The final choice as to what software the end users at a particular site see will have to be upto each site in the end. However, it should be our role to create a demo site from free software that people can copy (if they wish).

This excludes FreePort (used by the Toronto (and many other) Free-Net) as FreePort has a licence fee (and has many other ... limitations...). Still for the massocisticly inclined a pointer to a contact at Case-Western University (the creators of FreePort) would be usefull.

Still we need a simple text based menu system that will list:

• Telnet
• Mail
• News
• Lynx
• See account status/information
• Read Documentation/Announcements

The above is a fairly basic range of functions that we would want all sites to offer at a minimum.

To pull the above off will will need:

• Menu Program - Simple text menu system suggested above.
• Crippled Pine - Pine minus shell escapes.
• Crippled Tin - Tine minus shell escapes.
• Lynx and Telnet Wrapper - As above, shell escapes disabled.
• Registration system - So as to make allow the end users to enter names addresses, etc...
• Appachie - WWW server.
• Child control filter - Some sites will demand that some of their users (ie: children) be bared from some sites/services.
• Admin. aid program - Most (almost all?) of the people running these sites will not be experianced Unix system admins.. So they will need a tool kit to make their job easier (like say a program that will run nightly looking for very large mailboxes, and offer a recomended course of action).
• CVS - Revision control system designed to make keeping track of software changes MUCH easier.

The Free Community Network maintains a number of mailing lists. The mailing lists are driven under Majordomo and should more-or-less maintain themselves. Currently, we have the following lists:

• toronto-net - general discussions.
• toronto-tech - technical discussions.

Ask Bruce Becker.

DNS

Will be a central site service.

CVS

A revision control system that makes keeping track

Firewall

The Toronto Free-Net's firewall is a 486DX2-66 PC running NetBSD 1.0 kernel patched to act as a packet filter. As such, it provides rudimentary firewall protection.

IP Address

We will require at least one class C IP address. Given the current (short term) shortage of class C addresses this may become something of an issue.