Liebe Studierende, Dear students, welcome to the course Internet Techniques. First of all, since this course is part of the international study programme "Information and Communication Engineering" the course will be completely held in English. We have a newsgroup which should be used for questions and discussions: news://news.fernuni-hagen.de/feu.ice-bachelor.kurs.20018.diskussion We, the tutors, will do all official postings in English only. The course consists of eight lessons. Official start of the first lesson is 23.04.2001. The other lessons will be released in a weekly rhythm. For each lesson there will be an assignment. To pass the course, 75% of the maximum number of points must be achieved. This means you have to achieve 140 out of 200 points. The release dates for the lessons and the deadlines for assignments are listed on our course homepage: http://www.ice-bachelor.fernuni-hagen.de/lehre/k20018.q1/ Please, carefully read the notes concerning the assignments. The assignments may be written in German. We have developed a downoad tool to facilitate the management of the lessons, the "Offline Navigator". It is available at the following link: http://www.et-online.fernuni-hagen.de/programme/download/OfflineNavigato r/navigator_m.html For further questions, please contact the newsgroup.