Top Document: How to Get Information about Networks Previous Document: Internet documents and specifications. Next Document: Contributors See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge The Internet is composed of many networks, not just those sponsored or affiliated with the US Government. There are also commercial Internet service providers. Commercial firms that might not meet requirements for connecting to a US Government-related network can still connect to the TCP/IP Internet via commercial service providers not affiliated with the NSFNET or the DDN Internet. For a list of dialup Internet service providers, send email to info-deli-server@netcom.com with the single line query: Send PDIAL For a list of Internet service providers that offer Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) high-speed dialup access at 64kbps or higher, try http://alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/isdn For a list of Internet (and UUCP) service providers, see the frequent posting "How to Become a Usenet Site" in the news.admin.misc, news.announce.newusers and news.answers newsgroups. (Archive-name: usenet/site-setup) You can also get this document by anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu, or by sending mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the single line request: send usenet-by-group/news.announce.newusers/How_to_become_a_Usenet_site O'Reilly and Associates has a mail server that provides a list of Internet Access providers who offer dedicated line connections. Send e-mail to: dlist@ora.com with an empty message body. If you have problems getting the information from dlist, send email to mj@ora.com If you have access to the WWW, you can get more info on network providers in different countries from the rather large list of all registered WWW servers at: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Geographical.html User Contributions:Top Document: How to Get Information about Networks Previous Document: Internet documents and specifications. Next Document: Contributors Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: netannounce@deshaw.com
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