Merit's History

The NSFNET Backbone Project, 1987 - 1995

The Link Letter

The Link Letter, an NSFNET newsletter, was published by Merit starting in 1988. As Merit neared the end of the cooperative agreement to manage and re-engineer the NSFNET, information services for the Internet community were taken over by the InterNIC. Publication of the Link Letter therefore ceased with the July 1994 issue.

Services available through the InterNIC include their newsletter, the NSF Network News. The InterNIC can be reached by email (info@internic.net), or by phone (619-455-4600). Comprehensive online information is accessible through FTP, telnet, Gopher, WAIS, and WWW. To access the InterNIC, point your gopher client to is.internic.net at port 70, or telnet to is.internic.net and log in as 'gopher'.

Available issues are:

  1. linkletter.880401 (Vol. 1, no. 1, 1 Apr 1988)

  2. linkletter.880415 (Vol. 1, no. 2, 15 Apr 1988)

  3. linkletter.880430 (Vol. 1, no. 3, 30 Apr 1988)

  4. linkletter.880513 (Vol. 1, no. 4, 13 May 1988)

  5. linkletter.880527 (Vol. 1, no. 5, 27 May 1988)

  6. linkletter.880610 (Vol. 1, no. 6, 10 Jun 1988)

  7. linkletter.880624 (Vol. 1, no. 7, 24 Jun 1988)

  8. linkletter.880715 (Vol. 1, no. 8, 15 Jul 1988)

  9. linkletter.880805 (Vol. 1, no. 9, 5 Aug 1988)

  10. linkletter.880826 (Vol. 1, no.10, 26 Aug 1988)

  11. linkletter.881031 (Vol. 1, no.11, 31 Oct 1988)

  12. linkletter.881219 (Vol. 1, no.12, 19 Dec 1988)

  13. linkletter.890213 (Vol. 1, no.13, 13 Feb 1989)

  14. linkletter.890415 (Vol. 2, no. 1, 15 Apr 1989)

  15. linkletter.890715 (Vol. 2, no. 2, 15 Jul 1989)

  16. linkletter.890815 (Vol. 2, no. 3, 15 Aug 1989)

  17. linkletter.890915 (Vol. 2, no. 4, 15 Sep 1989)

  18. linkletter.891115 (Vol. 2, no. 5, 15 Nov 1989)

  19. linkletter.8912 (Vol. 2, no. 6, Dec 1989)

  20. linkletter.9001 (Vol. 2, no. 7, Jan 1990)

  21. linkletter.9003 (Vol. 2, no. 8, Mar 1990)

  22. linkletter.9004 (Vol. 3, no. 1, Apr 1990)

  23. linkletter.9005-06 (Vol. 3, no. 2, May/June 1990)

  24. linkletter.9007-08 (Vol. 3, no. 3, July/August 1990)

  25. linkletter.9009 (Vol. 3, no. 4, September 1990)

  26. linkletter.9012 (Vol. 3, no. 5, December 1990)

  27. linkletter.9101-02 (Vol. 3, no. 6, January/February 1991)

  28. linkletter.9103-04 (Vol. 4, no. 1, March/April 1991)

  29. linkletter.9105-06 (Vol. 4, no. 2, May/June 1991)

  30. linkletter.9109-10 (Vol. 4, no. 3, Sept/Oct 1991)

  31. linkletter.9203-04 (Vol. 5, no. 1, March/April 1992)

  32. linkletter.9209-10 (Vol. 5, no. 2, September/October 1992)

  33. linkletter.9211 (Vol. 5, no. 3, November 1992)

  34. linkletter.9304 (Vol. 6, no. 1, April 1993)

  35. linkletter.9407 (Vol. 7, no. 1, July 1994)