Despite the notes at the bottom about this being produced on April 21, 1996 (my birthday), it was actually written at my aunt's house in rural Alberta during Christmas 1994 break. Some of the items discussed have been implemented. Others have not. I just reconverted the document to fix some broken links.

• Executive Summary
• The system today
  • Stats: Hardware
  • Stats: Software
• The problems
• Technical solutions
  • Short term solutions
    • Speed
  • Fix the software
• Medium term
• Mail system
• News system
• User id problem
  • The kludges
• The real problem
• The "Business as usual" solution
  • Modem pool
  • CPU
  • disk space
  • Mail server
  • News and x server
  • System Administration
• A simple client/server model
  • CPU
  • Proxies
  • Disk space
  • Email
  • User ids
  • Availability
  • Offline reading
  • File Transfer
  • Security concerns
  • Uniformity
  • Offsite access
    • Telnet connections
    • Network Connections
• About this document ...