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THE OFFICIAL ROADMAP
THE OFFICIAL ROADMAP to

<<<THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY>>>(tm)

 the Travelers Blessing

PART TWO

INTRODUCTION

WHATS NEW - WHATS HOT

WHAT IS THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY

THE INTER-ACTIVE YELLOW PAGES

THE 1st ON-LINE TRADE SHOW - ComOnLine

THE INTERNET ON VIDEO

HOW TO BEGIN

the INTERNET FROM A - Z

E-MAIL TIPS

HOW TO FIND PEOPLE AND GET FOUND EASILY

HOW TO FIND FILES

HOW TO HANDLE NEWSGROUPS

HOW TO HANDLE YOUR GOPHER

the WORLD OF BULLETIN BOARDS

ON-LINE STORES

HOW ABOUT A LITTLE CHIT-CHAT

HOW TO KEEP THE MAIL MOVING

SOME INTERESTING RESOURCES ON THE NET

TELNET SERVICES

HOW TO FIND SOMEONE WITH FINGER

HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR PRODUCTS

HOW TO ADVERTISE

HOW TO CREATE ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS

MISCELLANY

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INTRODUCTION

     With this book, you will be able to use the Information Superhighway to:

     = Stay in touch with friends, relatives and colleagues around the

       world, at a fraction of the cost of phone calls or even air

       mail.

     = Discuss everything from archaeology to zoology with people from

       around the world.

     = Tap into hundreds of information databases and libraries

       worldwide.

     = Retrieve any of thousands of documents, journals, books and

       computer programs.

     = Stay up to date with wire-service news and sports, and

       government weather reports.

     = Play live, "real time" games with dozens of other people at once.

For purposes of this book, you might want to think of the Information SuperHighway as a new technical combination of Telephone, Computers, soon Cable TV, all rolled up into a new kind of communications.

In the old days, the only way to communicate in business or in personal affairs was the telephone or the postal system.  The postal system is pretty much obsolete with some letters taking weeks or even months to arrive at their destinations, sometimes never.  The telephone is still the most widely used form of business communications and it has been enhanced somewhat with the introduction of the Fax Machine.

But at best, the average telephone communicator can only speak approximately 100  to 200 typewritten pages per day depending on how fast a talker he/she is.  Given that the average listener can retain only 30 - 40 percent of what they hear in any conversation, you see that the net efficiency of telephonic communications, in the best of cases is only about 30 - 40 pages of text, or 40 - 80 pages with some of the best and fastest communicators.  At the end of an average work week, this amounts to a measely 200 - 400 pages of text being transmitted to various customers, prospects, associates of yours.  Given the penchant for taking vacations, time off to visit the doctor, the dentist, picking up the kids, holidays, personal phone calls, sick leave, meetings, breaks, trips to the water cooler, etc.  This amounts to approximately 10,000 to 20,000 pages of text being communicated over the phone lines in the best of cases PER YEAR.

The INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY allows us to send 10, 100 or even 1,000 times this production in the way of pages communicated, PER DAY.  This is the equivalent of taking your best employee and cloning him/her and get 10, 100 or even 1,000 more work out of him or her without any additional payroll, desk space or benefits of any kind.  And you end up accomplishing this much more productivity in ONE DAY.  Imagine what you will have accomplished at the end of a year, if you were fully utilizing the benefits of this marvelous new technology we lump into the moniker of Information Superhighway.

This example above is not an exaggeration.  I personally have experienced this kind of productivity gain using my knowledge of the Information Superhighway.  I currently work out of my home.  I have a beautiful home in a very nice neighborhood and the mortgage is paid off.  I have no debts.  I take my family on vacation in Hawaii two or three times a year.  I am not super-wealthy, but I never worry about Finances any more because I know I can make a good living from my Knowledge of the Information Superhighway for the rest of my life.  Its a good sense of confidence in the future and my abilities to keep up with all the changes that I consider the greatest gift Ive received from all the activity and experiences Ive had on the Info Hwy.

I am writing this book to provide anyone who wants it with enough information about the Information Society to effectively be able to make a living from the comfort of their home as I do.  I will probably earn more wealth from the publishing of this book, but that is what I do for a living.  I provide information on and about the Information Superhighway.  This is only one aspect of how to make a living and/or helping your company to succeed in the future.  You can contribute if you own a car repair shop or a bakery or a medical practice.  It makes no difference.  Everyone in the present-day economy is part of the Information Society whether or not they actively pursue this part of the economy of not.  Not to participate is to keep your life simple, but it is also to omit a part of social intercourse that is expanding so rapidly that it can be whatever you want it to be.

As such, the Information Superhighway is not only a place where you can make a living.  It is also a place where you can entertain or be entertained.  You can chat with thousands of people at any given moment about any given subject.  Or you can get tips on how to play a better game of gold.  In fact, with a little searching around, you can even play golf without leaving your computer screen.  Someday soon, you will even be able to play golf at any of the worlds most famous courses without leaving the comfort of your own easy chair.

The biggest change in our lives that is about to take place is the combination of Cable TV and computer technology so that you will be able to do almost anything you can think of through the magic of television, video, and computer technology.  With the future software breakthroughs we are all used to, especially in the area of Virtual Reality, we will all soon be putting on special 3-D goggles, or helmets or perhaps contact lenses and experiencing trips to other parts of the universe, both inner and outer Space in ways we never have been able to before.

This is the reality today in 1994 as regards the Information Superhighway.  And I must close this brief introduction by explaining that this Roadmap will be useful only for a very short time because the topography of the Information Superhighway is changing so rapidly that as much as 90% of what is laid out in this Roadmap today may be obsolete as soon as one year or perhaps even 6 months from the first publication date.  To this end, I have decided to make this Verbon, a living Verbon, something that can change and be updated weekly or even daily.

So, wherever you found this Verbon, or electronic book, please look for new versions of it as often as you care to.  It will change and I will attempt to make it a completely accurate Roadmap to the Information Superhighway with all the updating and upgrading that I can physically accomplish.  This too is part of the potential of the Information Superhighway.  Books never have to be commited to paper and therefore, they can become much more dynamic and continuous in their coverage of their topics.

Finally, if you have any information you would like to add to this Roadmap to the Information Superhighway, please contact us at any of the addresses below and well be glad to include it if we deem it applicable.  You may be aware of an important place on the Info Highway that we are not aware of.  Or you may want to correct some of the information we have included here which has become obsolete.  In either case, we hope you will let us know and that way everyone can have the latest ROADMAP TO THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY and well always be able to find each other.

The Editors


WHAT IS

     With this book, you will be able to use the Information Superhighway to:

     = Stay in touch with friends, relatives and colleagues around the

       world, at a fraction of the cost of phone calls or even air

       mail.

     = Discuss everything from archaeology to zoology with people from

       around the world.

     = Tap into hundreds of information databases and libraries

       worldwide.

     = Retrieve any of thousands of documents, journals, books and

       computer programs.

     = Stay up to date with wire-service news and sports, and

       government weather reports.

     = Play live, "real time" games with dozens of other people at once.

For purposes of this book, you might want to think of the Information SuperHighway as a new technical combination of Telephone, Computers, soon Cable TV, all rolled up into a new kind of communications.

In the old days, the only way to communicate in business or in personal affairs was the telephone or the postal system.  The postal system is pretty much obsolete with some letters taking weeks or even months to arrive at their destinations, sometimes never.  The telephone is still the most widely used form of business communications and it has been enhanced somewhat with the introduction of the Fax Machine.

But at best, the average telephone communicator can only speak approximately 100  to 200 typewritten pages per day depending on how fast a talker he/she is.  Given that the average listener can retain only 30 - 40 percent of what they hear in any conversation, you see that the net efficiency of telephonic communications, in the best of cases is only about 30 - 40 pages of text, or 40 - 80 pages with some of the best and fastest communicators.  At the end of an average work week, this amounts to a measely 200 - 400 pages of text being transmitted to various customers, prospects, associates of yours.  Given the penchant for taking vacations, time off to visit the doctor, the dentist, picking up the kids, holidays, personal phone calls, sick leave, meetings, breaks, trips to the water cooler, etc.  This amounts to approximately 10,000 to 20,000 pages of text being communicated over the phone lines in the best of cases PER YEAR.

The INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY allows us to send 10, 100 or even 1,000 times this production in the way of pages communicated, PER DAY.  This is the equivalent of taking your best employee and cloning him/her and get 10, 100 or even 1,000 more work out of him or her without any additional payroll, desk space or benefits of any kind.  And you end up accomplishing this much more productivity in ONE DAY.  Imagine what you will have accomplished at the end of a year, if you were fully utilizing the benefits of this marvelous new technology we lump into the moniker of Information Superhighway.

This example above is not an exaggeration.  I personally have experienced this kind of productivity gain using my knowledge of the Information Superhighway.  I currently work out of my home.  I have a beautiful home in a very nice neighborhood and the mortgage is paid off.  I have no debts.  I take my family on vacation in Hawaii two or three times a year.  I am not super-wealthy, but I never worry about Finances any more because I know I can make a good living from my Knowledge of the Information Superhighway for the rest of my life.  Its a good sense of confidence in the future and my abilities to keep up with all the changes that I consider the greatest gift Ive received from all the activity and experiences Ive had on the Info Hwy.

I am writing this book to provide anyone who wants it with enough information about the Information Society to effectively be able to make a living from the comfort of their home as I do.  I will probably earn more wealth from the publishing of this book, but that is what I do for a living.  I provide information on and about the Information Superhighway.  This is only one aspect of how to make a living and/or helping your company to succeed in the future.  You can contribute if you own a car repair shop or a bakery or a medical practice.  It makes no difference.  Everyone in the present-day economy is part of the Information Society whether or not they actively pursue this part of the economy of not.  Not to participate is to keep your life simple, but it is also to omit a part of social intercourse that is expanding so rapidly that it can be whatever you want it to be.

As such, the Information Superhighway is not only a place where you can make a living.  It is also a place where you can entertain or be entertained.  You can chat with thousands of people at any given moment about any given subject.  Or you can get tips on how to play a better game of gold.  In fact, with a little searching around, you can even play golf without leaving your computer screen.  Someday soon, you will even be able to play golf at any of the worlds most famous courses without leaving the comfort of your own easy chair.

The biggest change in our lives that is about to take place is the combination of Cable TV and computer technology so that you will be able to do almost anything you can think of through the magic of television, video, and computer technology.  With the future software breakthroughs we are all used to, especially in the area of Virtual Reality, we will all soon be putting on special 3-D goggles, or helmets or perhaps contact lenses and experiencing trips to other parts of the universe, both inner and outer Space in ways we never have been able to before.

This is the reality today in 1994 as regards the Information Superhighway.  And I must close this brief introduction by explaining that this Roadmap will be useful only for a very short time because the topography of the Information Superhighway is changing so rapidly that as much as 90% of what is laid out in this Roadmap today may be obsolete as soon as one year or perhaps even 6 months from the first publication date.  To this end, I have decided to make this Verbon, a living Verbon, something that can change and be updated weekly or even daily.

So, wherever you found this Verbon, or electronic book, please look for new versions of it as often as you care to.  It will change and I will attempt to make it a completely accurate Roadmap to the Information Superhighway with all the updating and upgrading that I can physically accomplish.  This too is part of the potential of the Information Superhighway.  Books never have to be commited to paper and therefore, they can become much more dynamic and continuous in their coverage of their topics.

Finally, if you have any information you would like to add to this Roadmap to the Information Superhighway, please contact us at any of the addresses below and well be glad to include it if we deem it applicable.  You may be aware of an important place on the Info Highway that we are not aware of.  Or you may want to correct some of the information we have included here which has become obsolete.  In either case, we hope you will let us know and that way everyone can have the latest ROADMAP TO THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY and well always be able to find each other.

The Editors


How to advertise on the net

WE CAN PUT YOUR COMPANY ON THE MAP...  THE MAP OF THE  INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY.

We advertise on the INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY in several different ways.

1.  If you have a catalog, let us put it on the Net.  Triple your sales volume, reach millions of people at low cost.

2.  If you have a product you can demonstrate, put it in our OnLine Trade Show, reach millions of people easily and demonstrate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

3.  If you have any other kind of business, but an infomercial in this book or any of several more we have in the planning stages.

CALL (408) 423-8580 if you want to advertise on the Net.


THE INTER-ACTIVE YELLOW PAGES

The Inter-Active Yellow Pages is an excellent example of the use of the Information Superhighway.  It can be found in the same place, hopefully, that you found this VERBON, about the Information Superhighway.  The File Name will be something like Yellow1.Zip or Yellow2.zip or Yellow3.zip .  Since we update monthly, the latest number will be the latest monthly version of the Program.  You can get a copy of the InterActive Yellow Pages with paid listings of companies with something special to offer you, by going to Compuserve:  Winshare Forum, Lib 10, (Gen Win Apps), retrieve the file, YELLOWSX.ZIP x=latest version.

Also, find the OnLine version by going Downtown Anywhere:  by Lynx or Mosaic: HTTP://www.awa.com, or pick it up on America Online and soon, the E-World Online Service for the Macintosh Version.  Someday, anybody whos anybody will have a listing in the INTERACTIVE YELLOW PAGES.

The InterActive Yellow Pages is a Directory of many thousands of E-mail address and non-InterNet addresses of companys who want your business.  You can use this publication to research any topic from Travel to Health or Computer Upgrades.  It is in the same format as this Electronic Book or VERBON, so you can find things very fast electronically by keeping the VERBON active on your Windows Desktop.  Requires any version of Microsoft Windows to run.

Any company interested in the most modern and effective way to advertise should also look for this publication and call us to add your listing.  Fees are nominal.  To advertise either here in future versions of ROADMAP TO THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY or THE INTERACTIVE YELLOW PAGES.  --  Call (408) 423-8580.


VERBONS IS NEW WORD FOR ELECTRONIC BOOK
VERBON  IS A NEW WORD FOR ELECTRONIC BOOK

WE define any electronic book or reference or magazine with any kind of InterActivity or input from the user as a Verbon.  Websters dictionary has yet to add this word to their publication.  As Verbons become more and more popular, they will do so.


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TO PIN UP ON A WALL IN YOUR OFFICE, please follow these instructions.

1.  GO TO ROADMAP OF THE INFORMATIONSUPERHIGHWAY.

2.  FROM MENU ABOVE - CLICK ON FILE, CLICK ON

        PRINT TOPIC

3.  PRINT PAGE

4.  HANG ON THE WALL FOR FUTURE REFERENCE.

IN THIS FIRST ISSUE OF THE ROADMAP THERE IS ONLY ONE PAGE.  WATCH FOR FUTURE ISSUES WHICH WILL PRINT A LARGER AND LARGER MAP AS THE SUPERHIGHWAY IS BUILT.

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HOW TO BEGIN

PUBLIC-ACCESS INTERNET SITES

     What follows is a list of public-access Internet sites, which are

computer systems that offer access to the Net.  All offer international

e-mail and Usenet (international conferences).  In addition, they offer:

The fastest growing and possibly the best is the WWW or World Wide Web and Mosaic.  The World Wide Web is a way for one document anywhere on the planet to be posted by someone and it can refer to many other documents producing a very easy menu system that anyone can add to.

The Mosaic is a reader program that takes you anywhere on the World Wide Web and allows you to see the text as well as any graphics that have been posted by people anywhere.  Look for a Mosaic Reader available on Compuserve and many other places for you to use.

               FTP: File-transfer protocol -- access to scores of file

               libraries (everything from computer software to historical

               documents to song lyrics).  You'll be able to transfer

               these files from the Net to your own computer.

               Telnet: Access to databases, computerized library card

               catalogs, weather reports and other information services,

               as well as live, online games that let you compete with

               players from around the world.

     Additional services that may be offered include:

                WAIS:  Wide-area Information Server; a program that

                can search dozens of databases in one search.

                Gopher:  A program that gives you easy access to dozens

                of other online databases and services by making

                selections on a menu. You'll also be able to use these

                to copy text files and some programs to your mailbox.

                IRC:  Internet Relay Chat, a CB simulator that lets

                you have live keyboard chats with people around the

                world.

                Clarinet:  News, sports, feature stories and columns

                from Universal Press International; Newsbytes computer

                news.

     However, even on systems that do not provide these services

directly, you will be able to use a number of them through telnet (see

the TELNET chapter for more information on telnet).   Systems marked "Unix"  dump you right into Unix (a.k.a. "DOS with a college degree").

In most cases, this means you can also use the host system's various

Unix functions.  The other systems use menus, which are generally much easier for beginners to navigate -- they are just like menus in

restaurants, in which you decide what you want from a list of options.

Any unique features of a given system are noted. Some of these systems require you to use parameters of 7-1-E, so if you get gibberish when you connect, try that. Most let you look around for awhile before you have to sign up.

     Several of these sites are available nationwide through national

data networks such as the CompuServe Packet Network and PC-Pursuit.

     Please note that all listed charges are subject to change.

ALBERTA

     Edmonton.  PUCNet Computer Connections, (403) 484-5640.  Unix.  Log

on as: guest.

     Charges: $20 a month for 20 hours of connect time, plus $5 an hour

for access to ftp and telnet; $10 sign-up fee.

     Voice help: (403) 448-1901.

CALIFORNIA

     Berkeley.  Holonet. For free trial, modem number is (510) 704-1058.

Boardwatch online news, USA Today.  For information or local numbers,

call number below.

     Charges: $60 a year for local access, $2 an hour during offpeak

hours.

     Voice help:  (510) 704-0160.

     Cupertino.  Portal.  Both Unix and menus.  (408) 725-0561, 725-1724

or (408) 973-8091.

     Charges: $19.95 set-up fee, $19.95 a month.

     Voice help: (408) 973-9111.

     Encinitas.  Cyber Station, (619) 634-1376.  Unix.  Log on as:

guest.

     Charges: $20 a month for one hour a day; $10 setup fee.

     Irvine. Dial N' CERF.  See under San Diego.

     Los Angeles. Dial N' CERF.  See under San Diego.

     Oakland. Dial N' CERF.  See under San Diego.

     San Diego. Dial N' CERF USA, run by the California Education and Research Federation. Provides local dial-up numbers in San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland and Irvine.  For more information, call voice (800) 876-CERF or (619) 534-5087.

     Charges:  $20 a month plus $10 an hour, with a one-time

installation fee of $50.

OUR PERSONAL FAVORITE AND ON THE MAP.

     San Jose. Netcom, (510) 865-9004 or 426-6860; (408) 241-9760;

(415) 424-0131, up to 9600 baud. Unix.  Maintains archives of Usenet

postings.  Log on as: guest.

     New users get a written guide to using Netcom and the Net in

general.  However, access to Net services beyond Usenet requires

signature on a written "Network Agreement Form."

     Charges: $15 start-up fee and then $17.50 a month for

unlimited use if you agree to automatic billing of your credit-card

account (otherwise $19.50 a month for a monthly invoice).

     Voice help: (408) 554-UNIX.

     San Jose.  A2i, (408) 293-9010. Unix. Log on as: guest.

     Charges: $20 a month; $45 for three months; $72 for six months.

     Sausalito.  The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL), (415) 332-

6106, up to 2400 baud.  Uses moderately difficult Picospan software,

which is sort of a cross between Unix and a menu system.  New users

get a written manual.  More than 200 WELL-only conferences.  Log on

as: newuser.

     Charges: $15 a month plus $2 an hour.  Access through

the nationwide CompuServe Packet Network available for another $4.50

an hour.

     Voice help: (415) 332-4335.  Recorded message about the system's

current status: (800) 326-8354 (continental U.S. only).

COLORADO

     Colorado Springs. CNS, (719) 570-1700.  Local calendar listings

and ski and stock reports. USA Today.  Users can chose between menus

or Unix. Log on as: new.

     Charges: $1 an hour (minimum fee of $10 a month); one-time $35

set-up fee.

     Voice help: (719) 579-9120.

     Golden.  Colorado SuperNet.  Unix.  E-mail to fax service.

Available only to Colorado residents. Local dial-in numbers  currently

available in Ft. Collins, Denver/Boulder and Colorado Springs.  For

dial-in numbers, call the number below.

     Charges: $2 an hour ($1 an hour between midnight and 6 a.m.);

one-time $20 sign-up fee.

     Voice help: 303-273-3471.

ILLINOIS

     Chicago. MCSNet, (312) 248-0900.  Unix.

     Charges: $25/month or $65 for three months of unlimited access; $30 for three months of access at 15 hours a month.

     Voice help: (312) 248-UNIX.

     Peoria.  Peoria Free-Net, (309) 674-1100.  Similar to Cleveland

Free-Net (see Ohio, below).  Users can "link" to the larger Cleveland

system for access to Usenet and other services.  There are also Peoria

Free-Net public-access terminals in numerous area libraries,

other government buildings and senior-citizen centers.  Contact the

number below for specific locations.  Full access (including access to

e-mail) requires completion of a written application.

     Charges: None.

     Voice help: (309) 677-2544.

MARYLAND

     Baltimore.  Express Access, (410) 220-0462 or (301) 220-0462.

Unix.  Log on as: new.

     Charges: $15 a month or $150 a year for e-mail and Usenet; $25 a

month or $250 a year for complete Internet services (FTP, telnet, IRC,

etc.).  This allows unlimited use between 3 a.m. and 3 p.m. and one

hour between 3 p.m. and 3 a.m.  Access to Usenet, e-mail and Unix shell only is $15 a month/$150 a year.

     Voice help: (301) 220-2020.

MASSACHUSETTS

     Brookline.  The World,  (617) 739-9753. Unix, but with a large

number of understandable online help files.  Huge collection of MS-DOS files, "Online Book Initiative" collection of electronic books, poetry and other text files.

     Charges: $5 a month plus $2 an hour or $20 for 20 hours a month.

Available nationwide through the CompuServe Packet Network for

another $5.60 an hour.

     Voice help: (617) 739-0202.

     Lynn.  North Shore Access, (617) 593-5774.  Unix.  Log on as:

guest.

     Charges: $10 for a month for 10 hours; $1 an hour after that.

     Voice help: (617) 593-3110.

     Worcester.  NovaLink, (508) 754-4009.  Unix.  Log on as: info.

     Charges: $12.95 sign-up (includes first two hours); $9.95 a month

(includes five daytime hours), $1.80 an hour after that.

     Voice help: (800) 274-2814.

MICHIGAN

     Ann Arbor.  MSEN.  Contact number below for dial-in number.

Unix.

      Charges: $5 a month and $2 an hour, or $20 a month for 20 hours.

     Voice help: (313) 741-1120.

     Ann Arbor. Michnet. Unix. Has local dial-in numbers in several

Michigan numbers.  For local numbers, call voice number below.

     Charges: $35 a month plus one-time $40 sign-up fee.  Additional

network fees for access through non-Michnet numbers.

     Voice help: (313) 764-9430.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

     MV Communications, Inc.  For local dial-up numbers call voice line

below.  Unix.

     Charges: $5 a month mininum plus variable hourly rates depending on services used.

     Voice help: (603) 429-2223.

NEW YORK

     New York. Panix, (212) 787-3100.  Unix or menus.  Log on as:

newuser.

     Charges: $10 a month or $100 a year; one-time $40 fee.

     Voice help:  (212) 877-4854.

      New York.  Echo, (212) 989-8411.  Unix and conferencing.  Log

on as: newuser. Local conferences.

      Charges:  $19.95 ($13.75 students and seniors).

      Voice help:  (212) 255-3839.

     New York.  MindVox, (212) 988-5030.  Log on as: guest. Local

conferences.

     Charges: $15 a month; $10 set-up fee for non-credit card accounts.

     Voice help: (212) 988-5987.

NORTH CAROLINA

     Charlotte.  Vnet Internet Access, (704) 347-8839.  Unix.  Log on

as: new.

     Charges: $25 a month or $259 a year.

     Voice help: (704) 374-0779.

     Triangle Research Park.  Rock Concert Net.  Call number below for

modem number.  Unix.

     Charges: $30 a month; one-time $50 sign-up fee.

     Voice help: (919) 248-1999.

OHIO

     Cleveland.  Cleveland Free-Net, (216) 368-3888.  IRC. USA Today, Ohio and US Supreme Court decisions, historical documents, many local conferences.  Full access (including access to e-mail) requires completion of a written application.

     Charges: None.

     Voice help:  (216) 368-8737.

     Cincinnati.  Tri-State Free-Net, (513) 579-1990.  Similar to

Cleveland Free-Net. Full access (including access to e-mail) requires

completion of a written application.

     Charges: None.

     Cleveland.  Wariat, (216) 481-9436 (2400 baud); (216) 481-9425

(higher speeds).  Unix, menus.

     Charges: $35 a month or $200 for six months; $20 sign-up fee.

     Voice help: (216) 481-9428.

     Lorain.  Lorain County Free-Net, (216) 277-2359 or 366-9753.

     Similar to Cleveland Free-Net.  Users can "link" to the larger

Cleveland system for additional services.  Full access (including

access to e-mail) requires completion of a written application.

     Charges: None.

     Voice help: (216) 366-4200.

     Medina.  Medina Free-Net, (216) 723-6732, 225-6732 or 335-6732.

Users can "link" to the larger Cleveland Free-Net for additional

services.  Full access (including access to e-mail) requires

completion of a written application.

     Charges: None.

     Youngstown.  Youngstown Free-Net, (216) 742-3072.  Users can

"link" to the Cleveland system for services not found locally.  Full

access (including access to e-mail) requires completion of a written

application.

     Charges: None.

ONTARIO

     Toronto.  UUNorth.  Call voice number below for local dial-in

numbers.  Unix.

     Charges: $25 for 20 hours a month of offpeak use.

     Voice help: (416) 225-8649.

OREGON

     Beaverton.  Techbook, (503) 220-0636 (2400 baud); (503) 220-1016 (higher speeds).  Unix.

     Charges: $10 a month for 30 hours of "basic" Internet access or $90 a

year; $15 a month for 30 hours of "deluxe" access or $150 a year. $10 sign-up fee for monthly accounts.

     Portland.  Agora, (503) 293-1772 (2400 baud), (503) 293-2059 (9600 baud).  Unix. Log on as: apply

     Charges: $6 a month for one hour per day.

PENNSYLVANIA

     Pittsburgh.  Telerama, (412) 481-5302.  Unix.

     Charges:  $6 for 10 hours a month, 60 cents for each additional hour.

QUEBEC

     Montreal.  Communications Accessibles Montreal, (514) 281-5601.

Unix.

     Charges: $25 a month.

     Voice help: (514) 923-2102.

RHODE ISLAND

     East Greenwich.  IDS World Network, (401) 884-9002.  In addition

to Usenet, has conferences from the Fidonet and RIME networks.

Supports QMAIL offline reader, which lets you read and respond to

messages while not online.

     Charges: $10 a month; $50 for six months; $100 for a year.

VIRGINIA

     Norfolk.  Wyvern Technologies, (804) 627-1828 (Norfolk); (804-0662 (Peninsula).  Unix.

     Charges: $15 a month or $144 a year; $10 sign-up fee.

     Voice help: (804) 622-4289.

WASHINGTON, DC

     The Meta Network.  Call voice number below for local dial-in

numbers.  Caucus conferencing, menus.

     Charges: $20 a month plus $15 sign-up fee.

     Voice help: (703) 243-6622.

     See also: listing under Baltimore, MD for Express Access.

WASHINGTON STATE

     Seattle. Halcyon, (206) 382-6245.  Users can choose between menus and Unix.  Log on as: bbs.

     Charges: $10 a month for Usenet and e-mail; $15 a month or $150 a

year for these and other Internet services (FTP, IRC, telnet, etc.).

     Voice help: (206) 426-9298

     Seattle.  Eskimo North, (206) 367-3837 (2400 baud), (206) 362-6731 (9600/14.4K baud).

     Charges: $10 a month or $96 a year.

     Voice help: (206) 367-7457.

--------------------

     If you don't live in a city with a public-access site, you'll

still be able to connect to the Net.  Several of these services offer

access through national data networks such as the CompuServe Packet

Network and PC-Pursuit, which have dozens, even hundreds of local

dial-in numbers across the country.  These include Holonet in

Berkeley, Calf., Portal in Cupertino, Calf., the WELL in Sausalito,

Calf., Dial 'N CERF in San Diego, Calf., the World in Brookline,

Mass., and Michnet in Ann Arbor, Mich.  Dial 'N CERF offers access

through an 800 number.  Expect to pay from $2 to $12 an hour to use

these networks, above each provider's basic charges.  The exact amount

depends on the network, time of day and type of modem you use.  For

more information, contact the above services.

     Two other providers deliver Net access to users across the

country:

     Delphi, based in Cambridge, Mass., is a consumer-oriented network

much like CompuServe or America On-Line -- only it now offers

subscribers access to Internet services.

     Charges: $3 a month for Internet access, in addition to standard

charges.  These are $10 a month for four hours of off-peak (non-working hours) access a month and $4 an hour for each additional hour or $20 for 20 hours of access a month and $1.80 an hour for each additional hour.

For more information, call (800) 695-4005.

     PSI, based in Reston, Va., provides nationwide access to Internet

services through scores of local dial-in numbers to owners of IBM and

compatible computers.  PSILink. which includes access to e-mail,

Usenet and ftp, costs $29 a month, plus a one-time $19 registration

fee.  Special software is required, but is available free from PSI.

PSI's Global Dialup Service provides access to telnet for $39 a month

plus a one-time $39 set-up fee.  For more information, call (800)

82PSI82 or (703) 620-6651.

--------------------

Peter Kaminski maintains a list of systems that provide public access to

Internet services.  It's availble on the network itself, which obviously

does you little good if you currently have no access, but which can

prove invaluable should you move or want to find a new system.  Look for his "PDIAL" file in the alt.bbs.lists or news.answers newsgroups in

Usenet (for information on accessing Usenet, (CLICK HERE TO see the USENET

--------------------

THINGS THAT CAN GO WRONG

     * Your computer connects with a public-access site and get

gibberish on your screen.  If you are using parameters of 8-1-N, try 7-

1-e (or vice-versa).  If that doesn't work, try another modem speed.

     * You have your computer dial a public-access site, but nothing

happens.  Check the phone number you typed in.  If correct, turn on your modem's speaker (on Hayes-compatible modems, you can usually do this by typing ATM1 in your communications software's "terminal mode."  If the phone just rings and rings, the public-access site could be down for maintenance or do to a crash or some other problem.  If you get a "connect" message, but nothing else, try hitting enter or escape a

couple of times.

     * You try to log in, but after you type your password, nothing

happens, or you get a "timed out" message followed by a disconnect.

Re-dial the number and try it again.

     * Always remember, if you have a problem that just doesn't go away, Ask! Ask your system administrator, ask a friend, but ask.  Somebody will know what to do.


the BLESSING

          "As a net is made up of a series of ties, so everything in

     this world is connected by a series of ties.  If anyone thinks

     that the mesh of a net is an independent, isolated thing, he is

     mistaken.  It is called a net because it is made up of a series

     of interconnected meshes, and each mesh has its place and

     responsibility in relation to other meshes."

                                                          -- Buddha


HOW TO KEEP THE MAIL MOVING

--------------------

KILLFILES

     As you keep reading Usenet, you are going to run across things or

people that really drive you nuts -- or that you just get tired of

seeing.

     Killfiles are just the thing for you. When you start your

newsreader, it checks to see if you have any lists of words, phrases

or names you don't want to see.  If you do, then it blanks out any

messages containing those words.

     Such as cascades.

     As you saw earlier, when you post a reply to a message and

include parts of that message, the original lines show up with a > in

front of them.  Well, what if you reply to a reply?  Then you get a >>

in front of the line.  And if you reply to that reply? You get >>>.

Keep this up, and soon you get a triangle of >'s building up in your

message.

     There are people who like building up these triangles, or

cascades.  They'll "respond" to your message by deleting everything

you've said, leaving only the "In message 123435, you said:" part and

the last line of your message, to which they add a nonsensical

retort.  On and on they go until the triangle has reached the right

end of the page. Then they try to expand the triangle by deleting one

> with each new line. Whoever gets to finish this mega-triangle wins.

     There is even a newsgroup just for such folks: alt.cascade.

Unfortunately, cascaders would generally rather cascade in other

newsgroups. Because it takes a lot of messages to build up a completed

cascade, the targeted newsgroup soon fills up with these messages. Of

course, if you complain, you'll be bombarded with messages about the

First Amendment and artistic expression -- or worse, with another

cascade. The only thing you can do is ignore them, by setting up a

killfile.

     There are also certain newsgroups where killfiles will come in

handy because of the way they are organized.  For example, readers of

rec.arts.tv.soaps always use an acronym in their subject: line for

the show they're writing about (AMC, for example, for "All My

Children").  This way, people who only want to read about "One Life to Live" can blank out all the messages about "The Young and the

Restless" and all the others (to keep people from accidentally

screening out messages that might contain the letters "gh" in them,

"General Hospital" viewers always use "gh:" in their subject lines).

      Both nn and rn let you create killfiles, but in different ways.

     To create a killfile in nn, go into the newsgroup with the

offending messages and type a capital K.  You'll see this at the

bottom of your screen:

               AUTO (k)ill or (s)elect (CR => Kill subject 30 days)

If you hit return, nn will ask you which article's subject you're

tired of. Chose one and the article and any follow-ups will disappear,

and you won't see them again for 30 days.

     If you type a lower-case k instead, you'll get this:

               AUTO KILL on (s)ubject or (n)ame  (s)

If you hit your S key or just enter,  you'll see this:

               KILL Subject: (=/)

Type in the name of the offending word or phrase and hit enter.

You'll then be prompted:

               KILL in (g)roup 'eff.test' or in (a)ll groups  (g)

except that the name of the group you see will be the one you're

actually in at the moment.  Because cascaders and other annoying

people often cross-post their messages to a wide range of newsgroups,

you might consider hitting a instead of g.  Next comes:

               Lifetime of entry in days (p)ermanent  (30)

The P key will screen out the offending articles forever, while

hitting enter will do it for 30 days.  You can also type in a number

of days for the blocking.

     Creating killfiles in rn works differently -- its default

killfile generator only works for messages in specific groups, rather

than globally for your entire newsgroup list.  To create a global

killfile, you'll have to write one yourself.

     To create a killfile in rn, go into the newsgroup where the

offending messages are and type in its number so you get it on your

screen. Type a capital K.  From now on, any message with that subject

line will disappear before you read the group. You should probably

choose a reply, rather than the original message, so that you will get

all of the followups (the original message won't have a "Re: " in its

subject line). The next time you call up that newsgroup, rn will tell

you it's killing messages. When it's done, hit the space bar to go

back into reading mode.

     To create a "global" kill file that will automatically wipe out

articles in all groups you read, start rn and type control-K.  This

will start your whatever text editor you have as your default on your

host system and create a file (called KILL, in your News

subdirectory).

     On the first line, you'll type in the word, phrase or name you

don't want to see, followed by commands that tell rn whether to search

an entire message for the word or name and then what to do when it

finds it.

     Each line must be in this form

               /pattern/modifier:j

     "Pattern" is the word or phrase you want rn to look for.  It's

case-insensitive: both "test" and "Test" will be knocked out.  The

modifier tells rn whether to limit its search to message headers

(which can be useful when the object is to never see messages from a

particular person):

               a:    Looks through an entire message

               h:    Looks just at the header

     You can leave out the modifier command, in which case rn will

only look at the subject line of messages. The "j" at the end tells rn

to screen out all articles with the offending word.

     So if you never want to see the word "foo" in any header, ever again, type this:

                /foo/h:j

     This is particularly useful for getting rid of articles from

people who post in more than one newsgroup, such as cascaders, since

an article's newsgroup name is always in the header.

     If you just want to block messages with a subject line about

cascades, you could try:

                 /foo/:j

  To kill anything that is a followup to any article, use this

pattern:

                 /Subject: *Re:/:j

When done writing lines for each phrase to screen, exit the text

editor as you normally would, and you'll be put back in rn.

     One word of caution: go easy on the global killfile.  An

extensive global killfile, or one that makes frequent use of the a:

modifier can dramatically slow down rn, since the system will now have to look at every single word in every single message in all the

newsgroups you want to read.

    If there's a particular person whose posts you never want to see

again, first find his or address (which will be in the "from:" line of

his postings) and then write a line in your killfile like this:

                  /From: *name@address\.all/h:j

promo2


HOW TO HANDLE NEWSGROUPS

Newsgroups are groups of thousands of people interested in the same subject.  You can learn lots from them.  The way to handle them is to remember first that if you join more than one you are going to get tons of mail because every message from each of the thousands of members comes to you.

To avoid this subscribe to one or two at first, experiment with it to see if its what you expected and then unsubscribe to it when they are no longer useful, saving yourself much time and disk space.

The list of news groups can be obtained in our next issue.  In that issue well have more info on how to subscribe or unsubscribe to any of them.


TELNET

TELNET

     Hytelnet, at the University of Saskatchewan, is an online guide to

hundreds of telnet sites around the world.

     Telnet:  access.usask.ca

     Log in:  hytelnet.

CONGRESS

     The Library of Congress Information Service lets you search current

and past legislation (dating to 1982).

     Telnet: locis.loc.gov

     Password: none needed.

     When you connect, you'll get a main menu that lets you select

from several databases, including the Library of Congress card catalog

(with book entries dating to 1978) and a database of information on

copyright laws.

     For the congressional database, select the number next to its

entry and hit enter.  You'll then be asked to choose which legislative year to search. After that, a menu similar to this will come up:

  ***C103- THE LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION FILE FOR THE 103RD CONGRESS,

           which was updated on 05/10/93 and contains 4,044 records,

           is now available for your search.

   CURRENCY: All information is NOT current through the above date, which is

             machine generated when ANY information is added to the file.

             Bill numbers, official titles, sponsors, and status (STEP) added

             within 48 hours.  Indexing terms and digests added later, in

             some cases several weeks after the bill is added to the file.

    TO START   RETRIEVE to find:                    EXAMPLES:

    SEARCH:    member name  -------------->    retrieve rep gingrich

                                               retrieve sen kennedy

               bill number  -------------->    retrieve h.r. 1

               subject keywords  --------->    retrieve day care

    FOR HELP:  Type the word HELP and press the ENTER key.

    READY FOR NEW COMMAND:

    Cleveland Free-Net.  The first of a series of Freenets, this

represents an ambitious attempt to bring the Net to the public.

Originally an in-hospital help network, it is now sponsored by Case

Western Reserve University, the city of Cleveland, the state of Ohio

and IBM. It uses simple menus, similar to those found on CompuServe,

but organized like a city:

          <<< CLEVELAND FREE-NET DIRECTORY >>>

            1 The Administration Building

            2 The Post Office

            3 Public Square

            4 The Courthouse & Government Center

            5 The Arts Building

            6 Science and Technology Center

            7 The Medical Arts Building

            8 The Schoolhouse (Academy One)

            9 The Community Center & Recreation Area

           10 The Business and Industrial Park

           11 The Library

           12 University Circle

           13 The Teleport

           14 The Communications Center

           15 NPTN/USA TODAY HEADLINE NEWS

          ------------------------------------------------

          h=Help, x=Exit Free-Net, "go help"=extended help

          Your Choice ==>

     The system has a vast and growing collection of public documents,

from copies of U.S. and Ohio Supreme Court decisions to the Magna

Carta and the U.S. Constitution.  It links residents to various

government agencies and has daily stories from USA Today. Beyond

Usenet (found in the Teleport area), it has a large collection of

local conferences on everything from pets to politics.  And yes, it's

free!

     Telnet: freenet-in-a.cwru.edu or

             freenet-in-b.cwru.edu

     Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL). Itself a major Net access

point in the San Francisco area, the WELL is also a unique online

community that maintains dozens of conferences on every imaginable

topic (seven devoted just to the Grateful Dead).  WELL users are

intelligent and opinionated; discussions are often fast and furious.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation was basically started in a series

of online conversations on the WELL. Although it has a serious San

Francisco flavor, it has users from across the country (enough to

support both East Coast and Midwest conferences).

     For its conferences, the WELL uses PicoSpan software, which

presents messages differently than rn or nn.   When you enter a

conference, you can call up a list of "topics."  Enter a topic number,

and all of the messages start scrolling down the screen, sort of like

the music on an old-fashioned player-piano.  There is some online

help, but new users are sent a written manual. See Chapter 2 for

information on access charges (one advantage to connecting to the WELL through telnet is that unless you live in the Bay Area, it is likely

to be much cheaper than other access methods).

     Telnet: well.sf.ca.us

SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

     The University of Maryland Info Database maintains U.S. Supreme

Court decisions from 1991 on in its Government area.

     Telnet:  info.umd.edu

     User name:  info


FINGER

FINGER

     This is a handy little program which lets you tell others more

about you -- and which you can sometimes use to find out more about

people whose names you see on the Net.

     It uses the same concept as telnet or ftp. But it works with only

one file, called .plan (yes, with a period in front).  This is a text

file you create with a text editor in your home directory.  You can

put your phone number in there, or your address, or anything at all.

     To finger somebody else's .plan file, type this at the command

line:

     finger email-address

where email-address is the person's e-mail address.  You'll get back a

display that shows the last time the person was online, whether

they've gotten any new mail since that time and what, if anything, is

in their .plan file.


HOW TO FIND PEOPLE AND GET FOUND EASILY

FINDING SOMEONE ON THE NET

     So you have a friend and you want to find out if he has an Internet

account to which you can write?  The quickest way may be to just pick up the phone, call him and ask him.  Although there are a variety of "white pages" services available on the Internet, they are far from complete -- college students, users of commercial services such as CompuServe and many Internet public-access sites, and many others simply won't be listed.  Major e-mail providers are working on a universal directory system, but that could be some time away.

     In the meantime, a couple of "white pages" services might give you

some leads, or even just entertain you as you look up famous people or

long-lost acquaintances.

     The whois directory provides names, e-mail and postal mail address

and often phone numbers for people listed in it.  To use it, telnet to

      internic.net

No log-on is needed.  The quickest way to use it is to type

     whois name

at the prompt, where "name" is the last name or organization name you're looking for.


HOW TO FIND FILES

FTP   FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL

     Hundreds of systems connected to Internet have file libraries, or

archives, accessible to the public. Much of this consists of free or

low-cost shareware programs for virtually every make of computer.  If you want a different communications program for your IBM, or feel like playing a new game on your Amiga, you'll be able to get it from the Net.

     But there are also libraries of documents as well.  If you

want a copy of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, you can find it on the Net.  Copies of historical documents, from the Magna Carta to the Declaration of Independence are also yours for the asking, along with a translation of a telegram from Lenin ordering the execution of

rebellious peasants.  You can also find song lyrics, poems, even

summaries of every "Lost in Space" episode ever made.  You can also find extensive files detailing everything you could ever possibly want to know about the Net itself.  First you'll see how to get these files; then

we'll show you where they're kept.

     The commonest way to get these files is through the file transfer

protocol, or ftp.  As with telnet, not all systems that connect to the

Net have access to ftp.  However, if your system is one of these, you'll

be able to get many of these files through e-mail (see the next chapter).

     Starting ftp is as easy as using telnet. At your host system's command line, type

          ftp site.name

and hit enter, where "site.name" is the address of the ftp site you want

to reach.  One major difference between telnet and ftp is that it is

considered bad form to connect to most ftp sites during their business

hours (generally 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. local time).  This is because

transferring files across the network takes up considerable computing

power, which during the day is likely to be needed for whatever the

computer's main function is.  There are some ftp sites that are

accessible to the public 24 hours a day, though.  You'll find these noted

in the list of ftp sites.

     How do you find a file you want, though?

     Until a few years ago, this could be quite the pain -- there was

no master directory to tell you where a given file might be stored on

the Net. Who'd want to slog through hundreds of file libraries looking

for something?

     Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan and Peter Deutsch, students at McGill

University in Montreal, asked the same question.  Unlike the weather,

though, they did something about it.

     They created a database system, called archie, that would

periodically call up file libraries and basically find out what they had

available.

     In turn, anybody could dial into archie, type in a file name, and

see where on the Net it was available. Archie currently catalogs close to

1,000 file libraries around the world.

     Today, there are three ways to ask archie to find a file for you:

through telnet, "client" Archie program on your own host system or e-

mail.  All three methods let you type in a full or partial file name and

will tell you where on the Net it's stored.

 If you have access to telnet, you can telnet to one of the following

addresses: archie.mcgill.ca; archie.sura.net; archie.unl.edu;

archie.ans.net; or archie.rutgers.edu.  If asked for a log-in name, type

           archie

and hit enter.

     When you connect, the key command is prog, which you use in this

form:

            prog filename

followed by enter, where "filename" is the program or file you're

looking for. If you're unsure of a file's complete name, try typing in

part of the name. For example, "PKZIP" will work as well as

"PKZIP201.EXE."  The system does not support DOS or Unix wildcards.

If you ask archie to look for "PKZIP*," it will tell you it couldn't

find anything by that name.  One thing to keep in mind is that a file is

not necessarily the same as a program -- it could also be a document.

This means you can use archie to search for, say, everything online

related to the Beetles, as well as computer programs and graphics files.

     A number of Net sites now have their own archie programs that

take your request for information and pass it onto the nearest archie

database -- ask your system administrator if she has it online. These

"client" programs seem to provide information a lot more quickly than the actual archie itself!  If it is available, at your host system's command

line, type

     archie -s filename

where filename is the program or document you're looking for, and hit

enter.  The -s tells the program to ignore case in a file name and lets

you search for partial matches. You might actually want to type it this

way:

          archie -s filename|more

which will stop the output every screen (handy if there are many sites

that carry the file you want).  Or you could open a file on your computer with your text-logging function.

      The third way, for people without access to either of the above, is e-mail.

     Send a message to archie@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca. You can leave the

subject line blank.  Inside the message, type

          prog filename

where filename is the file you're looking for.  You can ask archie to

look up several programs by putting their names on the same "prog" line, like this:

          prog file1 file2 file3

     Within a few hours, archie will write back with a list of the

appropriate sites.

       In all three cases, if there is a system that has your file,

you'll get a response that looks something like this:

 Host sumex-aim.stanford.edu

     Location: /info-mac/comm

            FILE -rw-r--r--     258256  Feb 15 17:07  zterm-09.hqx

     Location: /info-mac/misc

            FILE -rw-r--r--       7490  Sep 12 1991  zterm-sys7-color-icons.hqx

     Chances are, you will get a number of similar looking responses

for each program.  The "host" is the system that has the file.  The

"Location" tells you which directory to look in when you connect to

that system.  Ignore the funny-looking collections of r's and hyphens

for now.  After them, come the size of the file or directory listing

in bytes, the date it was uploaded, and the name of the file.

     Now you want to get that file.

     Assuming your host site does have ftp, you connect in a similar

fashion to telnet, by typing:

          ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu

(or the name of whichever site you want to reach). Hit enter.  If the

connection works, you'll see this:

  Connected to sumex-aim.stanford.edu.

  220 SUMEX-AIM FTP server (Version 4.196 Mon Jan 13 13:52:23 PST 1992) ready.

  Name (sumex-aim.stanford.edu:adamg):

     If nothing happens after a minute or so, hit control-C to return

to your host system's command line.  But if it has worked, type

          anonymous

and hit enter.  You'll see a lot of references on the Net to

"anonymous ftp." This is how it gets its name -- you don't really have

to tell the library site what your name is. The reason is that these

sites are set up so that anybody can gain access to certain public

files, while letting people with accounts on the sites to log on and

access their own personal files.  Next, you'll be asked for your

password.  As a password, use your e-mail address.  This will then come up:

          230 Guest connection accepted. Restrictions apply.

          Remote system type is UNIX.

          Using binary mode to transfer files.

          ftp>

Now type

          ls

and hit enter.  You'll see something awful like this:

          200 PORT command successful.

          150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.

          total 2636

          -rw-rw-r--  1 0        31           4444 Mar  3 11:34 README.POSTING

          dr-xr-xr-x  2 0        1             512 Nov  8 11:06 bin

          -rw-r--r--  1 0        0        11030960 Apr  2 14:06 core

          dr--r--r--  2 0        1             512 Nov  8 11:06 etc

          drwxrwsr-x  5 13       22            512 Mar 19 12:27 imap

          drwxr-xr-x 25 1016     31            512 Apr  4 02:15 info-mac

          drwxr-x---  2 0        31           1024 Apr  5 15:38 pid

          drwxrwsr-x 13 0        20           1024 Mar 27 14:03 pub

          drwxr-xr-x  2 1077     20            512 Feb  6  1989 tmycin

          226 Transfer complete.

          ftp>

     Let's decipher this BUNCH OF GIBBERISH.

     First, ls is the ftp command for displaying a directory (you can

actually use dir as well, but if you're used to MS-DOS, this could lead

to confusion when you try to use dir on your host system, where it won't work, so it's probably better to just remember to always use ls for a directory while online).

     The very first letter on each line tells you whether the listing is

for a directory or a file. If the first letter is a ``d,'' or an "l",

it's a directory. Otherwise, it's a file.

     The rest of that weird set of letters and dashes consist of "flags"

that tell the ftp site who can look at, change or delete the file. You

can safely ignore it. You can also ignore the rest of the line until you

get to the second number, the one just before the date. This tells you

how large the file is, in bytes. If the line is for a directory, the

 number gives you a rough indication of how many items are in that

directory  -- a directory listing of 512 bytes is relatively small. Next

comes the date the file or directory was uploaded, followed (finally!) by its name.

     Notice the README.POSTING file up at the top of the directory. Most archive sites have a "read me" document, which usually contains some basic information about the site, its resources and how to use them.

Let's get this file, both for the information in it and to see how to

transfer files from there to here. At the ftp> prompt, type

          get README

 and hit enter. Note that ftp sites are no different from Unix sites in

general: they are case-sensitive. You'll see something like this:

  200 PORT command successful.

  150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for README (4444 bytes).

  226 Transfer complete. 4444 bytes received in 1.177seconds (3.8 Kbytes/s)

And that's it! The file is now located in your home directory on your host system, from which you can now download it to your own computer. The simple "get" command is the key to transferring a file from an archive site to your host system.

     If the first letter on the line starts with a "d", then that is a

directory you can enter to look for more files.  If it starts with an

"r", then it's a file you can get.  The next item of interest is the

fifth column, which tells you how large the item is in bytes.  That's

followed by the date and time it was loaded to the archive, followed,

finally, by its name.   Many sites provide a "README" file that lists

simple instructions and available files.  Some sites use files named

"Index" or "INDEX" or something similar.

     If you want to download more than one file at a time (say a series

of documents, use mget instead of get; for example:

         mget *.txt

This will transfer copies of every file ending with .txt in the given

directory.  Before each file is copied, you'll be asked if you're sure

you want it.  Despite this, mget could still save you considerable

time -- you won't have to type in every single file name.

        There is one other command to keep in mind.  If you want to get a

copy of a computer program, type

         bin

and hit enter.  This tells the ftp site and your host site that you are

sending a binary file, i.e., a program.  Most ftp sites now use binary

format as a default, but it's a good idea to do this in case you've

connected to one of the few that doesn't.

     To switch to a directory, type

          cd directory-name

(substituting the name of the directory you want to access) and hit

enter. Type

          ls

and hit enter to get the file listing for that particular directory.

To move back up the directory tree, type

          cd ..

(note the space between the d and the first period) and hit enter.  Or

you could type

         cdup

and hit enter.  Keep doing this until you get to the directory of

interest.  Alternately, if you already know the directory path of the

file you want (from our friend archie), after you connect, you could

simply type

        get directory/subdirectory/filename

     On many sites, files meant for public consumption are in the pub

or public directory; sometimes you'll see an info directory.

     Almost every site has a bin directory, which at first glance

sounds like a bin in which interesting stuff might be dumped.  But it

actually stands for "binary" and is simply a place for the system

administrator to store the programs that run the ftp system. Lost+found

is another directory that looks interesting but actually never has

anything of public interest in them.

     Before, you saw how to use archie.  From our example, you can see

that some system administrators go a little berserk when naming files.

Fortunately, there's a way for you to rename the file as it's being

transferred. Using our archie example, you'd type

            get zterm-sys7-color-icons.hqx zterm.hqx

and hit enter.  Instead of having to deal constantly with a file called

zterm-sys7-color-icons.hqx, you'll now have one called, simply,

zterm.hqx.

    Those last three letters bring up something else: Many program files

are compressed to save on space and transmission time.  In order to

actually use them, you'll have to use an un-compress program on them first.

    There are a wide variety of compression methods in use.  You can tell which method was used by the last one to three letters at the end of a file. Here are some of the more common ones and what you'll need to un-compress the files they create (and these decompression programs can all be located through archie).

.TXT          By itself, this means the file is a document, rather than a

              program. .DOC is another common suffix for documents. No

              de-compression is needed, unless it is followed by

.Z            This is a Unix compression method.  To uncompress the file,

              type

                        uncompress file.name.Z

              and hit enter at your host system's command prompt. If it's a

              text file, you can read it online by typing

                       zcat file.txt.Z | more

              at your host system's command line. There is a Macintosh

              program called MacCompress that you can use on your machine

              if you want to download the file (use archie to find where

              you can get it!). There's an MS-DOS equivalent, often found

              as u16.ZIP, which means it is itself compressed in the ZIP

              format.

ZIP           An MS-DOS format. Use the PKZIP package (usually found as

              PKZ201.exe or something similar).

.ZOO          A Unix and MS-DOS format. Requires the use of a program

              called zoo.

.Hqx          A Macintosh format that needs BinHex for de-compression.

.SHAR         A Unix format. Use unshar

.tar          Another Unix format, often used to compress several related

              files into one big file. Use tar.  Often, a "tarred" file

              will also be compressed with the .Z method, so you first have

              to use uncompress and then tar.

.Sit          A Macintosh format, requires StuffIt.

.ARC          A DOS format that requires the use of ARC or ARCE.

      A few last words of caution: Check the size of a file before you

get it.  The Net moves data at phenomenal rates of speed.  But that

500,000-byte file that gets transferred to your host system in a few

seconds could take more than an hour or two to download to your computer if you're using a 2400-baud modem.  Your host system may also have limits on the amount of bytes you can store online at any one time.  Also, although it is really extremely unlikely you will ever get a file infected with a virus, if you plan to do much downloading over the Net, you'd be wise to invest in a good anti-viral program, just in case.

FTP SITES

     What follows is a list of some interesting ftp sites, arranged by

category. With hundreds of ftp sites now on the Net, however, this list

barely scratches the surface of what is available.  Liberal use of archie

will help you find specific files.

     The times listed for each site are in Eastern time and represent

the periods during which it is considered acceptable to connect.

AMIGA

     ftp.uu.net  Has Amiga programs in the systems/amiga directory.

     Available 24 hours.

ATARI

     atari.archive.umich.edu  Find almost all the Atari files you'll ever

need, in the atari directory.

     7 p.m. - 7 a.m.

BOOKS

     pit-manager.mit.edu   The pub/usenet/rec.arts.books directories has

reading lists for various authors as well as lists of recommended

bookstores in different cities.  Unfortunately, this site uses incredibly

long file names -- so long they may scroll off the end of your screen if

you are using an MS-DOS or certain other computers.  Even if you want just one of the files, it probably makes more sense to use mget than get.

This way, you will be asked on each file whether you want to get it;

otherwise you may wind up frustrated because the system will keep Telling you the file you want doesn't exist (since you may miss the end of its name due to the scrolling problem).

     6 p.m. - 6 a.m.


ETHICS

COMPUTER ETHICS

     ftp.eff.org  The home of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  Use cd

to get to the pub directory and then look in the EFF, SJG and CPSR

directories for documents on the EFF itself and various issues related to

the Net, ethics and the law.

     Available 24 hours.

CONSUMER

     pit-manager.mit.edu  The pub/usenet/misc.consumers directory has

documents related to credit.  The pub/usenet/rec.travel.air directory

will tell you how to deal with airline reservation clerks, find the best

prices on seats, etc.  See under Books for a caveat in using this ftp

site.

     6 p.m. - 6 a.m.

COOKING

     wuarchive.wustl.edu  Look for recipes and recipe directories in the

usenet/rec.food.cooking/recipes directory.

     gatekeeper.dec.com  Recipes are in the pub/recipes directory.

ESPERANTO

     rand.org  You'll find text files about the Esperanto artificial

language in the pub/esperanto directory.

     6 p.m. - 6 a.m.

FTP

     iraun1.ira.uka.de  Run by the computer-science department of the

University of Karlsruhe in Germany, this site offers lists of anonymous-

FTP sites both internationally (in the anon.ftp.sites directory) and in

Germany (in anon.ftp.sites.DE).

     12 p.m. to 2 a.m.

     ftp.netcom.com  The pub/profiles directory has lists of ftp sites.

GOVERNMENT

     ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu  The SENATE directory contains bibliographic

records of U.S. Senate hearings and documents for the past several

Congresses.  Get the file README.DOS9111, which will explain the cryptic file names.

     6 p.m. - 6 a.m.

     nptn.org  The General Accounting Office is the investigative wing of Congress.  The pub/e.texts/gao.reports directory represents an experiment by the agency to use ftp to distribute its reports.

     Available 24 hours.

HISTORY

     nptn.org  This site has a large, growing collecting of text files.

In the pub/e.texts/freedom.shrine directory, you'll find copies of

important historical documents, from the Magna Carta to the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation.

     Available 24 hours.

     ra.msstate.edu  Mississippi State maintains an eclectic database of

historical documents, detailing everything from Attilla's battle strategy

to songs of soldiers in Vietnam, in the docs/history directory.

     6 p.m. - 6 a.m.

     seq1.loc.gov  The Library of Congress has acquired numerous

documents from the former Soviet government and has translated many of them into English.  In the pub/soviet.archive/text.english directory,

you'll find everything from  telegrams from Lenin ordering the death of

peasants to Khrushhchev's response to Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis.

The README file in the pub/soviet.archive directory provides an

index to the documents.

     6 p.m. - 6 a.m.

HONG KONG

      nok.lcs.mit.edu  GIF pictures of Hong Kong pop stars, buildings

and vistas are available in the pub/hongkong/HKPA directory.

     6 p.m. - 6 a.m.

INTERNET

     ftp.eff.org The pub/internet-info directory has a number of

documents explaining the Internet and Usenet.

     Available 24 hours.

     nic.ddn.mil The internet-drafts directory contains information about

Internet, while the scc directory holds network security bulletins.

     6 p.m. - 6 a.m.

LAW

     info.umd.edu  U.S. Supreme Court decisions from 1989 to the present are stored in the info/Government/US/SupremeCt directory.  Each term has a separate directory (for example, term1992).  Get the README and Index files to help decipher the case numbers.

     6 p.m. - 6 a.m.

     ftp.uu.net  Supreme Court decisions are in the court-opinions

directory.  You'll want to get the index file, which tells you which file

numbers go with which file names.  The decisions come in WordPerfect and Atex format only.

     Available 24 hours a day.

LIBRARIES

     ftp.unt.edu  The library directory contains numerous lists of

libraries with computerized card catalogs accessible through the Net.

LITERATURE

     nptn.org  In the pub/e.texts/gutenberg/etext91 and etext92

directories, you can get copies of Aesop's Fables, works by Lewis Carroll and other works of literature, as well as the Book of Mormon.

     Available 24 hours.

     world.std.com  The obi directory has everything from online fables

to accounts of Hiroshima survivors.

     6 p.m. - 6 a.m.

MACINTOSH

     sumex-aim.stanford.edu  This is the premier site for Macintosh

software.  After you log in, switch to the info-mac directory, which will

bring up a long series of sub-directories of virtually every free and

shareware Mac program you could ever want.

     9 p.m. - 9 a.m.

     ftp.uu.net   Carries copies, or "mirrors" of Macintosh

programs from the Simtel20 collection in the systems/mac/simtel20 directory.

     Available 24 hours a day.

MOVIE REVIEWS

     lcs.mit.edu  Look in the movie-reviews directory.

     6 p.m. - 6 a.m.

MS-DOS

     wuarchive.wustl.edu  This carries one of the world's largest

collections of MS-DOS software. The files are actually copied, or

"mirrored"  from a computer at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range (which uses ftp software that is totally incomprehensible).  It also carries large collections of Macintosh, Windows, Atari, Amiga, Unix, OS9, CP/M and Apple II software.  Look in the mirrors and systems directories.  The gif directory contains a large number of GIF graphics images.

     Accessible 24 hours.

     ftp.uu.net   Carries copies, or "mirrors" of MS-DOS programs from

the Simtel20 collection in the systems/msdos/simtel20 directory.

     Available 24 hours a day.

MUSIC

     cs.uwp.edu  The pub/music directory has everything from lyrics of

 contemporary songs to recommended CDs of baroque music. It's a little different - and easier to navigate - than other ftp sites.  File and

 directory names are on the left, while on the right, you'll find a brief

 description of the file or directory, like this:

SITES              1528  Other music-related FTP archive sites

classical/            -  (dir) Classical Buying Guide

database/             -  (dir) Music Database program

discog/               =  (dir) Discographies

faqs/                 =  (dir) Music Frequently Asked questions files

folk/                 -  (dir) Folk Music Files and pointers

guitar/               =  (dir) Guitar TAB files from ftp.nevada.edu

info/                 =  (dir) rec.music.info archives

interviews/           -  (dir) Interviews with musicians/groups

lists/                =  (dir) Mailing lists archives

lyrics/               =  (dir) Lyrics Archives

misc/                 -  (dir) Misc files that don't fit anywhere else

pictures/             =  (dir) GIFS, JPEGs, PBMs and more.

press/                -  (dir) Press Releases and misc articles

programs/             -  (dir) Misc music-related programs for various machines

releases/             =  (dir) Upcoming USA release listings

sounds/               =  (dir) Short sound samples

226 Transfer complete.

ftp>

     When you switch to a directory, don't include the /.

     7 p.m. - 7 a.m.

     potemkin.cs.pdx.edu  The Bob Dylan archive.  Interviews, notes,

year-by-year accounts of his life and more, in the pub/dylan directory.

     9 p.m. - 9 a.m.

     ftp.nevada.edu  Guitar chords for contemporary songs are in the

pub/guitar directory, in subdirectories organized by group or artist.

PETS

     pit-manager.mit.edu The pub/usenet/rec.pets.dogs and

pub/usenet.rec.pets.cats directories have documents on the respective

animals.  See under Books for a caveat in using this ftp site.

     6 p.m. - 6 a.m.

PICTURES

     wuarchiv.wustl.edu  The graphics/gif directory contains hundreds of

GIF photographic and drawing images, from cartoons to cars, space images

to pop stars.  These are arranged in a long series of subdirectories.

PHOTOGRAPHY

     ftp.nevada.edu  Photolog is an online digest of photography news, in

the pub/photo directory.

RELIGION

     nptn.org  In the pub/e.texts/religion directory, you'll find

subdirectories for chapters and books of both the Bible and the Koran.

     Available 24 hours.

SEX

     pit-manager.mit.edu  Look in the pub/usenet/alt.sex and

pub/usenet/alt.sex.wizards directories for documents related to all

facets of sex.  See under Books for a caveat in using this ftp site.

     6 p.m. - 6 a.m.

SCIENCE FICTION

     elbereth.rutgers.edu  In the pub/sfl directory, you'll find plot

summaries for various science-fiction TV shows, including Star Trek (not only the original and Next Generation shows, but the cartoon version as well), Lost in Space, Battlestar Galactica, the Twilight Zone, the Prisoner and Doctor Who.  There are also lists of various things related  to science fiction and an online science-fiction fanzine.

     6 p.m. - 6 a.m.

SHAKESPEARE

     atari.archive.umich.edu  The shakespeare directory contains most of

the Bard's works.  A number of other sites have his works as well, but

generally as one huge mega-file.  This site breaks them down into various categories (comedies, poetry, histories, etc.) so that you can download individual plays or sonnets.

SPACE

     ames.arc.nasa.gov  Stores text files about space and the history of

the NASA space program in the pub/SPACE subdirectory.  In the pub/GIF and pub/SPACE/GIF directories, you'll find astronomy- and NASA-related GIF files, including pictures of planets, satellites and other celestial objects.

     9 p.m. - 9 a.m.

SPAIN

     goya.dit.upm.es  This Spanish site carries an updated list of

bulletin-board systems in Spain, as well as information about European

computer networks, in the info/doc/net subdirectory, mostly in Spanish.

The BBS list is bbs.Z, which means you will have to uncompress it to read it.

     Available 24 hours.

TV

     coe.montana.edu  The pub/TV/Guides directory has histories and other information about dozens of TV shows.  Only two anonymous-ftp log-ins are allowed at a time, so you might have to try more than once to get in.

     8 p.m. - 8 a.m.

     ftp.cs.widener.edu  The pub/simpsons directory has more files than

 anybody could possibly need about Bart and family.  The pub/strek

 directory has files about the original and Next Generation shows as well  as the movies.

      See also under Science Fiction.

TRAVEL

     nic.stolaf.edu  Before you take that next overseas trip, you might

want to see whether the State Department has issued any kind of advisory for the countries on your itinerary.  The advisories, which cover everything from hurricane damage to civil war, are in the pub/travel-advisories/advisories directory, arranged by country.

     7 p.m. - 7 a.m.

USENET

     ftp.uu.net  In the usenet directory, you'll find "frequently asked

questions" files, copied from pit-manager.mit.edu. The communications

directory holds programs that let MS-DOS users connect directly with UUCP sites. In the info directory, you'll find information about ftp and ftp sites.  The inet directory contains information about Internet.

     Available 24 hours.

     pit-manager.mit.edu  This site contains all available "frequently

asked questions" files for Usenet newsgroups in the pub/usenet directory.  See under Books for a caveat in using this ftp site.

     6 p.m. - 6 a.m.

------------------------

FYI:

     Liberal use of archie will help you find specific files or

documents.  For information on new or interesting ftp sites, try the

comp.archives newsgroup on Usenet.  You can also look in the comp.misc, comp.sources.wanted or news.answers newsgroups on Usenet for lists of ftp sites posted every month by Tom Czarnik and Jon Granrose.

     The comp.archives newsgroup carries news of new ftp sites and

interesting new files on existing sites.

     In the comp.virus newsgroup on Usenet, look for postings that list

ftp sites carrying anti-viral software for Amiga, MS-DOS, Macintosh,

Atari and other computers.

     The comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest and comp.sys.mac.digest newsgroups

provide information about new MS-DOS and Macintosh programs as well as answers to questions from users of those computers.


HOW TO HANDLE A GOPHER

GOPHERS, WAISs AND THE WORLDWIDE WEB

     Even with tools like Hytelnet and archie, telnet and ftp can still

be frustrating.  There are all those telnet and ftp addresses to

remember.  Telnet services often have their own unique commands.  And, oh, those weird directory and file names!

     But now that the Net has become a rich repository of information,

people are looking at ways to make it far easier to find all that data.

Gophers and Wide-Area Information Servers (WAISs) are two programs that could ultimately make the Internet as easy to navigate as commercial networks like CompuServe or Prodigy.

     Both programs essentially take a request for information and then

scan the Net for it, so you don't have to.  Both also work through

menus -- instead of typing in some long sequence of characters, you just move a cursor to your choice and hit enter.  Newer gophers even let you select files and programs from ftp sites this way.

     Let's look at gophers first.

     Many public-access sites now have gophers online.  To use one, type

          gopher

at the command line and hit enter.  If you know your site does not have

a gopher, or if nothing happens when you type that, telnet to

          consultant.micro.umn.edu

At the log-in prompt, type

          gopher

and hit enter.  You'll be asked what type of terminal emulation you're

using, after which you'll see something like this:

                    Internet Gopher Information Client v1.03

                    Root gopher server: gopher.micro.umn.edu

 -->  1.  Information About Gopher/

      2.  Computer Information/

      3.  Discussion Groups/

      4.  Fun & Games/

      5.  Internet file server (ftp) sites/

      6.  Libraries/

      7.  News/

      8.  Other Gopher and Information Servers/

      9.  Phone Books/

      10. Search lots of places at the U of M  <?>

      11. University of Minnesota Campus Information/

Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu                        Page: 1/1

     Gophers are great for exploring.  Just keep making choices to see what pops up.  Play with it; see where it takes you.  Some choices will be documents.  When you read one of these and either come to the end or hit a lower-case q to quit reading it, you'll be given the choice of saving a copy to your home directory or e-mailing it to yourself.  Other choices are simple databases that let you enter a word to look for in a particular database.

     Notice that one of your choices is "Internet file server (ftp) sites."  Choose this, and you'll be connected to a modified archie program -- an archie with a difference.  When you search for a file through a gopher archie, you'll get a menu of sites that have the file you're looking for, just as with the old archie.  Only now, instead of having to write down or remember an ftp address and directory, all you have to do is position the cursor next to one of the numbers in the menu and hit enter.  You'll be connected to the ftp site, from which you can then choose the file you want, again just by making a choice in a menu.

     You'll be asked for a name in your home directory to use for the file, after which the file will be copied to your home system.  Unfortunately, this file-transfer process does not yet work with all public-access sites for computer programs and compressed files.  If it doesn't work with yours, you'll have to get the file the old-fashioned way, via ftp.

Then hit your q key to quit, and gopher will ask you if you want to save the file in your home directory on your public-access site or whether you want to e-mail it somewhere.

WORLDWIDE WEB

     Developed by researchers at the European Particle Physics

Laboratory in Geneva, the Worldwide Web is somewhat similar to a WAIS.

But it's designed on a system known as hypertext.  Words in one document are "linked" to other documents.  It's sort of like sitting with an encyclopedia -- you're reading one article, see a reference that

intrigues you and so you flip the pages to look up that reference.

     To try the Worldwide Web, telnet to

          info.cern.ch

No log in is needed.  When you connect, you'll see:

                                                                Welcome to CERN

The World-Wide Web: CERN entry point

   CERN is the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.

   Select by number information here, or elsewhere.

  Help[1]                 About this program

  World-Wide Web[2]       About the W3 global information initiative.

  CERN information[3]     Information from and about this site

  Particle Physics[4]     Other HEP sites with information servers

  Other Subjects[5]       Catalogue of all online information by subject. Also:

                         by server type[6] .

   ** CHECK OUT X11 BROWSER "ViolaWWW": ANON FTP TO info.cern.ch in

   /pub/www/src

   If you use this service frequently, please install this or any W3 browser on your own machine (see instructions[7] ). You can configure it to start

1-7, <RETURN> for more, Quit, or Help:

     You navigate the web by typing the number next to a given

reference.  So if you want to know more about the web, hit 2.  This is

another system that bears playing with.

CLIENTS

     If you are used to plain-vanilla Unix or MS-DOS, then the way these  gophers and WAISs work seems quite straightforward.  But if you're used to a computer with a graphical interface, such as a Macintosh, an IBM compatible with Windows or a Next, you'll probably regard their interfaces as somewhat primitive.

     There are, however, ways to integrate these services into your

graphical user interface.  In fact, there are now ways to tie into the

Internet directly, rather than relying on whatever interface your

public-access system uses.

     There is now a growing number of these "client" programs for

everything from ftp to gopher.  PSI of Reston, Va., which offers

nationwide Internet access, in fact, requires its customers to use these

programs.

     Using protocols known as SLIP and PPP, these programs communicate with the Net using the same basic data packets as much larger computers online.

     Beyond integration with your own computer's "desktop,'' client

programs let you do more than one thing at once on the net -- while your downloading a large file in one window, you can be chatting with a friend through an Internet chat program in another.

     These client programs have a couple of disadvantages.  One is that

you'll need a 9600-baud modem -- while it is possible to connect to the

Net with them at lower speeds, you will likely find them painfully slow.

Not all public-access sites are set up to allow such connections. And

those that are usually charge far more for them.

     Your system administrator can give you more information on setting

up one of these connections.


HOW ABOUT A LITTLE CHIT-CHAT

INTERNET RELAY CHAT

     IRC is a program that lets you hold live keyboard conversations

with people around the world.  It's a lot like an international CB

radio  - it even uses "channels."  Type something on your computer and

it's instantly echoed around the world to whoever happens to be on the

same channel with you.  You can join in existing public group chats or

set up your own.  You can even create a private channel for yourself

and as few as one or two other people.  And just like on a CB radio,

you can give yourself a unique "handle" or nickname.

     IRC currently links host systems in 20 different countries, from

Australia to Hong Kong to Israel.

     Unfortunately, it's like telnet -- either your site has it or it  doesn't.  If your host system does have it,  Just type

               irc

and hit enter.  You'll get something like this:

*** Connecting to port 6667 of server world.std.com

*** Welcome to the Internet Relay Network, adamg

*** Your host is world.std.com, running version 2.7.1e+4

*** You have new mail.

*** If you have not already done so, please read the new user information with

+/HELP NEWUSER

*** This server was created Sat Apr 18 1992 at 16:27:02 EDT

*** There are 364 users on 140 servers

*** 45 users have connection to the twilight zone

*** There are 124 channels.

*** I have 1 clients and 3 servers

MOTD - world.std.com Message of the Day -

MOTD - Be careful out there...

MOTD -

MOTD - ->Spike

* End of /MOTD command.

23:13 [1] adamg [Mail: 32] * type /help for help

----------------------------------------------------------------------

You are now in channel 0, the null channel, in which you can look up various help files, but not much else. As you can see, IRC takes over your entire screen.  The top of the screen is where messages will

appear.  The last line is where you type IRC commands and messages.  All IRC commands begin with a /.  The slash tells the computer you are about to enter a command, rather than a message. To see what channels are available, type

                /list

and hit enter.  You'll get something like this:

*** Channel    Users  Topic

*** #Money     1      School CA$H (/msg SOS_AID help)

*** #Gone      1      ----->> Gone with the wind!!!  ------>>>>>

*** #mee       1

*** #eclipse   1

*** #hiya      2

*** #saigon    4

*** #screwed   3

*** #z         2

*** #comix     1      LET'S TALK 'BOUT COMIX!!!!!

*** #Drama     1

*** #RayTrace  1      Rendering to Reality and Back

*** #NeXT      1

*** #wicca     4      Mr. Potato Head, R. I. P.

*** #dde^mhe`  1      no'ng chay? mo*? ...ba` con o*iiii

*** #jgm       1

*** #ucd       1

*** #Maine     2

*** #Snuffland 1

*** #p/g!      4

*** #DragonSrv 1

     Because IRC allows for a large number of channels, the list might

scroll off your screen, so you might want to turn on your computer's

screen capture to capture the entire list.  Note that the channels

always have names, instead of numbers.  Each line in the listing tells

you the channel name, the number of people currently in it, and whether

there's a specific topic for it.  To switch to a particular channel,

type

                /join #channel

where "#channel" is the channel name and hit enter.  Some "public"

channels actually require an invitation from somebody already on it.  To request an invitation, type

                /who #channel-name

where channel-name is the name of the channel, and hit enter.  Then ask

someone with an @ next to their name if you can join in.  Note that

whenever you enter a channel, you have to include the #.  Choose one

with a number of users, so you can see IRC in action.

     If it's a busy channel, as soon as you join it, the top of your

screen will quickly be filled with messages.  Each will start with a

person's IRC nickname, followed by his message.

     It may seem awfully confusing at first.  There could be two or

three conversations going on at the same time and sometimes the

messages will come in so fast you'll wonder how you can read them all.

     Eventually, though, you'll get into the rhythm of the channel and

things will begin to make more sense.  You might even want to add your two cents (in fact, don't be surprised if a message to you shows up on your screen right away; on some channels, newcomers are welcomed immediately).  To enter a public message, simply type it on that bottom line (the computer knows it's a message because you haven't started the line with a slash) and hit enter.

     Public messages have a user's nickname in brackets, like this:

     If you receive a private message from somebody, his name will be

between asterisks, like this:

     For more information on using IRC, see the IRC command box.  You can find discussions about IRC in the alt.irc newsgroup.


SOME INTERESTING PLACES ON THE NET

Book Stacks Unlimited, of Cleveland, Ohio a great addition

to the Internet shopping mall. To connect: telnet books.com

Moe's Books of Berkeley, CA is an excellent used bookstore with over half a million titles specializing in rare, antiquarian, remainders and

imported books. Available catalogs are photography, art monographs,

fine press/literature and illustrated children's books.  Contact them

through email: moesbooks@delphi.com

Future Fantasy, a bookstore of science fiction, fantasy, mystery and

horror, is now on the net. You can browse their catalog and place orders through the Web. Use the URL:

   http://www.commerce.digital.com/palo-alto/FutureFantasy/home.html

+ Nebula Sci-Fi Bookstore is an alternative science fiction bookstore that is accessible through electronic mail. To receive a catalog, send mail to 'nebula@cam.org' with the message subject "catalog".

United Techbook Company of Longmont Colorado offers an online book service that encompasses over a million titles. You can connect, search for titles, and order books by using the command 'telnet utcbooks.com'

 T

for titles, and order books by using the command 'telnet utcbooks.com'

with the account 'utc' (the password is also 'utc').

There are a number of specialty bookstores available through the Whole

Earth 'Lectronic Link: type 'gopher gopher.well.sf.ca.us' and choose

'commercial services' to find FringeWare,  Extreme Books (catalog also

available via email at 'catalog@mailer.extremebooks.com') and Nebula

Books, an online science fiction bookstore in Canada.

Powell's Technical of Portland, Oregon offers new, used, and

antiquarian titles in fields including architecture, computing,

communications, engineering, math, and physics. You can contact

them through email: ping@technical.powells.portland.or.us

Infinity Link Network Services offers an online catalog of CDs, video

tapes, books, and laserdisks, all by connecting via telnet to

columbia.ilc.com - log in as 'cas' at the prompt.  Alternatively, use

gopher by typing 'gopher columbia.ilc.com'

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

FTP SITES!

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

For those of you who don't know how to FTP:

The command is like this:

To FTP Project Gutenberg...

ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu

Once you are prompted for a login, do this:

On a UNIX, type anonymous.

On a VAX, type login anonymous.

Your password is your email address. It's a courtesy to the FTP server

to do this. Get used to it or make a macro.

List the contents of directories by hitting 'ls' or 'dir'.

If you use 'dir', you can tell which are directories by looking at the

far left. If the first letter at the far left is a d, it's a directory.

Otherwise, it's a file.

Change directories by hitting 'cd directoryname', where

directoryname is the name of the directory.

To get a non-text file (.ZIP, .Z, .sea, .LHA, .tar...), type bin before

the next step.

To get a file from the server to your account, type get filename.

Sometimes it takes a while. That's life.

Getting it from your account to your computer is someone else's problem.

:)

ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu

Project Gutenberg. The project is trying to distribute 1 trillion

volumes within a decade. Dozens of books have already been translated

into plain-vanilla text. Files are in /pub/etext.

ftp world.std.com

Online Book Initiative in /obi. Another very big site for text files.

All sorts of classic books and information.

Also, the Online Bookstore in /OBS. This will soon become a commercial

service where you pay for new books in plain-text form.

ftp wiretap.spies.com

Just look around. It's pretty self-explanatory.

ftp ftp.eff.org

The Electronic Frontiers Foundation site. Lots of text files on the

organization and legal questions about cyberspace.

ftp sound.usach.cl

A buncha sound files, cross-platform.

ftp ftp.microsoft.com

Home of the MS-DOS 6.2 Step-Up (peropsys/msdos/msdos6.2/stepup.exe), as

well as documentation on several Microsoft products.

ftp software.watson.ibm.com

Much the same as Microsoft's, but aiming more at OS/2.

ftp ftp.apple.com

Mac and A/UX stuff.

ftp ftp.novell.com

Unixware and NetWare.

ftp ftp.wordperfect.com

Drivers and add-ons for WordPerfect products.

###ftp chop.isca.uiowa.edu

The ISCA BBS Client is in /bbs-client/unix or /bbs-client/vax.

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

GOPHER!

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

Gopher is a graphical interface for the Internet. If you're new to the

Net, learn the Gopher tricks. You'll be glad you did.

Many machines already have gopher clients built in. To see if yours

does, try this:

gopher consultant.micro.umn.edu

If you don't have Gopher, you can use these to get in:

telnet consultant.micro.umn.edu, login gopher

telnet rs.internic.net

Special thanks to Gopher goddess Sue Steele for her assistance.

gopher consultant.micro.umn.edu

The first Gopher and the home of the Gopher project.

gopher info.monash.edu.au

Full of neat Gopher tricks. Look around a bit.

gopher mtv.com

Actually, it's Adam Curry's machine, not MTV's, but who cares?

It has lots of rock news and trivia.

gopher gopher.ora.com

O'Reilly and Associates site. Info on their Internet and other books.

gopher skynet.usask.ca

Go immediately to the Wrong Side of the Tracks. Do not pass go.

gopher gopher.loc.gov

Library of Congress Gopher. Plenty of American government information,

including LOCIS access.

gopher ietf.cnri.reston.va.us

Even more American political information, with press briefings and

Executive Orders online.

gopher debra.dgbt.doc.ca

Canadian Gopher. Access to several Canadian information servers.

gopher gopher.nlc-bnc.ca

The National Library of Canada Gopher.

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

OTHER SERVICES AND TIPS

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Library of Congress

locis.loc.gov

192.160.13.1

Not only can you look at the world's most extensive card catalog, you

can search through and read pending legislation from as far back as the

1970's.

info.rutgers.edu

128.6.26.25

info

Quartz BBS' info system. Dictionary, thesaurus, Bible, Koran,

US Constitution, CIA World Fact Book and CD listing all online, just for

starters!

liberty.uc.wlu.edu

137.113.10.35

lawlib

Law library. Online guide to a few hundred or so sites with law info.

netinfo.berkeley.edu 117

128.32.136.12 117

Network Information. Nameservers, Bitnet and Internet help.

ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu

129.237.33.1

kufacts

Mostly about Kansas, but most notable for finding email addresses.

Weather Underground

downwind.sprl.umich.edu 3000

141.212.196.177 3000

Weather from the NWS for hundreds of cities.

Suggested that you know the 3-letter airport code to access the city...

LAX, BOS, etc..

SFI BBS

bbs.santafe.edu

192.12.12.6

bbs

A very serious, research-oriented BBS. It is requested that you only

use this BBS for work of some kind.

National Education BBS

nebbs.nersc.gov

128.55.128.90

new

Running EBBS (Pirate), this is a system dedicated to US educational

issues, and operated by the government.

ba.mgt.ncu.edu.tw

140.115.83.210

IRC server.

Current time (Mountain):

telnet india.colorado.edu 13

Presidential email address:

PRESIDENT@WHITEHOUSE.GOV

VICE.PRESIDENT@WHITEHOUSE.GOV


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Online Bookstores.

An interesting alternative to modern printed material is electronic

books, which are available for purchase through the aptly named

books, which are available for purchase through the aptly named

Lighthouse Online Bookstore.  Connect with gopher or WWW to awa.com.

Browse through Main Street of DownTown Anywhere until you find Lighthouse Books.  This is a very interesting and innovative bookstore that has contracted with writers around the world for selling very unique books you cannot find in print anywhere in the world.  Save Trees and get more and more of your reading material from this unique source.

Browse through the menus until you find a book you would like to read.  The first half of Lighthouse Books, or a reasonable portion of them at least are free for the reader to browse and get the idea as to whether or not to purchase.  If you want to purchase, you will be prompted to call an 800#, give your credit card information and the rest of the book will DE-ENCRYPT after you pay for a Password.  This is the best way to ensure that authors of useful information are paid for their time.  If you like this method of getting Verbons, or electronic reading materials this way, it could replace the type-written page and save the planet from the destruction of rain forests.  The New York Times takes up millions of acres of trees for every Sunday Edition.  The Printed Yellow Pages Directories is about to level all of Canadian Forest resources.  We have to stop it somehow or our successors will have a more and more difficult time getting oxygen to breathe.

The Please Copy This Disk project offers over 240 different (Mac or

IBM format) disks containing classic books and government documents

as electronic texts. The free monthly Internet-on-a-Disk newsletter

is also available: for information, send email to B&R Samizdat

Express at samizdat@world.std.com

Publications and related from Statistics Canada, the national

statistical agency of Canada, are now available through its Talon

service through gopher, WAIS, email and anonymous FTP. Use your

favorite connectivity package to connect with talon.statcan.ca


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+ Multimedia electronic books for Windows users are available from

+ OmniMedia through the network, and you can find samplers by using FTP  to check out the directory "/pub/noring/books" on "ftp.netcom.com". For more information, please send email to "noring@netcom.com".

The University of California, Irvine bookstore is now on the Internet

through the WorldWide Web. Browse reviews and Ansel Adams photographs There are 440 lines left (22%). Press <space> for more, or 'i' to return. through the WorldWide Web. Browse reviews and Ansel Adams photographs or search for books with WAIS. Web to http://bookweb.cwis.uci.edu:8042/ or connect with Gopher to "gopher.cwis.uci.edu", in "departments"/"books".

Pathfinder Press specializes in publishing revolutionary and working-class leaders in their own words, including Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Use gopher to connect to "ftp.std.com" in /Book Sellers'.

+ Wordsworth Books of Cambridge Mass has an enormous selectin of general interest books and a large computer and technical book department. It also offers many books below list price to online customers. To find out more, send email to 'info@wordsworth.com'


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Softpro Books is a small computer bookstore with shops in both Boston

and Denver and an online catalog of over 1000 titles. SoftPro is also

available on the world.std.com gopher server (choose "Shops of the

World").  You can also contact them through email:

softpro@world.std.com

O'Reilly & Associates, publishers of a wide variety of high quality

books on Unix and Internet topics offer their books directly through the

Internet.  Point your gopher to 'ora.com' (e.g., 'gopher ora.com') or

telnet to ora.com with the login 'gopher'.

High Mountain Press Direct offers books on Unix, CAD, desktop publishing and geographic information systems topics. You can request catalogs and order titles by sending mail to 'info@bookstore.hmp.com'

Artech House, a technical book and software publisher, offers hundreds

of different technical titles - and some software and video tapes - via

the Internet. Connect to 'gopher world.std.com' and choose 'Shops of

the World'.

One of the larger technical bookstores accessible online is Quantum

Books, of Cambridge, Massachusetts with 20,000 titles on-hand and a

database of 65,000 titles. The focus is primarily computer science,

math and physics.  Contact them by gopher: look in 'Shops of the World' after using gopher to 'world.std.com', or email 'quanbook@world.std.com'

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Silicon Valley is a logical place to find a great technical and

computer bookstore, but through the Internet, you can also get to

Computer Literacy Bookstore by electronic mail: send a message to

info@clbooks.com to learn more about this service.

Looking for German language technical books and CDROM disks? JF Lehmanns Fachbuchhandlung in Berlin now offers online CDROM and book catalogues,You can access them directly with gopher or the Web: use 'gopher  There are 380 lines left (33%). Press <space> for more, or 'i' to return.

You can access them directly with gopher or the Web: use 'gopher

gopher.germany.eu.net 70' or 'Web to the following:

  http://www.germany.eu.net:80/shop/jfl/jfl_kat.html

+ A well-known computer bookstore with a peculiar name, Cucumber Books of Maryland is now online with its Unix and C books. Contact the firm through electronic mail: 'catalog@cucumber.com' or 'info@cucumber.com'.

 Washington D.C.-based Reiter's Scientific & Professional Books can now be reached through the Internet by sending mail to 'books@reiters.com'. A good choice for difficult-to-find technical literature.

+ Beaverton, Oregon-based TECHbooks has a wide range of technical and computer titles. To learn more, send email to 'info@techbooks.com'


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The Magazine Rack

Samples of many different magazines are available on the Internet,

as shown below:

  "The New Republic" via 'gopher gopher.internet.com'

  "The New Republic" via 'gopher gopher.internet.com'

  "The Global Network News":

http://nearnet.gnn.com/news/home/news.html

  "Mother Jones": http://www.mojones.com/motherjones.html

+ "WIRED": http://www.wired.com/

  "The Internet Letter" through the Web at:

     http://www.mtv.com/commercial_resources/internet_letter/index.html

All these and more are also available by checking into the Electronic

Newsstand.  Try: gopher internet.com or telnet internet.com, login

as 'enews'.  Email info@enews.com for more information on the service.

Branch Information Services also offer a variety of different magazine

subscriptions. Connect with 'gopher branch.com' or 'http://branch.com:1080'

"The Magazine For Adult Children of Aging Parents" is for anyone facing the questions, issues, and concerns from having an aging parent. Covers all aspects of eldercare, including the emotional costs of care. Sample articles and subscription form are available.  Via the WorldWide Web:

  href="http://www.service.com/answers/cover.html">ANSWERS</

 The COOK Report focuses on political and policy issues about the

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+ The COOK Report focuses on political and policy issues about the

+ Government's involvment in the commercialization and privatization of the Internet. To learn more, send email to "cook@path.net".


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Music and Video

Infinity Link Network Services offers a catalog of video tapes,

laserdisks, CDs and books accessible by connecting via telnet to

columbia.ilc.com - log in as 'cas' at the prompt.  Alternatively, point

your gopher there with 'gopher columbia.ilc.com'

+ With an online catalog of over 80,000 titles, the Compact Disc

+ Connection is perhaps the best of the current bunch if you're looking

+ for some specific music. To visit this store 'telnet cdconnection.com'

The Virtual Record Store lists over 3500 CD titles, and can be reached

at gopher: gopher.nstn.ns.ca or URL: gopher://owl.nstn.ns.ca:70/11/e-mall

For the lastest in MIDI software and hardware, including Roland, EMU, Korg, Tascam and Marshall, Horizons One can provide you a one stop solution. Inquiries and orders by email: midiwiz@interaccess.com

Inquiries and orders by email: midiwiz@interaccess.com

Buying concert tickets is always a tricky concern, but did you know that companies like Planet Earth Management can sell you concert packages that not only include excellent seats but hotel space in town too? They're on the net: Pink Floyd is the current tour: pink@society.com, and on theway is the new Rolling Stones tour: stones@society.com for info.


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Sunglasses, Shavers and More! catalog available through the Internet,

though users interested in the Braun, Bausch & Lomb, Corning, Forchner and Victornox products will have to settle electronic mail only at this point: send a message to 'sunglass@clark.net' for a catalog.

Games

Looking for boardgames, perhaps older or unusual ones? Then a

quick connection to Harmony Games, run by a veteran game designer,

might be just what the virtual doctor ordered.  Connect with

gopher or WWW to marketplace.com.

gopher or WWW to marketplace.com.

Handmade Crafts and Craft Supplies

Dolls and santas, handcrafted traditional gifts, natural fibers

and crafter's supplies are available through the Internet

by connecting to McCrerey Farm of Pennsylvania. Use gopher to

connect to telerama.lm.com. Looking the "Shopping Plaza."

Florist

If you're perennially late with flowers and other gifts for your

significant other, you'll be delighted to know that there's now a

florist on the Internet. Grant's Florist and Greenhouse can be reached

through the Web (http://florist.com:1080) or gopher; use 'gopher

florist.com'.

Adult Toys

Okay, so you can get flowers, music, and books through the Internet,

but what about that really special, unusual item you'd like to give your

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but what about that really special, unusual item you'd like to give your

significant other?  J.T. Toys offers an electronic sex and adult toystore

accessible via gopher: connect to world.std.com and look in 'Shops of

the World'.


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Computer Hardware and Software

Software

the WHOLE UNIVERSE COMPUTER STORE.

lite@awa.com

ON-LINE HARDWARE/SOFTWARE SHOP

Shop for your favorite hardware and software Items at discount prices.  We can take your orders over the InterNet.  All you need is a credit card or a Debit Card, using Netdollars.  Pay a couple hundred dollars down and you get to use this account to buy things at great discounts.  Put products on Layaway on the InterNet Shop

Get up to the minute reviews of new software introductions.  Save time and money.

If you're a scientific type, you've probably already bumped into the

book "Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing", but did youknow that all the source code shown in that book is available to buy

online in both C and FORTRAN? Connect with 'gopher cfata4.harvard.edu'.

The Programmer's Shop is a ten-year-old company offering a wide

selection of programming tools, with a catalog of thousands of

different products.  Also included in the list are applications,

utilities, hardware, and more.  Connect with them by 'gopher

world.std.com' and choosing 'Shops of the World', or through email to

progshop@world.std.com

If you're looking for the BSDI version of Berkeley Unix for your

computer system, you can contact the BSDI company directly via

electronic mail for information and catalogs. Use the Web and

connect to www.bsdi.com or try 'gopher gopher.bsdi.com'

Motif developers won't want to miss the SWiM bundle, a complete runtime and development environment for developing OSF/Motif 1.2.3 apps. From Sequoia International, SWiM is available for Coherent, Linux, BSD/386, FreeBSD and NetBSD. Contact the company for more details: info@seq.com.

SmartPoll is a multimedia, intelligent survey tool for conducting

polls over Internet. Sold as software or bundled with a server,

SmartPoll can also be purchased through a service bureau. Send email

to info@smartchoice.com for more information.

CDROMs

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software CDROM disks ranging from X Window sources to Mac and PC programs. You can see their catalog by using 'finger info@cdrom.com' and order by sending mail to 'orders@cdrom.com'.

CD Publishing Corp makes available a variety of different CDROM disks containing archival copies of Usenet, networking software for PC

computers, and more. Gopher to gopher.cdpublishing.com for more

information.


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COMPUTER HARDWARE

THE WHOLE UNIVERSE ON-LINE COMPUTER STORE

lite@awa.com

ON-LINE HARDWARE/SOFTWARE SHOP

Shop for your favorite hardware and software Items at discount prices.  We can take your orders over the InterNet.  All you need is a credit card or a Debit Card, using Netdollars.  Pay a couple hundred dollars down and you get to use this account to buy things at great discounts.  Put products on Layaway on the InterNet Shop

Get up to the minute reviews of new software introductions.  Save time and money.  Find software articles that tell you what you need to know.  Dont make a mistake on your next upgrade.

We will also lease a system for you with custom designed hardware/software combinations.  No money up front.


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Looking for corporate or business contracts suitable for your small or

medium business? FitzGearld Webber Marketing now offers many of their products on the Internet. You can see what's available through the

'Web at URL gopher://owl.nstn.ns.ca:70/11/e-mall or gopher.nstn.ns.ca

with gopher

Indexing and Research Services

Working on a deadline but out of time? If you're working on a book or

dissertation, our indexing and editing skills are at your service. We can

also research, abstract, and search online databases following your own

criteria. Finger njsmith@bga.com or send email to the same address for

more information.

+ SCAN-ITT converts your documents or image files into indexed image files and/or text. SCAN-ITT can scan and OCR documents of any length, returning indexed image and/or text files to you via Email, disk, CDROM or MO. You can also FAX or Email scanned images for processing. Use of indexed documents may require purchase of software. Send Email to "sales@scanitt.com" for info.

Too busy to track the hundreds of journals that are published in your

field every day? Then UnCover Reveal could be a great win: you select from its list of journals and the table of contents of the latest issues+ are automatically emailed to you when received, without charge. You can

then order articles by reply email for a low fee. For information, send

electronic mail to "uncover@carl.org"

Credit Checks

With all these electronic transactions flying back and forth, it was

only a matter of time before a company came along to offer credit

reporting services through the net too. Infotech Information

Technologies of Charlotte, North Carolina now offer individual and

business credit reports, Dunn & Bradstreet information, a social

security locator service, arrest and conviction records and a whole lot

more. Contact them via email at 'infotech@fx.net'


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Running a small business and ready to incorporate? You don't even have to leave your terminal if you contact The Company Corporation, the largest on-line incorporation service in the world. Connect to them

with 'gopher incorporate.com', Web to

http://incorporate.com/tcc/home.html

or email: corp@incorporate.com

Transcripts

Transcripts of various programs can be ordered directly through the

Internet by connecting with Journal Graphics. To see their catalog, use

'telnet pac.carl.org', account PAC. Choose 'Information Databases'.

International Trade

If your company is involved in international import or export you

might want to check out the International Trade Network, where for

a minimal fee you can receive daily commercial trade leads through

Internet e-mail and more. Send email to majordomo@world.std.com with the message "info intltrade", or drop a note to usa@world.std.com.

Asian Information Service offers a range of services, including news

monitoring, and document translation and delivery.  We have an excellent database on China offering China-related information in a variety of formats.  Tell us your needs, and how we might help! Contact AIS by sending mail to: jsweeney@uclink.berkeley.edu

Telemarketing

Telecommunications and information marketing is a booming business,

and INFOMARK, a consulting company that can help you design your

own marketing strategies, is online. You can purchase a copy of

their "900" number source guide by connecting either with gopher

or WWW to marketplace.com.


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 Email-based FAX Service

 Need to send a FAX but just don't have a FAX machine or FAX modem handy? Then AnyWare Associates' FAXiNET might be just the service for you. Once you're subscribed, you can send email that they auto-matically FAX to the specified party or parties worldwide. For

 more information, send email to info@awa.com

Real Estate

You can do just about anything else, and now National Real Estate

Services of Vancouver, BC, Canada, is publishing their franchise

database of over 20,000 real estate listings. More connectivity

is on the way, but today you can connect through the WorldWide Web

with the URL http://www.gems.com/realestate/.

Travel Agency

Tired of the local surroundings and ready to leave your computer behind and soak up some sun?  The wholesale tour operator Mexico Resorts & Tours is now on the Internet, with their focus on unusual tours to Mexico and Central America. Individuals to large groups, you can find out more about the services by sending email to travel@magma.com

Annex: Training and Education

Video Training

If you're still puzzled about the possibilities of the Internet, you

can now order a videotape from Baltimore-based New Technologies covering all the tools and techniques of surfing the so-called information wave.

For more information, drop a note to nti@clark.net

Sagacity Learning Universe

You can do just about everything else through the Internet, so why

not learn at a virtual university? Sagacity Learning Universe is offering

just this service to Internet users, initially focusing on Future Studies,

with more to come. Contact Tom Abeles at tabeles@tmn.com or use gopher to connect to tmn.com to learn more.

Grant Proposals and Financial Aid

Internet Works, Inc. offers Online Interactive Workshops on Grant

Proposal Planning and Writing.  In addition, online consulting services

are available in the grants area and in the use of the Internet.  For

more information contact Herb Wylen <hwylen@access.digex.net>

+ Most students are unaware of the many sources of financial aid that

+ are available, but now you can work with Chinook College Funding Service of Tucson, Arizona to explore the possibilities. For more information,

+ send an email message to 'CllgFunder@aol.com'


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+ Gourmet Popcorn

+

+ Popcorn is much more than just something you put in the microwave oven.

 Gourmet Popcorn of Colorado Springs is now on the

+ Internet! Receive a catalog of their many products by sending email to the company: "mgp@aol.com"


COMONLINE

Perhaps one of the most important uses of the InterNet will be for computer users to learn about the latest trends, new products and developments in computer, or Hi-Tech Industry that will continue to make the INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY building and progressing through many stages until it reaches something truly amazing and more beneficial to Mankind than any other invention.

The ComOnLine Trade Show will be the way for you to keep up with all the new developments coming your way.  Here in the Convention Center at DownTown Anywhere the browser can go from company to company and examine their latest and newest products or services.

If you have a graphics reader, you will see pictures of amazing new products that do wonderful things.  You will also be able to see video and animation and other graphical demonstrations of new hardware and or software that could be just the device you needed.

The Magazine and Newspaper Editors of the world can come to this OnLine Trade Show to get ideas for new stories.  The average consumer can come to it just to learn about possible upgrades to his computer system.  And the exhibitor can place his products here for all the world to see 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, 52 weeks out of the year, FOR A FRACTION OF WHAT IT COSTS to do an Old-Fashioned kind of trade show.

No more exorbitant hotel costs, no more airline tickets to buy, no more hiring pretty models to stand in front of your booth and lure the curious to see your product.  No more having to take several key company executives out of productive jobs to attend the Convention, no more having to lose your shirt at Las Vegas Gaming tables.  No more expensive booth rental for one week of Demonstrations to a very select few.

Now, for a nominal fee, you can let the whole world view your new products, and you can even take orders OnLine and/or build mailing lists and answer customer questions WITHOUT LEAVING THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME OFFICE.

If you want more information call (408) 423-8580, Lighthouse Productions the ComOnLine Trade Show organizers or to view how its building more and more exhibitors, point your WWW to http://www.awa.com.  Browse through Main Street of Downtown Anywhere until you come to the Convention Center, then go right in, and see the potential that this OnLine Trade Show has for your company.  Leave a msg here or lite@netcom.com and well get back to you to talk about your participation in the Trade Show of the Future.

If you have any kind of Hi-Tech Product or service you should be here.  The sales you make at ComOnLine will probably outweigh the costs of being here and in the process everyone in the world with an InterNet Account can see your products or services LIVE IN ACTION.


FREE BULLETIN BOARDS

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FREE BULLETIN BOARD SERVICES

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NOTE: I have placed BBSs whose main goal is to entertain or serve as

a forum for people to get together here.

BULLETIN BOARDS OR BBSes for those who do not know, are computers that have special software so that anyone with a modem can call them and partake of their services.  BBS Sysops or system operators as they are called, number in the neighborhood of 50,000 in this country and they are as varied as any group of people can be.  Check out some of these and then find others in your neck of the woods and chances are you will find a community of people with your same interests.  BBSes are not what you call the InterNet, but they are all soon to be connected in one way or another, making the InterNet even larger and more viable.

\\\EBBS/PIRATE BBS///

Friendlier than it sounds.

Takes advantage of VT100 and up with a full-screen environment.

All offer Boards (message areas), Mail, and Talk.

Some offer Files and IRC connections.

One minor problem: The majority of these BBSes are limited to

only 800 or so users (that's total, not online) at any given time.

Auggie BBS

bbs.augsburg.edu

141.224.128.4

bbs

More boards than ever, Real-time and IRC-like chat, 4m, and BillyNet,

a link to plenty of other BBSes. I read the InternetStuff board to pick

up on most of the new BBSes.

Eagles' Nest BBS

seabass.st.usm.edu

131.95.127.2

bbs

NSYSU-BBS

cc.nsysu.edu.tw

140.117.11.1

bbs

Taiwanese. Don't let the strange characters fool you. :)

CIS-NCTU

bbs.cis.nctu.edu.tw

140.113.23.3

bbs

Taiwan.

TTIT CSE BBS

140.129.25.100

bbs

Taiwan.

Viking BBS

viking.dana.edu

192.189.65.10

bbs

LIANE BBS

bbs.cslib.cz

147.230.16.2

bbs

Czech Republic.

\\\CITADEL///

Citadel is a message-only system.

Boards using this are highly active with the exchange of messages

in various "rooms", sometimes as varied as MST3K>, NetLife>, and

Spam! Spam! Spam!>. Plenty of information can be had on these boards,

though no files are available.

Another feature of these boards is that each one has added a little

flavor to the stock Citadel code, so none of them are quite the same.

Quartz BBS

quartz.rutgers.edu

128.6.60.6

bbs

The granddaddy. Interesting and spontaneous conversation found at any

hour of the day or night. On the other hand, there are only 10 users

allowed at any one time.

Prism BBS

bbs.fdu.edu

132.238.2.10

bbs

This one is based on 'floors'. Also very hard to get into on a regular

basis.

Sunset BBS

paladine.hacks.arizona.edu

128.196.230.7

bbs

Another variation of the normal Citadel, somewhere between the original

and DOC.

Monsoon BBS

rtd.com

198.102.68.2

bbs

The second Citadel in Tucson. They must like it a little there. :)

The Ragged Edge

wagner.musicnet.ua.edu

130.160.156.75

bbs (bbs)

It was a Citadel, then it wasn't, now it is. So there.

\\\DOC///

Dave's Own version of Citadel.

Best-known as the software ISCA BBS runs.

No files can be had on these, either.

Also, as is programmer's nature, each of these BBSes now have their own

added features.

ISCA BBS

bbs.isca.uiowa.edu

128.255.200.69 <-Note new IP address!

The biggest BBS on the net. Period. 15,000 users a day are calling ISCA.

The user count is now over 100,000.

This BBS is literally six times as large as the first time I reviewed it.

During periods of heavy use, expect to wait in a queue just to get in.

Hint: Get the ISCA BBS Client via FTP for more ease of use. Look in FTP

sites for more info.

SkyNet

hpx6.aid.no

128.39.145.226

skynet

Norway. Close to 20,000 users here, with up toi 48 online at a time.

I post this list on INet> upon release.

CetysBBS

infrs.mxl.cetys.mx

158.122.1.3

bbs

Mexico. Mostly Spanish, with a few rooms for English speakers.

Shadow

shadow.acc.iit.edu

192.41.245.143

bbs

This is quickly becoming huge.

Shadow was originally geared toward being a technical BBS, but it's now

popular pretty much all around.

Club BBS

club.gdl.iteso.mx

148.201.1.18

bbs

If you're looking for a 100% Spanish BBS, it's here.

Brinta BBS

brinta.ptf.hro.nl

145.24.149.50

bbs

The new one, and the first DOC BBS to run off of a PC.

The Netherlands.

BBSs USING OTHER SOFTWARE:

OUBBS

oubbs.telecom.uoknor.edu

129.15.3.15

TBBS

A very attractive BBS catering to University of Oklahoma students.

Offers a lot of services typical to non-Net BBSs, including Internet

and FidoNet mail. Both Mac and IBM files available.

Monochrome

(quark,muon,gluon,electron,neutron,proton).city.ac.uk

138.40.17.(4,5,6,1,10,11)

(You only have to pick one of them.)

mono

Mail monoadm@city.ac.uk for an account.

It was gone and now it's back and better than ever.

Except for that chat thing, but beggars can't choose, huh? :)

BOX

tolsun.oulu.fi

130.231.96.16

box

Finland.

DUBBS

tudrwa.tudelft.nl

130.161.180.68

bbs

BBS in the Netherlands with an almost-WWIV look.

yabbs

phred.pc.cc.cmu.edu

128.2.111.111

bbs

Messages and a few text files. Lots of computing areas.

tiny.computing.csbsju.edu

152.65.165.2

bbs

A graphical BBS, like a hybridization of Pirate and Monochrome.

The Endless Forest

forest.unomaha.edu

137.48.1.4

ef

A neat little hangout. Usually you can find some pretty good

authors on here.

Hint: On your first logon, remember your user NUMBER, not just your

user name.

BBS-Olohof

morra.et.tudelft.nl 2993

130.161.144.3 2993

Tele-Chat

ns.speedway.net 8888

ns.speedway.net 5010

Two new chat services. For those who don't like or can't use IRC, start

filling these places up.

NCCU

suncc.ccu.edu.tw

140.123.1.2

guest

IRC access and similar facilities. Much like a basic UNIX account.

Agora Telematica

agora.stm.it

192.106.239.3

Italy. I'd have to say this is one of the finest boards on the Net right

now, barring any I haven't seen.

UTBBS

utbbs.civ.utwente.nl

130.89.1.219

bbs

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FOR-PAY BBSs

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Most of these services offer telnet and FTP as features.

All are available via the Internet.

Certain services offer ClariNet/UPI and/or Reuters news services,

Usenet, UNIX shells, and real-time chat.

Tell 'em CC sent you. :)

On-line

connect.on-line.co.uk

193.114.232.1

connect

United Kingdom. This one has one of the best online game setups around.

Flight simulators, role-playing, some that have even come off GEnie.

ú9.99 per month.

Internet Direct

indirect.com

198.99.146.65

Phoenix.

I personally like this interface. An excellent service.

$20/month flat rate.

The WELL

well.sf.ca.us

192.132.30.2

San Francisco.

The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link.

Arguably one of the most interesting places on the Internet.

Price is quite steep, at over $20/month for normal use, but this group

is tightly-knit. Featured just about everywhere they discuss the Net.

Mindvox

phantom.com

38.145.218.228

New York City. $10/month for service access, $17.50/mo for telnet and

ftp access.

Rumored to be a hangout for the elite. Featured in _Rolling Stone_.

Well, kinda. :)

The World

world.std.com

192.74.137.5

Boston. Public dial-up internet site since 1989, Usenet, FTP, Telnet,

Clarinet/UPI and Reuters news, IRC, Gopher, Online Book Initiative

(large etext archive), Compuserve Packet Network long-distance access

($5.60/hr, USA).  $5/mo+$2/hr or $20/20 hours.

Eskimo North BBS

eskimo.com

192.195.251.13

Washington State. Features Usenet, including several readers, shell

access, and files.

Netcom

netcom.com

192.100.81.100

guest (guest)

California, statewide.

HoloNet

holonet.net

157.151.0.1

holonet

California. Usenet, connectivity with MS Mail, cc:Mail and the like...

news, files, FTP and Telnet access, fairly low-cost, hundreds of access

points via SprintNet.

Telerama

telerama.lm.com

192.231.221.1

new

Pittsburgh. A very inexpensive site, especially considering the services

provided.

Net Access

netaxs.com

192.204.4.1

Philadelphia.

FTP, IRC, Telnet, Gopher, email, MUD/MUSE, and Usenet.

Texas Metronet

feenix.metronet.com

192.245.137.1

info(info) or signup(signup)

Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Good interface. Fairly expensive, though.

Pipeline

pipeline.com

198.80.32.3

NYC. This one has its own interface for Microsoft Windows users. Makes

it worth the relatively high cost.


ON-LINE STORES

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ONLINE STORES

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Book Stacks Unlimited

books.com

192.148.240.9

CDC

holonet.net

157.151.0.1

cdc

Compact Disc store.

THE WHOLE UNIVERSE COMPUTER STORE

Downtown Anywhere

by lynx or Mosaic: http://www.awa.com

The Whole Universe Video & CD Store

Downtown Anywhere

by lynx or Mosaic: http://www.awa.com


E-MAIL TIPS

Millions of us are signing up on the Information Superhighway just for the E-mail which is far cheaper than telephone charges and much more efficient.  But what are E-mail addresses?  There are many different flavors depending on how you got your InterNet Service.

Here are a few of the examples of formatting your addresses based on the service you subscribe to:

Lets look at my E-mail address first:

FidoNet

My.Name@P<oint>.F<idoNode>.N<et>.Z<one>.FidoNet.Org

CompuServe: 72254.16@compuserve.com

GEnie: J.Jones@genie.geis.com

America Online: UserName@aol.com

Delphi: Username@delphi.com

Applelink: Username@applelink.apple.com

AT&T Mail: User@attmail.att.com

MCI Mail: 1234567@mcimail.com

        User_Name@mcimail.com

BIX: User@dcibix.das.net

Bitnet: user@SITE.BITNET is

        user%site.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu

                     or @mitvma.mit.edu

Prodigy: UserID@prodigy.com

         Prodigy users can now mail out from Prodigy. Info is available

         by JUMPing mail manager.

Now, that you have an address you can use your editor that comes with your service to write notes to anyone in the world, no matter what service they have.  Dont worry, your return address will be automatically inserted so that people can respond to you at their leisure.

This ability to send messages and then wait for a response is one the best features of the Information Superhighway.  Its like having a universal Answering Service for everyone in the world who may know about you.

The Editors


A/Z LISTINGS

the INTERNET FROM A - Z.

  * NOTE: NO LOGIN NAMES OR PASSWORDS ARE REQUIRED UNLESS STATED

OTHERWISE! *

    NOTE: FOR FTP SITES, LOGIN AS anonymous, password is your email address.

 -Agricultural Info.,   telnet psupen.psu.edu or telnet 128.118.36.5

   Family Issues,      	 PENpages (Login: Enter your two-letter state abbrev.)

   Food & Nutrition.    telnet caticsuf.csufresno.edu or telnet 129.8.100.15

                         CSU Fresno ATI-NET	                (Login: super)

 	        telnet eureka.clemson.edu or telnet 130.127.8.3

 CUFAN (Clemson U Forestry & Ag. Net.) (Login: PUBLIC)

                        telnet empire.cce.cornell.edu or telnet 132.236.89.2

 CENET (Cornell Extension NETwork)      (Login: guest)

        ftp ftp.sura.net (get file pub/nic/agricultural.list,

 it contains agricultural email lists & services.)

                        telnet idea.ag.uiuc.edu (Login: flood) See FLOOD Below

       +telnet cicp.biochem.vt.edu or telnet 128.173.52.243

 Global Integrated Pest Management Information System

                       +telnet/gopher usda.mannlib.cornell.edu

 USDA Economics and Statistics Gopher   (Login: usda)

   offers: Agricultural info (livestock reports, current market prices, etc.)

 -Almanac mail servers  mail almanac@esusda.gov or mail almanac@ecn.purdue.edu

mail almanac@oes.orst.edu or mail almanac@ces.ncsu.edu

mail almanac@silo.ucdavis.edu or almanac@joe.uwex.edu

                        mail almanac@empire.cce.cornell.edu

mail almanac@acenet.auburn.edu

   offers: USDA market news, articles about use of computer in agricultural

   science, and Extension Computing Technology Newsletters.

    In body of letter: send guide  Other cmds: send catalog, send help haylist

 -Almanac of Events	finger copi@oddjob.uchicago.edu

   offers: Daily list of events and b-days in history, and sports schedules.

 -Am. Philos. Assoc.	gopher apa.oxy.edu or gopher 134.69.1.2

   offers:  BBS for philosophers.

 +Amateur Radio          mail info@arrl.org / ftp oak.oakland.com (pub/hamradio)

   offers: Ascii files about Amateur Radio and electronics.

   In Body of letter: help, info, send <filename> or quit (ie send prospect)

 -Archeological Dbase   telnet cast.uark.edu or telnet 130.184.71.44

   offers: National Arch. Database information management system. (Login: nadb)

 *AVIATION---------------------------------------------------------------------

  -Aviation Gophers     gopher av.eecs.nwu.edu

        gopher gopher.unomaha.edu (Select UNO Student Org...)

    offers: Acts as a repository for things on rec.aviation. (pics, stories...)

  -DUATS	telnet duat.gtefsd.com or telnet 131.131.7.105

telnet duats.gtefsd.com or telnet 131.131.7.106

    offers: Aviation weather, flight planning. (Login: <last name>)

     The first address is for certified pilots, the second for uncertified.

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 -Career Centers Online gopher gopher.msen.com and gopher gopher.msen.com 9062

mail occ-info@mail.msen.com

   offers: Jobs database, resume listing service, search by location/keyword

   H.E.A.R.T.   telnet career.com or telnet 157.151.160.1

   offers: Search for jobs by company, position, or state.

 -CARL	telnet database.carl.org or 192.54.81.128

   offers: Online database, book reviews, magazine fax delivery service.

Antique Collectors Net

collectors-net-request@netcom.com

 *COMPUTERS--------------------------------------------------------------------

  -Amiga User Area      gopher gopher.unomaha.edu (Select UNO Student Org...)

    offers: Lots of useful information for Amiga owners.

  -Macintosh Usergroup  telnet amdalinz.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at or 140.78.5.55

    offers: Austrian Mac group.  UserID/Password (hit return).

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 -DataBase Via Finger   finger help@dir.su.oz.au

   offers: Query databases, find newsgroups, access archie, etc., via finger.

 *ECONOMICS/BUSINESS-----------------------------------------------------------

  -ECHO                 telnet echo.lu or telnet 158.64.1.36 or 158.64.1.51

    offers: European Commission Host Org., free databases! (Login: echo)

  -Economic BBS         telnet ebb.stat-usa.gov or telnet 192.239.70.201

    offers: Interest rates, foreign exchange rates, price indexes, stats.

  -Economics Gophers    gopher gopher.lib.umich.edu

    Choose: Social Sciences Resources | Economics

gopher niord.shsu.edu (Choose: Economics)

  -Stock Market Reports telnet a2i.rahul.net or telnet 192.160.13.1

       +mail Martin.Wong@eng.sun.com to receive daily quotes

    offers: Select n, "Menu: Current Info", then "Market Report" (Login: guest)

   Vienna Stock Exchange telnet fiivs01.tu-graz.ac.at  (Login: BOERSE)

  -Stock Market Simul.  telnet castor.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de

    offers: Gigabucks game, stock market simulation. (Login: games)

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 *EDUCATION/TEACHING/LEARNING--------------------------------------------------

  -Distance Ed. Dbase   telnet acsvax.open.ac.uk or telnet 137.108.48.24

    (Username: ICDL  Account Code: usa  Password: aaa)

  -Education Gophers    gopher ernest.ccs.carleton.ca 419  [Canada's SchoolNet]

gopher gopher.ed.gov          [U.S. Dept. of Education]

                        gopher chronicle.merit.edu     [Merit Computer Network]

                        gopher gaia.sci-ed.fit.edu   [Florida Tech Edu. Gopher]

        gopher informns.k12.mn.us  [Internet for Minn. Schools]

        gopher goldmine.cde.ca  [California Dept. of Education]

     Empire Schoolhouse telnet nysernet.org or 192.77.173.2 (Login: empire)

    offers: K-12 resources, discussion groups, etc.   (Also see: Econ. BBS)

  -FEDIX/MOLIS/HERO	telnet fedix.fie.com or telnet 192.111.228.33

    offers: info. on scholarships, minority assistance, etc.

  -IKE	telnet isaac.engr.washington.edu or 128.95.32.61

    offers: IBM Kiosk for Education User Discussion Forums. (Login: register)

  -Internat'l Ed. BBS   telnet nis.calstate.edu or telnet 130.150.102.39

    offers: Program listings, resources, government information. (Login: intl)

  -KidLink Gopher       telnet kids.ccit.duq.edu or telnet 165.190.8.35

    offers: Telecomm. project aimed at 10-15 year olds.  (Login: gopher)

  -Learning Link        telnet sierra.fwl.edu / 198.49.171.2 (Logn/pwd:newuser)

       +telnet 152.4.101.50 (Login: slonc  Password: guest)

    offers: Electronic info. & communication service for educators.

  -MicroMUSE	telnet michael.ai.mit.edu or telnet 128.89.2.153

   MariMUSE             telnet pc2.pc.maricopa.edu 4228 or 140.198.16.12 4228

    offers: Educational Multi-User Simulated Environments.  (Login: guest).

  -Nat'l Education BBS 	telnet nebbs.nersc.gov or telnet 128.55.128.90

    offers: A limited-access system for NESP educators. (Login: new)

  -Nanaimo SchoolsNET   telnet crc.sd68.nanaimo.bc.ca or telnet 134.87.120.1

    offers: Education-based BBS  (Login: GUEST)    (See also: NICOL)

  -Newton               telnet newton.dep.anl.gov or telnet 130.202.92.50

    offers: BBS for those teaching/studying sci., CS, math. (Login: bbs)

  -QUERRI	telnet exnet.iastate.edu or telnet 129.186.20.200

    offers: Questions on Univ. Extension. Regional Research Info(Login: querri)

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 -Environmental Gophers gopher gopher.econet.apc.org

        telnet envirolink.org or telnet 128.2.19.119

   offers: Info. on current environment concerns, voting records, etc.

 -Fax via Internet     mail info@awa.com ("HELP" in body of message)

       ftp ftp.pandora.sf.ca.us (get pub/elvis/faxgate.help)

       mail tpc-faq@town.hall.org (FREE fax to ltd. locations)

 -Finger via Telnet     telnet site 79    (example: telnet csd4.csd.uwm.edu 79)

   "site" is the place you are fingering.  Once connected, type the username.

 via Mail       mail jfesler@netcom.com w/ subj: "#finger user@site"

                        mail dlangley@netcom.com /w subj: "#help"

 *FTP--------------------------------------------------------------------------

  -Archie 	telnet archie.au or 139.130.4.6 	       [Aussie]

        telnet archie.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at or 140.78.3.8

        telnet archie.univie.ac.at or 131.130.1.23    [Austria]

 	telnet archie.funet.fi or 128.214.6.102       [Finland]

        telnet archie.th-darmstadt.de or 130.83.128.111  [Ger.]

                        telnet archie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp or 130.54.20.1 [Japan]

        telnet archie.sogang.ac.kr or 163.239.1.11      [Korea]

        telnet archie.nz or telnet 130.195.9.4	  [New Zealand]

                        telnet archie.inesc.pt or 146.193.0.153      [Portugal]

        telnet archie.luth.se or telnet 130.240.18.4   [Sweden]

        telnet archie.ncu.edu.tw or telnet 140.115.19.24  [TWN]

        telnet archie.doc.ic.ac.uk or 146.169.11.3 [UK/Ireland]

        telnet archie.hensa.ac.uk or 129.12.21.25  [UK/Ireland]

        telnet archie.sura.net or 128.167.254.194    [USA [MD]]

                telnet archie.unl.edu or 129.93.1.14         [USA [NE]]

        telnet archie.ans.net or 147.225.1.10        [USA [NY]]

        telnet archie.rutgers.edu or 128.6.18.15     [USA [NJ]]

                        telnet ds.internic.net or 198.49.45.10	         [AT&T]

   offers: Searches all ftp sites for any program you want.  (Login: archie)

  -Archie Mail Servers  mail archie@<INSERT ONE OF ABOVE ADDRESSES HERE>

   Subject: help  offers: alterative Archie access to those w/o ftp or telnet.

  -FTP via EMail	mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com or ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au

 	mail bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu or ftpmail@lth.se

        mail bitftp@dearn or to bitftp@vm.gmd.de (Europe only)

                        mail ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de

 	        mail ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr or ftpmail@ieunet.ie

                        mail bitftp@plearn.edu.pl or bitftp@plearn (Europe)

                        mail ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk or ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu

    Body-of-letter: help or ftplist for a list of anon. ftp sites.

  -FTP Sites/Archives   ftp ocf.berkeley.edu or ftp 128.32.184.254

    offers: cd /pub/Library for great lib. of docs, bible, lyrics, etc.

        ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu or ftp sunset.cse.nau.edu

    offers: Gifs, Sights, & Sounds!

        ftp ftp.uu.net or ftp rtfm.mit.edu

    offers: You name it, it's here! (Archives, FAQs, how-to's, etc.)

 	        ftp archive.umich.edu or sumex-aim.stanford.edu

    offers: Software for MS-Dos computers, Mac, Amiga, Apple2, Apollo...

ftp oak.oakland.edu

    offers: A huge software archive for PCs and UNIX.

ftp ftp.sura.net (/pub/nic) or ftp quartz.rutgers.edu

    offers: How-to's about internet (email, ftp, telnet, etc.) (/pub/internet)

        ftp quartz.rutgers.edu or ftp cathouse.org

    offers: All the text/humor files you'd want (tv, sex..) cd pub/humor

  -FTP via Telnet	telnet grind.isca.uiowa.edu or telnet 128.255.200.3

    offers: Access UIowa's huge FTP site via telnet!

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 *GAMES/RECRETATIONAL/FUN/CHAT-------------------------------------------------

  -Backgammon Servers   telnet fraggel65.mdstud.chalmers.se 4321 (Login: guest)

  -Battle               finger battle@cygnus.cp.tn.tudelft.nl

  -Bridge Server        telnet 140.117.11.33 (Login/Password: okbridge)

  -Bolo Tracker 	telnet gwis.circ.gwu.edu 1234 or 128.164.140.37 1234

    offers: Location of current bolo games.

  -Chat Clients         ftp ftp.santafe.edu      (4M Chat Service: /pub/SIG/4m)

       +ftp cs.bu.edu (IRC: cd /irc/clients   ICB: cd /irc/icb)

    Get chat client program from ftp sites, compile program (make) and execute.

        telnet sci.dixie.edu 1 | sh or 144.38.16.2 1 | sh

        telnet rush.cc.edu 1 | sh or telnet 140.104.4.169 1 |sh

    NEW! The above gets AND compiles automagically an IRC client for UNIX.

  -Chat Servers - IRC   telnet sci.dixie.edu 6677 or telnet 144.38.16.2 6677

        telnet exuokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu 6677 or 129.15.20.11

                        telnet caen.fr.eu.undernet.org 6677 or 192.93.101.16

        telnet caen.fr.eu.undernet.org 7766 (For dumb terminal)

                        telnet obelix.wu-wien.ac.at 6996 or 137.208.8.6 6996

        telnet irc.tuzvo.sk 6668 or telnet 192.108.157.3 6668

        telnet irc.nsysu.edu.tw (Login: irc)

    TRY compiling own client rather than using these. (See above) (Login: irc)

  -Chat Services        telnet english-server.hss.cmu.edu

        telnet explorer.clark.net 1420

      Somewhere         telnet 129.118.41.9 2010

      FootHills         telnet marble.bu.edu 2010 or telnet 128.197.10.75 2010

      The Coffee House  telnet 128.198.1.116 2525

      Olohof's BBS      telnet morra.et.tudelft.nl 2993

      DS9               telnet 128.8.11.201 3000

      Mansion II        telnet 163.200.97.1 4000

      Elec. Night Club  telnet 129.215.162.64 4001 (Evenings Only)

      CyberEden         telnet rivendel.slip.umd.edu 5000 or 128.8.11.201 5000

      Davenport Beach   telnet 129.74.80.116 7777

      Tele-Chat         telnet speedway.net 7777

  -Chess Servers 	telnet rafael.metiu.ucsb.edu 5000 or 128.111.246.2 5000

        telnet ics.uoknor.edu 5000 or 129.15.10.21 5000

  -Chinese Chess        telnet coolidge.harvard.edu 5555 or 128.103.28.15 5555

telnet hippolytos.ud.chalmers.se 5555 or 129.16.79.39

  -Cookie Servers	telnet astro.temple.edu 12345 or telnet 129.32.1.100

        telnet argo.temple.edu 12345 or telnet 129.32.32.102

    offers: Funny quote or saying everytime you telnet there.

  -Crossword Server     telnet next7.cas.muohio.edu 8888 or 134.53.14.117 8888

    offers: Internet server devoted to crossword games such as Scrabble.

  -Cyber-Sleaze Report  finger hotlist or adam@mtv.com (Also: gopher mtv.com)

    offers: Daily reports on entertainers and such.

  -Diplomacy      	mail judge@morrolan.eff.org or judge@dipvax.dsto.gov.au

mail judge@shrike.und.ac.za or judge@u.washington.edu

    offers: Play the Avalon Hill game Diplomacy via email. Body-of-letter: help

  -Fingers for Fun      finger info or drink or graph@drink.csh.rit.edu

        finger coke@cs.cmu.edu or finger coke@xcf.berkeley.edu

        finger pepsi or cocacola@columbia.edu

    offers: Status of drink and candy machines for fun.

        finger cyndiw@magnus1.com or cyndiw@198.242.50.4

    offers: Weekly Trivia

  -Game Server          telnet herx1.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de

    offers: Tetris, Moria, Nethack, MUDs, Text Adventures, etc.  (Login: games)

  -GO Server	telnet hellspark.wharton.upenn.edu 6969

  -Multi-Trek           telnet mtrek.netsys.com 1701 or telnet 192.215.1.4 1701

    offers: Multi-user trek-like game.

  -Othello/Reversi      telnet faust.uni-paderborn.de 5000 or 131.234.28.29

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 *GEOPHYSICAL/GEOGRAPHICAL/GEOLOGICAL------------------------------------------

  -Earthquake Info.     finger quake@geophys.washington.edu     [Wash., Oregon]

                        finger quake@fm.gi.alaska.edu                  [Alaska]

                        finger quake@scec2.gps.caltech.edu    [Southern Calif.]

                        finger quake@slueas.slu.edu         [Southern Illinois]

                        finger quake@seismo.unr.edu     [Nevada and California]

                        finger quake@andreas.wr.usgs.gov  [Northern California]

                        finger quake@eqinfo.seis.utah.edu [Utah, Wyo., Montana]

        telnet geophys.washington.edu (Login/password: quake)

        telnet bison.cc.buffalo.edu (select INDX 4 Bib. server)

    offers: Recent quake info (location, time, magnitude, etc.)

  -Geographic Server    telnet martini.eecs.umich.edu 3000 or 141.212.99.9 3000

    offers: Info by city or area code (Population, Lat./Long., Elevation, etc).

  -Geological Gopher    gopher info.er.usgs.gov

    offers: US Geological Survey Gopher

  -Global Land Info Sys telnet glis.cr.usgs.gov or telnet 152.61.192.54

    offers:Land use maps of U.S., graphs/data of geological info (Login: guest)

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 *GOPHER-----------------------------------------------------------------------

  -Gopher Sites         telnet consultant.micro.umn.edu or telnet 134.84.132.4

        telnet seymour.md.gov or telnet 128.8.10.46

        telnet gopher.msu.edu or telnet 35.8.2.61

        telnet twosocks.ces.ncsu.edu or telnet 152.1.45.21

        telnet cat.ohiolink.edu or telnet 130.108.120.25

        telnet wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu / 134.121.1.40(Logn: wsuinfo)

        telnet telnet.wiscinfo.wisc.edu	      (Login: wiscinfo)

                        telnet infoslug.ucsc.edu or 128.114.143.25   [INFOSLUG]

                        telnet infopath.ucsd.edu              (Login: infopath)

        telnet sunsite.unc.edu or telnet 198.86.40.81

        telnet ux1.cso.uiuc.edu or telnet 128.174.5.59

telnet panda.uiowa.edu or telnet 128.255.40.201

        telnet inform.umd.edu or telnet 128.8.10.29

                        telnet solar.rtd.utk.edu or telnet 128.169.112.24

        telnet grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu or 131.144.8.206

        telnet gopher.virginia.edu / 128.143.22.36(Login: gwis)

        telnet ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu or 128.143.96.10

                        telnet nicol.jvnc.net or 128.121.50.2    (Login: NICOL)

        telnet finfo.tu-graz.ac.at or 129.27.2.4  (Login: info)

        telnet info.anu.edu.au or 150.203.84.20   (Login: info)

        telnet tolten.puc.cl or telnet 146.155.1.16     [Chile]

        telnet gopher.denet.dk or telnet 129.142.6.66 [Denmark]

        telnet gopher.th-darmstadt.de or telnet 130.83.55.75

        telnet ecnet.ec or telnet 157.100.45.2        [Ecuador]

        telnet gopher.uv.es or telnet 147.156.1.12      [Spain]

        telnet gopher.isnet.is or telnet 130.208.165.63 [Iclnd]

                        telnet siam.mi.cnr.it or telnet 155.253.1.40    [Italy]

                        telnet gopher.torun.edu.pl or 158.75.2.5       [Poland]

        telnet info.sunet.se or telnet 192.36.125.10   [Sweden]

telnet gopher.chalmers.se or 129.16.221.40     [Sweden]

                        telnet hugin.ub2.lu.se or telnet 130.235.162.12[Sweden]

                        telnet gopher.itu.ch or telnet 156.106.4.76    [Switz.]

        telnet gopher.brad.ac.uk or 143.53.2.5    (Login: info)

    offers: Access to other services, gophers, documents, etc.  (Login: gopher)

  -Gopher               gopher english-server.hss.cmu.edu

    offers: Most comprehensive gopher I've seen so far, it gets its own entry!

                        gopher cns.cscns.com

    offers: ASCII Clip Art, UPI News, Commerce Biz Daily, Classifieds

  -GopherMail            mail gophermail@ncc.go.jp or gophermail@calvin.edu

 mail gopher@solaris.ims.ac.jp or mail gopher@earn.net

    offers: Email access to gopher for those with mail-only access to Internet

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 -Ham Radio Callbooks   telnet callsign.cs.buffalo.edu 2000 / 128.205.32.2 2000

                        telnet ns.risc.net or 155.212.2.2 (Login: hamradio)

                        telnet pc.usl.edu 2000 or telnet 130.70.40.3 2000

   offers: National ham radio call-sign callbook.  (Also: Amateur Radio above)

 -History Databases	telnet ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu or telnet 129.237.33.1

   offers:  History databases (Login: history) and CIS info (Login: ex-ussr)

        ftp byrd.mu.wvnet.edu / ftp 129.71.32.152(/pub/history)

        telnet clus1.ulcc.ac.uk or telnet 192.12.72.60

   offers: Docs, archives, comprehensive history server(Login/Password: ihr-uk)

 -HP Calculator BBS	telnet hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com or telnet 15.255.72.16

   offers:  BBS for HP Calc. users, with chat mode.  (Login: new)

 -Hpcwire	telnet hpcwire.ans.net or telnet 147.225.1.51

   offers: Excellent menu-driven information searches. (Login: hpcwire)

 -Hytelnet Servers      telnet access.usask.ca or telnet 128.233.3.1

        telnet info.ccit.arizona.edu or 129.196.76.201

                        telnet laguna.epcc.edu or 192.94.29.3  (Login: library)

        telnet info.anu.edu.au or 150.203.84.20 (Login:library)

        telnet library.adelaide.edu.au (Login: access)

        telnet nctuccca.edu.tw or 140.111.1.10         [TAIWAN]

        telnet info.mcc.ac.uk or telnet 130.88.200.15

        telnet rsl.ox.ac.uk or telnet 129.67.16.31

   offers: univ. & library catalogues around the world. (Login: hytelnet)

 -IEEE SPAsystem        telnet stdsbbs.ieee.org or telnet 140.98.1.11

   offers: Standards Process Automation System.  (Login: guest)

 -Internet Guides/Docs  gopher una.hh.lib.umich.edu (Select: inetdirs)

 +Internet Mall         finger taylor@netcom.com or ftp netcom.com /pub/Guides

   offers: List of commercial products orderable online, from CDs to Sunglasses

 -InterNIC 	telnet rs.internic.net or telnet 198.41.0.5

   offers: Gopher, WAIS, Whois, finger, TONS of Internet info, book orders, etc

 -IP Address Resolver   mail resolve@cs.widener.edu

 	        mail dns@grasp.insa-lyon.fr  (body of letter: help)

   usage: in body-of-letter: site <address here>  Mails you IP address of site.

 *LAW--------------------------------------------------------------------------

  -Access               telnet access.uhcc.hawaii.edu or telnet 128.171.7.167

    offers: Legislative Info. Service, Hawaii State Legislature.

  -Gopher LAW Servers   telnet fatty.LAW.cornell.edu or telnet 132.236.108.5

        telnet gopher.LAW.csuohio.edu or telnet 137.148.22.51

                        telnet acc.wuacc.edu or 192.104.1.2  (Login: washlaw)

    offers: Law info. via gopher.  (Login: gopher)

  -Law Library          telnet liberty.uc.wlu.edu or telnet 137.113.10.35

ftp sulaw.law.su.oz.au (cd /pub/law)

    offers: Law libraries and legal research. (Login: lawlib)

    Offers copies of laws for each state/computer laws, and more!

  -LawNet	telnet lawnet.law.columbia.edu or telnet 128.59.176.83

    offers: Law/Judicial info and catalogs access.  (Login: lawnet)

  -Supreme Court Rulings ftp ftp.cwru.edu

    offers: ASCII files of Supreme Court rulings in directory /hermes

  -WWW Law Servers      telnet www.LAW.indiana.edu or telnet 129.79.131.170

        telnet fatty.LAW.cornell.edu or telnet 132.236.108.5

    offers: Hypertext access to legal documents (Login: www)

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 -LIBS	telnet info.anu.edu.au or telnet 150.203.84.20

                        telnet nessie.cc.wwu.edu or telnet 140.160.240.11

        telnet garam.kreonet.re.kr or 134.75.30.11 (Login: nic)

   offers: Access to nearly all online services seen in this list (Login: LIBS)

 -List of Lists	ftp crvax.sri.com or ftp 128.18.30.65

   offers: List of interest groups/email lists in interest-groups.

 *LITERATURE/BOOKS-------------------------------------------------------------

  -Dartmouth Library    telnet library.dartmouth.edu or 129.170.16.11

    offers: Divine Comedy and reviews.                 (connect dante)

           Read/Find passages in the King James Bible  (select file bible)

   Read/Find passages in Shakespeare's plays   (select file s plays)

   Read/Find passages in Shakespeare's sonnets (select file s sonnets)

  -Leeds Db of Verse    telnet bcmsv.leeds.ac.uk or telnet 129.11.128.108

    offers:  Database of Eng. poetry in the 17/18th c. (Login/Password: bcmsv)

  -Project Gutenberg    ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu or ftp 128.174.201.12

    offers: Many books in print and almanac files.   cd pub/etext

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 *MEDICAL/HEALTH/BIOLOGY/GENETICS----------------------------------------------

  -Anesthesiology Gopher gopher eja.anes.hscsyr.edu

    offers: Lots of medical info, archives, and positions.

  -Biology Gophers      gopher fragrans.riken.go.jp

                        gopher dna.cedb.uwf.edu

  -Biological Services  mail grail@ornl.gov ("help" in body of message)

    offers: Service predicting intron-exon splice sites in vertebrate genes.

                        telnet atcc.nih.gov or telnet 156.40.144.248

    offers: American Type Culture Collection (Login: search  Password: common)

        gopher life.anu.edu.au

    offers: Access to lots of biological sciences information.

  -CancerNets           mail cancernet@icicb.nci.nih.gov

     offers: Cancer info. statements thru email. Body-of-letter:help or spanish

gopher gopher.nih.gov  (Health & Clinical Information/)

                        gopher gan.ncc.go.jp

        telnet txcancer.mda.uth.tmc.edu or telnet 129.106.60.97

     offers: Texas Cancer Data Center.  (Login: TCDC) (See also: NICOL)

  -CHAT	telnet debra.dgbt.doc.ca or telnet 142.92.36.15

    offers:Interactive AIDS & Epilepsy docs,simulated conversation(Login: chat)

  -Educational Tech Net telnet etnet.nlm.nih.gov or telnet 130.14.10.123

    offers:Forums and discussion groups on medical tech. and edu.(Login: etnet)

  -Genetics Banks       mail gene-server@bchs.uh.edu

  	        mail retrieve@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

  	        mail blast@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ("help" in body of message)

        mail genmark@ford.gatech.edu

                        mail blocks@howard.fhcrc.org

        mail cbrg@inf.ethz.ch ("help" in body of message)

        mail QUICK@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE

        mail NETSERV@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE

    Subject: help  offers: genetic database/nucleic acid/protein sequence.

  -Genomic Database     telnet morgan.jax.org or telnet 192.233.41.26

    offers: Genomic Database of the Mouse.  (Login: guest)

  -Handicap/Med. Sites  ftp handicap.shel.isc-br.com or ftp 129.189.4.184

    offers: anonymous ftp of software and medical info.

        telnet bongo.cc.utexas.edu or telnet 128.83.186.13

    offers: Aids user in finding disability assist. equip. & serv.(Login: tatp)

  -Healthline Info. DB  telnet selway.umt.edu or gopher selway.umt.edu 700

    offers: Drug & alcohol info, sexuality/AIDS info, etc. (Login: health)

  -Nursing Gopher       gopher nightingale.con.utk.edu

    offers: Nursing info on research, practice, education, publications, etc.

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 -Monochrome 	telnet mono.city.ac.uk or telnet 138.40.17.11

   offers: Multi-user messaging system (w/ chat) (Login/Password: mono)

 -Movie Database Reqest movie@ibmpcug.co.uk with "HELP" in body of message

   offers: Info on actors, directors, movies, etc.

 *MUSIC------------------------------------------------------------------------

  -Billboard Charts	finger buckmr@rpi.edu

    offers: U.S. Top Pop singles for the week.

  -Guitar Chords/TAB	ftp ftp.nevada.edu or ftp 131.216.1.11

    offers: Tablature/Chords for guitar in /pub/guitar. Also at ftp.uu.net

  -Lyric/Music Server 	ftp ftp.uwp.edu

    offers: Lyrics, chords/tablature, and music pictures. (/pub/music/...)

  -Music & Brain D-base telnet mila.ps.uci.edu or telnet 128.200.29.81

    offers: Research on music related to behavior.(Login: mbi Password: nammbi)

  -Music Newsletter	mail listserv@vm.marist.edu (internet) or

mail listserv@marist (bitnet)

   Body-of-letter: SUBSCRIBE upnews <your full name>  offers: Reviews, intviews

  +Sid's Music Server   mail ssowder@copper.ucs.indiana.edu

    Subject: BOOTHELP  offers: Lists of rare live recordings, cd's for sale.

  -Used Music Server 	mail used-music-server@wang.com w/ subject: help

    offers: Users can buy/sell/trade CDs/LPs/Tapes or subscribe to the list.

  -Music List of Lists  mail mlol-request@wariat.org (music list of lists)

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 *NEWS-------------------------------------------------------------------------

  -Electronic Journals  gopher gopher.cic.net or gopher 192.131.22.5

                        telnet enews.com or telnet 192.215.1.51 (Login: gopher)

    offers: Access to MANY electronic journals (Select Elec. Serials)

  -Global News Navig.   URL for http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn.html

    offers: O'Reilly's GNN, accessable with URL above via Mosaic or Lynx.

  -List-Periodic Posts  finger nichol@stavanger.sgp.slb.com

    offers: Listing of all FAQs, lists, and periodic postings to Usenet news.

  -News Mail Servers	mail news-group-name@cs.utexas.edu

        mail news.group.name.usenet@decwrl.dec.com

    offers: Post to Usenet news via email.

  -NNTP Server List     finger lesikar@tigger.stcloud.msus.edu

    offers: A list of publicly accessable NNTP news servers.

  -Russia/America News  telnet solar.rtd.utk.edu or telnet 128.169.112.24

    offers: Provides news, weather, geog., etc for each nation. (Login: friends)

  -UPI News Index       gopher cns.cscns.com (Select: CNS/ | News- UPI News/)

  -USA Today            telnet freenet-in-[a,b,c].cwru.edu or 129.22.8.51

        telnet yfn2.ysu.edu or 192.55.234.50 (Login: visitor)

    offers: USA Today Headline News, Sports, etc...

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 -Nielsen TV Ratings	finger normg@halcyon.halcyon.com

   offers: Weekly TV ratings according to the Nielsen rating system.

 -Oracle	mail oracle@cs.indiana.edu  w/ subject: help

   offers: The Usenet Oracle answers all your questions!

 *POLITICS/GOVERNMENT----------------------------------------------------------

  -Air Pollution BBS    telnet ttnbbs.rtpnc.epa.gov or telnet 134.67.208.177

    offers: Various BBS' that cover a wide range of Air Pollution information

  -ACE                  mail info@ace.esusda.gov w/ "send help" in body of msg

    offers: Americans Communicating Electronically.  (Gov't docs via email)

  -Census Information   gopher gopher.census.gov

    offers: Access to U.S. government's census information.

  -Congress Email/FTP   mail congress@hr.house.gov and ftp ftp.senate.gov

  -FedWorld Gateway     telnet fedworld.doc.gov or telnet 192.239.92.201

    offers: Access to lots of gov't databases, files, libraries, etc.

  -Government Gophers   gopher wiretap.spies.com (Also see: cns.cscns.com)

        telnet/gopher iitf.doc.gov (Login: gopher)

    offers: The latter is the Information Infrastructure Task Force gopher.

  -Iowa Polit. Stk Mkt  telnet iem.biz.uiowa.edu or 128.255.44.2

    offers: Buy & sell shares in political candidates and other stuff.

  -Israel Info. Service gopher israel-info.gov.il

    offers: Latest developments in Israel, gov't info., peace relations, maps.

  -Library of Congress  telnet locis.loc.gov or telnet 140.147.254.3

    offers: Library of Congress Information System (LOCIS) Offers access

 	    to lib. of congress, legislative info, and copyright info.

 	        telnet/gopher marvel.loc.gov or telnet 140.147.2.69

    offers: LOC gopher, with access to lots of gov't docs. (Login: marvel)

  -White House Releases mail Clinton-Info@Campaign92.Org with the subject: Help

    offers: Subscribe to White House press releases (news, speeches, etc.)

  -White House Summaries mail almanac@esusda.gov (in msg: subscribe wh-summary)

    offers: Daily mailing of summary of White House press releases.

  -Window on Gov't      telnet window.texas.gov or telnet 192.198.66.186

    offers: Government-related info, and lots of info on state of Texas.

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 -Psychology Gopher     gopher panda1.uottawa.ca 4010

   offers: Psychology-related gopher.

 -Public-Access Unix 	telnet nyx.cs.du.edu or 130.253.192.68    (Login: new)

        telnet cyberspace.org or 152.160.30.1 (Login: newuser)

   offers:  Free account, with access to various UNIX features (news, etc)

 -Public-Access Unix    telnet hermes.merit.edu or telnet 35.1.48.150

telnet m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us or telnet 35.208.17.4

   (Which host: um-m-net  Enter 'g' for guest.  login: newuser)

 -Queer Resource Dir.   telnet/gopher/ftp vector.intercon.com (Login: gopher)

   offers: AIDS info/gay rights info. Recommend get file: /pub/QRD/README

 -Recipe Archives	ftp gatekeeper.dec.com  (cd pub/recipes)

ftp mthvax.cs.miami.edu (cd pub/recipes)

                        ftp ftp.neosoft.com     (cd pub/rec.food/recipes)

        ftp cs.ubc.ca           (cd pub/local/RECIPES)

   offers: Anonymous ftp site for MANY food recipes.

 *RELIGION/BIBLE-RELATED-------------------------------------------------------

  +Christian Resources  ftp iclnet93.iclnet.org

    offers: List of WWW, FTP, emails (/pub/resources/christian-resources.txt)

  -Gabriel's Horn       telnet 138.26.65.78 7777 (Also see Dartmouth above)

    offers: Returns a Bible verse from the Old or New Testament

  +Jerusalem One Gopher gopher jerusalem1.datasrv.co.il

    offers: Electronic Jews library, info on Jewish orgs, travel, Israel info.

  -JewishNet            telnet vms.huji.ac.il or telnet 128.139.4.3

    offers: WWW w/ info. on mailing lists, restaurants, etc. (Login: JEWISHNET)

  -NY-Israel Gopher     gopher israel.nysernet.org 71

    offers: Jewish libraries, lists, projects, holocaust info, etc.

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 *SCIENCE/MATH/STATISTICS------------------------------------------------------

  -ASCinfo              telnet asc.harvard.edu or telnet 128.103.41.101

    offers: Info. relating to Advanced XRay Astrophy. Facility (Login: ascinfo)

  -E-Math	telnet e-math.ams.com or 130.44.1.100

    offers:Am. Math. Soc. bbs w/ software and reviews. (Login/Password: e-math)

  -GAMS                 telnet gams.nist.gov or telnet 129.6.80.11

    offers:  NIST Guide to Available Mathematical Software. (Login: gams)

  -Math Gopher          gopher archives.math.utk.edu

    offers: Math archives (software, teaching materials, other gophers)

  -NetLib	mail netlib@ornl.gov or mail netlib@uunet.uu.net

    offers:Math (usually Fortran) programs via email Body-of-letter: send index

  -Nuclear Data Center	telnet bnlnd2.dne.bnl.gov or telnet 130.199.112.132

    offers: National nuclear data.  (Login: nndc)

  -Particle Information telnet muse.lbl.gov or telnet 131.243.48.11

    offers: Lookup information on any particle! (Login: pdg_public)

  -Periodic Table       telnet camms2.caos.kun.nl 2034 or 131.174.82.239 2034

    offers: electronic periodic table of elements.

  -StatLib Server	mail statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu

    Mail with line: send index. offers:Prgms, Datasets, etc. for statisticians.

  -STIS	telnet stis.nsf.gov or 128.150.195.40

    offers: Science & Technology Information System. (Login: public)

  -The Scientist        ftp ds.internic.net  (cd pub/the-scientist)

    offers: Biweekly paper targeted at science professionals

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 -SERVICES	telnet library.wustl.edu or telnet 128.252.173.4

   offers: Access to nearly every listed service! (Login: hit return)

 -SFI BBS	telnet bbs.santafe.edu (login: bbs)

   offers: Research BBS provides access to info. on Complex Systems.

 *SOFTWARE/Information SERVERS-------------------------------------------------

  -Info/Software Server	telnet rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de or 129.69.1.12

    offers: journals, unix stuff, recipes, online cookbook, etc. login: info

  -Software Server(ASK) telnet askhp.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de or 129.13.200.33

    offers:  On-line software search.  (Login/password: ask)

  -ZIB Electronic Libr. telnet elib.zib-berlin.de or telnet 130.73.108.11

    offers: Library of software, links to other libraries. (Login: elib)

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 *SPACE/ASTRONOMY--------------------------------------------------------------

  -CASS                 telnet cass.jsc.nasa.gov or telnet 192.101.147.17

    offers: Center for Advanced Space Studies (Login: cass Passowrd: online)

  -EnviroNet            telnet envnet.gsfc.nasa.gov or telnet 128.183.104.16

    offers: Space environment resource.  (Login: envnet Password: henniker)

  -Europe Space Agency  telnet esrin.esa.it or telnet 192.106.252.1

    offers: Access ESA PID (Prototype Info Dir) & ESIS (Eur. Space Info System)

  -FIFE	telnet pldsg3.gsfc.nasa.gov or telnet 128.183.36.16

    offers: Science, etc. databases from satellites, etc. (Login: FIFEUSER)

  -NASA Headline News   finger nasanews@space.mit.edu

    offers: Recent press releases from NASA. (See also SpaceNews)

  -NASA SpaceLink       telnet spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov or telnet 192.149.89.61

    offers: Latest NASA news, including shuttle launches and satellite updates.

  -NASDA	telnet nsaeoc.eoc.nasda.go.jp or telnet 133.56.72.1

    offers: National Space Development Agency of Japan (Login: nasdadir)

  -NED         	telnet ned.ipac.caltech.edu or telnet 134.4.10.118

    offers: NASA Extragalactic Database.  Bibbliographies, info. (Login: ned)

  -NODIS	telnet nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov or telnet 128.183.36.25

telnet nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov or telnet 128.183.36.23

    offers:Menu-driven access to Nat'l Space Science Data Center (Login: nodis)

  -SDDAS	telnet espsun.space.swri.edu 540 or 129.162.150.99 540

    offers: SW Research Data Display & Analysis Center.

  -SEDS Gopher          telnet/gopher seds.lpl.arizona.edu or 128.196.64.66

    offers: Images, software, satellite elements, etc. (Login/passwrd: gopher)

  -SpaceMet	telnet spacemet.phast.umass.edu or 128.119.50.48

    offers: Science/space bbs about space exploration w/ info from NASA.

  -SpaceNews            finger magliaco@pilot.njin.net

    offers: Weekly publication of space news. (See also Nasa Headline News)

  -STInfo	telnet stinfo.hq.eso.org  Also: gopher stsci.edu

    offers: Reports about Hubble Telescope, press releases (Login: stinfo)

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 *SPORTS-----------------------------------------------------------------------

  +Scores/Standings finger mlb@spam.wicat.com or mlb@192.150.148.62  (Baseball)

                    finger jtchern@headcrash.berkeley.edu            (Baseball)

    finger nfl@spam.wicat.com or nfl@192.150.148.62  (Football)

    finger nflline@spam.wicat.com (NFL Line Spreads)

    offers: Football scores, standings, and next weeks schedule.

  -Sports Schedules NBA:telnet culine.colorado.edu 859 / 128.138.129.170 859

 	   NHL: telnet culine.colorado.edu 860 / 128.138.129.170 860

 	   MLB: telnet culine.colorado.edu 862 / 128.138.129.170 862

   NFL: telnet culine.colorado.edu 863 / 128.138.129.170 863

                        finger copi@oddjob.uchicago.edu for sports schedules

    offers: Sports schedules on-line.  help for help, return for today's games.

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 *TRAVEL-----------------------------------------------------------------------

  -Subway Navigator      telnet metro.jussieu.fr 10000 or 134.157.0.132 10000

    offers: Search subway routes of major cities, in French or English.

  -Travel Info. Library  ftp ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca or ftp 130.179.16.24

    offers: Travelogues, guides, FAQs.  cd to the directory "rec-travel"

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 -UNC BBS	telnet launchpad.unc.edu or telnet 152.2.22.80

   offers: Usenet News, Lib. of Congress, nationwide libs.  (Login: launch)

 *USER LOOKUP SERVICES/WHOIS SERVICES------------------------------------------

  -Mail Srvr/Usr Lookup mail mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu

    in body of mail message: send usenet-addresses/[name searching for]

  -Netfind User Lookup	telnet bruno.cs.colorado.edu or telnet 128.138.243.151

                        telnet cobber.cord.edu or telnet 138.129.1.32

                        telnet pascal.sjsu.edu or telnet 130.65.86.15

        telnet mudhoney.micro.umn.edu or telnet 134.84.132.7

        telnet redmont.cis.uab.edu or telnet 138.26.64.4

                        telnet ds.internic.net or telnet 198.49.45.10

        telnet netfind.oc.com or telnet 192.82.215.88

        telnet archie.au or telnet 139.130.4.6

        telnet netfind.anu.edu.au or telnet 150.203.2.14

                        telnet netfind.if.usp.br or telnet 143.107.249.132

                        telnet netfind.ee.mcgill.ca or 132.206.62.30

        telnet malloco.ing.puc.cl or telnet 146.155.1.43

                        telnet netfind.vslib.cz or telnet 147.230.16.1

                        telnet nic.nm.kr or telnet 143.248.1.100

        telnet lincoln.technet.sg or telnet 192.169.33.6

                        telnet nic.uakom.sk or telnet 192.108.131.12

        telnet monolith.cc.ic.ac.uk or telnet 155.198.5.3

                        telnet lust.mrrl.lut.ac.uk or telnet 158.125.220.7

                        telnet dino.conicit.ve or telnet 150.188.1.10

    offers: Given a name and org./school, finds a user for you (login: netfind)

  -Whois Services       telnet rs.internic.net or telnet 198.41.0.5

        mail service@rs.internic.net  (w/ subject: help  OR

 send RFC-xxxx.TXT, with xxxx being the RFC number)

        telnet info.cnri.reston.va.us 185  (Knowbot Info Serv.)

        telnet garam.kreonet.re.kr or 134.75.30.11 (Login: nic)

                        telnet paradise.ulcc.ac.uk or 128.86.8.56  (Login: dua)

ftp sipb.mit.edu (pub/whois/whois-servers.list)

    offers: Way to find internet address given a keyword. To access type: whois

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 -UUCP map entries by mail:   mail dns@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (body: help)

   usage: in body-of-letter: uucp uucp_site  Mails you UUCP map entry

 -WAIStation	telnet quake.think.com or telnet 192.31.181.1

                        telnet wais.com or telnet 192.216.46.98

        telnet swais.cwis.uci.edu or 128.200.15.2

        telnet sunsite.unc.edu or telnet 198.86.40.81

        telnet info.funet.fi or 128.214.6.100  (Login: info)

                        telnet wais.nis.garr.it or 192.12.192.10 (Login: wais)

   offers: Wide Area Info. Service. (Login: swais)

 *WEATHER/ATMOSPHERIC/OCEANIC--------------------------------------------------

  -Auroral/Solar Report finger aurora@xi.uleth.ca or finger aurora@142.66.3.29

        finger solar@xi.uleth.ca or finger solar@142.66.3.29

        finger daily@xi.uleth.ca or finger daily@142.66.3.29

    offers: Auroral activity warnings/watches/sightings, updated hourly.

 	    Solar = 3-Hourly solar & Geophysical report, daily is the daily one

  -Avalanche Forecast   mail snowfall@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk  with a blank message

  -Emergency Info.      telnet oes1.oes.ca.gov 5501 or 134.186.127.1 5501

    offers: State of Cali. - Governor's Office of Emergency Services

        gopher vita.org

    offers: Disaster Information Center with disaster reports and data.

  -Flood Gopher/Info    telnet idea.ag.uiuc.edu or telnet 128.174.123.126

telnet exnet.iastate.edu or telnet 129.186.20.200

    offers: Tons of files for coping with floods and hurricanes (Login: flood)

  -NOAA	telnet esdim1.nodc.noaa.gov or telnet 140.90.235.168

    offers: Nat'l Oceanic and Atmos. Admin.  Lots of data!  (Login: noaadir)

  -Oceanic Info. Center telnet delocn.udel.edu or telnet 128.175.24.1

    (Login: info)

  -Tropicl Strm Forecst finger forecast@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu

    offers: Seasonal forecast for Atl. Ocn. Also: finger forecast@129.82.107.24

  -Weather Services     telnet downwind.sprl.umich.edu 3000 or 141.212.196.177

                        telnet wind.atmos.uah.edu 3000 or 146.229.8.2 3000

                        telnet nevado.SRCC.lsu.edu      (Login: srcc)

        gopher wx.atmos.uiuc.edu or gopher 128.174.80.10

                        mail jfesler@netcom.com w/ subj: "#weather {code}"

    offers: City/State forecasts, ski conditions, earthquake reports, etc.

        telnet vicbeta.vic.bom.gov.au 55555 or 134.178.130.2

    offers: Weather service for Australia.

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 -Dictionary Servers    telnet cs.indiana.edu 2627 or 129.79.254.191 2627

        telnet chem.ucsd.edu or 132.239.68.1 (login: webster)

                        gopher wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk

                        mail jfesler@netcom.com w/ subj: "#webster {word}"

   offers: Dictionary/Spelling service.  Type "HELP" for info.  (ALL CAPS!)

 -World-Wide Web	telnet www.njit.edu or telnet 128.235.163.2  (USA [NJ])

        telnet ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu or 129.237.1.30  (USA [KA])

                        telnet www.twi.tudelft.nl   (Login: lynx) [NETHERLANDS]

        telnet millbrook.lib.rmit.edu.au (Login: lynx) [AUSSIE]

 	telnet info.cern.ch or telnet 128.141.201.74    [SWISS]

telnet vms.huji.ac.il or telnet 128.139.4.3    [ISRAEL]

                        telnet sun.uakom.sk or telnet 192.108.131.11 [SLOVAKIA]

                        telnet www.edu.tw or telnet 192.83.166.10      [TAIWAN]

   offers: Access to various documents, lists, and services. (Login: www)

  * NOTE: NO LOGIN NAMES OR PASSWORDS ARE REQUIRED UNLESS STATED


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  -UPI News Index       gopher cns.cscns.com (Select: CNS/ | News- UPI News/)

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  -USA Today            telnet freenet-in-[a,b,c].cwru.edu or 129.22.8.51

        telnet yfn2.ysu.edu or 192.55.234.50 (Login: visitor)    offers: USA Today Headline News, Sports, etc...

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

  -Library of Congress  telnet locis.loc.gov or telnet 140.147.254.3

    offers: Library of Congress Information System (LOCIS) Offers access

 	    to lib. of congress, legislative info, and copyright info.

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    offers: LOC gopher, with access to lots of gov't docs. (Login: marvel)

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_________________________________________________________

#11274-V7

    <<<   TOURS DE FORCE - $15.00

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          them and then they get crowded and - no more paradise.  This

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          fare and these are at an all time low too.  With advice in this

          guide you'll learn how to cut your lowest fare in half.

             A very off-the-beaten-path travel guide.  The authors

          take you to places on the Earth where you can finally relax

          and enjoy the Earth the way God intended it to be enjoyed.  Some of the places visited, include the remote parts of Hawaii, Mexico,

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          you will honestly believe you're in Paradise.

          This guide is not meant for the traveler who wants to find

          a Hotel with all the amenities and then hang out like most

          Americans.  This travel guide is for the truly adventurous.  It

          is filled with air fares that are generally unknown to the public

          and much cheaper than what you would find at your local travel

          agent.

          It gives much useful & needed information about what you can

          expect at each location.  Fresh new ideas about how to take the family on an adventure that they will never forget and renew the spirit!

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#11275-V8

  <<<<  E-BIBLE - $15.00

             THE ELECTRONIC BIBLE

                    or

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#11276-V9

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    <<<  "THE PENETRATORS"   Science Fiction Novel  $15.00

          In Jurassic Park, Michael Chricton, entertains us

          with an amazing book about a Park in which Dinosaurs

          are re-constructed from their DNA molecules left behind

          in Fossil form, for HumanKind to stumble upon.

          In this Super Science Fiction Thriller, Michael

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          into another time zone, another part of the unviverse

          where Humanity is experimenting with its own DNA.

          Since there would be far too many objectors on Earth,

          NASA commissions a mission to the nearest star with

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          along the way by the two Scientists on Board.  Dr.

          Jerry Blake and his wife Ellie.

          This is a knock out punch of a Classic Sci-fi jaunt

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          and part of which can be guessed at by very special

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          have for the present.

          "We are Penetrators of the Field", he said.  "There

          is no front, back, left or right, in or out, past,

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          and die, travel throughout the cosmos and are programmed

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just mere Penetrators, visitors, is the stuff that dreams are made of."

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#11279-V12

  <<<<    THE INTERACTIVE YELLOW PAGES.	 >>>>   FREE

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#11280-V13

<<<<  THE ROADMAP TO THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY   >>  $15

           Written by the publishing pioneer on the Information

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           ASSOCIATION, Michael Mathiesen, this book is a Bible

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           The old ways of doing things are similar to the

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           Everything is changing, but if you're a reader of

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           come over the next decade.  Don't let your company

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