Date:Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:34:43 -0400
From: Alfonso ORANTES <[email protected]>

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS A NON EDITED MACHINE TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL IN SPANISH

Friends

I have intervened very little in Mistica, if it is that I have made it I have stayed as spectator of this magnify process.

Now I want to comment now on the closing of a stage in the development of our Cyberspace when the project Mistica has consolidated and diversified. There are many of their details that I don't dominate, but I do especially with admiration what happens, it pleases me to see to participants of several countries and names of other lists as GKD.

In November of 1992 one believes MESA-L the first list electronic Venezuelan, in the middle of prevalence of the ascci and confined to the access terminal way. But inside an atmosphere in which all shared the same servant and possible era to maintain a true community of virtual Samaritans that leaned on mutually. In spite of the difficult of the access, easy era to establish contact and to use the finger to locate a colleague.

Many rot to remember it, some to have heard of her and most the desconce.

During the Convention of ASOVAC--that has place all the half-filled a�osa of November--one carries out like support to MESA-L, a demonstration, faultlessly mounted thanks to a team of work multicsiciplinario, of the potential that offered the access from Venezuela to Internet. In that team they participated, among other Pablo Liendo, Vincenzo Mendillo, Eugenio Tremamuno, Gonzalo Velez, Cesar Fields Cede�o, Dario Alvarez, Manuel Velez and Alfonso Orantes. You has the support Iv�n Valdes and the Legendary Moreno of the then Saicyt, the antecedent of REACIUN.

Colleagues' works were received so much Venezuelan as of the exterior who were invited to share their restlessness and experiences. The contributions were placed as posters for the I publish and offered access through 8 you scheme connected to the Saicyt.

During several stayed this tradition in spite of the enormous difficulties that it was necessary to conquer in the Conventions of the interior. The list in if it stayed for several years, it is but, it still exists in the Servant of REACCIUN.

The idea was to discuss in a ROUND MESA, the developments that you/they came happening in the new Venezuelan Cyberspace. This coincided exactly with the official entrance from Venezuela to Internet, but that they went back at 1987 when Pablo Liendo and Farmer two doctors Venezuelan didthe first communication rehearsals to 300 baudios for BITNET was wanted to invite the main characters, but soon it was evident that they were many and not all were in the country. The idea arose this way of creating to MESA-L.

But this is already history and of those that happen quick. From a very personal perspective the development of the electronic lists has been related, putting the accent in the area of the Education in we are Clever, let us use the Lists AND" that you publishes in the Magazine of Pedagogy, Not 57, April of 1999.

MESA-L it will be disabled in REACCIUN, because it already completed their paper..

Has died MESA-L that MISTICA lives

A cordial greeting

Alfonso Moderator of MESA-L

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