[kictanet] Tue, 24 Oct 1995 12:16:28 -0400

[Matunga]

These are some fo the email volleys that would be worth alot on e-bay 
today. I now can understand the motivation around KCA award to Ochuodho. I 
am sure Shem can share the very first packets from Kenyan soil. Rev

From: Shem Ochuodho <shem at ARCC.OR.KE<mailto:shem at ARCC.OR.KE>>
To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
<DEVEL-L at AMERICAN.EDU<mailto:DEVEL-L at AMERICAN.EDU>>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 21:52:18 -0500
Subject: Re: KENYA finally on FULL Internet

Just to inform that after several years of "agony", Kenya has finally
joined
Cyberspace with a full Internet access through a dedicated leased line to
Oregon from the African Regional Centre for Computing (ARCC, Nairobi).
This
has been possible through the kind support of the Overseas Development
Agency (ODA -UK).  The National Science Foundation (NSF US) supported
Randy's trip for the engineering. Special thanks to: John Sutherland,
Peter
Hoare (ODA), Steve Goldstein (NSF), Lenore Blum (ICSI Berkeley), and Randy
Bush (NSRC).

Shem, ARCC, Nairobi

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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 12:16:28 -0400
From: Steve Goldstein <sgoldste at NSF.GOV<mailto:sgoldste at NSF.GOV>>
Subject: Re: KENYA finally on FULL Internet
X-To: Shem Ochuodho < shem at arcc.or.ke<mailto:shem at arcc.or.ke>>
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<DEVEL-L at AMERICAN.EDU<mailto:DEVEL-L at AMERICAN.EDU>>

At 2:52 AM 1/4/80, Shem Ochuodho wrote:

>Just to inform that after several years of "agony", Kenya has finally
joined
>Cyberspace with a full Internet access through a dedicated leased line to
>Oregon from the African Regional Centre for Computing (ARCC, Nairobi).

Congratulations, and WELCOME, Shem!  This was a surprise to us all,
but a very pleasant one. We had expected that Randy would
be visiting Kenya to help set up a UUCP-net.

--Steve

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Steve Goldstein, National Science Foundation
+1(703)306-1949  Ext. 1119
"Let's not procrastinate until tomorrow!"

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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 09:47:00 PDT
From: Randy Bush <randy at PSG.COM<mailto:randy at PSG.COM>>
Subject: Re: KENYA finally on FULL Internet
X-To: Steve Goldstein < sgoldste at nsf.gov<mailto:sgoldste at nsf.gov>>
X-cc: Shem Ochuodho <shem at arcc.or.ke<mailto:shem at arcc.or.ke>>,
africana-l at warthog.cc.wm.edu<mailto:africana-l at warthog.cc.wm.edu>,
wg94-l at uku.fi<mailto:wg94-l at uku.fi>,
afrik-it at ir.ucd.ie<mailto:afrik-it at ir.ucd.ie>,
lblum at icsi.berkeley.edu<mailto:lblum at icsi.berkeley.edu>,
sghuter at nsrc.org<mailto:sghuter at nsrc.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <
DEVEL-L at AMERICAN.EDU<mailto:DEVEL-L at AMERICAN.EDU>>

> We had expected that Randy would be visiting Kenya to help set up a
> UUCP-net.

Damn!  Blew it again.  The whole month has been like that.  Well, we still
have a day and a half to fix it.  But I had hoped to get a bit of sleep.
Ah well.  Thanks for catching the bug.

BTW, thanks for saying 'help'.  The folk here are a sharp, pretty
organized,
and hard working lot, and had layed years of groundwork.  While a few days
of a UNIX and router geek can help accellerate the process, IMIHO
parachute
jobs and heros don't stick.  There are a lot of wasted silver bullets in
these countries.

And, BTW, while am doing these jobs, I have amazing support from folk on
the
net who bail me out of panics by making fixes ftpable, advising on what
are
to me (a BSDoid) strange flavors of almost-UNIX and <shudder> DOS, even
sending the occasional bits of hardware in diplomatic pouches.

We stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before.

randy