they can get in touch with User Assistance. 
Comments and suggestions from users are also 
welcomed. In fact, many recent upgrades to 
GCNet were made in response from such 
comments and/or suggestions. 
The number of Internet sessions has increased by 
a factor of four while the usage of the other 
connection paths has decreased by a factor of 3 
(with the exception of NSI-DECnet). In fact, 
Figure 3 shows that this increase in the number 
of Internet sessions is not a random phenomena 
but is rather part of a trend related to the 
widespread and ever-increasing availability of 
Internet. 
Table 2 Number of GCNet sessions since September 1992. 
Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | M 
  
Dec | Total 
189 | 696 
294 | 2810 
1079 
  
An interesting statistic concerns the way users 
connect to GCNet. Currently, there are five 
possible ways to access it: Internet, Datapac, 
NSI-DECnet, Dial-Up and Direct line (for 
CCRS users only). Table 3 looks at the 
distribution of GCNet sessions among the five 
connection paths. The figures are shows for the 
months of January 1993 and January 1994. 
Table 3 This table illustrates the change during 
the last year in the way the users access GCNet. 
Internet is clearly emerging as the preferred 
access route. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
Access via | Jan 93 Jan 94 
Internet 17% 68% 
Datapac 29% 10% 
Dial Up 17% 6% 
NSI-DECnet 8% 6% 
Direct line 29% 10% 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Figure 3 User access to GCNet via Internet. 
During the last year, the percentage of users 
accessing GCNet via Internet has quadrupled. 
In order to take advantage of this, there is 
currently work going on to provide our users 
access to GCNet via Internet tools such as 
Gopher and World Wide Web. A Gopher server 
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