BEV is not adding services for new customers at the current time. We are continuing to support existing customers.
The BEV offers a wide variety of Internet-based services to Blacksburg area citizens, civic groups, and non-profit organizations. Following is a list of our most commonly requested services for community organizations.
Individual mail accounts are available to anyone in the community for personal or non-commercial use. Cost is $22.50/year. Addresses are of the form jsmith@bev.net. |
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The BEV offers two packages to community and civic organizations. The standard Community Connections service provides groups with a web site, two email accounts, and a mailing list for $20/year. The URL is of the form http://civic.bev.net/your_group. The premium Community Connections service provides a web site using the organization's domain name, three email accounts, and two mailing lists, for $87/year. |
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A web site and one email account is available to artists, musicians and for personal use, for $25/year. |
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Domain Name Service (DNS) is available for any organization, business, or person in the Blacksburg area. See the DNS page for more information. |
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The Blacksburg MSAP is offered as a community service to ISPs. The MSAP can provide dramatic network performance improvements for data traffic that does not have to leave Blacksburg (i.e. local Internet traffic). |
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Mailing lists |
Additional mailing lists are available to our Community Connections customers for $12/year. |
Newsgroups |
The BEV provides a Usenet newsgroup server with several local groups. Posting to these groups is provided as a free service. |
Online forums |
Online forums (discussion groups) are available for community and civic organizations for $65/year. |
Streaming audio/video |
The BEV is currently experimenting with providing streaming audio and video as a community service. If your group or organization is interested in trying this service out as an experiment, write to BEV Info. |
The Blacksburg Electronic Village is an outreach initiative of Network Infrastructure & Services, part of Information Technology at Virginia Tech. For comments regarding this Web site, please send a message to BEV Comments. Privacy Policy