---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash An Overview Of the Florida SunFlash SunFLASH Vol 25 #2 January 1991 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please forward this description of the Florida SunFlash to Sun users within your organization. -johnj ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash is a moderated e-mail based news service from Sun Microsystem's sales office in Ft. Lauderdale Florida, USA. This service was created for South Florida Sun Users and Customers. It is now being distributed to more than 80 Sun Offices so that they can further distribute The Florida SunFlash to their Users and Customers. The types of messages that are posted to The Florida SunFlash include: o Sun Press Releases o Sun Product announcements o Sun Promotions o Sun Education Promotions o Sun Federal Promotions o Sun User Groups announcements o Monthly Software Technical Bulletin table of contents o Sun Consulting Specials o USENET articles of interest o 3rd Party Product announcements o Sun-related Trade Rags' Table Of Contents We post 15 to 30 articles per month to the mailing list. Sometimes the articles will be quite long - it is as easy to delete a long article that you are not interested in as it is to delete a short one! When other Sun offices found out about The Florida SunFlash they asked that we add them and their customers to the The Florida SunFlash list. To keep the overhead of managing this list low, we have arranged The Florida SunFlash as a hierarchy of email aliases. Each office has a list of customers that they forward The Florida SunFlash to. Each customer creates an alias on their own machine. Customer Admin - creates sunflash alias for their own users (adds, deletes, modifies users as necessary) Sun Office Admin - creates sunflash alias for this offices's customers. (adds, deletes, modifies customers as necessary Sun Ft. Lauderdale Sunflash editor - adds, deletes. modifies Sun Offices and Sun customers that are on the internet More that 80 Sun sales offices all around the world distribute The Florida SunFlash to their own customers. The national Sun Users Group distributes The Florida SunFlash to more than 40 Sun Local Users groups. Over 500 organizations in more than 30 countries subscribe to the Florida SunFlash. +--customer!sunflash | + sun -------------+--customer!sunflash | California | | sunvice | Ft. Lauderdale------+ sunatl!sunflash---+-customer!sunflash | Atlanta | | +-customer!sunflash | | + sunfla!sunflash---+-customer!sunflash | Orlando | | +-customer!sunflash etc etc etc If you want to subscribe to The Florida SunFlash, please follow these steps: 1] create an alias on your own machine thus: owner-sunflash: sunflash: 2] test your alias ! Use /usr/lib/sendmail -bv sunflash Send test messages telling your subscribers that they have been added to your new alias. (You could send this message as a test message.) 3] send mail to your local Sun sales office with a copy to me. Ask that they add you to their sunflash alias. If they don't have one, I will work with them to create one. (flash@sunvice.East.Sun.com) There is no fee associated with the Florida SunFlash. Archives of the Florida SunFlash are stored on solar.nova.edu and paris.cs.miami.edu. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feature Cost Benefit sunflash alias managed No additional cost. info to USERS in a centrally by Sun Ft. Lauderdale is already timely manor selected Ft. Lauderdale providing this service by experienced Sun to our users. field people one entry per Sun office Each sales office must Local changes can manage their customer be made easily- alias administration is distributed one entry per customer Each customer must create Local changes can and manage their user be made easily- list administration is distributed customers have a reliable SunFlash Editor salesforce spends less information source must prepare and post time repeating information reliable, public, to customers information more customers would Sufficient resources must once email is set up connect to Sun offices exist at Sun offices: to a customer, it for email modems & telephone lines can also be used for to minimizes telephone tag; remote login aids trouble shooting. detailed messages Editor must carefully Enough information is edit original messages & provided to answer keep the relevant details questions. As messages are electronic, excess detail is easily skipped promptness Editor must send out News about Sun comes messages promptly. first from Sun, not from trade rags or rumor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John J. McLaughlin System Engineer & SunFlash Editor Sun Microsystems Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Archives are on solar.nova.edu and paris.cs.miami.edu. All prices, availability, and other statements relating to Sun or third party products are valid in the U.S. only. Please contact your local Sales Representative for details of pricing and product availability in your region. Descriptions of, or references to products or publications within SunFlash does not imply an endorsement of that product or publication by Sun Microsystems. John McLaughlin, SunFlash editor, flash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. (305) 776-7770.