  +61 18 973 143 
	UNIX email:     yo@sydney.sgi.com