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<section><title>Wrapping up</title>
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<section><title>Acknowledgements</title>
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<para>
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This HOWTO is a by-product of many years of experience setting up and
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managing Usenet news servers. We have learned a lot from those who have
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trod the path ahead of us. Some of them include the team of the ERNET
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Project, which brought the Internet technology to India's academic
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institutions in the early nineties. We specially remember what we have
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learned from the SIGSys Group of the Department of Computer Science of
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the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. We have also benefited
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enormously from the guidance we received from the Networking Group at
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the NCST in Mumbai, specially from Geetanjali Sampemane.
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</para>
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<para>On a wider scale, our learning along the path of systems and
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networks started with Unix, without which our appreciation of computer
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systems would have remained very fragmented and superficial. Our
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insight into Unix came from our village elders at the Department
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of Computer Science of the IIT at Mumbai, specially from ``Hattu,''
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``Sathe,'' and ``Sapre,'' none of which are with the IIT today, and from
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Professor D.B.Phatak and others, many of whom, luckily are still with
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the IIT.</para>
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<para>Coming down to specifics, all the members of Starcom Software who
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have worked on various problems with networking, Linux, and Usenet news
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installations, have helped the authors in understanding what works and
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what doesn't. Without their work, this HOWTO would have been a dry text
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book.</para>
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</section>
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<section><title>Comments invited</title>
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<para>Your comments and contributions are invited. We cannot possibly
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write all sections of this HOWTO based on our knowledge alone. Please
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contribute all you can, starting with minor corrections and bug fixes
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and going on to entire sections and chapters. Your contributions will be
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acknowledged in the HOWTO.</para>
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</section>
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<section><title>Copyright</title>
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<para>
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Copyright (c) 2002 by Starcom Software Private Limited, India
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</para>
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<para>Please freely copy and distribute (sell or give away) this
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document in any format. It is requested that corrections and/or
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comments be fowarded to the document maintainer, reachable at
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<literal>usenet@starcomsoftware.com</literal>. When these comments
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and contributions are incorporated into this document and released
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for distribution in future versions of this HOWTO, the content of the
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incorporated text will become the copyright of Starcom Software Private
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Limited. By submitting your contributions to us, you implicitly agree
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to these terms.</para>
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<para>You may create a derivative work and distribute it provided that
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you:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem><para>
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Send your derivative work (in the most suitable format such as SGML) to the
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LDP (Linux Documentation Project) or the like for posting on the Internet.
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If not the LDP, then let the LDP know where it is available.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>
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License the derivative work with this same license or use GPL. Include a
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copyright notice and at least a pointer to the license used.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>
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Give due credit to previous authors and major contributors.
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If you're considering making a derived work other than a
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translation, it is requested that you discuss your plans with the
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current maintainer.
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</para></listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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</section>
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<section><title>About Starcom Software Private Limited</title>
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<para>
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<emphasis role=bold>starcom</emphasis> (Starcom Software Private
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Limited, <literal>www.starcomsoftware.com</literal>) has been building
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products and solutions using Linux and Web technology since 1996. Our
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entire office runs on Linux, and we have built mission-critical
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solutions for some of the top corporate entities in India and abroad.
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Our client list includes arguably the world's largest securities
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depository (The National Securities Depository of India Limited), one of
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the world's top five stock exchanges in terms of trading volumes (The
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National Stock Exchange of India Limited), and one of India's premier
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financial institutions, which is listed on the NYSE. In all these cases,
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we have introduced them to Linux, and in many cases, we have built them
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their first mission-critical business applications on Linux. Contact the
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authors or check the Website for more information about the work we have done.
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</para>
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</section>
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</section>
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