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                      THE ONLINE WORLD MONITOR
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The Online World Monitor newsletter is a bi-monthly, ASCII online product.
Initially meant as a free, optional offering for supporters of The Online 
World resources handbook, it is also open for subscription by others. 

The newsletter and the book are companions. While the book describes the 
online world as it is, the newsletter tracks changes. It can more freely 
focus on selected offerings or phenomena than can be done within the strict 
framework of the book. 

The Online World Monitor newsletter contains tales about discoveries that 
never made it to the book...Glimpses of what the heck is going on...Trends... 
Spotlight on important new developments around the world. 

Volume 1 Number 1 has the following contents:

Watch this! The batch approach to networking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Odd de Presno's favorite findings since the last update of The Online World 
resources handbook. 

Worth your attention: Spotlight on important developments . . . . . . . 2
Telnet to CompuServe. SimTel. Live voice conversations over the Internet. 

Pointers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Interesting conferences, newsgroups, and resources

Changes - sic transit gloria mundi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Services come and go, change names, move to other "homes". What the heck is 
going on?

Supporters of The Online World book will get one free copy of the newsletter. 
Those registering for six updates per year, will get a one year subscription 
to the newsletter. 

For information about the book, send email to LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU (or 
LISTSERV@NDSUVM1 on BITNET) with the following command in the text of your 
mail: 

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Information is also available by gopher from cosn.org. Select Networking 
Information/Reference/The Online World. It is also available through gopher 
wuecon.wustl.edu 671 . Selection: Online Book. This option includes the 
choices "The Online Book by Chapter/" and SEARCH Online Book <?>. 

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The Online World Monitor newsletter
Odd de Presno
4815 Saltrod, Norway.

Email: opresno@extern.uio.no
Fax  : +47-370-27111

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