Chapter 12: Resources on the Internet This appendix is a collection of bulletin boards, telnet or FTP resources, and other locations for future ideas and potential projects. A short description of each is included here for your convenience. Please report any errors or out of date information to cfarmer@ncsa.uiuc.edu so that we can update the resources for the next edition. Invitation to Join LabNet 165 A mailing list to encourage collaboration between K-12 Science Educators. Chemistry Related listservs 166 Mailing lists that discuss several different areas of Chemistry Environmental Resources via Modem 168 Sources for environmental education materials. Network Accessable (Gopher) Chemistry Resources 171 A sources for Chemistry education materials available via Gopher. EnviroGopher 172 EnviroGopher contains archives of the EnviroLink Networks, as well as a compilation of many other on- and off-line information. EcoGopher 173 EcoGopher is a new information service located at the University of Virginia devoted to the collection and dissemination of environmental information. The HyperChem Project 174 This is a set of 14 stand-alone computer tutorials on general chemistry concepts, each includes a self test and an index. PHYSSHARE 175 How to join an high school physics resource and discussion network. Telnet to FEDIX 176 How to FEDIX, a BBS that has information on federal education and research programs, used research equipment, funding sources, etc. NASA Spacelink 177 How to connect to the NASA Spacelink BBS. Lunar and Planetary Institute 179 The LPI Center for Information and Research Services provides resources on geology, geophysics, astrmomy and astrophysics. Space And Science Related Network Resources 180 A list of telnet sites and email lists with space related material. Science Awareness List 183 The SAIS List was formed in hopes of creating a forum for exchanging innovative ideas about making science more appealing to students. NCDC Weather Data 184 Online weather data and observations. Great Lakes Information on-line 185 Great Lakes Information Services is available for FTPing. Weather and research data available via Internet. 186 How to obtain various kinds of weather information from different sources. Updates to the Incomplete Guide to the Internet 191 How to obtain updated versions of this guide via anonymous FTP. The KIDSPHERE Mailing list. [This used to KIDSNET] 192 How to join the KIDSPHERE subscription service for K-12 educators and how to access the KIDSPHERE/KIDSNET archives.. KidzMailQA List for Elementay Children 194 The purpose is to promote 'Kids Exploring Issues and Interests Electonically'. KIDLIT-L 195 A forum for discussing the study and teaching of literature for children and youth. Announcing: A Curriculum Disscussion Listserver 196 A forum for discussing curriculum development and issues related to curriculum. Teaching Success Stories (Bulletin Board) 197 A forum for discussing successful teaching ideas. LM_NET 199 A World-Wide Discussion Group For School Library Media People. The Jericho Project 200 EUIT's project which is designed to "break down the walls" in today's classrooms through the use of modern information technologies. Scholarly Communications FTP Server 201 An FTP server for all scholarly electronic journals published at VPI. PUBLIB 202 A listserv discussion group devoted to public library issues and how the Internet related to them. HILITES 203 Background information on and instructions for joining a teacherUs collaborative learning activity mailing list. FrEdMail on the Internet (SCHLNet) 206 Information on SCHLNet, which is the adaption of the FrEdMail system for the Internet. Daily Report Card news service (America 2000 report) 208 How to join a subscription service that provides daily updates on progress towards the goals of the America 2000 program. Library of Congress Catalog 209 Catalog search resource and instructions for use. Library of Congress Information System (LOCIS) 210 LOCIS includes millions catalog records and over 10 million records for other types of information. Teacher Contact Files 211 How to get the Rteacher contactS files. The files contain introductions from teachers, administrators, educators and parents interested in telecommunication activities for k-12 students. K-12 Network 212 Description of the K-12 networks and sample channel assignments. ERIC Database 215 This file contains bibliographic information and abstracts for a variety of EDUCATIONAL documents from the Educational Resources Information Center. Internet Library Guide 217 A resource for identifying and using library catalogs on the Internet. USDA/CYFER-NET resources 218 Resources for USDA and the Children Youth Family Education Research Network. A Resource Guide to Listservers 219 Explanation of RlistservS and information on how to join differnet lists and a brief selection of education related listservs. Directory of List of Lists 224 How to get the full RList of ListsS for the LISTSERV information service. ARCHIE by Mail at the University of Nebraska 225 An archie server that allows communications via electronic mail. Special Internet Connections 226 Interesting telnet and FTP sites, especially those of interest to Science Teachers. Anonymous FTP FAQ 234 Frequently Asked Questions about FTP and their answers. Network Resource Mailing List 238 A mailing list for the "latest finds on the Internet." FAQ from comp.sys.mac 239 Frequently Asked Questions from a newsgroup about macintosh computers. Contains many general troubleshooting tips. Gopher Frequently Asked Questions 248 Common Questions and Answers about the Internet Gopher. Rarchie-an Electronic Directory ServiceS 253 The archie service is a collection of resource discovery tools that together provide an electronic directory service for locating information in an Internet environment. Veronica- an Archie for Gophers 256 Veronica offers a keyword search of most gopher-server menus in the entire gopher web. As Archie is to ftp archives, Veronica is to gopherspace. Questions About Network Resources 257 Locations for other Internet resource guides. Public Information Networks (Freenets) 258 Public access information and discussion networks. Mining the Internet 259 How to get abstracts from an Internet training and usage conference. Information Sources: Computer Mediated Communication 260 A list of information sources and computer mediated communication sites on the Internet. Directory of Ejournals 263 How and where to obtain the RDirectory of Electronic Journals and NewslettersS Internet Access for Individuals 264 Contacts for individuals wishing to gain access to the Internet privately. Gutenberg Electronic Books Project 266 List of electronic books available and information on the Gutenberg project. HYTELNET 268 HYTELNET, a utility which gives instant-access to all Internet accessible library catalogs, FREE-NETS, CWISs, BBSs, Gophers, WAIS, etc. Invitation to Join LabNet Invitation to Join LabNet "The greatest benefit of LabNet to me has been the feeling of confidence and a feeling of belonging to the science teaching community." A LabNet Teacher LABNET IS ACCEPTING NEW MEMBERS o Are you a high school science teacher interested in a more hands-on, project-based approach in your classroom? o Are you interested in learning to use a telecommunications network for information sharing and conversations with your colleagues across the country? If so, then the LabNet project may be just what you're looking for. By joining the telecommunications LabNetwork on America Online, you will become part of a nationwide effort to promote, expand, and strengthen the community of high school science teachers dedicated to improving their practice. For more information and an application, write to: TERC Attn: LabNet 2067 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02140 or Internet: Jill_Carroll@TERC.edu America Online JMCarroll LabNet is funded by the National Science Foundation and is administered by TERC, a nationally recognized non-profit research and development organization dedicated to improving science and mathematics education. TERC will help with the cost of telecommunications charges. Chemistry Related Listservs Dr. James L. Pazun provided the name of a server for a list-of-lists (FTP.NISC.SRI.COM (192.33.33.53)). The list is quite long. I have extracted a sublist using chem and biochem as search words. That sublist is appended here. It may not contain all relevant hits. CHMINF-L on LISTSERV@IUBVM.BITNET The Chemical Information Sources list is intended to serve as a discussion medium and information source for any topic related to chemistry and the sources used to find information about chemical compounds. News about existing reference sources, the appearance of new primary, secondary, or tertiary printed or machine-readable sources, pricing and availability, bibliographic instruction--all are fair topics for distribution as long as they have some link to chemistry. To subscribe, send mail or a message to LISTSERV@IUBVM.BITNET which contains the following command in the body: SUBSCRIBE CHMINF-L yourfirstname yourlastname Owner: Gary Wiggins WIGGINS@IUBACS.BITNET or WIGGINS@UCS.INDIANA.EDU Chemistry@osc.edu The Computational Chemistry List is maintained by Ohio Supercomputer Center. This list is not restricted to particular computational chemistry software or methodology. Examples of topics discussed include: quantum chemistry, molecular mechanics/dynamics, molecular modeling, molecular graphics, etc. To subscribe to the list, send a short note stating your name, affiliation and e-mail address to: CHEMISTRY-REQUEST@oscsunb.osc.edu or JKL@OHSTPY.BITNET. To get more information about the list (rules for posting, accessing archives, etc.) send the following one-line message to OSCPOST@oscsunb.osc.edu or OSCPOST@OHSTPY.BITNET send help from chemistry The information will be automatically forwarded to you via e-mail. Owner: Mr. Jan Labanowski Ohio Supercomputer Center E-mail: jkl@osc.edu 1224 Kinnear Rd JKL@OHSTPY.BITNET Columbus, OH 43212-1163, USA Phone: 614-292-9279 FAX: 614-292-7168 FORENS-L@FAUVAX.BITNET (BITNET) or FORENS-L@ACC.FAU.EDU (Internet) Forens-L is an unmoderated discussion list dealing with forensic aspects of anthropology, biology, chemistry, odontology, pathology, psychology, serology, toxicology, criminalistics, and expert witnessing and presentation of evidence in court. Membership to this discussion list is open free of charge to all interested individuals or organizations. To subscribe, send mail to FORENS-REQUEST@ACC.FAU.EDU (BITNET-restricted users send to FORENS-REQUEST@FAUVAX) with this request in the message body: SUBSCRIBE FORENS-L Your Real Name To post a message, send it to: FORENS-L@ACC.FAU.EDU or FORENS-L@FAUVAX All questions, requests for information, etc., should be sent to the List Owners. Technical issues should be addressed to the List Manager. List Owners: M. Yasar Iscan (Iscan@acc.fau.edu, Iscan@FauVax) Ronald K. Wright (RKW@MedExam.FtL.FL.US) List Manager: Ralph P Carpenter (Ralpho@acc.fau.edu, Ralpho@FauVax) SAFETY%UVMVM.BITNET@VM1.NODAK.EDU Mailing list for people interested in the various environmental, health and safety issues and problems on college and university campuses. These can include life safety issues (fire protection, trip and fall and other general safety issues), chemical safety issues (waste disposal, laboratory safety, meeting regulations), biological hazards and radiation safety. Both users of hazardous materials and people administering campus safety programs are welcome on the list. BitNet users can subscribe to the list by issuing the following interactive command on CMS: TELL LISTSERV AT UVMVM SUBSCRIBE SAFETY your_name where "your_name" is your real name, not your login Id. Non-CMS BitNet users can join by sending mail to LISTSERV@UVMVM with the command: SUB SAFETY your_name in the TEXT/BODY of the message. Non-BitNet users can join by sending the above command in the text/body of a message to LISTSERV%UVMVM.BITNET@VM1.NODAK.EDU. Coordinator: Dayna Flath ORGCHE-L on LISTSERV%RPICICGE.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Organic Chemistry mailing list. To facilitate the interchange of ideas, information, computer programs, papers, to announce opportunities for doing collaborative efforts (teaching and/or research activities) between specialists in Organic Chemistry and related areas. To subscribe to the list send mail with the following line to LISTSERV%RPICICGE.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU: SUBS ORGCHE-L Your_Real_Name If you do not receive mail confirming your subscription, contact MSMITH%AMHERST.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU and he will add your name to the list. Coordinator: Asuncion Valles Environmental Resources via modem "toll free 800# access" We know that not everyone is on the Internet (yet!), and surprisingly, most government agencies are not accessible via the Internet yet, either. So, we tracked down several good sources related to environmental matters, and present them here for you to use. The NetPower Resource Guide features hundreds of such services available via modem and Internet-accessible, too. This list is largely modem dialup sites available with toll free access. #1 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development BBS Center for Environmental Research Information Peter Preuss, Office Director 26 West Martin Luther King Boulevard Cincinnati, Ohio 45268 Telephone: (513) 569-7272 By Modem: (800) 258-9605; 9,600 bps, 8N1 The ORD BBS is an online, text-searchable database of every one of the more than 16,000 ORD publication produced since 1976. Each citation includes, title, authors, abstract, ordering information, and much more. The ORD BBS offers messages, bulletins of new information, and public domain files. There are five specialty areas: water, regional operations, expert systems, biotechnology, and Quality Assistance/Quality Control. Software, news and information files available. Getting Connected to ORD BBS This is a direct dialup BBS, so use your modem to call the number above. There are no password requirements and there is no cost to use the system. Although the EPA doesn't actually advertise this, there are many software programs available for downloading. This is an extremely interesting BBS, with free software and information that you just won't find elsewhere. #2 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency DRIPSS BBS Drinking Water Information Processing Support System Telephone: (202) 382-7276 (703) 339-0420 By Modem: (800) 229-3737 The purpose of this BBS is to facilitate the exchange of information between various environmental professionals supporting state drinking water programs. You will find information regarding most states. # 3 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency SWICH BBS Office of Solid Waste Management Telephone: (800) 677-9424 By Modem: (301) 585-0204; 2,400 bps, 8N1 Online source of journals, reports, studies, and training materials. Information on solid waste issues, meetings, conferences, source reduction, recycling, composting, training,legislation, special wastes. There is so much topical information on this system, that you have to visit it to believe it. Teachers can use this system in many ways - you won't exhaust it in an entire year. # 4 US Environmental Protection Agency Wastewater Treatment - Small Flows Clearinghouse West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia By Modem: (304) 293-5969 inside West Virginia (800) 544-1936 nationally The information on this BBS concerns wastewater technology and small community wastewater project finance and management. # 5 Virginia State University & USDA The National Biological Impact Assessment Program Virginia Polytechnic Institute Blacksburg, Virginia Voice: (703) 231-3747 By Modem: (800) 624-2723 national access (703) 231-3858; 2,400 bps, 8N1 Internet: ftp to ftp.vt.edu retrieve files from pub/user/biotechnology Information on the safe evaluation of the performance of genetically modified organisms in the environment. Agricultural/environmental bio-technology. National toll-free access with remote connections to provide access to news, and numerous databases; messaging system online. Monthly news report on national and international biotech developments. Research news is also posted about biological control agents for crops and gardens. More details by logging on to the ALF bulletin board. There is no charge for the system, but callers using the toll-free line are limited to thirty minutes per call, one call per day. # 6 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Pollution Prevention Division PPIC-PIES, Pollution Prevention Info Exchange Office of Environmental Engineering MC 7409 401 M Street, SW Washington DC 20460 Telephone: (202) 260-3557 (Beth Anderson) By Modem: (703) 506-1025 (800) special permission required Provides access to pollution prevention information, technical experts, calendar of events, case studies, program summaries, documents. A tremendous amount of information, searchable by key words. Access is free. State agencies, and perhaps schools, may use a special toll free number to access the system. For approval to use the 800 number, call Rob McCurdy (703)-821- 4670, Technical Assistance Division, or leave a message for the sysop online. In the Classroom Callers to these online databases will find a great deal of information, but little in the way of classroom-type projects. Teachers may find that a good way to utilize these services is to post a message in re a class project or problem, or request for additional information and ask for an expert to volunteer to become a mentor-tutor to the class. Don't expect a volunter devote in hours of time, but you will find that many of the other users on these systems are experts in their field, and will gladly answer a few questions, review a proposed project and give pointers. Network-Accessible Chemistry Resources Summarized on Gopher As part of the InterNIC (Internet Network Information Center) project, the first list of chemistry-related resources accessible via the Internet has been posted on Gopher. This list includes ftp sites, mailing lists, email contacts, etc. The InterNIC chemistry database is located in the Chemistry section of the Gopher hierarchy: Remote Gopher Resources via Univ. of Minnesota Internet file server (ftp) sites InterNIC: Internet Network Information Center InterNIC Information Services (General Atomics) Internet Information for Everybody Things to Do on the Internet Chemistry Comments are welcome, as is information on other ftp sites, mailing lists, or other network-accessible chemistry-related resources. Please forward all replies to Nick Nystrom at nystrom@psc.edu. Nicholas A. Nystrom, Ph.D. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center InterNIC Field Specialist in Chemistry nystrom@psc.edu EnviroGopher The EnviroLink Network is proud to announce the opening of EnviroGopher, the environmental information gopher server. EnviroGopher contains archives of the EnviroLink Networks, as well as a compilation of many other on- and off-line information. EnviroGopher presents this information in a simple and easy format that is self-explanatory. Try it out, experiment with it, let us know what you think. Remember that this is still in development stage, so there will be many more nifty features added in the future. There are several ways in which to access EnviroGopher: Telnet to EnviroGopher ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ type "telnet envirolink.hss.cmu.edu" username: gopher password: envirolink ****WARNING: The Gopher Application will be started immediately, this release has several bugs that we are trying to work out. There will be changes in the near future to this form of access. >>>see the bottom of this message for other gopher servers that you can log in to, and then switch to EnviroGopher<<< The Gopher Application -- Get it for your computer!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ There are many different types of Gopher Applications, they are usually a lot easier to use than logging in directly to the server. Experiment with them and see which one you like the best. Step 1: If you are on a workstation, type "gopher envirolink.hss.cmu.edu" (if this doesn't work, then you have to access the Gopher through other means, i.e. telnet or by getting the application through step 2) Step 2: If you are on a PC of any sort, there is a compatible application for you that is available by anonymous FTP from: boombox.micro.umn.edu in the /pub/gopher directory. >>Once You Have the Application or Are on Your Own Gopher Server<< Almost every Gopher server has a directory that says, "Exploring Other Gopher Servers" Choose this directory and then look under "North America" and then "General" under the gopher name: EnviroGopher. Choose this and you are in! Other Gopher and Information Servers North America General Envirogopher EcoGopher In preparation for the offical premiere of EcoGopher during Earth Week '93, EcoGopher is going public for suggestions, comments, and most especially CONTRIBUTIONS. EcoGopher is a new information service located at the University of Virginia devoted to the collection and dissemination of environmental information. From what's happening in Central Virginia to the latest information hot off the Internet mailing lists, this Gopher server has been designed with easy access as its top priority. Got information you're keeping on an FTP site? Worried that FTP is too complicated for novice net users? EcoGopher is the answer. By providing information at the touch of a few keys, this Gopher server makes information access fantastically easy. Is there room for YOUR information? Most certainly. We want to make this a service for information providers as well as information seekers. Under some circumstances, we can even set up an automatic e-mail filter which takes your information and puts it directly into EcoGopher! How to use Gopher: 1) Look under 'virginia' in the list of US servers at U.Minn. We're right there! 2) If you don't even know what Gopher is: Open a telnet session to 'ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu'. Login as 'gopher'. 3) If you can't telnet anywhere: Set your modem to N-8-1 and call (804)924-0577. At the prompt type "connect ecosys.drdr" Login as 'gopher'. We hope to hear from lots of you soon! The EcoGopher Development Team Division of Recoverable and Disposable Resources University of Virginia gopher@ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu The HyperChem Project: General Chemistry Tutorials This is a set of 14 stand-alone computer tutorials on general chemistry concepts, developed by Don Peterson at U.C. San Diego with NSF and Dreyfus Foundation support. Each includes a self test and an index to look up certain keywords. All are available by anonymous FTP from archive.umich.edu in the path /mac/misc/chemistry. Atomic Structure 1 Electromagnetic Radiation, Atomic Spectra, Bohr Model Part one of two related but standalone tutorials. Atomic Structure 2 Orbital Types, Orbital Energy, Orbital Filling, Electronic Configuration. Part two of two related but standalone tutorials. The Periodic Table Organization, Major Trends, Trends in Chemistry. Mole Concept What a mole is, why to use it, Molecular Mas, Formula Mass, Mole Calculations. Stoichiometry Part 1 Chemical Formulas, Percent Composition, Formula from Percent Composition, Molecular Formula. Part one of two. Stoichiometry Part 2 Chemical Equations, Calculated Yields, Limiting Reagent, Observed Yield. Part two of two. Acid & Bases Part 1 Basic Concepts, pH, Strong Acids and Bases, Weak Acids and Bases. Part one of two related but standalone tutorials. Acid & Bases Part 2 Neutralization, Titration, pH of Salts, Buffers. Part two of two related but standalone tutorials. Chemical Equilibrium Equilibrium State, LeChatelier's Principle, calculating equilibriums, Heterogenous Equilibriums. Chemical Kinetics Basic concepts, rate laws, temperature, and catalysis. Quite graphical. The Gaseous State States of Matter, Ideal Gas, Using the Ideal Gas Law, Calculating Molar Mass, and Dalton's Law. Kinetic Theory Basic Principles, Major Conclusions, Speed Distribution, Graham's Law. Oxidation and Reduction Basic Concepts, Oxidation Number, Balancing Equations. Thermochemistry Energy/First Law, Heat and Work, Heat of Reaction, Hess's Law, Heat of Formation. PHYSSHARE We are running a pilot project in networking at Penn State through the ITEC (Information Technology Education for the Commonwealt) Center and the Center for Academic Computing. We are working with high school physics teachers at this time and will offer training in telecomputing and using the network in the near future. We are calling the project PHYSHARE. The following is a brief announcement. I can provide more detailed information on request. PHYSHARE has been organized to promote the shareing of resources by high school physics teachers. The objective is to create a framework where physics teachers can use the network to attack complex or time consuming problems by having each make a small contribution to the total effort. The first project is the creation of a test question database for the physical sciences. Teachers are submitting copies of tests containing questions they have created (no copyrighted material please). The ITEC Center at Penn State is classifying these questions and typing them into files based on the classificaiton. The files will be available as e-mail distributed by PHYSHARE. The ITEC Center has developed a BASIC program in Applesoft BASIC which will assemble tests from these files. The program is at the alpha test stage. As it is refined, it will be ported to MS-DOS. Long range plans include a hypercard version to take advandtage of graphics on the Mac. These resources will be freely distributed with the teachers maitaining the rights to the questions to prevent any commercial exploitation. The list went on line October 31, 1991. To join PHYSHARE send e-mail to listserv@psuvm. You are sending mail to a computer program so you can leave the subject line of the message blank. In the body of the message type: subscribe physhare yourfirstname yourlastname then send the message. Telnet to FEDIX There are several pieces of information on this system and it is very well worth the time (over 1 hour they give you for logon time) that you can spend on it. It will ask you to register and ask your some questions. To get to it, TELNET 192.111.228.1 ( fedix.fie.com ) and logon as fedix . * Federal Education and Research Programs * Used Govt. research equipment * New funding for specific research and educational activities from the Commerce Business Daily, The Federal Register and others. * News and Current Events * Minority Assistance Research and Educational Programs NASA SpaceLink Information Those of you who have not seen the NASA SpaceLink bulletin board I would like to offer a description of this nice resource. There are two ways to read this bulletin board: 1. Direct dial: At the appropriate prompt of you communication package type in the phone number: 1-205-895-0028. 2. Use telnet: At the UNIX prompt of your computer type in: Telnet 192.149.89.61 or Telnet spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov At the first screen read and follow the instructions carefully. The system is menu driven and the main menu looks like this: 1. Log Off NASA Spacelink 2. NASA Spacelink Overview 3. Current NASA News 4. Aeronautics 5. Space Exploration: Before the Shuttle 6. Space Exploration: The Shuttle and Beyond 7. NASA and its Centers 8. NASA Educational Services 9. Classroom Materials 10. Space Program Spinoffs/Technology Transfer 11. International Space Year (ISY) Enter an option number, 'G' for GO TO, ? for HELP, or press RETURN to redisplay previous menu... Choosing 9. for classroom materials you will see options such as: Classroom Materials 0. Previous Menu 1. Main Menu 2. Living In Space Activities 3. Space Science Activities 4. Commercially Available Software for Aerospace Education 5. How to Obtain NASA Educational Publications 6. Astronomy Information 7. Very Lo-Res "Graphics" 8. Film/Video List 9. Careers in Aerospace 10. NASA Educational Fact Sheets 11. Computer Programs & Graphics 12. Key Dates (by Ralph Winrich) 13. Materials from Outside Organizations 14. 1990-1991 High School Debate Topic Information 15. Liftoff to Learning Series--Educational Videotapes 16. Miscellaneous Aeronautics Classroom Activities 17. Using Art to Teach Science Enter an option number, 'G' for GO TO, ? for HELP, or press RETURN to redisplay previous menu... Select living in space. Living in Space 0..Previous Menu 1..Main Menu 2..Food Lesson Plans 3..Clothing Lesson Plans 4..Health Lesson Plans 5..Housing Lesson Plans 6..Communication Lesson Plans 7..Working Lesson Plans 8..Space Station Research & Design, 7-12 9.."Down on the Moon" Activity Enter an option number, 'G' for GO TO, ? for HELP, or press RETURN to redisplay previous menu... Living in Space Food Lesson Plans 0..Previous Menu 1..Main Menu 2..Background, 1-3 3..Background, 4-6 4..Background, 7-12 5..Grades 1-3 6..Grades 4-6 7..Grades 7-8 8..Grades 9-12 Enter an option number, 'G' for GO TO, ? for HELP, or press RETURN to redisplay previous menu... There are nice science activities you can choose to do with your classes to learn more about food. Some description of kitchen equipment such as ovens is also available here. There is tons of other interesting information you may want to check out ! LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE The Lunar and Planetary Institute's databases are available on the Internet. The LPI Center for Information and Research Services provides resources on geology, geophysics, astrmomy and astrophysics. Support services are provided for other departments, such as publications, and computer. Materials on these topics are available. The files may be accessed at lpi.jsc.nasa.gov. Login as lpi. No password is required. The available files are: + Journals - A catalog of our journal holdings. + New Arrivals - A file of our latest arrivals of books, documents and journals. + Book Catalog - A catalog of our monograph and monographic series holdings. A limited number of thesie and documents which have been cataloged are included. + Map Catalog - A start on cataloging our map collection. About 500 planetary maps are covered, most issued by NASA or the U.S.G.S. A retrospective conversion is in process. + Lunar and Planetary Bibliography - A bibliography covering planetary literature from 1980-. Earlier years will be added. All items in the bibliography are at the LPI. + Index to the Benchmarks in Geology Series - Our holdings are indexed. We do not have a complete set. The volume numbers missing are 20, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 45, 46, 61, 63, 65-70, 72-83, 85-87. If any one owning these numberss would send a photocopy of the table of contents, or even better donate a copy ;-) these will be added as time permits. + Requests - This allows a user to enter a request for materials via e-mail. If possible we ask users to place an inter library loan request with their library. The system is menu driven. Inmagic, with the Search Magic front end, and 1032 are the data base managers used. For comments and questions contact: David Bigwood bigwood@lpi.jsc.nasa.gov LUNAR & PLANETARY INSTITUTE 3600 BAY AREA BLVD HOUSTON TX 77058-1113 SPACE AND SCIENCE RELATED NETWORK RESOURCES Science Teachers Resources STIS telnet stis.nsf.gov or 128.150.195.40 offers: Science & Technology Information System (Login: public) Oceanic Info Center telnet delocn.udel.edu or telnet 128.175.24.1 (Login: public) Lunar/Planet. Instit. telnet lpi.jsc.nasa.gov or telnet 192.101.147.11 offers: resources on Geology, Geophys, Astron., Astrophys. (Login: lpi) Other Resources MAILING LISTS SPACE Digest is the main Internet list. Email space-request+@andrew.cmu.edu to join. SPACE Magazine is an Internet list containing a distillation of interesting material from SPACE Digest which may be of interest to readers tiring of the signal-to-noise level in the digest. Email space-mag-request+@andrew.cmu.edu to join. Space-investors is a list for information relevant to investing in space- related companies. Email Vincent Cate (vac@cs.cmu.edu) to join. Space-tech is a list for more technical discussion of space topics; discussion has included esoteric propulsion technologies, asteroid capture, starflight, orbital debris removal, etc. Email to space-tech-request@cs.cmu.edu to join. Archives of old digests and selected excerpts are available by anonymous FTP from daisy.learning.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.218.26) in /usr/anon/public/space-tech, or by email to space-tech-request if you don't have FTP access. SEDS-L is a BITNET list for members of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and other interested parties. Email LISTSERV@TAMVM1.BITNET with a message saying "SUBSCRIBE SEDS-L your name". Email saying "INDEX SEDS-L" to list the archive contents. SEDSNEWS is a BITNET list for news items, press releases, shuttle status reports, and the like. This duplicates material which is also found in Space Digest, sci.space, sci.space.shuttle, and sci.astro. Email LISTSERV@TAMVM1.BITNET saying "SUBSCRIBE SEDSNEWS your name" to join. Email saying "INDEX SEDSNEWS" to list the archive contents. As a general note, please mail to the *request* address to get off a mailing list. SPACE Digest, for example, relays many inappropriate 'please remove me from this list' messages which are sent to the list address rather than the request address. PERIODICALLY UPDATED INFORMATION In addition to this FAQ list, a broad variety of topical information is posted to the net (unless otherwise noted, in the new group sci.space.news created for this purpose). Please remember that the individuals posting this information are performing a service for all net readers, and don't take up their time with frivolous requests. ACRONYMS Garrett Wollman (wollman@UVM.EDU) posts an acronym list around the first of each month. AVIATION WEEK Henry Spencer (henry@zoo.toronto.edu) posts summaries of space-related stories in the weekly _Aviation Week and Space Technology_. BUYING TELESCOPES Ronnie Kon (ronnie@cisco.com) posts a guide to buying telescopes to sci.astro. ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF THE ASA Don Barry (don@chara.gsu.edu) posts the monthly Electronic Journal of the Astronomical Society of the Atlantic to sci.astro. ESA BULLETIN Harm Munk (munk@prl.philips.nl) posts summaries of articles in the quarterly _ESA Bulletin_ and the _ESA Journal_. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL Swaraj Jeyasingh (sjeyasin@axion.bt.co.uk) posts summaries of space- related news from _Flight International_. This focuses more on non-US space activities than Aviation Week. LARGE ASTRONOMICAL PROJECTS Robert Bunge (rbunge@access.digex.com) posts a list describing many "Large Telescope Projects Either Being Considered or in the Works" to sci.astro. NASA HEADLINE NEWS & SHUTTLE REPORTS Peter Yee (yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov) posts a variety of NASA material, including NASA Headline News (with the schedule for NASA SELECT), shuttle payload briefings and flight manifests, and KSC shuttle status reports. For Usenet users, much of this material appears in the group sci.space.shuttle. NASA UPDATES Ron Baalke (baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov) posts frequent updates from JPL, Ames, and other centers on the Ulysses, Gailileo, Pioneer, Magellan, Landsat, and other missions. The updates posted by Ron and Peter are also available on a mailing list. Contact either one to be added to this list. ORBITAL ELEMENT SETS TS Kelso (tkelso@blackbird.afit.af.mil) posts orbital elements from NASA Prediction Bulletins. Mike Rose (mrose@stsci.edu) posts orbital elements for the Hubble Space Telescope to sci.astro. Jost Jahn (j.jahn@abbs.hanse.de) posts ephemerides for asteroids, comets, conjunctions, and encounters to sci.astro. SATELLITE LAUNCHES Richard Langley (lang@unb.ca) posts SPACEWARN Bulletin, which describes recent launch/orbital decay information and satellites which are useful for scientific activities. Recent bulletins are available by anonymous FTP from nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov in ANON_DIR:[000000.ACTIVE.SPX]. SOLAR ACTIVITY Cary Oler (oler@hg.uleth.ca) posts Solar Terrestrial reports (describing solar activity and its effect on the Earth) to sci.space. The report is issued in part from data released by the Space Enviroment Services Center, Boulder Colorado. The intro document needed to understand these reports is available by anonymous FTP from solar.stanford.edu (36.10.0.4) in pub/understanding_solar_terrestrial_reports. nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) /pub/misc/rec.radio.shortwave/solarreports and is an archive site for the reports (please note this site is in Europe, and the connection to the US is only 56KB). A new primary archive site, xi.uleth.ca (142.66.3.29), has recently been established and will be actively supported. SOVIET SPACE ACTIVITIES Glenn Chapman (glennc@cs.sfu.cad) posts summaries of Soviet space activities. SPACE ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER Allen Sherzer (aws@iti.org) posts a newsletter, "One Small Step for a Space Activist," to talk.politics.space. It describes current legislative activity affecting NASA and commercial space activities. SPACE NEWS John Magliacane (kd2bd@ka2qhd.UUCP) posts "SpaceNews" (covering AMSATs, NOAA and other weather satellites, and other ham information) to rec.radio.amateur.misc and sci.space. SPACE REPORT Jonathan McDowell (mcdowell@xanth.msfc.nasa.gov) posts "Jonathan's Space Report" (covering launches, landings, reentries, status reports, satellite activities, etc.) Despite the address, this is not in any way an official NASA document. TOWARD 2001 Bev Freed (freed@nss.fidonet.org) posts "Toward 2001", a weekly global news summary reprinted from _Space Calendar_ magazine. SAIS-L on LISTSERV@UNB.ca Science Awareness and Promotion The SAIS List was formed in hopes of creating a forum for exchanging innovative ideas about making science more appealing to students. Science has brought to humankind better health, improved communication, better transportation and other advancements that raise the standard of living. It is imperative that students see the potentialities of science, whether harmful or beneficial, in order to judge how best to use science in their own lives and in the best interests of society. It was for this reason that SAIS-L was formed. All topics pertaining to science are welcome. Archives of SAIS-L and related files are stored in the SAIS-L FILELIST. To receive a list of files, send the command INDEX SAIS-L to LISTSERV@UNB.ca. To subscribe to SAIS-L, send the following command to LISTSERV@UNB.ca (LISTSERV@UNBVM1.BITNET) via mail text or interactive message: SUBscribe SAIS-L Yourfirstname Yourlastname For example: SUB SAIS-L Joe Smith Owner: Keith W. Wilson POSTED BY: Craig Coates n043gn@tamvm1.tamu.edu NCDC weather data NCDC now has on-line data and metadata access using Internet. The service is available February 1st, 1992. Access is by Internet at 192.67.134.72 or HURRICANE.NCDC.NOAA.GOV The Login is: STORM and the Password :RESEARCH Please feel free to use the system and leave comments and suggestions about the system. Meteorological data from NCDC ********** NCDC ON-LINE SYSTEM UPDATE ********** NCDC has recently expanded its on-line data and metadata access through Internet. Profiler data and the software routines necessary to decode the data are on-line in near realtime (within 1 1/2 hours of observation time). NCDC has recently placed surface hourly observations on-line for over 700 stations nationwide in a near realtime mode. The data are available for the month of January 1992. Software is also avilable to decode the data. Access and downloading are currently available to you without charge by using Internet. Please use the address 192.67.134.72 or HURRICANE.NCDC.NOAA.GOV The Login is : STORM and the password is : RESEARCH . Please feel free to use the system and leave comments and suggestions on your needs and ideas to make the system better........ ***** NCDC ON-LINE METADATA/DATA SYSTEM UPDATE ***** NCDC has expanded its' on line data and metadata access through INTERNET. Using the on-line data access system developed by the joint efforts of NCDC, Forecast Systems Lab (FSL) and the STORM Project Office, profiler data from the Wind Profiler Demonstration Network and surface airways observations from NMC are on-line. The software routines needed to decode the data are part of the on-line package. Surface hourly observations for over 700 stations nationwide are available through mid February 1992. Please note in the table below the length of time the data will be available on-line. Access and downloading are currently available to you without charge by using INTERNET. Please use the address 192.67.134.72 or hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov The Login is : storm and the password is : research . Please feel free to browse the system, download profiler and/or surface data, and leave comments or suggestions on your needs and ideas to make the system better........ ARCHIVAL PERIOD FOR ON-LINE ACCESS PROFILER SURFACE OBSERVATIONS WINDS-60 31 DAYS SURFACE DATA 31 DAYS SURFACE-60 31 DAYS MOMENTS-60 07 DAYS MOMENTS-06 07 DAYS NOTE : After these archive dates data are available for off-line access only. GREAT LAKES INFO on-line! Archive-name: auto/alt.great-lakes/GREAT-LAKES-INFO-on-line THE GREAT LAKES INFORMATION SERVICE is now available for ftp! Fact Sheets about various Great Lakes topics and issues, along with two years worth of new stories from the Great Lakes Reporter, can be found via anonymous ftp at nic.cic.net, in the subdirectory /pub/great-lakes/cgl (where you'll find a readme.txt file which explains and lists what's available in what subdirectory). Topics covered by Fact Sheets include Great Lakes water diversion, water quality, waterfront development, pollution prevention, regional and international agreements such as the Great Lakes Water QUality Agreement, and the effects of global warming on the Lakes. The Great Lakes Reporter, a regional newsmagazine published by The Center for the Great Lakes, covers news, trends, and issues relating the environment of the Great Lakes ecosystem and the economy of the region, especially when they interact. You will find every major story that ahs appeared in the Reporter since the start of 1990, listed by subject area with headlines for easy access and searching. Typical topics include coverage of the historic regional public meetings held in Traverse City in October 1991; trends in various key economic sectors around the Lakes; analysis of current water quality planning and activities by governments, industry and citizen's groups around the region; waterfront development aroound the Lakes; "invader" species such as the zebra mussel; the state and future of the Great Lakes' fishery; the status of proposals to divert Great Lakes water, and so forth. The Reporter is a part of the Great Lakes Information Service, a public service of The Center for the Great Lakes. This ftp access is the first step in a long-range plan to put the Information Service "on-line"; more Fact Sheets on more topics will be added, Reporter stories will be continuously added as they are published, and existing Fact Sheets are periodically updated by Center researchers. For more information, or to receive this material by U.S. Mail, send email to prb@chinet.chi.il.us. The Information Service also responds to requests for information from researchers, inlcuding searches of our library, and picking the brains of our brilliant, experienced and modest staff. Call 312-263-0785 and ask for Paul Botts or Noah Eiger; be sure and tell us where you heard of us, so we know whether this method of making the service known is working! Weather and research data available via Internet, CD-ROM, and tape. Archive-name: weather-data Last-modified: 8 August 1992 Recent changes: Addition of marlin.jcu.edu.au ftp site (Australian satellite data) Change of email contact address for NWS/NOHRSC snow data CD-ROM Change of name of ftp site gator.netcom.com to snow.nohrsc.nws.gov Addition of cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk ftp site (European satellite data!) Addition of blurbs which give the portions of the globe covered by the satellite data and analyses from the FTP areas. Addition of price and other information to the Climate Change Data CD-ROM Change of separators to accomodate some newsreaders -- Addition of uriacc.uri.edu ftp site Addition of soundings to STORM-FEST info This is a guide to various sources of meteorological, oceanographic, and geophysical data. Some of these data types are intended for enjoyment or hobbyist use; other data are more research-oriented. Much of the research data is not free. More information on geological/geographical data can be found in the FAQ for sci.geo.geology, or see the file available via FTP from csn.org. This guide is divided into four sections. The first discusses data available over the Internet (using FTP or telnet). The second section lists some CD-ROMS that are available from various sources. The third gives addresses for sources of research data on tape. The fourth describes some mailing lists which may be of interest. This guide is posted every two weeks; a copy can be obtained by anonymous FTP to pit-manager.mit.edu, from the file weather-data in the directory /pub/usenet/news.answers. Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Ilana Stern at ilana@ncar.ucar.edu. ################################## Data available via the network To access the FTP areas listed here, use "anonymous" as the login and your email address as the password (if requested). If you need help with FTP, see your sysadmin. [Note: quotes ("like this") are used to set off names of directories and files, and are not part of these names.] ==Current weather GIFs via FTP== vmd.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.98] FTP: Change directory to "wx" and set transfer type to "binary". GOES-7 visible and IR imagery over the US and Mexico, and surface analyses over the US, are available. A script to retrieve GIFs automatically is available from the ncardata FTP area (see below). Also available in this directory are SPOTFREQ.DOC and CHASE-TV.DOC, lists of ham radio frequencies and TV stations which carry useful info for storm chasers, and a few other useful documents. uriacc.uri.edu [131.128.1.1] FTP: Change directory to "davet.195" and set transfer type to "binary". Images of the northeast US in GIF format from the afternoon passes of NOAA-11. (Provided by Dave Tetreault, DAVET@uriacc.uri.edu.) unidata.ucar.edu [128.117.140.3] FTP: Change directory to "images" and set transfer type to "binary". Weather radar summary map GIFS, surface maps for various places, a few soundings on skew-t log-p diagrams, GOES Hugo images (in subdirectory "images/hugo"). Surface maps include Europe and China. cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk FTP: Change directory to "images" and set transfer type to "binary". IR and visibal images of Europe from Meteosat, twice daily, in 1152 x 900 GIF format (size of Sun root window). The subdirectory "gifs" has smaller 3x daily images of the Nordic areas, the UK, and Europe. marlin.jcu.edu.au [137.219.16.14] FTP: GMS-4 images updated regularly for various Australian states, the entire country, and for regions/events of interest such as TOGA/COARE. The images are in a format designed for the package JCUMetSat but can be converted to GIF format using the ALCHEMY public domain software available at this site. aurelie.soest.hawaii.edu [128.171.151.121] FTP: Sea-Surface-Temperature data (near-real-time) in "pub/avhrr/images". AVHRR images within the radius of reception of the university's HRPT station, approximately 5 S to 45 N and 125 W to 165 E. The processed images are available usually within 30 min. of NOAA-11 and NOAA-12 passages. Data are compressed binary in netCDF format (get documentation from unidata.ucar.edu, above) labelled by satellite name (n11/n12) and time. More info available from hrpt@hokulea.soest.hawaii.edu. ==Current weather data via telnet== madlab.sprl.umich.edu 3000 [141.212.196.79] Telnet: include the "3000". Menu driven. hermes.merit.edu [35.1.48.150] Telnet: type um-weather at the "Which Host?" prompt and use menus. (Connects to madlab.sprl.umich.edu) ==Meteorological, oceanographic, and geophysical research data== ncardata.ucar.edu [128.117.8.111] FTP: contains information on datasets available from NCAR (the National Center for Atmospheric Research, address in section 3) , not actual data. If you would like to order data after browsing this information, email to datahelp@ncar.ucar.edu. Small datasets can be provided by FTP; we also write various kinds of tapes. See the README file, and the information in section 3 of this posting. A shell archive containing scripts to retrieve GIFs from vmd.cso.uiuc.edu, get_gifs, is located in the "weather" subdirectory. This subdirectory also contains Colorado weather and ski reports. A few special datasets are located in the FTP area, and are free. They are described in the file "pricing". cdiac.esd.ornl.gov [128.219.24.36] (formerly suns01.esd.ornl.gov) FTP: contains data and information on general and technical aspects of carbon dioxide, methane, and other trace gas emissions; the carbon cycle; and other climate-change topics from CDIAC (the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, address in section 3). The data for CDIAC's "Trends 91: A Compendium of Data on Global Change" is also available here. (Contact CDIAC to obtain a copy of the book.) pioneer.unm.edu [129.24.9.217] FTP: change directory to "pub/info" and retrieve beginner-info, cd-list, newcd-list, and cd-schedule to get started. This machine is part of the Space and Planetary Image Facility (SPIF), sponsored by the Computer and Information Resource Technology group at UNM; it currently has 3 CD readers and expects to add more. You can use this machine to FTP data and software from a variety of CD-ROMs, including both research data and images. There is no charge for this service. Contact help@pioneer.unm.edu for more information. ==STORM-FEST data== storm.mmm.ucar.edu [128.117.88.53] FTP: contains hourly and 5-minute composite surface observations, and composite rawinsonde soundings, from STORM-FEST, in the directories "/fest/hrly_sfc", "fest/5min_sfc", and "/fest/sounding", respectively. There is one file per day. The data are in ASCII. This data is a preliminary release. This FTP system will eventually be replaced by a different data access system, although the data will still be available via the new system. (Info from Mark Bradford, bradfrd2@ncar.ucar.edu) ==Digital photos of earth from space== sseop.jsc.nasa.gov [146.154.11.34] FTP: many pictures taken from the space shuttle. Files are in a 512x512 format as red, green, and blue bitmaps. Image files are binary format, and have .DAT as an extension. ames.arc.nasa.gov FTP: change directory to "SPACE/CDROM". Images from Magellan and Viking missions, other stuff. Also see pioneer.unm.edu site in "Research Data" section. ==AVHRR satellite images of USA== sanddunes.scd.ucar.edu Telnet: contact Tim Kelley by email kelley@sanddunes.scd.ucar.edu or telephone 303/497-1221 for login, password, and manual. Service is free to Internet users and is funded by NASA. AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) images from 1989 through 7 Jan 1992 cover CO, WY, KS, NE, and NM, as well as parts of AZ, UT, OK, and TX. Since 7 Jan 1992, coverage includes these plus CA, OR, NV, WA, and MT, to 1000 km off Pacific coast. Total coverage of US for 1989-present will be available soon. West coast data from 1980-1985 will be available some time this year. Images are 1024 lines x 1024 elements before 7 Jan 1992, 2560 lines x 1024 elements after. Images are 1 km resolution and 8-bit format. ==Snow cover maps of US from GOES== snow.nohrsc.nws.gov [192.46.108.1] FTP: change directory to "snow". Various snow-related images in GIF form. US snow cover map updated weekly. JPEG of current AVHRR images. Contact tim@snow.nohrsc.nws.gov (Tim Szeliga) for more info. (Formerly gator.netcom.com, 192.100.81.102) ==Map data== spectrum.xerox.com [192.70.225.78]FTP: various USGS data in subdirectories under the directory "pub/map". hanauma.stanford.edu [36.51.0.16] FTP: the CIA World Bank database contains coastlines, rivers and political boundaries. An 0.5 degree elevation dataset is also there. A program for decoding the CIA data can be found as "mfil" on pi1.arc.umn.edu [137.66.130.11] (Info from ken@msc.edu) Also see pioneer.unm.edu site in "Research Data" section. ==Other resource information== csn.org [128.138.213.21] FTP: a large, frequently updated file containing detailed information on FTP sites, Bitnet and Usenet discussion groups, and data sources is located in the file "internet.resources.earth.sci" in the directory "COGS". This file contains more information on mapping, GIS, remote sensing, and geology, subjects which are mostly outside the scope of this meteorology- oriented FAQ. Mapping software and datasets are also available in this directory. Contact bthoen@csn.org (Bill Thoen) for more information. Mailing lists ==CLIMLIST (moderated by John Arnfield)== CLIMLIST is a moderated electronic mail distribution list for climat- ologists and those working in closely-related fields. It is used to disseminate notices regarding conferences and workshops, data avail- ability, calls for papers, positions available etc, as well as requests for information. An updated directory of email addresses for the subscribers to the list is distributed every month (usually on the 15th). To subscribe, mail to whichever of these addresses works for you: AJA+@OHSTMAIL.BITNET / aja+@osu.edu / johna@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu with the following information: Your name (for directory listing), email address, institutional affiliation; Indicate if your email address is shared, so your name will be in header of messages. If your 'climatological credentials' are not apparent from your affiliation, please explain. ==Wxsat (administered by Richard B. Emerson)== Wxsat resends all NOAA/NESDIS bulletins on polar and geostationary weather satellites as well as occasional material on Meteosat. Bulletins with orbital predictions, spacecraft operation schedules, and related messages are copied from NOAA.SAT on SCIENCEnet and forwarded to all addresses on the list. The list is configured to accept and broadcast mail from subscribers to the list at large. Wxsat does not store or distribute imagery and is not primarily a "chat" list. Wxsat is oriented towards users with a daily operational need for TBUS and related bulletins. An archive of roughly 60 days' messages are available for retrieval via email messages to wxsat-archive@ssg.com. Send the message "help" in the text to the archive server for details on how to retrieve the current index and other files. Subscription requests go to wxsat-request@ssg.com. The service is free to all Internet users but donations are accepted as this is a volunteer operation. ==Weather-users (administered by scott@zorch.sf-bay.org)== This list is for discussions of weather servers; sharing of code to automatically query weather servers; and announcements of availability (or lack thereof) and changes to weather servers. Initially, Jeff Masters (sdm@madlab.sprl.umich.edu) has agreed to send Weather Underground status notices to this list. To join or quit the list, email to weather-users-request@zorch.sf-bay.org; the list mail address is weather-users@zorch.sf-bay.org. Updates to the Incomplete Guide to the Internet This guide is periodically updated and those updates are made available for anonymous FTP at ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in the education directory. The version there is compressed using stuffit and binhex and is for Macintoshes. Several other formats are made available here at NCSA. Also several people at other sites have made the necessary conversions for formats which we do not support. Please note that there will be a delay when updates are made to the Guide. Other Locations to FTP the Incomplete Guide to the Internet The original document, which is indeed a Mac MS Word document, is available by anonymous ftp from yak.macc.wisc.edu [144.92.30.18], directory pub/misc/docs/ncsa, together with the same document in three additional forms: (a) an rtf document that does not contain the illustrations (there are many). (b) an rtfd document that does contain the illustrations, available in the rtf directory as separate tiff files. (c) a PostScript form, ready to print; it also includes the illustrations. For what it's worth, I have not read the document myself. Various people worked on it and I have merely made their work readily available. There's a README in there that reminds you of the four available forms of the document. I recently found another copy of your documents that seem to be in even better shape on sonata.cc.purdue.edu in /pub/next/submissions: -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 1170 Nov 19 12:05 Incomplete Guide to Internet.README -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 73728 Nov 19 17:24 Incomplete Guide to Internet.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 648778 Nov 19 11:47 Incomplete Guide to Internet.wn Joining the KIDSPHERE mailing list The KIDSPHERE list (originally known as KIDSNET) was established in May, 1989, to stimulate the development of an international computer network for the use of children and their teachers. The first pieces of this network have already begun to take shape, and the mailing list now helps to guide its continuing evolution. Subscribers to the list include teachers, administrators, scientists, developers of software and hardware and officials of relevant funding agencies. Topics of continuing interest include: * networks at the local, regional and national level * news and mail interfaces suitable for children's use * network services for the K-12 audience * development of new network services and projects * collaborative projects at the national and international level * network access for the handicapped Subscription requests may be sent to one of the following addresses: kidsphere-request@vms.cis.pitt.edu [Internet] joinkids@vms.cis.pitt.edu [Internet] joinkids@pittvms [BITNET] A spin-off of the KIDSPHERE list is another list called KIDS, which exists for children to post messages to other children. This second list was established after some children's postings appeared on KIDSPHERE and readers requested that the children's traffic be kept separate. Subscription requests for KIDS can be sent to JOINKIDS at the address given above. Postings to the KIDSPHERE list are accomplished with mailings to the address kidsphere@vms.cis.pitt.edu [Internet] or kidsphere@pittvms [BITNET] Similarly, children may post messages for the KIDS list by sending mail to kids@vms.cis.pitt.edu [Internet] or kids@pittvms [BITNET] Bob Carlitz How to get KIDSNET/KIDSPHERE Back Issues In response to many requests over the last year I have edited previous KIDSNET or KIDSPHERE submissions and made them available for access via anonymous ftp. Subscribers on Internet may access these files as follows ftp vulcan.phyast.pitt.edu user anonymous password your_name@your_site cd pub/kidsnet dir get ... quit Any password is permitted for anonymous ftp, but etiquette suggests that you supply your own electronic mail address. The files have been archived monthly with file names "kidsnet.yymm," where "yy" denotes the year and "mm" the month in which the archived messages were received at KIDSNET. The "dir" command will give you a list of all available files. The "get" command may be used to obtain copies of those archives which you would like to read. Subscribers on BITNET may also access the archive via a mail message to BITFTP@PUCC. The body of your message should include the following commands FTP vulcan.phyast.pitt.edu USER anonymous CD pub/kidsnet DIR GET ... QUIT The BITFTP server will supply the information requested by return mail. The machine vulcan.phyast.pitt.edu is located in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh and is being used only on a temporary basis. Once an appropriate permanent archive machine has been obtained, it will be made available for the storage of other material related to efforts to develop an international network for children and their teachers. Please report problems with the archive to kidsnet administration - joinkids@vms.cis.pitt.edu (Internet) or joinkids@pittvms (BITNET). I have made an effort to record all submissions faithfully, but it is entirely possible that errors have been introduced in the process of editing this information. As these errors are noted I will try to rectify them where possible. Bob Carlitz KidzMail--a List for Elementary Children There is a relatively new Bitnet list called KidzMail located at Arizona State University. Its purpose is to promote 'Kids Exploring Issues and Interests Electonically'. The main participants so far are PACE (gifted) students in the Tempe elementary school district, and the list is primarily intended for that age group, but is also open to anyone else (at present). If you'd like to subscribe to the list, send a note containing the text 'subscribe kidzmail My Name' (use your own name!) to listserv@asuacad.bitnet and you will receive all of the list activity on a regular basis (only a few notes a day, currently). To unsubscribe, you would send a message similar to the one above with 'un' at the beginning. 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To subscribe, send a message to: LISTSERV@saturn.rowan.edu Make the message: subscribe curricul your e-mail address your name Address messages to be posted to: CURRICUL@saturn.rowan.edu Teaching Success Stories Bulletin Board Overview Teaching Success Stories (TSS) is an electronic bulletin board maintained by the University of Missouri - Columbia (MU). TSS provides brief descriptions of successful teaching initiatives -- big and small --across the state and nation. Teachers, professors, and trainers can contribute their success stories to TTS and read about their colleagues' needs and solutions. Access The bulletin board can be accessed by anyone who has a computer, modem, and communications software, or other data communications device. The bulletin board is provided as a public service, free of charge. Users located outside of the Columbia, Missouri area may have long-distance telephone charges; Internet users are not charged. To access TSS follow this general procedure: 1. LogOn to MIZZOU1. 2. At the Ready prompt, type INFORMU. 3. When the INFORMU Menu appears, select option 4 (Faculty & Academic Unit Information). 4. When the next menu appears, select option 5, (Teaching Success Stories). 5. Following the on-screen prompts to review stories of interest. ..................................................................... . CAUTION! CAUTION! CAUTION! You will be in a 'main frame' environment. We are working to make the system more user friendly, but we have a long way to go. Your input will be appreciated (the system programers tell me not to expect major changes, at least not for a while. Organization The TSS bulletin board consists of the the following menu options: 1. Introduction to Teaching Success Stories 2. How to Use the TSS B-Board 3. Elementary School Success Stories 4. Secondary School Success Stories 5. Higher & Adult Education Success Stories 6. Announcements 7. Suggestions and Submissions Items 1, 2, and 6 provide general info, how to navigate, and lists upcoming events. Items 3, 4, and 5 are the success stories. Item 7 provides an opportunity to make suggestions and submit success stories. Each success story includes the following information: -- Title: short, descriptive, like a newspaper story title -- Level: Elementary, Secondary, Higher/Adult -- Subject Area: math, psychology, zoology, etc. -- Contact Person: who to contact for more information -- Background: context of the story -- Success Story: what happened and how -- Success Indicators: what resulted; how was success identified Submissions Any educator is invited to submit a Teaching Success Story. The story can be about anything. The submissions are reviewed using the criteria below: -- Mechanics: Each element of the story (e.g., title, level, contact person) must be included in the submission. -- Length: The Background, Success Story, and Success Indicators sections must total no more than 250 words (including section headings). -- Names: Each story must be submitted by the Contact Person. This person's name will appear with the success story. No other names will be used in the story. (Note: Wording such as "the high school math teacher reported. . ." should be used, not "Ms. Jones reported. . ."). -- Ethics: Stories involving unethical or questionable practices (e.g., giving extra credit in a math class for those students who volunteer to clean- up the gym after a basketball game) will not be posted. However, a group of external reviewers must agree that the story should not be posted. The vast majority of submissions to the Teaching Success Stories Bulletin Board will be posted. How to Submit There are three ways to submit a story. In order of preference, the three ways are: -- Electronically: Send the story via e-mail to: MERLIN@mizzou1.missouri.edu -- On disk: Write the success story using a word processor and send the disk to: Teaching Success Stories c/o John Wedman 327 Townsend Hall University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 -- On paper: Write the success story and mail the paper copy to the address given above More Info? For more information about the Teaching Success Stories Bulletin Board, contact John Wedman in one of the following ways: US Mail: 327 Townsend Hall University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 Phone 314-882-3828 E-mail: wedmanjf@mizzou1.missouri.edu LM_NET: A World-Wide Discussion Group For School Library Media People A World-Wide Discussion Group for School Library Media People (Library Media Network) LM_NET on LISTSERV@SUVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@SUVM.SYR.EDU For all school library media people--a new listserv called LM_NET (library media network) has just been set up to serve the school library media community world-wide. This list is operated by Mike Eisenberg, Syracuse University, AASL, and Peter Milbury, library media specialist, Chico, California, AASL/CMLEA. Conversation on this list will focus on the topics of interest to the school library media community, including the latest on school library media services, operations, and activities. It is a list for practitioners helping practitioners, sharing ideas, solving problems, telling each other about new publications and up-coming conferences, asking for assistance or information, and linking schools through their library media centers. This listserv is open to ALL school library media specialists -worldwide- and people involved with the school library media field. It is not for general librarians or educators. We want to keep the activity and discussion focused on school library media. But, the listserv can be used by library media people for many different things-to ask for input, share ideas and information, link programs that are geographically remote, make contacts, etc. To join, send an email request to either: Peter Milbury: PMILBUR@EIS.CALSTATE.EDU or Mike Eisenberg: MIKE@SUVM.SYR.EDU (MIKE@SUVM.BITNET) It's _important_ to include your full userid/address and your firstname lastname, so that we have you entered properly. For example: "Add to LM_NET JDoe@lmc.mystate.edu name: Jane Doe" [quotes unnecessary] So, please join us on this this new, global, school library media network. Mike Eisenberg and Peter Milbury LM_NET Co-Owners Jericho Project Planning for EUIT's new Jericho Project (originally conceived as Project Delta) continued at the EUIT Preconference Working Session in Baltimore in October. The project's goal is to bring down some of the walls that currently make it difficult for most faculty to learn how to adapt information technologies for their own teaching. We hope to enable faculty members to use information technologies to lower other sets of walls: walls separating potential students from a college education; walls separating students from intellectual resources located in places other than their own campuses; and walls imposed by traditional course designs that prevent students from learning by applying real tools to real problems. Those goals led to naming this effort the "Jericho Project." The Project will develop a nationwide information distribution and sharing system to enable faculty members to use information technologies to improve the quality, accessibility and cost-effectiveness of education. Participating faculty members will be supported in taking the next steps in moving beyond their current levels of skills and knowledge in using technologies to help students learn. The Jericho Project structure consists of target areas, a peer review selection process, Jericho resources, and the Jericho network. The following were the bases for Baltimore discussion groups: (a) Resource development and peer review screening processes (including initial target areas and resources); (b) Hubs and Hosts (including training for event leaders); (c) Online services (including initial pilot projects and long-term design and structure); (d) Alliance building (disciplinary organizations, corporate partners, consortia, and other educational associations); (e) Marketing and fulfillment; and (f) Roles for publishers (textbook, software, and other). For background information on the Jericho Project, see the October 28th issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, page A21. For a copy of the full concept paper, send mail to listserv@bitnic (BITNET) or listserv@bitnic.educom.edu (Internet) with the following message: GET JERICHO EUIT EDUNEWS For a paper copy, please reply to this message and include your mailing address in your request. To subscribe to the new listserv created to facilitate planning and discussion, send your request to EUITEDIT@BITNIC.EDUCOM.EDU (Internet) or EUITEDIT@BITNIC (BITNET). (Please specify the Jericho listserv in your request.) REPEAT WELCOME: Welcome to EUITNEWS, a listserv for EUIT participants and an experiment in providing short, frequent updates directly to you (by e-mail or fax). EUIT staff will receive your message if you send e-mail to EUITEDIT@BITNIC.EDUCOM.EDU or EUITEDIT@BITNIC. Let us know if you missed previous messages and want copies. Let us know if you have colleagues who also want to receive EUITNEWS. Please allow us two weeks for updating our lists. Announcing the Scholarly Communications FTP Server The Scholarly Communications Project of Virginia Tech with the support of University Libraries would like to announce the establishment of an FTP server for all scholarly electronic journals published at VPI. Titles which were previously available only by subscription to listserv lists include: _The Community Services CATALYST_ _Journal of Technology Education_ _Journal of the International Academy of Hospitality Research_ _The International Journal of Analytical and Experimental Modal Analysis_ Also available at this FTP site are the monthly logs for VPIEJ-L, issues of the electronic version of the _Newsletter of the Visual Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication_, as well as frequently asked questions relevant to electronic publishing and tools for text processing and data compression for various platforms. The server is available 24 hours a day for multiple logins via the Internet. FTP Instructions: ftp borg.lib.vt.edu cd /pub cd / get . About the Scholarly Communications FTP server: The server runs on a NeXTstation Turbo with 24Mb of RAM located at University Libraries, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. James Powell >>> Systems Support and Development, University Libraries, VPI&SU >>> JPOWELL@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU >>> jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu - NeXTMail welcome here >>> Owner of VPIEJ-L, a discussion list for Electronic Journals PUBLIB Public Libraries and the Internet Mailing List PUBLIB@nysernet.org Public Libraries and the Internet PUBLIB, initiated on December 1, 1992, is a new discussion list concerned with use of the Internet in public libraries. Issues to be examined include connectivity, public access to the Internet, user and staff training, resources of interest to public librarians (online, print, video, other), electronic freedoms and responsibilities, new technologies for public library Internet access, National, International, and regional public telecommunications policy and public libraries, and more. To join the list and receive the mailings from PUBLIB: Send a message to LISTSERV@nysernet.org (no subject necessary) saying: subscribe PUBLIB "your full name here" For example: To: LISTSERV@nysernet.org Subject: Message: subscribe PUBLIB Melvil Dewey Please introduce yourself to the list after you receive the welcome message back from the listserv. Co-moderators: John Iliff jiliff@nysernet.org Pinellas Park Public Library 7770 52nd St. Pinellas Park, FL 34665 (813) 541-0719 Fax (813) 541-0818 Jean Armour Polly jpolly@nysernet.org NYSERNet, Inc. 111 College Place Syracuse, NY 13244-4100 (315) 443-4120 Fax (315) 425-7518 Welcome to HILITES. BACKGROUND & PURPOSE The HILITES mailing list was established in the fall of 1991 and is maintained by the FrEdMail Foundation. Currently, support for this service is provided by the California Technology Project. HILITES now has over 200 names and networks. Since September, 1991 we have advertised projects developed and coordinated by teachers (Reflections on WWII, Global Grocery List, American Families, and Near and Far: Literary Journal), by a university (Zero Gravity), by the European School Project (Hare and Hounds), and by the FrEdMail Foundation (Newsday, GeoGame). We also posted summary reports on three exemplary completed projects (Fire!Fire!, Most Livable Places, and TeleScience Fair). Teachers from many networks have participated in these projects. For instance, in our recent GeoGame project, we had participants from tenet.edu, nycenet.edu, atl.calstate.edu, ncsa.uiuc.edu, ritvax.isc.rit.edu, erie%sed.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu, uva386.schools.virginia.edu, alaska.bitnet, tmn.com, and FrEdMail. HILITES is designed to meet some urgent short-term needs of growing networks which serve teachers and students: 1. These networks have many novice teachers coming on-line. They need a rich collection of varied, simple, and useful curriculum-focused activities. 2. Teachers need many different examples of successful project planning, implementation, and evaluation if they are to take the initiative to organize and implement their own project ideas. 3. Many teachers and budding project coordinators need help in project development. Many excellent project ideas languish for lack of skill in "bringing them to market." Teachers need help in refining their ideas, developing a marketable project announcement, and obtaining collaborators from the widest possible pool of potential participants. 4. Busy networks need some form of "noise control." Announcements for exemplary projects must often contend with an ocean of messages asking for pen pals, sister schools, and messages of the "Kilroy was here" genre. Most teachers don't have the time to wade through a large volume of extraneous mail looking for "gems." 5. HILITES will NOT be the place where resources, addresses, lists, bibliographies, references, tips, lesson plans, recipes, or any other data will be posted. Other lists on the Internet are open for this kind of free- wheeling exchange of information. 6. HILITES projects will engage students in collaboration with other clasess in their learning experiences. Students will measure, collect, evaluate, write, read, publish, simulate, hypothesize, compare, debate, examine, investigate, report, and summarize their learning experiences. Much of this will take place via the network as they collect, organize, share, and report. ------- FrEdMail Foundation------- As the primary moderator of HILITES, the FrEdMail Foundation will: 1. Develop a calendar and curriculum matrix for projects appearing on HILITES each semester or each quarter. 2. Screen and post project ideas which meet the established project criteria 4. Work with teachers who have worthy project ideas to develop credible project announcements for posting on HILITES. For example, Joe Quain in the Virgin Islands came up with an interesting geography project idea. The FrEdMail Foundation assisted him in writing a detailed call for collaboration, and within a week he had participating classes from Finland, England, Spain, Estonia, and Texas. How Teachers Can Use HILITES 1. Read HILITES to find credible, worthwhile classroom-based, collaborative learning activities. Since it is moderated, only well-organized and useful projects will be announced here. You will not have to wade through oceans of trivia to find good projects. If your network does not carry a HILITES bulletin board or news topic, ask your system administrator to contact us and set it up for you and your colleagues. If this is not possible, you may subscribe to HILITES directly by sending mail to: hilites@bonita.cerf.fred.org 2. Post your project on HILITES. If you have a project idea and wish to solicit participation from the widest and most interesting audience possible, send your project announcement to HILITES at the FrEdMail Foundation. We will work with you to develop a well-structured call for collaboration and post it on the international HILITES mailing conference. Use the guidelines below to help you begin developing your idea. Send your project ideas and announcements to: arogers@bonita.cerf.fred.org Be sure and leave plenty of lead time prior to your project start date. Use the general format for your call for collaboration that you will find in subsequent HILITES messages. --- How Network Administrators Can Help Ideally, HILITES will carry announcements for on-line curriculum projects FROM each participating network TO each of the others, where it can be posted in the form of a moderated or read-only bbs, group mail, or news forum. Because it is distributed via email, HILITES can be carried by every Internet affiliate with an interest in education. Since many advertised projects rely exclusively on email, teachers on every network will be able to participate. Announcements for projects which require tcp/ip connections will help to build awareness and interest where it is not available (it will build demand for better access.) You can help to build the value of HILITES to your constituent teachers. Here's how: 1. Provide us with one network address for HILITES (some of you have already done so). Your network can post or "explode" or "echo" HILITES mail to all your constituents. This approach will alleviate the need to deal with countless individuals from the same network who want to be added to the list. We currently send multiple copies of HILITES messages to several networks. We want to reduce that to one message. 2. Delegate a "curriculum" person on your network to work with us in refining this approach to network collaboration, and who will also select and post on HILITES projects originating within your network which can be enhanced by collaborators from around the world. --- Guidelines to Successful Project Design KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL TELECOMPUTING PROJECTS Extracted from the article of the same name, The Computing Teacher, May, 1990 1. Design a project with specific goals, specific tasks, and specific outcomes. The more specific, the better; the more closely aligned with traditional instructional objectives, the better. 2. Set specific beginning and ending dates for your project, and set precise deadlines for participant responses. Then, make a time line and provide lots of lead time to announce your project. Teachers feel more comfortable participating in projects that have a definite goal and an ending date. Experience shows that peak use on an educational network is geared to traditional cycles of the school calendar. October through December, February through May, and July (with summer school) are very busy times on the network. However, most of the successful networking activities were planned and announcements posted six to eight weeks before the actual projects began. You'll also find that sometimes, you'll need to advertise for participants several times, and thus the more lead time the better. Phased deadlines establish a sense of accountability to the other participants in the project, and makes it easier to secure follow through. Often, where the teacher may not be inclined to complete the project, if the students have been apprised of the deadlines they will often hold their own teachers accountable to complete the project. 3. Request collaborators by posting messages on electronic bulletin boards, and by sending out flyers if possible. Once you have designed your project, create a formal "call for collaboration" to post on the network of your choice. By preparing this call off line with your word processor and then uploading it, you'll be able to conveniently repeat the announcement as often as needed until you get the collaborators you need. If you happen to have the addresses of people you would like to collaborate with, send them a hard copy of your request, as they may not be actively using the service during the time your calls went out. 4. Give specific information about your project: - Goals and objectives of the project - Your location - grade levels desired - contact person - Time line and deadlines - how many responses you would like - what you will do with the responses 5. Provide examples of the kinds of writing or data collection which students will submit. This is important to the success of the project. 6. At the conclusion of the project, follow through on sharing the results of the project with all participants. If you publish any student writing, send a hard copy to all who participated. Have your students collaborate on writing up a summary of the project, describing it, what they did, what they learned, and what changes they would make in the project. Post that message on the network for all to see (not just the project participants). Finally, have your students send a thank you message to all participants. You might also want to send a hard-copy of your summary and thank you to the principal of each school which participated. This can be an effective way to reinforce one another in our ongoing efforts to educate others and validate use of this technology. FrEdMail on the Internet (SCHLnet) On October 11 the FrEdMail Foundation inaugurated SCHLnet, a new service on California's CERFnet and CORE (formerly TRIE) networks which brings all of the acclaimed FrEdMail projects and activities for the first time to thousands of teachers in California. This new service will soon be available to other networks throughout the world, creating for the first time a truly global distributed conferencing network for teachers and their students. The past two years have seen an enormous number of teachers coming to the Internet around the world. Current estimates are upwards from 50,000 teachers who are using the Internet. Incredible as it may seem, prior to this time there has been no effective system to help teachers find one another and build interesting collaborative learning projects across the nation and around the world. Although many excellent mailing lists exist on the Internet, mailing lists send messages directly to your mailbox. If you subscribe to two or three mailing lists you can be drowned in a sea of messages spanning a dozen different topics, resulting in a severe case of information overload. Many educators have taken a serious look at a distributed conferencing system called Usenet. Usenet is an effective transport protocol for topical discussions, covering almost 2000 different subjects, to over ten thousand different computers around the world. If you can think of a subject in which you are interested, you can probably find a discussion of it on Usenet, with a truly global audience of contributors. Usenet has much of interest to gadflies, scholars, hobbyists, the idle and the curious. There is tremendous educational and entertainment value within the daily multi-megabytes of Usenet discussions. For example, topics in the science hierarchy represent fascinating ongoing discussions on current research topics by practicing scientists. Whether the topic is cold fusion, biogenetic engineering, astronomy or astrophysics, you can find scientists discussing the state of the art in their discipline. Usenet could provide the perfect solution to teachers whose mailboxes are filled to overflowing with a wide variety of extraneous content, and who find it difficult to make connections with those interesting projects that are lost in the sea of "extra" mail that often comes with mailing lists. Content on Usenet is divided into topics: you read only the topics which interest you. And it is distributed... it reaches thousands of sites around the world, ensuring access to a wide variety of different classrooms and cultures. However, Usenet's value to a typical classroom teacher is compromised because there are no rules or limits or controls on "freedom" of expression. You can never tell when you will read something that will be controversial, offensive, crude, or pornographic. Most superintendents and boards of educations would have serious reservations about the suitability, or at least political "safety," of Usenet in their local schools as an educational tool for teachers and their students. SCHLnet, the FrEdMail Foundation's new service to teachers on the Internet, takes advantage of Usenet transport protocols to deliver a distributed conferencing system for educators, but which avoids the often unwelcome "surprises" in content which tends to make educators shy away from Usenet. Because SCHLnet is a distributed conference it puts teachers in touch with their peers throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Australia, the Orient, Russia, and many other countries... even where direct Internet access is not available. SCHLnet solves the problems of "noise control" on the Internet. It moves your listserv and group mail topics out of your personal mail boxes into the SCHLnet conference area, organized by topic, and ready for browsing when you are ready. Your mailbox will once again be used only for personal correspondence. SCHLnet uses Usenet format newsgroups to create a "mini-usenet" aimed specifically at K-12 teachers and their students. SCHLnet creates an interactive flea-market of ideas, resources, opportunities, and information of specific relevance to teachers and their students, without the extraneous and sometimes offensive distractions posed by Usenet netnews. Because SCHLnet's audience includes young children, we prohibit profane, discourteous, abusive, racist, sexist, obscene, and sexually explicit language within the SCHLnet newsgroups. We actively moderate many topics and monitor the rest in order to ensure professional standards of expression and etiquette. SCHLnet news is delivered directly to your local network using the USENET message interchange format, and is available via the Internet, UUCP, FrEdMail Network, and other delivery protocols. If you would like to receive SCHLnet on your network, ask your system administrator to contact us at fred@acme.fred.org for more information. SCHLnet newsgroups include a range of topics; new topics will be added as demand dictates. Current categories include: CALLS - Calls for collaboration, requests for project partners and sister schools, and keypal requests. These teacher-developed projects will have students measure, collect, evaluate, write, read, publish, simulate, hypothesize, compare, debate, examine, investigate, organize, share, and report. NEWS - News and information on a variety of topics, including America 2000 Daily Report Card, CNN Newsroom Daily Lesson Plans and Democracy in America, and other publications and announcements for educators. SIG - Special Interest Groups and discussion forums on a variety of general interest issues. CURR - Curriculum Interest Groups, similar to SIGS but specific to curricular themes. PROJ - Current and Recent Classroom Projects. Ongoing network-wide projects will be conducted in this area, so that all participants may "peek" at the progress of a project and new participants may choose to join. PUB - Publications of various sorts, INCLUDING the electronic publishing of the best of student work. Teachers supervise the selection and posting of only the BEST of student work. Other electronic publications from around the Internet will also be posted here. STU - Various student topics/exchanges. This is the place for students to correspond with one another. Moderators encourage appropriate and timely discussions on a variety of topics. 32.39.28N, 117.01.45W Al Rogers FrEdMail Foundation PO Box 243, Bonita, CA 91908 619-475-4852 Daily Report Card Service The DAILY REPORT CARD news service is now available to you AT NO CHARGE via electronic mail. Some of our readers thought you might be interested and recommended that we get in touch with you. The DAILY REPORT CARD is an update on the six education goals for America in the year 2000, adopted by the president and governors in February 1990. The goals for the year 2000: ONE: All children will start school ready to learn. TWO: The high school graduation rate will be 90%. THREE: Students will leave grades 4, 8, 12 competent in English, math, science, history, and geography. FOUR: U.S. students will be first in math and science. FIVE: Every adult will be literate, with the knowledge and skills to compete in a global economy. SIX: Every school will be free of drugs and violence. The DAILY REPORT CARD is published by the American Political Network with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Business Coalition for Education Reform. It is distributed at no charge to a national audience of leaders in government, business, media and education. The DAILY REPORT CARD "covers the coverage" the media gives the movement toward all six education goals -- summarizing that day's published news from all 50 states on local, regional, and national stories affecting education reform --and pointing out what reform isn't getting coverage. It is an approach suited to the subject: While the goals are national, education solutions are almost always local. A daily national report that filters and sums up all the local progress reports can provide national impetus toward the goals. To subscribe to the DAILY REPORT CARD, send an electronic mail message to the following address: listserv@gwuvm.gwu.edu The message should begin on the first line and read as follows: sub rptcrd your full name So, for example, if the president wanted to subscribe, he would type: sub rptcrd George Bush After you send the message requesting delivery, you will receive a response confirming your subscription (please allow a few hours). After that, the DAILY REPORT CARD will be delivered into your electronic mailbox each weekday. If you have any questions, please call Karl Eisenhower at (703) 237-5130 or send a message to drc@gwumv.gwu.edu. Cataloging from Library of Congress Email: (see Miscellaneous Information, below) Phone: (314) 432-1100 Description The Software Development Group of Data Research Associates, Inc. has made the 3.8 million cataloging records from the Library of Congress available to researchers via the Internet. This database contains the records from the Books All, Maps, Music, Serials, and Visual Materials services as distributed by the Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) of the Library of Congress. Guest users may search the database by author, title, author/title, ISBN, ISSN, LCCN, as well as qualifying searches by language, copyright date, or cataloging format. Subject and keyword searching is not available to guest users. Additional types of searches may be available for users with Data Research accounts. Network Access: Telnet, using VT100 or higher emulation, to dra.com [192.65.218.43]. After the copyright notice and initial screen appears, you can begin searching the database. 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Disclaimer: Data Research Associates, Inc. is not responsible for supporting or maintaining this service or its data for guest users. This service may be modified, unavailable, or withdrawn at any time without notice. Records originating with the Library of Congress are copy-righted by the Library of Congress for use outside the United States. This database is NOT the same as the LC card catalog. The Library of Congress Information System (LOCIS) The Library of Congress Information System (LOCIS) is now available over the Internet. The telnet address is: locis.loc.gov LOCIS accepts both telnet 3270 and line mode. LOCIS includes over 15 million catalog records and over 10 million records for other types of information: federal legislation, copyright registrations, Braille and audio, organizations, and selected foreign legal materials. Searching hours are (all times USA eastern; closed national holidays): Monday - Friday: 6:30am - 9:30pm Saturday: 8:00am - 5:00pm Sunday: 1:00pm - 5:00pm Printed manuals will be available for sale later this summer and very soon via FTP (ftp seq1.loc.gov /pub/LC.Online). There will be a LOCIS Quick Search Guide and a LOCIS Reference Manual. LC Online Internet: lconline@seq1.loc.gov Library of Congress Stan Horwitz Internet: STAN@VM.TEMPLE.EDU Bitnet: STAN@TEMPLEVM Temple University's Sr. Mainframe Consultant; Manager of the Help-Net and Suggest lists; Teacher Contact Files The Kidsnet "Teacher Contact Files" have been updated. These four files average 2,000 lines in length. They contain introductions from teachers, administrators, educators and parents interested in telecommunication activities in the kindergarten-grade 12 classroom. The files are available from an e-mail message or through anonymous FTP. To receive the files, send a mail message to listserv@unmvma (Bitnet) OR to listserv@unmvma.unm.edu (Internet), leave the subject line blank and include these commands in the body of your message: get teacher1 contacts get teacher2 contacts get teacher3 contacts get teacher4 contacts If you would like to automatically receive the files whenever they are updated, included these commands in the body of your message: afd add teacher1 contacts afd add teacher2 contacts afd add teacher3 contacts afd add teacher4 contacts To retrieve the files by anonymous FTP: ftp to ftp.vt.edu login: anonymous (must be lower case) password: guest (or your complete userid in lower case) cd /pub/k12 get teacher1.contacts get teacher1.contacts get teacher3.contacts get teacher4.contacts quit These files are my work so if you have any additions, corrections or suggestions, write to me at one of the addresses below. To join Kidsnet or the companion list, Kids, write a message to the owner, Bob Carlitz at joinkids@pittvms or joinkids@vms.cis.pitt.edu (Internet). These are NOT listserv lists so the standard commands will not work. Enjoy! Sally Sally Laughon BITNET: laughon@vtvm1 Computer Department INTERNET: laughon@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu Northcross School slaughon@rvgs.vak12ed.edu Roanoke, VA USA VOICE: 703 989-6641 FAX: 703 989-7299 K12 PROJECT CHANNELS How to get one! How to use one! K12 Net offers 12 conference areas that can be assigned to different people at different times to pursue individual projects. Anyone, teachers and students alike, can request and use a channel by following the following guidelines. WHAT QUALIFIES AS A PROJECT? This is a very big question... Basically, any idea that requires telecommunications to succeed, and deals with a specific topic or activity on which the user wishes to focus. For example, there are currently coordinated weather readings planned for four future dates- the data collection is to be global in nature, potentially covering the breadth of the network. In addition, while this might be considered a "science" project and could possibly be conducted in the K12_SCI_ED echo, the intent of this project is to focus exclusively on weather reading, warranting a dedicated channel for that specific purpose. Other projects have included compilation of Top Ten lists, cookbooks, Role Playing games, Composition critiquing, Physics challenges, and private educational sessions for specific groups. WHO PARTICIPATES IN PROJECTS? There are two classifications of projects: Open and Closed. Open projects will be available to all users of K12Net. If you design a project in which you want as many people as possible to participate, then you want an Open project. Closed projects are limited to only a selected set of participants. If, for example, you want to conduct an on-line class specifically for Jr. High Phys. Ed. teachers, and didn't want anyone else posting, then you would want a Closed project. HOW DO YOU START? Start with an idea. Engage other users of the net in conversation about your idea, and see if anyone would like to join you in the project. You can 'advertise' your idea in the Teacher Chat echo, Projects echo, or any of the appropriate curricular conferences. Make sure that your idea would require its own channel, and cannot be carried out in the existing conferences. When it seems you have a few others interested in your project ("critical mass"- enough to make it work), apply for a channel. Given the limited number of channels available, and the growing interest, new projects should demonstrate that there at least several other points in the net that wish to participate in the project. Send channel requests to Helen Sternheim, Channels Coordinator, at 1:321/109. Your request can be made in the Projects echo, or via Netmail. Include the following: 1. Name of the Project 2. Name and FIDO address of the Moderator (see below) 3. Project type- Open or Closed 4. Requested start time and duration of the project (see below) 5. A brief project description (see current project guides for samples) 6. If your project is to be Closed, a list of participants who are to be granted access to the channel. With this information is received, you will be assigned a channel when one is available. Please note: changes are slowly being made to the channel allocations to minimize the extra work required of Sysops throughout the net. To that end, new projects will be assigned to Channels 1-12. Your project will be assigned appropriate channel when and if a channel is available. WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THE PROJECT? The person designated as the Moderator will have control over the conduct of the project channel. It is they who will make decisions about appropriate posting and participation, set whatever rules are required, and generally conduct the business of the project. The Channels Coordinator will offer advice and assistance if asked for, and help with technical problems if possible. However, the Moderator is responsible for setting up, advertising (beyond the projects listing), and running the project. HOW LONG CAN I USER A CHANNEL? Unless unusual circumstances exist, new project channel allocations will be limited to a two month period. You may request a channel for a shorter time. It is advised that the Moderator schedule the channel activities very carefully to make the most of the two month allocation. A good schedule also will help your other participants make better use of your project by being able to plan more effectively their participation. Extensions to projects will be given _only_ if there are no other projects waiting for channels and the Moderator demonstrates a need to continue. WHAT'S CHANNEL 0 FOR? Channel 0 if provided for Moderators and other to work and coordinate projects out of view of other project participants - this is not to be sneaky, but is intended for teacher to teacher coordination. Messages to the Channel Coordinator also may be left in Channel 0. Channel 0 is a Closed channel. If you have several participants who need to be in touch 'behind the scenes' send a list of their names and FIDO addresses to the Channel Coordinator. Channel 0 may also be used to ask for help and/or advice from other project moderators. QUESTIONS? Please read these guidelines carefully. If you still have questions you may contact the Channels Coordinator, Helen Sternheim at 1:321/109 -- uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!321!109!Helen.Sternheim Internet: Helen.Sternheim@f109.n321.z1.fidonet.org K12 - CHANNEL GUIDE - current activity in the K12 project echoes Channel '0' (K12.CH0) - K12 Inter Class Pen Pals Messages Groups Messages sent by teachers from one class to another, requests for class pen pal exchanges. Type OPEN Helen Sternheim (1:321/109) moderator Channel '1' (K12.CH1) - Available for a project Channel '2' (K12.CH2) MathMagic Project Project moderators: Carol Hooper 1:381/64 Alan Hodson 1:381/64 Math Problem Solving Activities - Teams - Various problems Type Closed, Contact Carol or Alan to join Dates: Sept 1, 1992 - Nov 1, 1992 (Extendable to a later date) Channel '3' (K12.CH3) - Brown Bag Science Experiments New Materials for Fall of '92 Science projects to do at home with simple materials. May be done in the classroom too. Moderator - Tom Barner 321/120 Type OPEN Dates October thru December Please join this project, and supply Tom with feedback. Channel '4' (K12.CH4) - Available for a project Channel '5" (K12.CH5) - Available for a project Channel '6' (K12.CH6) - Currently Available Channel '7' (K12.CH7) - Currently Available Channel '8' (K12.CH8) - Global Confernces Reports Moderator Janet Murray 1:105/23 3 conferences starting in October Ending Nov 15 Channel '9' (K12.CH9) - Global Conference Reports Moderator Janet Murray 1:105/23 3 conferences starting in October Ending Nov 30 Channel '10' (K12.CH10) - Currently Available! Channel '11' (K12.CH11) - Global Village News Moderator Chris Rowan 1:3820/2 Sept thru Nov 30 open to all school groups Channel '12' (K12.CH12) - Weather Data Collection Report the weather conditions in your locale. Every Wednesday is reporting day, see the channel for an outline. Moderator - Tom Barner 321/120 TYPE - OPEN Dates October thru December 1992 For more information or comment on the different projects underway contact the listed moderator of the conference via K12.PROJECTS, or netmail. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Do not post messages in CLOSED conferences until you have been admitted to the echo by the moderator. Conference Moderators may be contacted via Netmail at the address listed, or in K12.PROJECTS. ===================================================================== uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!321!109!Helen.Sternheim Internet: Helen.Sternheim@f109.n321.z1.fidonet.org [Note: This is current as of 15NOV92, Channel Assignments vary regularly] ERIC database Syracuse University (PRISM) To access type telnet acsnet.syr.edu (login with suvm) ENTER TERMINAL TYPE: vt100 At USERID ===> suinfo Type suinfo once more or ACCESSING THE ERIC DATABASE THROUGH SUINFO Internet users can access the latest five years of the ERIC Database through SUINFO, a campus information system at Syracuse University that uses the SPIRES/PRISM interface. Instructions follow: 1. Telnet acsnet.syr.edu 2. At the prompt, type SUINFO. 3. At the ENTER TERMINAL TYPE prompt, type VT100. 4. Bypass the USERID prompt (with the tab key). 5. Bypass the PASSWORD prompt (with the tab key). 6. At the COMMAND prompt, type SUINFO. 7. After a pause, you will see a Welcome to SUINFO screen. Read the messages and type Y to continue. (Note: If you do not get the welcome screen, try typing SUINFO again and hit return.) 8. After a pause, you will see a Welcome to PRISM screen, followed by the main menu. Choose "General Interest" from the main menu by typing 1. 9. You will see a File Selection menu. Choose ERIC by typing the numeral (13 as of this writing). 10. Follow screen instructions to search the database. 11. To end the SUINFO session, type LOGOFF. Welcome to SUINFO! You will now be able to perform online searches on all publicly available databases currently carried by PRISM. Before proceeding, the following may be noted: * This account may be used for PRISM searches only. * Certain databases cannot be searched because of licensing restrictions. You may search these databases by logging into SUVM the regular way. *PRINTing, SENDing to a userid or the WRITEing to a computer file of your search result(s) has been disabled. Numerous error messages will be encountered if attempted! * You must type LOGOFF to EXIT PRISM Welcome to Prism File selection 33 files available Select a file or service by typing its name below, or, press the Return key to see a list of all files, or, type a category number to see a list of files in that category: 1. General Interest 2. CWIS: Campus Wide Info. System (includes SCIS, Job Ops) 3. WOT: Network Accessible Resources 4. Demonstration 5. Application Development 6. Testing New Applications Welcome to ERIC This file contains bibliographic information and abstracts for a variety of EDUCATIONAL documents from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). The file contains all the ERIC data from 1984 through the first quarter of 1991 (approximately 208507 records). You can search for items using one or more keywords from a variety of fields such as title, author, or abstract. For help call the ERIC Clearinghouse at 443-3640 To report technical problems contact: Jhychun Wang [JINWANG@SUVM] x-2143 New Guide to Internet Library Catalogs A new resource is now available for identifying and using library catalogs on the Internet. The guide is titled "Library Catalogs on the Internet: Strategies for Selection and Use". The guide is directed toward anyone interested in exploring the many library catalogs worldwide that are on the Internet. It may also be useful to librarians or computer center staff as a resource for preparing materials to assist their users. The guide provides an overview of using the Internet to reach remote systems, suggests reasons for exploring library catalogs, lists resources for identifying which catalogs are available and for selecting among them, and provides practical tips on navigating the Internet and using unfamiliar systems. It emphasizes a non- technical approach and consolidates information that has been accumulating but has not been available in one source until now. A copy of the table of contents is appended. The guide is available in electronic format now and will soon be published as a printed guide. In electronic format: Via anonymous FTP from host dla.ucop.edu, directory pub/internet, filename libcat-guide, or host vaxb.acs.unt.edu, directory library, filename libcat-guide. where other related documents are also available. In print: from the American Library Association, Reference and Adult Services Division, as an RASD Occasional Paper (not yet available--watch for later announcement). A printed copy of the guide will also be deposited in the LOEX Clearinghouse on Library Instruction where it can be borrowed by members, and in the ERIC system. For more information, contact Laine Farley, University of California, (510) 987- 0552, or lxfol@uccmvsa.bitnet (for questions only--please do not request that copies be sent to you.) LIBRARY RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET: STRATEGIES FOR SELECTION AND USE TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Scope and Purpose of the Guide Section 1: Getting There From Here 1.1 The Internet: Some Background Information 1.2 How to Get Started 1.3 References for Getting Started Section 2: Why Search Library Catalogs Via the Internet? Section 3: Road Maps and Travel Guides 3.1 The Road Maps: Sources for Identifying Library Catalogs on the Internet 3.2 References for the Road Maps 3.3 The Travel Guides: Sources for Selecting Library Catalogs 3.4 References for the Travel Guides 3.5 Beyond Road Maps and Travel Guides: Gateways and Clients Section 4: Using Systems Successfully--Survival Tips 4.1 Making and Breaking the Connection -- Technical Tips 4.2 Search Strategies -- Understanding System Basics 4.3 Beyond the Basics -- Discovering the Real Power of an Online Catalog Section 5: What Else is Out There--Other Online Resources 5.1 Companion Databases to Online Catalogs 5.2 Campus-Wide Information Systems 5.3 Specialized Databases Christian Burl Barrow S. bbsc@mercury.cs.uregina.ca USDA/CYFER-NET resources are now available via Gopher: USDA/CYFER-NET resources are now available via Gopher: 1. About the CYFER-NET/ES-USDA Gopher. 2. Extension Service USDA Information/ 3. Children Youth Family Education Research Network (CYFER-net)/ 4. Cooperative Extension System: Information Servers / 5. Information About Gopher/ 6. Libraries/ 7. Other Federal Agencies/ 8. Other Gopher and Information Servers/ 9. public/ Just point your Gopher to: cyfer.esusda.gov A Resource Guide to Listservers This Resource Guide started as a presentation to the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) 1991 Forum ("The Effective Use of Listserv Software to Enhance Professional Electronic Communication"). After my presentation obligations were fulfilled I realized there were a lot of important topics that I had not covered. Several individuals at AIR gave me encouragement to pursue this subject further and I also found that there is an emerging need for some guidance in this area at the University of Arizona. Thus I embarked on this task of consolidating a number of papers, email messages, listserver notices, etc. into this Resource Guide. This Guide is principally about listservers. However, one cannot talk about listservers without some discussion about the highways that move listserver messages (BITNET and Internet) or the complementary Internet service called Usenet. The Resource Guide is placed on-line on the listserver at the University of Arizona. To obtain a copy send the command GET LISTSERV GUIDE to LISTSERV@ARIZVM1. Comments about this Guide and its contents are welcome, please forward to d.viehland@massey.ac.nz. - - - - -Introduction to Lists/Listserver- - - - - Listserver technology can be considered an extension of electronic mail. Whereas email is one-to-one communication, listservers allow one-to-many communication. Simply put, mail sent to a list sends an electronic message to many persons instead of just one. Listservers are used for discussion and information sharing. Typically a person faces a problem that needs solving or has a question that needs a answer. The problem or question is sent to the list (i.e., to ten's or hundred's of individuals who have expressed an interest in the subject of the list). Recipients of the message who can give advice or answers will respond back to the user who send the message or to the list--in which case the response is also circulated for potentially more replies and responses. --What is a listserver? a listserver is a special kind of user account; instead of a person at the end of an electronic address there is software that maintains mailing lists, stores files, and responds to your commands. The principal purpose of listserver software is to facilitate one-to-many communication for network users. A listserver can also be used as a file server. ASCII files can be posted on the listserver and list members (or nonmembers in some lists) can request copies of the files, receive automatic notification that a file was updated, or request that new or updated files be sent (these fileserver features are discussed in Appendix D). Other names and concepts used to describe a listserver and its function are inter-institutional conferencing, mail explorer program, distribution list, email conferences, or inter-institutional campus-wide information system. The best known listserver is LISTSERV@BITNIC. BITNIC (BITNET Network Information Center) contains a large amount of listserver information (see Appendix C) and performs a coordinating function for other listservers. Similarly, there are regionally-located "backbone listservers" that contain an variety of frequently-accessed information (e.g., an inventory of all lists on all listservers). Backbone listservers allow efficient distribution of network information. The electronic address for a listserver is LISTSERV@node. --What is a list? a list of persons used by the listserver to distribute mail. The best way to think of a list is as an "electronic mailing list." When mail is sent to the list it is automatically forwarded to all addresses contained within the list. The electronic address for a list is list@node. **KEY POINT**: Note the difference between LISTSERV@node and list@node. A mail message to be distributed to the list members is sent to list@node; commands such as SUBSCRIBE, GET FILE, INDEX, and REVIEW are sent to LISTSERV@node. Be careful not to confuse these two; occasionally a user sends a command to list@node and everyone on the list receives this command as a mail message. --What is Usenet? Usenet is an Internet-based distributed bulletin board system that resembles conferencing systems available on PC-based bulletin board services. Usenet subscribers post messages to subject-related "newsgroups" on a local server. These messages are routed to Usenet servers at thousands of locations around the world. Other subscribers access these servers to read the messages and, if desired, post a reply which is redistributed to all servers. Like listservers, Usenet is one-to-many communication, but its underlying metaphor is a bulletin board, not electronic mail. Despite similar purposes, the technology, users, discussions, and services on Usenet are considerably different from that found in listservers . For more information on Usenet see Appendix F. Features of Lists/Listservers: --one-to-many electronic mail communication: mail messages sent to list@node are distributed to list members, as are replies to these messages --archives of previous list discussions: log files of previously sent mail messages are maintained on most listservers, allowing list members to access previous discussions for review or search purposes --fileserver: in addition to log files, listowners may use the list to post files that would be useful for list members; list members can then download copies of these files. Finally, listservers maintain a number of listservers help files for users to access. Tips to Using Lists: --learn to use your campus mail system first; learn about sending mail to colleagues across campus, learn to use your email editor, develop a habit of accessing email regularly--then join lists. --save the letter that you receive confirming your subscription to the list; it contains important information about the distinction between the listserver address and the list address, how to resign from the list, etc. --when requesting information from list members you may want to ask that they send their responses to you directly; generally the response rate will be higher because people are more willing to share information privately than publicly. --provide feedback to the group. After you have the information you requested, write up a summary and send it to the list so others will benefit from what you have learned (but avoid names and institutional identifications unless the information-sharing requires it). --do not use automatic mail reply programs (i.e., programs that reply to incoming mail with a message such as "I'm out of the office now, I will be back in two weeks."). These programs unnecessarily increase network traffic and clutter list members' mailboxes. --if you are going on vacation or want to "stop out" of a list for a while, use the SET NOMAIL command (see Appendix G for instructions). --be careful when using the REPLY command; mail intended for an individual will be received by everyone on the list if you reply to a list message. At best, this creates confusion and increases network traffic needlessly. At worst, it can be personally embarrassing. **KEY POINT** Messages intended for individual members of a list must be addressed to that person's userid@node address. Because list mail originates from the list, if you read a message and use the REPLY command your response will be delivered to everyone on the list. List "Netiquette" --keep messages relevant to the topic of the list. --cover only one subject per message. --do not type messages in all caps, WHICH HAS THE EFFECT OF SHOUTING. They should be used for effect, not for regular communication. --when responding to a message, either "attach" the original message (if it is short) or lead your response with a clear reference to the original message (e.g., Regarding John Smith's September 5 message requesting recommendations for EIS software, our experience is that....). This maintains a clear connection between the original message and responses to it. A common network convention is to use the > character in the left margin to indicate text from a previously posted message. --avoid flaming: beware of making strong, emotional, or angry statements, which is called flaming. It is easier for written messages to be misunderstood than spoken words. Never write a message in anger and if you have any doubt about how a message will be received delay it for a day ("sleep on it"), share it with a friend for an opinion, and/or print it out and read aloud. Sarcastic comments should be identified with the "sideways smile" :-). If you feel compelled to flame, warn the readers so their response will be appropriate. --include a meaningful subject for the message. Including a subject in list messages helps recipients preview and organize list messages. Additionally, the subject is the only words that appear in the archives. --once you join a list, make sure you check your mailbox frequently and regularly to avoid mailbox overload. A list may send a couple of messages a year, or 30 or more messages a day; and an inactive list may suddenly come to life and become very active. **KEY POINT** An obligation of list membership is that you regularly check your mailbox and delete messages you don't want to save. This keeps your institution's disk space available for others. - - -Advantages and Disadvantages of Email/Lists- - - Because listserver technology is an extension of electronic mail, many of the advantages and disadvantages of electronic mail also apply to lists. Accordingly, most of the arguments cited below are equally applicable to email and listservers, exceptions are noted. Advantages of electronic mail/lists: --marginal costs are near zero. Email isn't free, but the resources have been paid by the colleges and universities who belong to the network; the user's time is the only true cost --mail can be read when it is convenient --email is faster than postal mail --telephone tag is avoided because the recipient doesn't have to be on-line when you send your message --messages communicated in writing are usually better thought out than phone call messages --barriers of race, sex, and general first impressions are minimized; these barriers shouldn't affect face-to-face conversations, but they often do --participation in lists enhances information sharing and one-to- many communication --its fun; using email has some of the same excitement that ham radio operators experience Disadvantages of electronic mail/lists: --although direct costs are zero, hidden costs are frequently overlooked; communication by email usually takes longer than communication by phone and phone call savings can be eliminated by the extra time spent in composing and responding to issues that could be resolved in a short phone conversation. --false sense of expertise; the recipient of information from a list may be unable to objectively compare the credibility of information provided by members of the list --it can become addictive (see "its fun" above); some who would not think about reading personal books or magazines at their desk can become involved in lists relating to personal interests and spend an extraordinary amount of time in reading and responding to these lists --it is never confidential (this applies to lists, of course, but also to so- called "private" electronic mail) --written words are much more easily misunderstood than spoken words; because voice inflections and body language are missing users must choose words much more carefully than in conversation; words written in anger cannot be recalled --mistakes can be amplified--a few wrong keystrokes and a message intended for one person is seen by several hundred (applies to lists) --list mail can fill disks and clog the network (e.g., 25 identical mail messages sent to 25 individuals on the same campus uses up 25 times the disk space one mail message would) SOURCES: William (Joe) Moore "Inter-Campus Electronic Mail -- Tool or Toy?" CUMREC '90 Proceedings (author: CC19@SDSUMUS) Winicur, Daniel H. "Bitnet, Internet, and Electronic Mail Lists: What Are They and How Do I Get Started?" AACRAO conference, 1990 (author: WINICUR@IRISHMVS) - - - - -Types of Lists- - - - - Membership --Open lists: open to all who wish to participate. When one sends a request to subscribe one is joined to the list automatically and the listowner is notified of the new member. Most lists have open membership. --Closed lists: membership is controlled by the listowner. When one sends a request to subscribe he/she is notified that their request has been forwarded to the listowner. Usually the listowner will respond by promptly honoring the request and subscribing the person to the list. Occasionally the listowner will respond with a questionnaire asking for some information about the prospective member, why he/she wants to join the list, etc. Only rarely is membership denied. Editing Control --Newsletters: Newsletters represent the highest level of list editorial control. Communications to the list are forwarded to the listowner who assembles them into a newsletter format for circulation as a single message to the list members. This is the most "user friendly" format for list subscribers because no error messages reach the subscriber, a table of contents is provided, messages are assembled in a meaningful order (e.g., all job postings are grouped together) and the messages are uniform in format. This is the most difficult for listowners because editing the newsletter can require considerable time and effort. There are a number of such newsletters of interest to institutional researchers including the AIR BITNET Newsletter, SCUP BITNET News, and the NACUBO Forum. --Digests: Frequently used in lists with heavy volume, messages are forwarded to the listowner who assembles all messages from a day into a single message, removes all junk mail and error messages, and sends out the messages collectively as a digest. Newsletter features such as a table of contents, uniform margins, and editor's comments are not included. --Edited Forums: In edited forums messages are captured by the listowner who usually passes them on without comment or significant delay. As in digests the listowner exercises some editorial control (i.e., only meaningful messages reach list subscribers), but list traffic arrives as individual messages. --Unedited Forums: This is the "default" value for list editing. Any message sent to list@node is immediately sent to all list members. Unedited lists require no effort from the listowner, but such lists may receive error messages, junk mail, and other mail not useful to the list member. Peered Lists A peered list is distributed to several listservers; this distribution reduces traffic network in high volume lists. For example, instead of sending 2,000 individual messages to servers throughout the country, maybe 25 messages will be sent to 25 regional servers, who will forward the messages to the 2,000 users in their respective regions. For popular lists with high volume, this can lead to a significant savings in network traffic. Join a list SEND LISTSERV@node SUBSCRIBE listname your_name - institution or on IBM computers running VM/CMS: TELL LISTSERV AT node SUBSCRIBE listname your_name - institution If it is an "open" list you will receive a message that you have been added to the list. If it is a "closed" list you will be notified that your request has been forwarded to the listowner. Of course, you must know the node and listname of the list you wish to join and substitute them in the command given above. Your name and institution help other list members identify who you are. There is no need to include your electronic address in this command, the listserver reads it automatically from the incoming message. Resign from a list SEND LISTSERV@node SIGNOFF listname or on IBM computers running VM/CMS: TELL LISTSERV AT node SIGNOFF listname This removes your name from the list. Be sure to issue this command from the computer account from which you joined the list, otherwise the listserver will not recognize a different electronic address and will ignore the command. Directories of Listserv Lists The following is information regarding a variety of Listserv list directories presently available on the Net. These directories will help you find online discussion groups for personal interest or as research forums. * List of Lists This directory contains brief information on all of the discussion groups on BITNET. To retrieve this document, send the command to any Listserv LIST GLOBAL On Internet, send the above command as a mail message to Listserv@vm1.nodak.edu. A 3000 line file named Listserv Lists will be returned. * SRI Interest-Groups Directory The SRI network service maintains an extensive directory of list descriptions. To retrieve this directory, send the following command to mail- server@nisc.sri.com SEND NETINFO/INTEREST-GROUPS The above command will return twenty-six files, each approximately 800 lines long. This document is also available via FTP as interest-groups.Z from the node ftp.nisc.sri.com in the directory /netinfo/. * Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences The best organized directory of academic discussion groups is Diane Kovacs' Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences. This directory contains information on over 800 online conferences of interest to scholars. > Retrieval Information The latest revision of the Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences is available via e-mail to Listserv@kentvm and via anonymous FTP to the node ksuvxa.kent.edu in the directory /library/. > For more information, contact: Diane K. Kovacs Kent State University Libraries DKOVACS@kentvm.kent.edu or LIBRK329@ksuvxa.kent.edu The University of Nebraska--Lincoln's ARCHIE Mail Server This is the HELP file for the archie mail server, as of 9 April, 1991 Requests to this server should be addressed to archie@archie.unl.edu To contact us humans, mail to archie-l@archie.unl.edu Note that the "help" command is exclusive. All other commands in the same message are ignored. Command lines begin in the first column. All lines that do not match a valid commands are ignored. Results are now sorted by archive hostname in lexical order. An archie UNIX man page and it's straight ASCII text file equivalent are available on ftp.unl.edu in the /pub/archie/doc directory as: archie.man.roff and archie.man.txt respectively. The server recognizes six commands. If a message not containing any valid requests or an empty message is received, it will be considered to be a 'help' request. path This lets the requestor override the address that would normally be extracted from the header. If you do not hear from the archive server within oh, about 2 days, you might consider adding a "path" command to your request. The path describes how to mail a message from archie.unl.edu to your address. archie.unl.edu is fully connected to the Internet. BITNET users can use the convention: user@site.BITNET UUCP user can use the convention: user@site.uucp help Will send you this message. prog [ ...] A search of the "archie" database is performed with each (a regular expression as defined by ed(1)) in turn, and any matches found are returned to the requestor. Note that multiple may be placed on one line, in which case the results will be mailed back to you in one message. If you have multiple "prog" lines, then multiple messages will be returned, one for each line [This doesn't work as expected at the moment... stay tuned]. Any regular expression containing spaces must be quoted with single (') or double (") quotes. ALL OTHER ed(1) rules must be followed. NOTE: The searches are CASE SENSITIVE. The ability to change this will hopefully be added soon. site | A listing of the given will be returned. The fully qualified domain name or IP address may be used. compress ALL of your files in the current mail message will be "compressed" and "uuencoded". When you receive the reply, remove everything before the "begin" line and run it through "uudecode". This will produce a .Z file. You can then run "uncompress" on this file and get the results of your request. quit Nothing past this point is interpreted. This is provided so that the occasional lost soul whose signature contains a line that looks like a command can still use the server without getting a bogus response. For your information anonymous FTP may be performed through the mail by various ftp-mail servers. Send a message with the word 'help' in it to: bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu or ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com for an explanations on how to use them. Updated Special Internet Services List * SPECIAL INTERNET CONNECTIONS: Last Update: 1/19/93 * * A ? by an entry designates entries have not been verified or are unstable * -Almanac mail servers mail almanac@esusda.gov mail almanac@ces.ncsu.edu mail almanac@oes.orst.edu mail almanac@ecn.purdue.edu mail almanac@silo.ucdavis.edu offers: USDA market news, articles about the use of computer in agricultural science, and Extension Computing Technology Newsletters. -Am. Philos. Assoc. telnet atl.calstate.edu or telnet 130.150.102.33 offers: BBS for APA. (Login: apa) -Archie telnet archie.funet.fi or 128.214.6.100 (Finland/Eur.) telnet archie.au or 139.130.4.6 (Aussie/NZ) telnet archie.cs.huji.ac.il or 132.65.6.5 (Israel) telnet archie.doc.ic.ac.uk or 146.169.11.3 (UK/Ireland) telnet archie.sura.net or 128.167.254.179 (USA [MD]) telnet archie.unl.edu or 129.93.1.14 (USA [NE]) telnet archie.ans.net or 147.225.1.2 (USA [NY]) telnet archie.rutgers.edu or 128.6.18.15 (USA [NJ]) telnet archie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp or 130.54.20.1 (JAPAN) telnet archie.nz or 130.195.9.4 (New Zealand) telnet archie.th-darmstadt.de or 130.83.128.111 (GER.) telnet archie.ncu.edu.tw or 140.115.19.24 (TWN) offers: Searches all ftp sites for any program you want. (Login: archie) -Archie Mail Servers mail archie@ Subject: help Offers: alternative Archie access to those w/o ftp or telnet. -Auroral Activity finger aurora@xi.uleth.ca or finger aurora@142.66.3.29 offers: Auroral activity warnings/watches/sightings, updated hourly. -Baseball Scores mail jtchern@ocf.berkeley.edu w/Subject: MLB offers: This will subscribe you to receive Major League scores daily! -Backgammon Server telnet 134.130.13.46 4321 offers: Play Backgammon! (Login: guest) -Billboard Charts finger buckmr@rpi.edu offers: U.S. Top Pop singles for the week. -CARL telnet pac.carl.org or 192.54.81.128 offers: Online database, book reviews, magazine fax delivery service. -CHAT telnet debra.dgbt.doc.ca or telnet 142.92.36.15 offers: Interactive AIDS document and simulated conversation (Login: chat) -Chess Server telnet valkyries.andrew.cmu.edu 5000 or 128.2.232.4 5000 offers: Play/watch real-time chess with human opponents. Type 'help' for help -C64 Archive Server mail twtick@corral.uwyo.edu Subject: Mail-Archive-Request Body-of-letter: help (hit return) end -Dante Project telnet library.dartmouth.edu or 129.170.16.11 offers: Divine Comedy and reviews. (Login: connect dante) -Diplomacy mail judge@morrolan.eff.org or mail judge@gu.uwa.edu.au mail judge@shrike.und.ac.za or judge@u.washington.edu offers: Play the game Diplomacy by Email. Body-of-letter: help -Distance Education Data telnet sun.nsf.ac.uk or telnet 128.86.8.7 (Login: janet Hostname: uk.ac.open.acs.vax Username: icdl) -Earthquake Info. finger quake@geophys.washington.edu or 128.95.16.50 offers: Recent quake info (location, time, magnitude, etc.) -E-Math telnet 130.44.1.100 (Login: e-math Password: e-math) offers: Am. Math. Society sponsored BBS with software and reviews. -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) -FDA BBS telnet fdabbs.fda.gov or telnet 150.148.8.48 offers: FDA BBS (News releases, Aids info, consumer info...) (Login: bbs) -FEDIX telnet fedix.fie.com or telnet 192.111.228.1 offers: info. on scholarships, minority assistance, etc. (login: fedix) -Fileserver via Email mail smiley@uiuc.edu In body-of-message: Filesend: help and on a separate line: Filesend: list -Freenet See the section on freenets in this manual offers: USA Today Headline News, Sports, etc... -FTP Mail mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com Subject: (hit return) Body-of-letter: help (return) quit Offers: ftp via email -FTP Mail mail bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu Body-of-letter: help or ftplist for a list of anon. ftp sites. -FTP Sites/Archives (see also Mac Archives) ftp ocf.berkeley.edu offers: Docs, 5 purity tests, the Bible, Dec. of Ind, lyrics..cd /pub/Library ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu or rainbow.cse.nau.edu or plaza.aarnet.edu.au or erratic.bradley.edu offers: Gif archive, pc software. ftp ftp.uu.net offers: You name it, it's here! 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 offers: How-to's about internet (how to email, ftp, telnet, etc.) in /pub/nic -GenBank telnet genbank.bio.net offers: gene sequence info. (Login: genbank Password: 4nigms) -Genetics Bank mail gene-server@bchs.uh.edu Subject: help Offers: genetic database accessible via email. -Geographic Server telnet martini.eecs.umich.edu 3000 offers: Info by city or area code (Population, Lat./Long., Elevation, etc.). -Georgetown Med. Lib. telnet mars.georgetown.edu (Login: medlib Password: dahlgren Last name: netguest) -GO Server telnet lacerta.unm.edu 6969 telnet icsib18.icsi.Berkeley.EDU 6969 telnet cnam.cnam.fr 6969 offers: Join others and play a game of GO. (Login/Password: go) -Gopher telnet consultant.micro.umn.edu telnet panda.uiowa.edu telnet gdunix.gd.chalmers.se telnet gopher.uiuc.edu telnet gopher.unt.edu telnet gopher.uwp.edu telnet siam.mi.cnr.it telnet info.anu.edu.au telnet fatty.law.cornell.edu telnet ecnet.ec telnet finfo.tu-graz.ac.at (Login: info) telnet gopher.isnet.is telnet sunic.sunet.se telnet info.brad.ac.uk (login: info) telnet gopher.virginia.edu (logn: gwis) telnet grist.valdosta.peachnet.edu telnet gopher.ycc.yale.edu Offers: access to other services, gophers, documents, etc. (Login: gopher) -Ham Radio Callbook telnet callsign.cs.buffalo.edu 2000 offers: National ham radio call-sign callbook. -HP Calculator BBS telnet hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com offers: BBS for HP Calc. users, with chat mode. (Login: new) -Handicap/Medical Siteftp handicap.shel.isc-br.com offers: anonymous ftp of software and medical info. -Hytelnet Server telnet access.usask.ca telnet silence.pi.nctu.edu.tw offers: Univ.. & library catalogues around the world. (Login: hytelnet) -INFO - Rutgers CWIS telnet info.rutgers.edu offers: Dictionary, thesaurus, CIA world fact book, quotations database. -Info/Software Server telnet rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de offers: journals, UNIX stuff, etc. login: infoserv or softserv -Internet Resource Guide ftp nnsc.nsf.net offers: compressed/tar'd list of net resources in /resource-guide.txt.tar.Z -Iowa Political Stock Market telnet ipsm.biz.uiowa.edu offers: Buy & sell shares in political candidates. (Non profit research proj.) -IP Address Resolver mail resolve@cs.widener.edu usage: in body-of-letter: site
Mails you IP address of site. -IRC Telnet Client telnet bradenville.andrew.cmu.edu telnet ara.kaist.ac.kr (Login: irc) telnet santafe.santafe.edu (Login: irc) offers: Internet Relay Chat access, like a CB on the computer. -Law Library telnet liberty.uc.wlu.edu offers: Law libraries and legal research ftp sulaw.law.su.oz.au (Login: lawlib) (cd /pub/law) Offers: copies of laws for each state, computer laws, and more! -Library Catalogs ftp dla.ucop.edu (pub/internet/libcat-guide) offers: "Library Catalogs on the Internet: Strategies for Selection and Use" (how, but not where; also get one of the following). ftp ftp.unt.edu (library/libraries.txt) offers: "Accessing Bibliographic Databases" document. ftp ariel.unm.edu (library/internet.library) offers: "Internet-Accessible Catalogs and Databases" document. -Library of Congress telnet dra.com offers: COPY of Library of Congress (Assumes terminal is emulating a vt100). -LIBS telnet nessie.cc.wwu.edu offers: Access to nearly all online services seen in this list.(Login: LIBS) -List of Lists ftp ftp.nisc.sri.com mail mlol-request@wariat.org (music list of lists) offers: List of interest groups/email lists in /netinfo/interest-groups. -Lunar/Planetary Institute telnet lpi.jsc.nasa.gov offers: Resources on Geology, Geophys, Astron., Astrophys. (Login: lpi) -Lyric/Music Server ftp cs.uwp.edu (/pub/lyrics) ftp ftp.iastate.edu (/pub/music/...) offers: Lyrics, chords/tablature, and music pictures. -Mac Software Archives ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu ftp rascal.ics.utexas.edu ftp mac.archive.umich.edu ftp ftp.apple.com ftp ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu ftp dartvax.dartmouth.edu Login: anonymous Password: Ryour email addressS offers: Software for the Macintosh computers. Most also support other systems. -Mail Server/User Lookup mail mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu in body of mail message: send usenet-addresses/[name searching for] -Melvyl telnet melvyl.ucop.edu offers: access to various libraries. Type 'other' at prompt to see others. -MOLIS telnet fedix.fie.com offers: Minority Online Information Service. (Login: molis) -Music Newsletter mail listserv@vm.marist.edu Body-of-letter: SUBSCRIBE UPNEWS Offers: Reviews, intviews. -NASA Headline News finger nasanews@space.mit.edu offers: Daily press releases from NASA. -NASA SpaceLink telnet spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov offers: Latest NASA news, including shuttle launches and satellite updates. -National Education BBS telnet nebbs.nersc.gov offers: Education BBS (Login: guest) -NED telnet ned.ipac.caltech.edu offers: NASA Extragalactic Database. (Login: ned) -Netfind User Lookup telnet bruno.cs.colorado.edu telnet archie.au telnet malloco.ing.puc.cl telnet monolith.cc.ic.ac.uk telnet mudhoney.micro.umn.edu telnet netfind.oc.com telnet redmont.cis.uab.edu telnet sun.uakom.cs offers: Given a name and org./school, finds a user for you (login: netfind) -NetLib mail netlib@ornl.gov mail netlib@uunet.uu.net Subject:(hit return) Body-of-letter: send index Offers: Software thru email -News Mail Servers mail [newsgroup]@cs.utexas.edu offers: Post to Usenet news via email. (eg. [newsgroup] = alt-bbs) -Newton telnet newton.dep.anl.gov offers: Gov't BBS for those teaching or studying science, CS, math. -NICOL telnet nisc.jvnc.net offers: Access to internet resources, Elec. Publishing Service (Login: nicol) -NICOLAS telnet dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov offers: Network Info. Center On-Line Aid System (Login: dftnic) -NNTP News Servers telnet sol.ctr.columbia.edu 119 telnet rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de 119 telnet news.fu-berlin.de 119 offers: Telnetable access to post to the Usenet news. -NOAA telnet nodc.nodc.noaa.gov (Login: NOAADIR) offers: National Oceanic and Atmos. Admin. Lots of data! -NODIS telnet nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov telnet nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov offers: Menu-driven access to Nat'l Space Science Data Center (Login: nodis) -NONA telnet nsinic.gsfc.nasa.gov offers: Nasa Science Internet Online Network Aid. (Login: nsinic) -Nuclear Data Center telnet bnlnd2.dne.bnl.gov offers: National nuclear data. (Login: nndc) -Oceanic Info. Center telnet delocn.udel.edu (Login: info) -Oracle mail oracle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu w/ subject: help offers: The Usenet Oracle answers all your questions! -OSS-IS ftp soaf1.ssa.gov mail info@soaf1.ssa.gov with "send index" as your msg. offers: Many FAQ's, ftp lists, library and service lists, gov't documents. -Public-Access Unix telnet hermes.merit.edu telnet m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us (Which host: um-m-net Enter 'g' for guest. login: newuser) telnet nyx.cs.du.edu offers: Free account, with access to various UNIX features. (login: new) -Public-Access Unix telnet digex.com offers: full internet services, anonymous accounts, privacy orientation. -Readers Guide telnet lib.uwstout.edu offers: Readers Guide to periodical literature, online. -Recipe Archives ftp gatekeeper.dec.com (cd pub/recipes) ftp mthvax.cs.miami.edu (cd /recipes) offers: Anonymous ftp site for MANY food recipes. -SDDAS telnet espsun.space.swri.edu 540 offers: SW Research Data Display & Analysis Center. -SERVICES telnet wugate.wustl.edu offers: Access to nearly every listed service! (Login: services) -Software Server (ASK) telnet askhp.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de offers: On-line software search. (Login/password: ask) -Spacemet telnet spacemet.phast.umass.edu offers: Science/space bbs. -SPAN telnet nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov offers: Space Physics Analysis Network (Login: SPAN_NIC) -StatLib Server mail statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu Mail with line: send index. Offers: Prgms, Datasets, etc. for statisticians. -STIS telnet stis.nsf.gov offers: Science & Technology Information System. (Login: public) -Stock Market Report telnet a2i.rahul.net offers: Public access unix for a fee, market report is free! (Login: guest) -Supernet telnet supernet.ans.net offers: Excellent menu-driven information searches. (Login: supernet) -Supreme Court Rulings ftp ftp.cwru.edu offers: ASCII files of Supreme Court rulings in directory /hermes -Tropical Storm Forecast finger forecast@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu offers: Seasonal forecast for Atlantic Ocean. -UMD Info Database telnet info.umd.edu offers: Info. docs on many subjects, incl. Supr. Crt Decisions (Login: info) -UNC BBS telnet bbs.oit.unc.edu offers: Access to Library of Congress and nationwide libraries (Login: bbs) -WAIStation telnet quake.think.com telnet nnsc.nsf.net telnet wais.funet.fi offers: Wide Area Info. Service. (Login: wais) FTP think.com for more info. -Weather Service telnet downwind.sprl.umich.edu 3000 offers: City/State forecasts, ski conditions, earthquake reports, etc. -Weather Maps ftp vmd.cso.uiuc.edu offers: Surface analysis & current infrared weather maps GIFs. (cd wx) -Webster telnet moose.cs.indiana.edu 2627 offers: Dictionary/Spelling service. Type "HELP" for info. (ALL CAPS!) -Whois Service telnet nic.ddn.mil offers: Way to find internet address given a keyword. To access type: whois -World-Wide Web telnet info.cern.ch (SWISS) telnet eies2.njit.edu (USA [NJ]) telnet vms.huji.ac.il (ISRAEL) telnet info.funet.fi (FINLAND) offers: Access to various documents, lists, and services. (Login: WWW) -ZIB Electronic Libr. telnet elib.zib-berlin.de offers: Library of software, links to other libraries. (Login: elib) *NOTE: NO LOGIN NAMES OR PASSWORDS ARE REQUIRED UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE! * *NOTE: FOR FTP SITES, LOGIN AS ANONYMOUS, PASSWORD IS YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS * Anonymous FTP List Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) * Topics * 1) Understanding the ISO date. 2) Retrieving the list from alternate sources. 3) Retrieving it directly from the coordinator. 4) Using FTP without direct Internet access. 5) Problems with a site. 6) Information presented is wrong or outdated. 7) Getting a site listed or changes made. 8) Making the list publicly available. 9) Using the general mail server at DEC's Western Research Labs. 10) What is Archie and how does it relate to the list? 11) What is and how do I use the FTP program? * Answers * 1) Understanding the ISO date. A) Format: Year.Month.Day (1991.12.30 is 30 December 1991). 2) Retrieving the list from alternate sources. A) It is available from various FTP sites which archive the Usenet news.answers: ftp-list. Also look for 'ftp-list' in either the Sites or Files list. Or as a last resort, all the public lists can be retrieved from gator.netcom.com 192.100.81.102 in /pub/profile during NON-PEAK hours only! 3) Retrieving it directly from the coordinator. A) I don't have time to mail copies to people. I make exceptions to people who redistribute it to closed systems or areas that don't have access to the newsgroups. Don't abuse this! Send me mail to be put on the mailing list. 4) Using FTP without direct Internet access. A) It is possible to get files from a site by using a general mail server or many sites have their own servers. If you're on BITNET, ask your sysadmin or technical support group about PUCC. For non-BITNET sites, try using DEC's; you will find instructions for using it below, in answer #9. 5) Problems with a site. A) Mail the problems to the address shown in the Sites list. If a FTP comments address is not shown, attempt to use 'ftp@site_name'; subsitute 'site_name' with the name of the troublesome site. If that fails, post a note to comp.archives.admin (the newsgroup for archive administrators). 6) Information is wrong or outdated. A) Send mail to me detailing the incorrect information and the corrections. If you are the site manager for the archive, please see below (topic #7) for the information I need. 7) Getting a site listed or changes made. A) Send the following information to aftp-list@netcom.com. o Site name (and aliases you wanted listed). o IP address. o Manager(s) full name & email address(es). o Address for FTP related issues (problems, comments, etc...). o General description of the types of files available. o Directories that are for anonymous FTP use (besides /pub). o Site's location (country) & ISO code. o Organization operating site. o UT/GMT difference (include daylight savings time). o Are there any special restrictions? o Can it be used 24 hours/day? o Is an E-mail server available for the site's files only? 8) Making the list publicly available. A) Please let me know if there is a site that archives either the Sites or Files list. I will include it in future updates; the more people who have access, the better. All I ask: update the list as changes are made. 9) Using the general mail server at DEC's Western Research Labs. A) Send mail to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with 'help' in the body of the letter. You CANNOT send a blank letter, commands are not optional. 10) What is Archie and how does it relate to the list? A) Archie is a special server that keeps file listings from different FTP sites. You can Telnet to a server or use a client program to search for specific files. There are sites which do not appear in an Archie server and you can use the lists for these. Here are some sites; send mail to 'archie@site_name' for a help file. archie.ans.net (North America) archie.sura.net (North America) archie.funet.fi (Finland/Mainland Europe) archie.au (Australia/New Zealand) archie.doc.ic.ac.uk (Great Britain/Ireland) archie.unl.edu (North America) cs.huji.ac.il (Israel) 11) What is and how do I use the FTP program? A) This information file was originally maintained by John Granrose. Mike Jones added the info about the existence and location of the compression data chart maintained by David Lemson. I added some, too little to be thanked or hated for its content. This is not a definitive guide to FTP, but will give a novice a general idea of what it is and how to do it. What is FTP? FTP (File Transfer Protocol) allows a person to transfer files between two computers, generally connected via the Internet. If your system has FTP and is connected to the Internet, you can access very large amounts of archives available on a number of systems. If you are on Bitnet or a UUCP host, you should look for servers that work through the mail. A good source of information on archives in general, is the Usenet newsgroup comp.archives. What is Anonymous FTP? Many systems throughout the Internet offer files through anonymous FTP. These include software, documents of various sorts, and files for configuring networks. Archives for electronic mailing lists are often stored on and available through anonymous FTP. Note that all this is subject to change. Commands All the normal FTP commands may be used to retrieve files. Some FTP commands are the same on different computers, but others are not. Usually, FTP will list the commands if you type 'help' or type a question mark (?). Also, your computer's help command may have information about FTP. Try 'man ftp' or 'man ftpd'. Some useful commands available on most systems include: get copy a file from the remote computer to yours ls/dir list the files in the current directory cd Change directory binary Switch to binary mode. For transferring binary files ascii Switch to ascii mode. Ascii mode is the default mode Procedure Anonymous FTP is a facility offered by many machines on the Internet. This permits you to log in with the user name 'anonymous' or the user name 'ftp'. When prompted for a password, type your e-mail address -- it's not necessary, but it's a courtesy for those sites that like to know who is making use of their facility. Be courteous. You can then look around and retrieve files. (Most anonymous ftp sites do not permit people to store files) Typically, a directory called 'pub' is where the interesting things are stored. Some sites will have a file with a name like ls-lR, that contains a complete list of the files on that site. Otherwise, you can type ls -lR and get such a listing -- for some sites, this can take a LONG time. Usually, files are grouped in archive files, so you don't have to get many small files separately. The most common archival file format for the Internet is tar. Occasionally, people use shell archives (shar) instead. Tar archives can be unpacked by running the 'tar' command -- you may want to first do a 'tar t' on the file to see what it contains before unpacking it. Be careful when unpacking shell archives since they have to be run through the Bourne shell to unpack them. (The simplest way is to use the unshar command) Files are often stored compressed -- for Unix, the most common scheme is the compress program, indicated by a .Z suffix on the file name. Sometimes, people use programs like Arc or Zoo, which are combined archival and compression formats. (There are probably other archival formats as well - talk to the systems staff if you encounter them and don't know how to deal with them) When retrieving non-text files, you must use binary mode, otherwise the file gets messed up. To do this, use the 'binary' command. (It's safe to set this for text files. If the site at the other end is non-Unix, you may need to use some other mode -- see the documents for that site and for FTP) The simplest way to initiate FTP would be to give the command 'ftp '. The is the remote system you are connecting to, either a name (wsmr-simtel20.army.mil, if you have an entry in /etc/hosts or are accessing a Domain Name Server) or the Internet address (192.88.110.20 for Simtel20). After a short wait, you will be prompted for your username. If you do not have an account on the remote system, some systems allow you to use 'anonymous'. This gives you a restricted access path. You would then be prompted for a password. Some systems will tell you to send your real identity as the password. What you type doesn't matter, but it is suggested to give your mail address. Other systems need a password of 'guest', or something similar. After that, you should receive the FTP prompt ( usually ftp> ) and have access. You can get a directory of files be giving a 'dir' command or if the remote system is Unix-based, 'ls -l' will give the familiar output. On Simtel20, there is a file available in the default anonymous ftp directory that explains what Simtel20 is and where files are located. The name is 'SIMTEL-ARCHIVES.INFO.nn, where ".nn" is a file generation number. You don't need to specify the file generation number when requesting the file. In fact, it's better not to because you will always get the latest generation that way. Unix systems will all have the familiar directory structure, and moving around is done with the familiar 'cd' or 'cwd' command. TOPS-20 systems have a different structure, but movement is still accomplished with the 'cd' command. Different systems have different organizations for their files, and the above example is the way most archives have it set up. By looking around other systems, you can learn how their files are arranged and move around much faster. Note, however, that FTP will not allow you outside the FTP 'root' directory. Moving about the entire system is not permitted. These are the common Unix file types: SUFFIX FTP TYPE .Z bin compress .arc bin ARChive .shar ascii SHell ARchive .tar bin Tape ARchive .uu ascii uuencode/uudecode .zip bin Zip .zoo bin Zoo To get a list of all file compression/archiving methods and the programs to uncompress/unarchive (on the PC, Mac, Unix, VM/CMS, AtariST and Amiga systems), FTP to the following sites and retrieve the listed file: ftp.cso.uiuc.edu /doc/pcnet/compression gator.netcom.com /pub/profile/compression.Z (make sure to set the binary mode with 'bin') This could be helpful to people new to FTP that don't know how to unpackage the file they have just transferred. [EditorUs note: the contact person for this FAQ is Mike Jones (mjones@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)] Network Resource Mailing List Merit Network has just such a list of "latest finds on the Internet". The list is called network-resource-information-sharing@merit.edu or nris@merit.edu for short. All reports to the list are annotated with a brief, subjective opinion of the resource, commenting on both its usefulness and its user interface. To subscribe, send mail to nris-request@merit.edu Leave the subject line blank, and enter as the first line of text subscribe nris "Your Real Name" Mark Davis-Craig, Merit/NSFNET Information Services mad@merit.edu (313)-936-2110. FAX number is (313)-747-3185 comp.sys.mac.faq Copyright (C) 1992, Elliotte Harold, erh0362@tesla.njit.edu Version 1.12 Last modified: August 14, 1992 Table of Contents I. Introduction 1. What other information is available? 2. Posting Etiquette II. The Question of the Year: Why is my system using so much memory? III. FTP 1. Where can I FTP Macintosh software? 2. Can I get shareware by E-mail? 3. Where can I find Application X? 4. Can someone mail me Application X? 5. What is .bin? .hqx? .cpt? .image? .etc? IV. Viruses 1. Help! I have a virus! 2. Reporting new viruses V. Printing 1. How do I make a PostScript file? 2. How do I print a PostScript file? 3. Why won't my PostScript file print on my mainframe's printer? 4. Why are my PostScript files so big? 5. How can I print PostScript on a non-PostScript printer? 6. How do I make my ImageWriter II print in color? 7. Why doesn't PrintMonitor work with the ImageWriter? 8. Why did my document change when I printed it? VI. System Software 1. What is System 7 Tuneup? Do I need it? 2. Do I need System 7.01? 3. How can I get System 7.01 on 800K disks? 4. Why do my DA's disappear when I turn on MultiFinder? VII. DOS and the Mac 1. How can I move files between a Mac and a PC? 2. How can I translate files to a DOS format? 3. Should I buy SoftPC or a real PC? VIII. Security 1. How can I prevent users from changing the contents of a folder? 2. How can I password protect my Mac? IX. Hard Disks 1. Help! My folder disappeared! 2. Why can't I throw this folder away? X. Floppy Disks 1. Why can't my new Mac read my old Mac's floppy disks? 2. Can I turn a double-density disk into a high density disk by punching an extra hole in it? XI. Miscellaneous 1. How can I preview a PostScript file? 2. How do I edit a PostScript file? 3. What does System Error xxx mean? 4. How do I use a picture for my desktop? 5. How do I make a startup screen? 6. Can I Replace the "Welcome to Macintosh" box with a picture? 7. What is AutoDoubler? Is it safe? 8. How does AutoDoubler compare to other compression products? 9. What's a good text editor for the Mac? 10. Where did my icons go? Disclaimer: I do my best to ensure that information contained in this document is current and accurate, but I can accept no responsibility for actions resulting from information contained herein. This document is provided as is and with no warranty of any kind. Corrections and suggestions should be addressed to erh0362@tesla.njit.edu. I HAVE A QUESTION... (1.0) Congratulations! You've come to the right place. The Usenet community is a wonderful resource for information ranging from basic questions (How do I lock a floppy disk?) to queries that would make Steve Jobs himself run screaming from the room in terror. (I used ResEdit to remove resources Init #11, WDEF 34, and nVIR 17 from my system file and used the Hex Editor to add code string #A67B45 as a patch to the SFGetFile routine so the Standard File Dialog Box would be a nice shade of mauve. Everything worked fine until I installed SuperCDevBlaster, and now when I use the Aldus driver to print from PageMaker 5.0d4 to a Linotronic 6000 my system hangs. P.S. I'm running System 6.02 on a PowerBook 170.) However, since the comp.sys.mac.* newsgroups are medium to high volume, we ask that you first peruse this FAQ file, check any other relevant online resources (listed below), and RTFM (Read the Friendly Manual) before posting your question. We realize that you are personally incensed that the System is taking up fourteen of your newly-installed twenty megs of RAM, but this question has already made its way around the world three hundred times before, and it's developing tired feet. WHAT OTHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE? (1.1) This FAQ list provides short answers to a number of frequently asked questions from the newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.misc, and comp.sys.mac.apps. Various Mac gurus have written other files of excellent quality that go into more detail about individual topics including not a few that aren't covered here. Please check out any that seem relevant to your problem before posting a question. All of the following are available for anonymous FTP from sumex-aim.stanford.edu and its mirrors in the /info- mac/report directory. File Name Question 800-phone-numbers.txt What's company X's phone number? at-connector-substitute.txt How can I make an Appletalk Connector? backup-to-unix.txt How do I back up my Mac disk onto myUNIX box? color-monitor-survey.txt What's a good multisync monitor? compression-util-table.txt What can uncompress this file? e-mail-gateways.txt How can I send E-mail to someone on CompuServe? on MCI? on Fidonet? on America Online? etc. ftp-primer.txt What's ftp? How do I use it? ftp-sites.txt What are good ftp sites for Mac software? iici-cache-cards.txt What cache-card should I buy for my IIci? iisi-upgrade-options.txt How can I speed up my IIsi? large-color-monitors.txt What are some good 16 inch and larger color monitors? mac-discussion-groups.txt Where can I subscribe to Mac mailing lists? mac-laser-jet-up-rev-11.txt How can I use a HP LaserJet with a Mac? mac-memory-guide.hqx Everything you ever wanted to know about Macintosh memory in a HyperCard stack. mac-plus-accelerators.txt How can I accelerate my Plus? mac-se-accelerators.txt How can I accelerate my SE? mac-secret-names.txt What's the codename of product X? mac-secret-trick-list.txt Where's the Easter Egg in product X? mac-tcp-info.txt What's Mac TCP? mac-to-workstation.txt How do I connect my Mac and my Unix box? modem-guide-10.txt LOTS of useful information about modems, esp. high speed modems and modem protocols. power-glove-to-mac.txt How can I connect a PowerGlove to a Mac? powerbook-170-tips.txt How can I improve the performance of my PowerBook? (Not just for 170 owners) powerbook-faq.txt Frequently asked PowerBook questions. powerbook-solutions-guide A catalog of various payware products to enhance your PowerBook radius-rocket-upgrade.txt What do people think of the Radius Rocket and similar accelerators? se30-external-video.txt What external monitors and cards do people like se30-monitor-options.txt for the SE/30? se30-full-page-monitors.txt style-writer-refills.txt How do I refill a StyleWriter cartridge? sys7-compat-info Is application X System 7 compatible? sys7-emergency-disk.txt How can I force System7 to fit on a boot floppy? sys7-finder-command-keys.txt How do I add Command-key equivalents to the Finder menu in System 7? vendor-emails.txt What's company X's E-mail address? Two other files of particular note: Mike Kelly maintains a FAQ list covering Macintosh programming for the newsgroup comp.sys.mac.programmer. It's posted to that group on the first of the month and available for anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.uoregon.edu (in /pub/mac. Jim Jagielski maintains a FAQ for comp.unix.aux covering covering Apple's UNIX environment, A/UX. It's posted every 2 to 3 weeks in comp.unix.aux and news.answers. It's available for anonymous ftp at jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov. WHICH NEWSGROUP SHOULD I POST TO? (1.2) Posting questions to the proper newsgroup will fill your mailbox with pearls of wisdom (and maybe a few rotten oysters too :-) ). Posting to the wrong newsgroup often engenders a thundering silence. For instance the most common and glaring mispost, one that seems as incongruous to dwellers in the Macintosh regions of Usenet as would a purple elephant in Antarctica, asking a question about networking anywhere except comp.sys.mac.comm, normally produces no useful responses. Posting the same question to comp.sys.mac.comm ensures that your post is read and considered by dozens of experienced network administrators and not a few network software designers. Please post to exactly ONE newsgroup. Do not cross-post. If a question isn't important enough for you to spend the extra time to figure out where it properly belongs, it's not important enough for several thousand people to spend their time reading. Similarly comp.sys.mac.misc should not be used as a catch- all newsgroup. Questions about applications should go to comp.sys.mac.apps except for queries about communications programs, games, HyperCard, and databases all of which have their own comp.sys.mac.* newsgroups. Post questions about non- communications hardware including questions about what software is necessary to make particular hardware work to comp.sys.mac.hardware. Questions about Mac OS System Software and extensions belong in comp.sys.mac.system. Questions about A/UX go to comp.unix.aux. Detailed questions about Appletalk belong in comp.protocols.appletalk. Direct questions about HyperCard including programming HyperCard to comp.sys.mac.hypercard. Non-HyperCard programming questions and questions about development environments should go to comp.sys.mac.programmer. ResEdit questions may be posted either to comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.system, or comp.sys.mac.programmer; but generally the netters who inhabit the darker recesses of comp.sys.mac.programmer are considerably more practiced at the art of resource hacking. A general exception to the above rules is that any VERY technical question about an application that actually begins to delve into the hows of a program as well as the whats (Recent example: How does WriteNow which is written entirely in assembly compare to other word processors written in high level languages?) might be better addressed to the programmer newsgroup. For Sale and Want to Buy posts should go to comp.sys.mac.wanted ONLY. We understand that you're desperate to sell your upgraded 128K Mac to get the $$ for a PowerBook 170; but trust me, anyone who wants to buy it will be reading comp.sys.mac.wanted. Anything not specifically mentioned above, especially political and religious questions, (The Mac is better than Windows! Is not! Is too! Is not! Is too! Hey! How 'bout the Amiga! What about it? Is Not! Is too!) belongs in comp.sys.mac.misc. Finally don't be so provincial as to consider only the comp.sys.mac newsgroups the appropriate forums for your questions. A lot of modem questions in comp.sys.mac.comm are much more thoroughly discussed in comp.dcom.modems. Questions about Mac MIDI often would be better handled in comp.music even though this is not a Mac specific newsgroup. Shop around. Usenet's a big place and not everything relevant to the Macintosh happens in comp.sys.mac.*. QUESTION OF THE YEAR: WHY IS MY SYSTEM TAKING UP SO MUCH MEMORY? (2.0) If today Apple changed About this Macintosh (About the Finder in System 6) to report unusable memory in its own bar rather than lumped together with the system, this would probably still be the most frequently asked question of the year. Under system versions earlier than 7.0 or under System 7.x without 32-bit addressing turned on the Mac cannot handle more than eight megabytes of real memory. If you have more physical RAM installed, the Mac knows it's there but can't do anything with it. When you select About the Finder from the Apple menu, the system takes all the extra memory it can't access and reports it as part of the memory allocated to the system. To use the memory you need to get System 7 and turn on 32-bit addressing. If you have a Mac with dirty ROMs (a II, IIx, SE/30, or IIcx) you also need MODE32, free from ftp.apple.com or your local dealer. If you have an original Mac II you'll also need to add a PMMU chip. If you're staying with System 6, Maxima from Connectix ($45 street) will let you use the extra memory as a RAM disk. If you have an LC or an LC II with four megabytes of RAM soldered to the motherboard, you still need to add two four-megabyte SIMM's to reach the ten megabyte maximum imposed by the LC ROM. This means you'll always have two unused megabytes which About this Macintosh and About the Finder report as part of the system memory allocation. Unfortunately there is no current means of accessing this extra memory. FTP (3.0) WHERE CAN I FTP MAC SOFTWARE? (3.1) The three major American Internet archives of shareware, freeware, and demo software are sumex-aim.stanford.edu (36.44.0.6), mac.archive.umich.edu (141.211.164.153), and wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) which mirrors the other two sites and is often easier to connect to. Wuarchive often holds on to files after other sites remove them for space concerns, and still has files that were recently deleted from the formerly important site, rascal.ics.utexas.edu. Rascal was notable for storing its files in MacBinary format rather than the less efficient BinHex format common at the other archives. Unless otherwise noted shareware and freeware mentioned in this document should be available at the above sites. To keep traffic on the Internet manageable, European users should try connecting to ftp.funet.fi, src.doc.ic.ac.uk, or ftp.irisa.fr instead. Australian users should try to find what they want at archie.au which mirrors the info-mac archives at Stanford. Japanese users can find sumex mirrored at utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp. A fourth very important site is ftp.apple.com. This is Apple's semi- official repository for system software, developer tools, source code, technical notes, and other things that come more or less straight from Apple's mouth. Some material at this site may not be distributed outside the U.S. or by other sites that don't have an official license to distribute Apple system software. Please read the various README documents available at ftp.apple.com for the detailed info if you're connecting from outside the U.S. or if you wish to redistribute material you find here. Michael Gleason's mac.ftp.list, a more comprehensive list of FTP sites for Macintosh software, is available from sumex-aim in the info-mac/report directory as ftp-sites.txt. This list catalogs dozens of sites and mirrors, both well- known and obscure. CAN I GET SHAREWARE BY E-MAIL? (3.2) The info-mac archives at sumex-aim are available by E-mail from LISTSERV@RICEVM1.bitnet (alternately listserv@ricevm1.rice.edu). The listserver responds to the commands $MACARCH HELP, $MACARCH INDEX, and $MACARCH GET filename. You can retrieve files from other sites by using the server at ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com. For details send it a message with just the text "help" (no quotes). WHERE CAN I FIND APPLICATION X? (3.3) If you can't find what you're looking for at one of the above sites, try telnetting to your nearest archie server or sending it an E-mail message addressed to archie with the subject "help." Archie servers are located at archie.rutgers.edu (America), archie.au (Australia), archie.funet.fi (the continent), and archie.doc.ic.ac.uk (the U.K.). These sites serve as indexes for the tens of thousands of files available for anonymous ftp. Login as "archie" (no password is needed) and type "prog filename" to find what you're looking for or type "help" for more detailed instructions. For instance after connecting type "prog Disinfectant" to search for a convenient ftp site for Disinfectant. If the initial search fails to turn up your file, try variations on the name. For instance if you didn't find Disinfectant, you might try prog dis instead. Please check the above archives and ARCHIE personally BEFORE asking where you can find a particular piece of shareware. If you follow the above advice, you should almost never have to ask the net where to find a particular piece of software. CAN SOMEONE MAIL ME APPLICATION X? (3.4) No. Nor will anyone mail you a part of a file from comp.binaries.mac that was corrupt or missed at your site. Please refer to the first questions in this section to find out about anonymous FTP, archie, and how to request files from automatic E-mail servers. WHAT IS .BIN? .HQX? .CPT? .ETC? (3.5) Most files available by FTP are modified twice to allow them to more easily pass through foreign computer systems. First they're compressed to make them faster to download, and then they're translated to either a binhex or MacBinary format that other computers can digest. (The Macintosh uses a special two-fork filing system that chokes most other computers.) BinHex files are 7-bit ASCII text files, while MacBinary files are pure 8-bit binary data that must always be transferred using a binary protocol. How a file has been translated and compressed for transmission is indicated by its suffix. Normally a file will have a name something like filename.xxx.yyy. .xxx indicates how it was compressed and .yyy indicates how it was translated. To use a file you've FTP'd and downloaded to your Mac you'll need to reverse the process. Most files you get from the net require a two-step decoding process. First change the binhex or MacBinary file to a double-clickable Macintosh file; then uncompress it. The details of decoding are covered in the table below. Suffix: .sit .cpt .hqx .bin .pit .Z .image .dd .zip .uu .tar Extractors Stuffit 3.0 | X X X X X X Compact Pro | X X Packit | X UUTool | X MacCompress | X SunTar | X X X X BinHex 5.0 | X BinHex 4.0 | X DiskDoubler | X UnZip | X DiskCopy | X A few notes on the uncompressors: Stuffit is a family of products that use several different compression schemes. The recently released shareware Stuffit Lite 3.01 should unstuff all of these. Stuffit 3.01 also makes smaller archives than any other compression utility for the Mac. To allow maximum space for files on the various ftp sites and to keep net-bandwidth down, please compress all files you send to anonymous ftp sites with Stuffit 3.01. UUTool, MacCompress, and SunTar handle the popular UNIX formats of uuencode, compress, and tar respectively. The UNIX versions are often more robust than the Mac products, so use them instead when that's an option. Translators that allow Stuffit Lite to expand uuencoded and tar files are also available by anonymous ftp. A few notes on the compression formats: .bin: These are MacBinary files. Always use a binary file transfer protocol when transferring them, never ASCII or text. Most files on the net are stored as .hqx instead. Only rascal stores most of its files in .bin format. Most communications programs such as ZTerm and MacKermit are capable of translating MacBinary files on the fly as they download if they know in advance they'll be downloading MacBinary files. .image: Typically this format is used only for system software, so that online users can download files that can easily be converted into exact copies of the installer floppies. Instead of using DiskCopy to restore the images to floppies, you can use Steve Christensen's freeware utility MountImage to treat the images on your hard disk as actual floppies inserted in a floppy drive. MountImage has a reputation for being buggy, so you should have some blank floppies and a copy of DiskCopy handy just in case. .sea (.x, .X): .sea doesn't merit a position in the above table because these are self- extracting archives. They may have been created with Compact Pro, Stuffit, or even Disk Doubler; but all should be capable of uncompressing themselves when double-clicked. For some unknown reason Alysis has chosen not to use this industry standard designation for self-extracting archives created with their payware products SuperDisk! and More Disk Space. Instead these two append either .x or .X to their self-extracting archives. VIRUSES (4.0) HELP! I HAVE A VIRUS. (4.1) 90% of all problems reportedly caused by viruses are actually due to mundane bugs in software (and 90% of all statistics are made up :-) ). Before reporting a virus infection make sure you check your system with the latest version of Disinfectant, 2.8 as of this writing, by the excellent John Norstad and friends from Northwestern University. Disinfectant is absolutely free and available from sumex-aim and all the other usual suspects. It's easy to use and can completely protect your system from currently known Macintosh viruses. Releases to protect from new viruses are normally made within a day or two of the first confirmed sighting and capture of a new virus, and make their merry way around the electronic highways faster than any Macintosh virus ever has. I THINK I'VE FOUND A NEW VIRUS. WHAT DO I DO? (4.2) DON'T post a report to any comp.sys.mac.* newsgroup. 99% of all suspected new viruses are merely mundane bugs in the system or applications being used; and even if you really have found a new virus, there's nothing we can do about it anyway. You'll only succeed in generating a lot of follow-up panic reports from other people who'll blame every crash of Quark XPress on the new virus. If your system is protected against known viruses by Disinfectant or one of the other anti-virus packages and you suspect a new virus is causing you trouble, first consult with the most knowledgeable local guru about your problem. Nine times out of ten, he or she will identify it as a boring, ordinary, known bug in the software. If you are the local guru and still think you may have found a new virus, and have thoroughly checked out all other possibilities, then, and only then, send a detailed description of your problem to j_norstad@nwu.edu. Check the appropriate sections of the Disinfectant manual for procedures to follow before reporting a new virus. PRINTING PROBLEMS (5.0) HOW DO I MAKE A POSTSCRIPT FILE? (5.1) First make sure a LaserWriter driver is in your System folder. It doesn't really matter which one although the one from the System 7 Tuneup disk is the best. You don't need System 7 to use the System 7 LaserWriter driver. If you're using the System 6 driver, you'll also need a Laser Prep file in your System Folder and background printing turned off. Once you've verified that there is indeed a LaserWriter driver in your system folder, select LaserWriter in the Chooser. A dialog box will likely pop up informing you that the LaserWriter requires Appletalk and asking you if you want to turn Appletalk on. Whether or not you have AppleTalk click OK. Then select Page Setup from the File menu to format your document for the LaserWriter. Next select Print from the File menu. If you're using the System 7 LaserWriter driver, the Print dialog box that appears will have a radio button for Destination near the bottom. Click on PostScript file. The Print button at the top should change to a Save button. Click it and you'll get a standard file dialog asking you what to name and where to save the PostScript file. If you're using the LaserWriter driver 6.0x or 5.2, the procedure is more complicated. When the Print dialog box comes up, put one finger over the K key. If you'll eventually print the file on a non-Apple PostScript printer, especially one not designed with the Macintosh in mind, also put a finger over the Command key. Using Command-K instead of plain K includes some Mac specific information non-Apple-oriented PostScript printers need to know about. Next hit return or click OK with the mouse and then IMMEDIATELY hit K or Command-K with your other hand. You've got about one second to do this. If you see a message box that says "Creating PostScript file," you did it right. If you don't see that message, you weren't quick enough. Try again. Once you've gotten the message "Creating PostScript file" you should find a file called PostScript0 in the same folder as the application you were printing from. This is the file you just printed. Rename it before you forget what it is. If you print to disk (what this whole process is officially called) more than once, the second file will be called PostScript1, the third PostScript2, and so on. It really is much easier to use the System 7 LaserWriter driver. HOW DO I PRINT A POSTSCRIPT FILE? (5.2) On a Macintosh you'll need the LaserWriter Utility available on the high density TidBits disk from System 7 or the More Tidbits disk from the 800K distribution. It's also available for anonymous ftp from ftp.apple.com in /dts/mac/sys.soft/imaging. LaserWriter Utility allows you to send files to the LaserWriter in such a way that PostScript commands get interpreted as PostScript rather than as text to be printed. If you're printing to a PostScript printer connected to something other than a Macintosh, you'll need to consult your local system gurus. A simple "lpr filename.ps" works on my Sparc, but your mileage may vary. WHY WON'T MY POSTSCRIPT FILE PRINT ON MY MAINFRAME'S PRINTER? (5.3) Moving PostScript files between the Macintosh and other platforms is as dark an art as exists in the Macintosh universe. You'll have to experiment with your specific setup and see what works best for you. If you're using the System 6 LaserWriter driver, try using K instead of F to create the PostScript file so that the Laser Prep header is included. System 7 includes this automatically though you can use Hugo Ayala's shareware Control Panel device Trimmer to leave it out if you need to. More importantly Trimmer lets you select which fonts to include in your PostScript file. The upload to the mainframe from which the PostScript file will be printed may also make a difference. Normally you need to upload in pure Binary format, neither MacBinary nor ASCII. Try using only genuine PostScript fonts, no TrueType or bitmapped fonts. Gopher Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Common Questions and Answers about the Internet Gopher, a client/server protocol for making a world wide information service, with many implementations. Archive-name: gopher-faq Last-modified: 1992/10/19 Common Questions and Answers about the Internet Gopher, a client/server protocol for making a world wide information service, with many implementations. Posted to comp.infosystems.gopher and news.answers every two weeks. The most recent version of this FAQ can be gotten through gopher, or via anonymous ftp: pit-manager.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/gopher-faq Those without FTP access should send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with "send usenet/news.answers/finding-sources" in the body to find out how to do FTP by e-mail. Q0: What is Gopher? A0: The Internet Gopher client/server provides a distributed information delivery system around which a world/campus-wide information system (CWIS) can readily be constructed. While providing a delivery vehicle for local information, Gopher facilitates access to other Gopher and information servers throughout the world. Q1: Where can I get gopher? A1: via anonymous ftp to boombox.micro.umn.edu. Look in the directory /pub/gopher Q2: What do I need to access gopher? A2: You will need a gopher "client" program that runs on your local PC or workstation There are clients for the following systems. The directory following the name is the location of the client on the anonymous ftp site boombox.micro.umn.edu (134.84.132.2) in the directory /pub/gopher. Unix Curses & Emacs /pub/gopher/Unix/gopher1.03.tar.Z Xwindows /pub/gopher/Unix/xgopher1.1a.tar.Z Macintosh Hypercard /pub/gopher/Mac_client/ Macintosh Application /pub/gopher/Macintosh-TurboGopher DOS w/Clarkson Driver /pub/gopher/PC_client/ NeXTstep /pub/gopher/NeXT/ VMS /pub/gopher/VMS/ A Macintosh application, MacGopher is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.cc.utah.edu: Macintosh Application : /pub/gopher/Macintosh Another Macintosh application, "GopherApp" is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.bio.indiana.edu: Macintosh Application : /util/gopher/gopherapp There are also a number of public telnet login sites available. The University of Minnesota operates one on the machine "consultant.micro.umn.edu" (134.84.132.4) See Q3 for more information about this. It is recommended that you run the client software instead of logging into the public telnet login sites. A client uses the custom features of the local machine (mouse, scroll bars, etc.) A local client is also faster. Q3: Where are there publicly available logins for gopher. A3: Here is a short list, use the site closest to you to minimize network lag. Hostname Login Area consultant.micro.umn.edu gopher North America gopher.uiuc.edu gopher North America panda.uiowa.edu panda North America gopher.sunet.se gopher Europe info.anu.edu.au info Australia gopher.chalmers.se gopher Sweden tolten.puc.cl gopher South America ecnet.ec gopher Ecuador It is recommended that you run the client software instead of logging into the public telnet login sites. A client uses the custom features of the local machine (mouse, scroll bars, etc.) A local client is also faster. Q4: How can I add to the information in gopher? A4: You can do this by running a gopher server. Servers are available for a number of systems. Use anonymous ftp to boombox.micro.umn.edu (134.84.132.2) and look in /pub/gopher. The following servers are available there: Unix /pub/gopher/Unix/gopherxx.tar.Z VMS /pub/gopher/VMS/ Macintosh /pub/gopher/Mac_server/ VM/CMS /pub/gopher/Rice_CMS/ or /pub/gopher/Vienna_CMS/ MVS /pub/gopher/mvs/ DOS PC /pub/gopher/PC_server/ When you have your server ready you can publish it to the world by sending e-mail to the maintainters of the "Other gophers" list: gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu Q5: Who Develops Gopher Software? A5: Gopher was originally developed in April 1991 by the University of Minnesota Microcomputer, Workstation, Networks Center to help our campus find answers to their computer questions. It has since grown into a full-fledged World Wide Information System used by a large number of sites in the world. Many people have contributed to the project, too numerous to count. The people behind the much of the gopher software can be reached via e- mail at gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu, or via paper mail: Internet Gopher Developers 100 Union St. SE #190 Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA Q6: How can I set up a "CSO" phone book server? Where is the software? A6: CSO phone book servers are also known as "qi" servers. The software implementation can be gotten via anonymous ftp from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.5.50) as /pub/qi.tar.Z. You may also see this referred to as "ph", which is what most of the clients are called. There is also an archive of the mailing list for qi/ph software on the same machine. It's in /pub/info-ph.archive. This software is supported by Steve Dorner Contact him for more information. Q7: Why can't I access the University of Minnesota's UPI news? A7: The University of Minnesota has a site license for UPI news, we are not allowed to distribute it off of our campus. We get our UPI news from Clarinet. For more information about getting UPI news send mail to info@clarinet.com. For information about setting up your own gopher-UPI server search the gopher-news archive for UPI. Q9: What are the type characters for the different Gopher Objects? A9: Normal IDs. 0 Item is a file 1 Item is a directory 2 Item is a CSO (qi) phone-book server 3 Error 4 Item is a BinHexed Macintosh file. 5 Item is DOS binary archive of some sort. 6 Item is a UNIX uuencoded file. 7 Item is an Index-Search server. 8 Item points to a text-based telnet session. 9 Item is a binary file! Client must read until the connection closes. T TN3270 connection. Experimental IDs. s Sound type. Data stream is a mulaw sound. g GIF type. M MIME type. Item contains MIME data. h html type. I Image type. i "inline" text type (used by panda). Q10: When I do full-text searches I always get every document back, Why? A10: This is a problem occasionally encountered with Unix full-text indexes. It is caused by setting up the link incorrectly to a gindexd port. The Path= field should be *blank* when pointing to a gindexd index. Otherwise the client will send the path to the gindexd daemon, which interprets everything as a keyword. This path is likely to contain a pathname that is common to all of the indexed files. Thus a search generates hits on everything. Q11: When I try to build the UNIX software I get an error from make: "Must be a separator on rules line #. Stop" Why? A11: This is a problem with older makes that don't understand the "include" keyword. One easy way to cope with this problem is compiling GNU make, which does understand the include keyword. If this is too difficult, remove the line: include Makefile.config from all the Makefiles and paste in a copy of Makefile.config at the top of each Makefile. Or, instead of pasting you can make the client/server by going into the appropriate directory and typing: make -f ../Makefile.config -f Makefile Q12: What is the relationship between Gopher and (WAIS, WWW, ftp)? A12: Gopher is intimately intertwined with these two other systems. As shipped the Unix gopher server has the capability to: - Search local WAIS indices. - Query remote WAIS servers and funnel the results to gopher clients. - Query remote ftp sites and funnel the results to gopher clients. - Be queried by WWW (World Wide Web) clients (either using built in gopher querying or using native http querying. Q13: Are papers or articles describing gopher available? A13: The Whole Internet, Ed Kroll, O'Reilly, 1992 The Internet Gopher, "ConneXions", July 1992, Interop. Exploring Internet GopherSpace "The Internet Society News", v1n2 1992, (You can subscribe to the Internet Society News by sending e-mail to isoc@nri.reston.va.us) The Internet Gopher Protocol , Proceedings of the Twenty-Third IETF, CNRI, Section 5.3 Internet Gopher , Proceedings of Canadian Networking '92 The Internet Gopher , INTERNET: Getting Started, SRI International, Section 10.5.5 Tools help Internet users discover on-line treasures, Computerworld, July 20, 1992 TCP/IP Network Administration , O'Reilly. Q14: On a DECstation I get the error message "/etc/svc.conf no such file or directory" when running the gopherd server, why? A14: This is caused by the chroot() call in gopherd. It can be easily fixed by running gopherd with the -c option. Alternatively you can copy /etc/svc.conf into a directory named "etc" inside the gopher-data directory. Q15: The boolean searching terms don't work for my full-text index, why? A15: This is probably because the searching is being provided by WAIS. WAIS opts to return all documents that contain a search phrase within certain limits. WAIS searches do return the documents with the highest "score" at the top, those documents will have the closest relevance. Q16: When linking the Unix gopher server with WAIS I get undefined symbols, such as: log_file_name logfile PrintStatus find_value Sources NumSources A17: This happens if you make gopherd before linking in the WAIS ir/ui directories. The fix is to "make clean" or remove gopherd/{waisgopher.o,Waisindex.o} and then remake gopherd. Or link the ir/ui directories first. Q18: Why don't my WAIS indexes work? I never get anything back for searches. or Why do I get "Dangling file" error messages in my logfile? A18: The problem could be in the server. The server should be run using the -c option if you want WAIS to work. Another solution is to patch the WAIS code so that it doesn't check the files on the disk. Search the gopher-news archive for "dangling". This will turn up a single document with the patch. Q19: My gopher server doesn't work under inetd, why? A19: It could be that your inetd server only supports a limited amount of arguments. For instance, the maximum number of arguments to an inetd server is 5. You can get around this by combining arguments: i.e. gopherd -I -c becomes: gopherd -Ic You may also leave the port specifier off of the command line. The gopher server automagically finds out the port it's running on. "archie - An Electronic Directory Service for the Internet" Peter Deutsch, Computing Centre, McGill University. email: peterd@cc.mcgill.ca Introduction Few other areas in the field of computer science hold out such promise for significant performance gains in the coming years as the field of computer networking. While even a single computer allows the user to access and process information faster and more accurately than ever before, joining large numbers of such computers together with the communications tools needed for users to easily share information and resources promises the prospect of a true "electronic highway" for information exchange unlike anything seen to date. A principal requirement for the creation of this brave new world of networked information was the creation of a standard set of protocols and communication mechanisms to allow users on disparate networks to share information. Such mechanisms have allowed the creation of the Internet, a global network of networks that now span the globe, connecting millions of users on hundreds of thousands of computers. The Internet now connects universities, colleges and other centres of learning with commercial research and development groups throughout the world. It serves as both a live testbed for on-going networking research and a daily communications tool for thousands of users in fields far removed from networking and computer science. One recent survey estimates that the Internet currently has over 535,000 attached hosts in over 30 countries, with a user community estimated at over three million people. The existence of this global information service has in turn spurred the development of mechanisms for locating and exchanging information. Distributed file systems, on-line file archiving mechanisms, electronic mail and bulletin boards and expert systems for locating and accessing technical expertise are all services that exist now on the Internet. The huge size (and continued rapid growth) of the Internet offer a particular challenge to systems designers and service providers in this new environment. Before a user can effectively exploit any of the services offered by the Internet community the user must be aware of both the existence of the service and the host or hosts on which it is available. Adequately addressing this "resource discovery problem" is a central challenge for both service providers and users wishing to capitalize on the possibilities of the Internet. What is the archie service? The archie service is a collection of resource discovery tools that together provide an electronic directory service for locating information in an Internet environment. Originally created to track the contents of anonymous ftp archive sites, the archie service is now being expanded to include a variety of other on-line directories and resource listings. Users can access an archie server either through interactive sessions (provided they have a direct Internet connection) or through queries sent via electronic mail messages (provided they can at least gateway electronic mail messages onto the Internet). Interactive access to archie may be through a conventional telnet session to a machine running an archie server or through a program that has been integrated into a larger system, such as the Prospero network distributed file system. Additional stand-alone clients are now being tested and are available over the network. Why use archie? The existence of the archie service allow those seeking information maintained by an archie server to limit their network search to a set of questions to a known server. The responses in turn offer pointers to specific Internet service providers. Once the existence and location of specific information or services has been determined using archie, traditional networking tools can be used for final access. Programs have already been created that integrate an archie client with the ftp file transfer program or into larger information access services. This allows a user to first locate and then access information from archie sites using a single program. The archie service today Currently, archie tracks the contents of over 800 anonymous ftp archive sites containing some 1,000,000 files throughout the Internet. Collectively, these files represent well over 50 Gigabytes (50,000,000,000 bytes) of information, with additional information being added daily. Anonymous ftp archive sites offer software, data and other information that can be copied and used without charge by anyone with connection to the Internet. The archie server automatically updates the listing information from each site about once a month, ensuring users that the information they receive is reasonably timely, without imposing an undue load on the archive sites or network bandwidth. The "whatis" database In addition to offering access to anonymous ftp listings, archie also permits access to the "whatis" description database. This database is a collection of descriptions that includes the name and a brief synopsis for over 3,500 public domain software packages, datasets and informational documents located on the Internet. Additional "whatis" databases are scheduled to be added in the coming months. Planned offerings include listings for the names and locations of on- line library catalogue programs, the names of publicly accessible electronic mailing lists and compilations of Frequently Asked Questions lists and archive sites for the most popular Usenet "newsgroups" or bulletin boards. Suggestions for additional descriptions or locations databases are welcomed and should be sent to the archie developers at "archie-l@archie.mcgill.ca". Service providers are also encouraged to send in details of their offerings to the archie maintainers so that the server tracking software can be configured to automatically perform updates when site information changes. An automatic registration mechanism has also been proposed that would allow service providers to make their service available without human intervention. This feature is expected to be integrated into an upcoming release. Using archie Users with direct Internet connectivity can try out an interactive archie server using the basic "telnet" command (available at most sites). To use, telnet to the host "archie.mcgill.ca" and login as user "archie" (there is no password needed). A banner message giving latest developments and information on the archie project will be displayed and then the command prompt will appear. First-time users should try the "help" command to get started. {Other archie sites are listed in the article on Special Internet Services} Users with only email connectivity to the Internet should send a message to "archie@archie.mcgill.ca", with the single word "help" in either the subject line or body of the message. You should receive back an email message explaining how to use the email archie server, along with details of an email- based ftp server operated by Digital Equipment Corporation that will perform ftp transfers through email requests. Demo archie clients are stored on archie.mcgill.ca in the subdirectory "archie/clients" and may be obtained using anonymous ftp. There are several such clients and others are currently being tested. Additional work is planned in this area in the coming months and details will be announced in the archie banner message displayed on login. Documentation for the archie system is still limited, but what there is is also available for anonymous ftp from the same host under the directory "archie/pub". Miscellaneous Information The archie service began as a project for students and volunteer staff at the McGill University School of Computer Science. It is now offered as a network resource by a number of sites. At the time this article was prepared, archie servers are being operated as "archie.mcgill.ca" (by McGill University in Montreal, Canada), "archie.funet.fi" (by FUnet in Finland) and "archie.au" (by AARnet in Australia). The source to the archie project has been distributed to a number of U.S. sites and additional North American servers are expected to be operational soon. The archie project continues to grow in part because of the feedback and response from users. Suggestions for improvements and additional features are especially welcome. Please let us know what you think... Contacting the archie people Email addresses: Please send comments, suggestions and bug reports to "archie- l@archie.mcgill.ca". This address reaches the implementors of archie. There is also the "archie-people@archie.mcgill.ca" mailing list. This list is for people interested in developments and progress of the archie project and is open to all who wish to subscribe. Surface mail address: UNIX Support Group, Computing Centre, McGill University, room 200, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec CANADA H3A 2K6 Phone: (514) 398-3709 Veronica: an Archie for Gopher This is a new service that should help to relieve the resource-discovery bottleneck in the rapidly-expanding gopher web. It adds global indexing (by title keywords) to gopher's distributed information model. Introductory announcement follows: About the Veronica service VERONICA: Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives. Veronica offers a keyword search of most gopher-server menus in the entire gopher web. As Archie is to ftp archives, Veronica is to gopherspace. Unlike Archie, the search results can connect you directly to the data source. Imagine an Archie search that lets you select the data, not just the host sites, directly from a menu. Because Veronica is accessed through a gopher client, it is easy to use, and gives access to all types of data supported by the gopher protocol. Veronica was designed as a response to the problem of resource discovery in the rapidly-expanding gopher web. Frustrated comments in the net news- groups have recently reflected the need for such a service. Additional motivation came from the comments of naive gopher users, several of whom assumed that a simple-to-use service would provide a means to find resources "without having to know where they are." The result of a Veronica search is an automatically-generated gopher menu, customized according to the user's keyword specification. Items on this menu may be drawn from many gopher servers. These are functional gopher items, immediately accessible via the gopher client ... just double-click to open directories, read files, or perform other searches -- across hundreds of gopher servers. You need never know which server is actually involved in filling your request for information. Items that are appear particularly interesting can be saved in the user's bookmark list. Notice that these are NOT full-text searches of data at gopher-server sites, just as Archie does not index the contents of ftp sites, but only the names of files at those sites. Veronica indexes the TITLES on all levels of the menus, for most gopher sites in the Internet. 258 gophers are indexed by Veronica on Nov. 17, 1992; we have discovered over 500 servers and will index the full set in the near future. We hope that Veronica will encourage gopher administrators to use very descriptive titles on their menus. To try Veronica, select it from the "Other Gophers" menu on Minnesota's gopher server, or point your gopher at: Name=Veronica (search menu items in most of GopherSpace) Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Veronica Host=futique.scs.unr.edu Veronica is an experimental service, developed by Steve Foster and Fred Barrie at University of Nevada. As we expect that the load will soon outgrow our hardware, we will distribute the Veronica service across other sites in the near future. Please address comments to: gophadm@futique.scs.unr.edu Questions About Network Resources The problem of sharing information about Internet resources is one that many, many people and organizations are trying to deal with. There has been a tendency for every organization who needs a document such as the one you describe to create one of their own, which takes (as you are undoubtedly finding out) an incredible amount of work - as a result there are several such documents around the community these days, so you really don't have to start from scratch. There are at least two national organizations that are trying to deal with the issue of duplication of effort in creating documentation and the general of issue of providing info about resources on the Internet. FARNET's (federation of American Research Networks) U-NICS committee (User and NIC Services) has taken as their primary project the creation of a set of "boilerplate" documents, pulled from their members; to address the issues of attribution and copyright and cost recovery for redistribution... IETF's User Services Area has several working groups which are looking at many similar issues, such as creating a living bibliography of Internet Information and a glossary of terms. While I'd like to be able to point you to a single source of info, unfortunately, the internet support structure isn't that integrated as yet, so let me point you to several locations for the info you are looking for. You will undoubtedly find more sources than these - and these tend to provide information on many kinds of resources, not specifically aimed at the sciences. Let me remind you that while all this information is available on the net, its been put together with considerable effort and attribution of the author is required for use. NYSERNET - the regional network in NY has an excellent user guide contact Jim Luckett, luckett@nysernet.org NorthWestNet - the regional network based in Washington state has another excellent user guide, contact Eric Hood, ehood@nwnet.net RFC1175 - bibliography of Internetworking Information, available via anonymous ftp from several locales, try nis.nsf.net, cd rfc Internet Resource Guide - created by NSFNet Network Service Center via anonymous ftp, nnsf.nsf.net, cd resource-guide (you can also get the rfc's from here - for general information, you will want to look at the entire FYI series of info, retrieve the file fyi-index.txt) Public Information Networks (Freenets) Cleveland Freenet (Cleveland, OH) telnet freenet-in-[a,b, or c].cwru.edu or hela.ins.cwru Login as visitor Heartland Freenet (Peoria, IL) telnet heartland.bradley.edu login as bbguest Youngstown Freenet (Youngstown, OH) telnet yfn.ysu.edu login as visitor Prairienet (prototype, Champaign, IL) telnet gpx.lis.uiuc.edu login as visitor; password is guest Lorain County Freenet (Elyria, OH) telnet freenet.lorain.oberlin.edu login as guest Denver Freenet (Denver, CO) telnet freenet.hsc.colorado.edu login as guest Tallahassee Freenet (Tallahassee, FL) telnet freenet.fsu.edu login as visitor Victoria Freenet (Victoria, BC, Canada) telnet freenet.victoria.bc.ca login as guest National Capital Freenet (Ottawa, CA) telnet freenet.carleton.ca login as guest CapAccess: National Capital Area Public Access Network telnet cap.gwu.edu login as guest, password is visitor TriState Online telnet cbos.uc.edu Login as visitor MINING THE INTERNET The electronic event "Mining the Internet" and the workshops "Using the Internet" A & B, were introduced at CECC Computing Workshops '91, a conference held at the University of California, Davis on August 10-12 1991. (CECC = California Educational Computing Consortium.) The concept and materials were developed by Computing Services, UC Davis. The "Using the Internet" workshops were intended to provide an informational basis for the electronic event/competition held on the last day of the conference. Two versions of the workshop were offered (featuring different exercises) to reduce network traffic and distribute the load evenly on local and remote computers. The documents "Using the Internet" A & B were created with Microsoft Word on an Apple Macintosh microcomputer. The document "Mining the Internet" was created with Aldus PageMaker, also on a Macintosh. These training materials are available in PostScript form for non-profit purposes by educational institutions that request them. They are distributed free of charge. Postscript files can be obtained via anonymous FTP to ucdavis.edu under the directory ucd.netdocs/mining. Macintosh source files in binhex form are available via e-mail. UC Davis has found that the concept of Mining the Internet and the workshops provide excellent training in the use of the Internet. If you use the concept or adapt the documents, please send us a brief note containing the following information: 1. Your name, institution, address, phone number, and e-mail address. 2. The source(s) from which you learned about our training materials. 3. The purpose(s) for which you expect to adapt them. Send your comments and requests for the electronic source files (in Macintosh binhex form if you need them) to: Gee Lee Publications Manager Computing Services University of California Davis, CA 95616-8563 (916) 752-1928 INTERNET: gblee@ucdavis.edu BITNET: gblee@ucdavis You should note that the Mining the Internet package has numerous system- dependent features. If you plan to use this training package, you may wish to change the language and adapt the exercises to suit your local circumstances. We suggest that you contact the systems administrators of the remote sites with dates, times, number of users, etc. These materials are provided as-is, without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, respecting the contents of the document, including but not limited to implied warranties for the document's quality, performance, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Neither the author nor any other party shall be liable to the user or any other person or entity with respect to any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this document. All registered trade marks and trade names are the property of their respective owners. Information Sources: the Internet and Computer Mediated Communication This is a list of information sources on the Internet and computer-mediated communication (CMC). This list (Release 1.5 or the most recent version) is available via anonymous ftp from: host: ftp.rpi.edu file: pub/communications/internet-cmc The purpose of this file is to list pointers to information describing the Internet, computer networks, and issues related to computer-mediated communication (CMC). Topics of interest include the technical, social, cognitive, and psychological aspects of CMC. This file might help those getting started in understanding the Internet and CMC; it compactly summarizes sources of information for those who are already exploring these issues. Contents: Section -1- THE INTERNET AND SERVICES Section -2- INFORMATION SERVICES/ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS Section -3- SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS Section -4- NEWSGROUPS Section -1- THE INTERNET AND SERVICES This section lists information about the Internet, services available on it, and topics related to computer networking. The "POPULAR TOPICS" subsection lists information that is frequently requested. Title Site Directory New User's Questions ftp.nisc.sri.com fyi/fyi4.txt Zen & Art of Internet ftp.cs.widener.edu pub/zen/ NWNet Internet Guide ftphost.nwnet.net nic/nwnet/user-guide/ Gold in Networks! ftp.nisc.sri.com rfc/rfc1290.txt Hitchhikers Guide ftp.nisc.sri.com rfc/rfc1118.txt Internet Resource Guide nnsc.nsf.net resource-guide/ CERF Net Guide nic.cerf.net cerfnet/ NYSER Net Guide nysernet.org pub/guides/ DDN New User Guide nic.ddn.mil netinfo/nug.doc Incomplete Guide to the Internet zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu education/ Info Respository Site Directory RFCs ftp.nisc.sri.com rfc/rfc-index.txt FYIs ftp.nisc.sri.com fyi/fyi-index.txt Network Info Center nic.ddn.mil netinfo/ UUNET archive ftp.uu.net uunet-info/ Telecomm Archives lcs.mit.edu telecom-archives/ Usenet Repository pit-manager.mit.edu pub/usenet/ Networking Info Site Directory Network Reading List ftp.uu.net inet/doc/ Internetworking Guides ra.msstate.edu pub/docs/ List of FTP Sites pilot.njin.net pub/ftp-list/ NREN Information nis.nsf.net nsfnet/ Services Info Site Directory Yanoff Services List csd4.csd.uwm.edu pub/inet.services.txt WAIS information think.com wais/ Public access UNIX gvl.unisys.com pub/nixpub/long Internet access BBS wuarchive.wustl.edu pub/ WorldWideWeb info.cern.ch pub/www/doc/the_www_book.* Gopher boombox.micro.umn.edu pub/gopher/ Dialup BBS list wuarchive.wustl.edu mirrors/msdos/bbslists Network Service Guides ftp.sura.net pub/nic/network.service.guides/ List of Whois Servers sipb.mit.edu pub/whois/whois-servers.list HYTELNET access.usask.ca pub/hytelnet/pc Directories Site Directory Electronic Journals ftp.eff.org pub/journals/ Barron Library Catalogs ftp.unt.edu library/ St. George Lib Catalogs nic.cerf.net cerfnet/cerfnet_info/library_catalog/ Technical Reports daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au pub/techreports Interest Groups List ftp.nisc.sri.com netinfo/interest-groups Dartmouth Merged SIGL dartcms1.dartmouth.edu siglists/ Popular Topics Site Directory College Email addresses pit-manager.mit.edu pub/usenet/soc.college/ Current Weathermap GIF vmd.cso.uiuc.edu wx/sa* Whois Registration nic.ddn.mil netinfo/user-template.txt Section -2- INFORMATION SERVICES/ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS This section lists sources of information devoted to the study of computer mediated communication (CMC) and computer network technology. Below the description of the services and journals are tables describing online access if it is available. [see also DIRECTORIES/Electronic Journals in Section -1-] Information Services/Electronic Publications Comserve. An electronic information service for people interested in human communication studies. Current Cites. A journal which provides citations and brief annotations for articles from 30 journals in networks and information and computer technology. Electronic Journal of Communication / La Revue Electronique de Communication (EJC/REC). Covers communication theory, research, practice, and policy. EJournal. Concerned with implications of electronic networks and texts. HCIBIB. A mail-based retrieval system interface to a database related to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The database now contains over 3000 abstracts related to HCI Netweaver. The Newsletter of the Electronic Networking Association. LISTSERV. A mailing-list server which was designed to make group communication easier. CNIDIR Coalition for Networked Information Working Group on Directories. NETSCOUT "A forum for the general user of the BitNet and/or the Internet to discuss and exchange information about Servers, FTP sites, Filelists, lists, tools and any related aspects." Matrix News (paper newsletter, but partially online) Covers crossnetwork issues. Some back articles, editorials, and indices available online. NET-TRAIN is "a discussion list for librarians, academic department computer jocks, computing and information services people--anyone who is involved in training or support of others in using the resources available on Bitnet and Internet." This is not a LISTSERVE mailing list. RFCs (Request For Comments). Documents about various issues for discussion, covering a broad range of networking issues. JOURNAL/SERVICE Access with email to Body of letter(Name = your full name) Comserve comserve@vm.ecs.rpi.edu Send Comserve Helpfile CMC notes comserve@vm.ecs.rpi.edu Send CMC Notebook EJC/REC comserve@vm.ecs.rpi.edu Directory EJCREC EJournal listserv@albnyvm1.bitnet Subscribe EJRNL Name HCIBIB hcibib@rumpus.colorado.edu query: Netweaver comserve@vm.ecs.rpi.edu Send Netweave Winter91 RFCs rfc-info@isi.edu help: ways_to_get_rfcs LISTSERV listserv@uacsc2.albany.edu send listserv memo NET-TRAIN millesjg@sluvca.slu.edu Subject: NET-TRAIN CNIDIR listserv@unmvma.bitnet Subscribe CNIDIR-L Name NETSCOUT listserv@unmvma.bitnet Subscribe NETSCOUT-L Name JOURNAL/SERVICE/DOC ANONYMOUS FTP HOST FILE OR DIRECTORY/ Current Cites a.cni.org current.cites/ Matrix News (parts) quake.think.com pub/mids/matrix_news/ Discussion of Comp Conf ftp.nisc.sri.com rfc/rfc1324.txt Section -3- SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS This section lists societies and organizations which are concerned with issues of electronic information and communication. Below the description of each organization is a table describing online access to more information if it is available. Societies and Organizations Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR): alliance of computer professionals who discuss the impact of computer technology on society. (Contact: cpsr@csli.stanford.edu). Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): public interest organization to educate public about computer and communication technologies; works on public policies. The Internet Society (ISOC): supports the development of the Internet and promotes education and applications. Electronic Networking Association (ENA): "...to promote electronic networking in ways that enrich individuals, enhance organizations, and build global communities." INFO FOR ANONYMOUS FTP HOST FILE OR DIRECTORY/ EFF ftp.eff.org pub/EFF ISOC nnsc.nsf.net internet-society/ Directory of Ejournals available for anonymous ftp Edition 2.1 of Michael Strangelove's Revised Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters is now available for anonymous ftp from the LIBrary SOFTware archives at: hydra.uwo.ca as file EJOURNALS.TXT in the /LIBSOFT directory The EJOURNL package includes Michael Strangelove's <441495@Acadvm1.UOttawa.CA> two-part Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters. The file EJOURNL1.DIRECTRY includes: >>> Section 1: Information <<< Introduction How to Retrieve This Directory From Networked Sources Networked Resources for Electronic Publication Electronic Serials and Related Topics: A Brief Bibliography How to Submit an Entry to the Directory Getting an ISSN for an Electronic Journal How to Start an E-Newsletter PACS-L Review Special Issue on Networked Based E-Serials Changes to the Second Edition >>> Section 2: Electronic Journals <<< Inactive Electronic Journals Active Journals The file EJOURNL2.DIRECTRY includes: >>> Section 3: Electronic Newsletters <<< >>> Section 4: Hypercard Stacks, Digest-Newsletters and Others <<< To retrieve this complete distribution of files, in 7 parts to accommodate mailing, include: SENDME EJOURNL in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SSHU.edu). To retrieve a specific journal, such as EJOURNL1.DIRECTRY, or to retrieve a specific file, such as EJOURNL.DIRECTRY1_1OF3, include: SENDME EJOURNL.DIRECTRY1* SENDME EJOURNL.DIRECTRY1_1OF3 respectively, in your mail message to FILESERV. The complete, uncut versions of these files (EJOURNL1.DIRECTRY and EJOURNL2.DIRECTRY) are available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8). EJOURNL.DIRECTRY1_1OF3 77 Concatenate parts 1-3 to create EJOURNL.DIRECTRY1_2OF3 73 EJOURNL1.DIRECTRY EJOURNL.DIRECTRY1_3OF3 74 EJOURNL.DIRECTRY2_1OF4 79 Concatenate parts 1-4 to create EJOURNL.DIRECTRY2_2OF4 79 EJOURNL2.DIRECTRY EJOURNL.DIRECTRY2_3OF4 76 EJOURNL.DIRECTRY2_4OF4 39 Approximate total blocks in full EJOURNL package = 497 Internet Access for Individuals Someone asked about the opportunities for individuals to get access to the Internet. The opportunities keep expanding. For instance, in New York, NYSERnet provides a service aimed at individuals. In the December 1991 issue of NYSERnet User, this new NYSERnet service is mentioned. called NYSERLink, it provides dialup mail-only access to the Internet. For a flat fee (unspecified), you get unlimited message volume. There seem to be dialup points-of-presence (POPs) in about 9 places, with more planned. Phone (315) 443-4120 or send e-mail to info@nysernet.org. Other regional networks, such as PREPnet, BARRnet, and SURAnet have been adding low-end access services. I have attached a list I made up last spring (and therefore certainly out-of- date as far as details are concerned) of outfits that provide Internet access to non-academic users. PSInet (run by the same organization -- PSI -- that runs NYSERnet) certainly offers dial-up access in a number of cities. UUNET may also have low-end arrangements suitable for an individual subscription. As far as I know, ANS is more interested in high-volume customers. Caroline Arms Head, Microcomputer & Media Center Falk Library of the Health Sciences University of Pittsburgh cra@med.pitt.edu ANS Advanced Network & Services, Inc. * Non-profit organization founded in late 1990 by Merit, IBM, and MCI to operate NSFnet * For advancement of education and research * Incorporates all costs into single yearly fee * 24-hour monitoring of equipment * Also offers R&D and consulting in high-speed networking * T3, T1, and 56K bits/second (no dialup) Contact: Peter O'Neil Director, Client Services 100 Clearbrook Road Elmsford, NY 10523 (914) 789-5329 oneil@nis.ans.net PSINet Performance Systems International, Inc. Founded by team that developed NYSERNet -- operates NYSERNet Offers access to USENET and TCP/IP network to any organization Turnkey service with annual fee Access to other TCP/IP networks requires compliance with acceptable use policies T1, 56K, 9600 baud, + individual dial-up for terminals or PCs Contact: 11800 Sunrise Valley Drive Suite 1100 Reston, VA 22091 (800) 82PSI82 info@psi.com Alternet UUNET Technologies, Inc. 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Jan 1991 Alice in Wonderland (alice29x.xxx) Feb 1991 Through the Looking Glass (lglass16.xxx) Mar 1991 The Hunting of the Snark (snark12x.xxx) Apr 1991 1990 CIA World Factbook (world12x.xxx) May 1991 Moby Dick (From OBI)* (mobyxxxx.xxx) Jun 1991 Peter Pan (for US only)** (peter14a.xxx) Jul 1991 The Book of Mormon (mormon13.xxx) Aug 1991 The Federalist Papers (feder12x.xxx) Sep 1991 The Song of Hiawatha (hisong11.xxx) Oct 1991 Paradise Lost (plboss11.xxx) Nov 1991 Aesop's Fables (aesop11x.xxx) Dec 1991 Roget's Thesaurus (roget11x.xxx) Dec 1991 Roget's Thesaurus (roget12x.xxx) (These two Roget's are not exactly the same) *Moby Dick is missing Chapter 72 **Please do not download Peter Pan outside the US Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext Illinois Benedictine College, Lisle, IL 60532 No official connection to U of Illinois--UIUC hart @uiucvmd.bitnet or hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu HYTELNET version 6.3 1. Announcement of version 6.3 (October 15/1992) 2. Announcement of version 6.3 for the Mac (October 16/1991) 3. Other ftp sites holding version 6.3 (October 17/1992) 1. Announcement of version 6.3 (October 15/1992) HYTELNET version 6.3, the utility which gives an IBM-PC user instant-access to all Internet-accessible library catalogs, FREE-NETS, CWISs, BBSs, Gophers, WAIS, etc. is now available. You can get it via anonymous ftp from: access.usask.ca in the pub/hytelnet/pc subdirectory. It is listed as HYTELN63.ZIP. Version 6.3 is a major upgrade. Much redundant information has been deleted, and errors have been corrected. New subdirectories have been added, which has meant that many files now have a more meaningful home. Also all the new/updated files created since Version 6.2 have been incorporated. Note: the UNZIPPED files total over 1.2 mb...but remember, you can always edit out any information you do not need, in order to save space. Information from Roy Tennant follows, slightly edited, describing how toobtain HYTELNET 6.3 from the ftp site. TO RETRIEVE HYTELNET: At your system prompt, enter: ftp access.usask.ca or ftp 128.233.3.1 When you receive the Name prompt, enter: anonymous When you receive the password prompt, enter your Internet address. When you are at the ftp> prompt, enter: binary At the next ftp> prompt, enter: cd pub/hytelnet/pc Then enter: get hyteln63.zip After the transfer has occurred, either proceed with the instructions below to retrieve the UNZIP utility (which you need unless you already have it) or enter: quit The Hytelnet program is archived using a ZIP utility. To unarchive it, you must be able to "unzip" the file. If you have the file PKUNZIP.EXE, it will unarchive the HYTELN63.ZIP file (see below for instructions). If you do not have it, you may retrieve it with by following these instructions: TO RETRIEVE PKUNZIP: Use the above instructions for connecting to access.usask.ca At the ftp> prompt, enter: binary Then enter: cd pub/hytelnet/pc Then enter: get pkunzip.exe After the transfer has occurred, enter: quit TO DOWNLOAD IT TO YOUR PC: Because of the plethora of PC communications programs, I will not attempt to give step-by-step instructions here. You should check the instructions for your software for downloading a *binary* file from your Internet account to your PC. TO UNARCHIVE HYTELN63.ZIP: Make a new directory on your hard disk (e.g., mkdir hytelnet). Copy PKUNZIP.EXE and HYTELN63.ZIP into the new directory. Make sure you are in that directory, then enter: pkunzip HYTELN63. It will then unarchive HYTELN63.ZIP, which contains the following files: HYTELNET.ZIP READNOW The file READNOW. gives full instructions for un-archiving HYTELNET.ZIP. Simply put, you **MUST** unZIP the file with the -d parameter so that all the subdirectories will be recursed. To use HYTELNET, you should refer to the instructions in the release announcement by Peter Scott, or to the README file included with the package. PLEASE NOTE that I offer the above instructions as a service for those who are unfamiliar with the steps required to download and use files from network sources. I cannot be responsible for any local variations in these procedures which may exist. Please contact your local computer support staff if you have difficulty performing these tasks. The UNIX/VMS version, created by Earl Fogel, is available for browsing by telnet to access.usask.ca login with hytelnet (lower case). For more information on this version contact Earl at: fogel@skyfox.usask.ca. 2. Announcement of version 6.3 for the Mac (October 16/1991) From: burchil@ccu.UManitoba.CA "Charles Andrew Burchill" Notice of Upgrade to Hytelnet for the Macintosh. version 6.3.0 This version will work over a network, and will be able to use the IBM PC data files. The numbering system and directory structure are the same as the PC version. If you want a copy of this version of Hytelnet please send a note to Charles Burchill 3. Search of Most FTP sites (archie) 4. Keyword Search of Entries in FTP Menus 5. FTP.CSO: University of Illinois CCSO's Main FTP Server/ 6. FTP.NCSA: University of Illinois NCSA's Main FTP Server/ 7. UXC: University of Illinois/ 8. Boombox at Minnesota, Home of the Gopher and POPmail/ 9. Type in the ftp site name for direct access 10. Wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 GNU, X.11R3, GIF, IEN, RFCs,/ 11. Popular FTP Sites via Gopher/ 12. FTP sites that start with 'a'/ 13. b/ 14. c/ 15. d/ 16. e/ 17. f/ 18. g/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/3 One option (number 3 in the above example) lists a Search of Most FTP Sites. This is the Archie function. Once you select it, you will be asked to enter keywords. In this example, we will search for files containing the word "automobile." We respond as follows... Index word(s) to search for: automobile It takes several seconds to several minutes for Archie to search worldwide for your request. The time depends on the complexity of your request, and the amount of network traffic at the time you make your request. Requests during the day tend to take considerably longer than those at off-peak hours. This search found two items, which are then listed in the following Gopher menu. Internet Gopher Information Client v1.03 Search of Most FTP sites (archie): automobile --> 1. ..alt/alt.american.automobile.breakdown.breakdown.breakdown.Z 2. ..alt/alt.american.automobile.breakdown.breakdown.breakdown.Z Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 These are the two files found by Archie in its search. You have several options at this point. First, if you know immediately that you wish to transfer a file, simply choose the appropriate file. Gopher will ask you to specify a name for the file in your personal directory, and then will transfer the file directly to your own directory. However, you may instead wish to know more information about the file. This is available by choosing Display Technical Information About Current Item Your help file should let you know how to choose this option. On many computers the choice is made by pressing the "equals" key("="). Other systems use "Command-I" or another key. See your help file for more information. When you display the technical information, you will see a screen like the following. Name=ftp.uu.net@/usenet/control/alt/alt.american.automobile.breakdown.breakdow n. breakdown.Z Type=9 Port=7997 Path=ftp.uu.net@/usenet/control/alt/alt.american.automobile.breakdown.breakdow n. breakdown.Z Host=gopher.uiuc.edu Press to continue, to mail, to save: While the entire machine name and path may not have appeared on the Gopher menu, it will appear here. The machine name is that portion of the "Name" and "Path" lines preceding the "@" symbol. Then, within that machine, the desired file is found at the location indicated after the "@" symbol. In this example, the file is contained on a machine called ftp.uu.net and, on that machine, the file is in the directory /usenet/control/alt The file itself is named... alt.american.automobile.breakdown.breakdown.breakdown.Z (For more information about Unix directories and the naming of files, see the section of this manual which discusses Unix and its file structure.) From this point, return to the earlier menu by pressing . without Gopher Many systems now allow Archie to be used outside of Gopher, in command-line mode of Unix. Here, we will perform a search of all files at all FTP sites containing the word "flower." This procedure is simple. At the Unix prompt, simply type landrew.ncsa.uiuc.edu% archie flower (Only the boldface words should be typed. The prompt is shown above simply to add proper context to the command.) You will see output similar to the following. landrew.ncsa.uiuc.edu_51% archie flower Host ic16.ee.umanitoba.ca Location: /pub/Database/Images/Grey/People/512x480 FILE -rwxr-xr-x 245792 Dec 8 20:31 flower Host ipl.rpi.edu Location: /pub/image/still/canon/bgr FILE -rw-r--r-- 737312 Jun 3 1990 flower Location: /pub/image/still/canon/color FILE -rw-r--r-- 737312 Nov 22 1989 flower Location: /pub/image/still/canon/gray FILE -rw-r--r-- 245792 Nov 22 1989 flower Host sparc01.cc.ncsu.edu Location: /mirrors/wustl/graphics/gif/f FILE -rw-rw-r-- 230750 Feb 5 1992 flower Host think.com Location: /mail/joy-abuse/rochester FILE -r--r--r-- 1193 Oct 22 1990 flower Host wuarchive.wustl.edu Location: /graphics/gif/f FILE -rw-rw-r-- 230750 Feb 5 1992 flower landrew.ncsa.uiuc.edu_52% You will see on the screen, the various files, listed by host. Each host name is listed, and then the location of each file is listed under each host, as shown above. The actual FILE listings follow the format of full-length Unix directory listings, beginning with access information, followed by file size, creation date, and name. Note that each of these files is an exact match. That is, its name is the exact word "flower." Archie will also find those files for which "flower," is only part of the name, such as "flower bed" or "Mayflower." The search algorithms for Gopher-based Archie and command-line Archie are slightly different, and thus may yield slightly different results. Similarly, Archie searches may show small differences from machine to machine. From this point, the user may use FTP commands to access the desired files. GOPHER Gopher is an extremely easy to use information retrieval system . One can look around for information on the Internet quickly and easily using Gopher. Information can be searched for and accessed using an intuitive menu driven interface. Where is the information stored? Information is stored on different servers which are all networked together. There are a large number of servers that are already on the gopher system , and more servers are being added on to the Gopher system rapidly. Many academic institutions (and many departments within them) have gopher servers. How do you access the information? Select the gopher server which you want to explore .This can be done by either using the cursor keys to move onto the number, or by typing the number before the server. To go back up a menu hit "u". The "?" key can be used for online help anytime. These above mentioned 3 keys are also listed at the bottom of the screen for reference. To scroll from one page to the next, the "page down" key can be used. (On Keyboards without this key, the ">" key or the spacebar can be used). Don't worry if you don't understand what all this means now; this will all become clear after we try out a gopher session! A Gopher Session : Type "gopher" at the Unix prompt. A similar screen appears: Internet Gopher Information Client v1.03 Root gopher server: gopher.ncsa.uiuc.edu -> 1. About NCSA'S gopher. 2. MetaCenter High Performance Computing and Communications Calendar. 3. HPCC Logical Library System (Enter 'hpcc' at login prompt) 4. MetaCenter Contacts Directory. 5. NSF MetaCenter/ 6. UIUC Gopher Information Service/ 7. The Rest of the Gopher World/ 8. Education Reports at NCSA/ 9. Activity Reports for this Server/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 The menu on the previous page is also referred to as the root menu.The "/" symbols after the titles represent directories. Directories may contain files (which contain information) or subdirectories. Let's check out a few directories. Type "6" and press return to select the "UIUC Gopher Information Service". A screen similar to the one below shows up: Internet Gopher Information Client v1.03 UIUC Gopher Information Service --> 1. Welcome to the U of Illinois Gopher. 2. Campus Announcements (5/06/93)/ 3. What's New? (last update: 4/20/93)/ 4. Information about Gopher/ 5. Keyword Search of Gopher Menus 6. U of Illinois Campus Information/ 7. Champaign-Urbana & Regional Information/ 8. Computer Documentation, Software, and Information/ 9. Libraries and Reference Information/ 10. Newspapers, Newsletters, and Weather/ 11. Other Gopher and Information Servers/ 12. Phone Books (ph)/ 13. Internet File Server (ftp) Sites/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 Select " University of Illinois Campus Information" by pressing "6" and hitting "return". A screen similar to the one on the next page appears. You can then select any of the directories that interest you by typing the number before it and pressing return. (If nothing about the U of Illinois interests you, hit "u" to go back to the previous menu). Internet Gopher Information Client v1.03 U of Illinois Campus Information --> 1. About U of Illinois Campus Information. 2. Engineering Placement Office/ 3. Financial Aid and Student Employment/ 4. Course Timetables; Academic Calendars; Registration Information/ 5. Daily Illini Newspaper/ 6. Inside Illinois (the Faculty-Staff Newspaper) and PostMarks/ 7. Campus Safety and Crime Bulletins/ 8. Central Stores/ 9. Departmental Information/ 10. Lectures and Seminars/ 11. Campus Services & Facilities/ 12. Entertainment and the Arts/ 13. Sports and Recreation/ 14. Student Organizations/ 15. Faculty and Staff Organizations/ 16. Student Job Opportunities/ 17. Staff Employment/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/2 Try experimenting with different topics (directories). Once again, to back up, hit "u". An example using keyword searches. Let's say you wanted some information on the tennis faclities, or just tennis in general, at the University of Illinois. It would be rather time consuming to search through all the menus for information The "keyword search of Gopher Menus" option lets you search for all the menus with the string "tennis" in them. Lets try it out. Go back to the screen with "University of Illinois Campus Information" as the header. Select "Keyword Search of Gopher Menus". You will be prompted to enter a word. Type in "tennis" and hit return. You should get a screen similar to the one on the next page. Internet Gopher Information Client v1.03 Keyword Search of Gopher Menus: tennis 1. THIS SEARCH DOES NOT RETURN ITEMS ADDED SINCE 2AM 2. Atkins Tennis Center/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 %Select "Atkins Tennis Center" for the information you need. One more example (long, but informative): Looking Around for Indian Restaurants using Gopher %Select "The Rest of the Gopher World" from the root gopher menu. %Select "St. Olaf College". (you may have to scroll down several screens to do this) %Select "Databases" %Select "Omni-Cultural-Academic-Resource" %Select "Society-Culture-Religion" %Select "Variety of Info about Stuff on India" %Choose "Lists of Restaurants" from the menu And lo and behold, you get a list of Indian Restaurants! Additional Features: Bookmarks: Just as a bookmark in a book helps us find the page we were last reading much faster, bookmarks in gopher let us quickly access directories that we use often. Once we have the directory whose path we want to save , all we have to do is type "a" to add a directory to the list of bookmarks (or to create a bookmark for the first time). The next time you start up gopher, if you press "v" the list of bookmarks shows up. These keys are also mentioned in the online help. And you can select the directory or file that you need quickly without having to search through different menus. As you are sure to have realized by now, there is a tremendous amount of information available on gopher, but the problem is knowing where to look for it. Keyword searches go a long way in solving that problem. However, a far more powerful new tool called Veronica (which can be used within gopher) has been developed for that purpose. There is a separate tutorial on using Veronica in this manual. What is VERONICA? Gopher and TurboGopher are utilities which take the wealth of information on the Internet, and organize it into a hierarchical menu system. With Gopher, users can more easily find the information they need. However, the amount of available information, and the number of available resources, is enormous. Worse yet, these resources are not centralized on one computer system; they are distributed among thousands of machines worldwide, each of which operates its own Gopher menu system. So what happens when you're searching for a certain item on the Internet, but don't quite know where it is? Under the current organization of the Internet, you would have to check the Gopher system at one location, then check the Gopher at another location, and repeat this search at each of the thousands of machines worldwide until you found your desired item. Fortunately, we have VERONICA to do this for us. VERONICA stands for (no kidding!) Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives. As its name suggests, it is an indexing and search system designed to be very easy and accessible, even to users with limited computer and/or network experience. How Does VERONICA Work? VERONICA is a tool to be used with Gopher or TurboGopher. Once you begin Gopher, VERONICA is simply a menu item, which you select just like any other menu item. When you select VERONICA, you provide a list of "keywords." VERONICA will search hundreds of different Gopher servers, looking for menu items which contain the keywords you specified. For example, if you asked VERONICA to search using the keyword "baseball," VERONICA would find all menu items in all known Gopher servers worldwide which contain the word "baseball." Note that VERONICA does not search the contents of every Internet resource; it merely searches the title of the resource as it would appear in a Gopher menu. For example, a VERONICA search for "baseball," as above, would not find a document whose Gopher menu title was "Babe Ruth," even though that document may contain the word "baseball." How Do I Use the Results of VERONICA Searches? When VERONICA is finished searching, it produces a Gopher menu listing all relevant items which match your request. You can choose any of these items and explore them further, just as you would in any other Gopher menu. OK! Let's Try It!!! Step-by-Step Tutorial for VERONICA... Begin a Gopher session. If you are using TurboGopher, simply begin the TurboGopher program. If you are in a Unix session, type gopher at the prompt. (If this is unsuccessful, type telnet gopher.uiuc.edu Respond as follows, typing the word gopher , as follows login: gopher ) You will see the following or a similar menu. Internet Gopher Information Client v1.03 Root gopher server: gopher.ncsa.uiuc.edu --> 1. About NCSA'S gopher. 2. MetaCenter High Performance Computing and Communications Calendar. 3. HPCC Logical Library System (Enter 'hpcc' at login prompt) 4. MetaCenter Contacts Directory. 5. NSF MetaCenter/ 6. UIUC Gopher Information Service/ 7. The Rest of the Gopher World/ 8. Education Programs at NCSA/ 9. Activity Reports for this Server/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 Choose the selection... 7. The Rest of the Gopher World (If your menu looks different from the above, there should be some choice referring to other gopher servers.) Eventually, (and hopefully immediately,) you will find a menu with a selection... Other Gopher and Information Servers Choose this option. You will see a menu like the following.. Internet Gopher Information Client v1.03 Other Gopher and Information Servers --> 1. All the Gopher Servers in the World/ 2. Search titles in Gopherspace using veronica/ 3. Africa/ 4. Asia/ 5. Europe/ 6. Middle East/ 7. North America/ 8. Pacific/ 9. South America/ 10. Terminal Based Information/ 11. WAIS Based Information/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 Your menu may differ from the above. If so, your menu probably contains the above choices and several others. In any case, these choices are locations of Gopher servers throughout the world. If you knew the exact location of your desired resource, you could retrieve it using these menus. For example, if you wanted a resource at the University of Notre Dame, you would choose North America from this menu, and then, from subsequent menus, USA, Indiana, and, finally, University of Notre Dame. You would then be connected to the Gopher server at Notre Dame, from which you could find any available resource there. We, however, do not know the location of our resource. We need VERONICA. Thus, choose Search titles in GopherSpace using VERONICA. If this or a similar title is not an option on your system, VERONICA may not yet be available on your system. Ask your system administrator. VERONICA, like many Internet software tools, is still in development. Thus, the next menu may present several versions of VERONICA which use slightly different searching algorithms. These may or may not be working at any given time, and they may or may not produce the same results. While this may not be comforting information for users, know that VERONICA searches are always becoming faster and more complete, and therefore more useful. Further, this development stage, and the inconveniences associated with it, are very necessary to this maintenance and improvement of VERONICA. Select any VERONICA search. It will ask you for a keyword. Suppose we are searching for information on robots. Thus, for a keyword, we will want to use the word "robot." Thus, after selecting a VERONICA search method, type robot as follows... Index word(s) to search for: robot TurboGopher will generate a window and leave you a space in which to type a word or words for searching. Depending on the complexity of the search, and the volume of traffic on the network, your search may take from several seconds to several minutes. When finished, you will see a new Gopher menu displaying the results of the search. Here is the result of the search we performed for the word "robot." Note that since the Internet is always being updated and changed, your search probably will not match this exactly. Internet Gopher Information Client v1.03 Search gopherspace by veronica at NYSERNet: robot --> 1. robot. 2. Robot (Penn State)/ 3. robot_carnival.script. 4. NASA Cancels Robot's Mission Into Volcano. 5. Area students take controls of deep-sea robot. 6. Howard A. Paul; Co-Inventor of Surgical Robot. 7. robowar-robot.. 8. robot pollueur. 9. robot pollueur. 10. BEAUDOIN.92Mar17145158@felix.ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca. 11. Arai T.: A Robot Language System with a Colour Graphic Simulator. 12. Findler N. V., Shaw J. N.: Multi-PIERRE - a Learning Robot System. 13. Kantabutra V., Kosaraju S. R.: Algorithms for robot arm movements. 14. Paul R. P.: Robot Manipulators: Mathematics, Programming, and Con. 15. Dooner M., Taylor N. K., Bonney M. C.: Planning Robot Installatio. 16. Heginbotham W. B.: How Computer Graphics Benefit Industrial Robot. 17. Asada H.: Dynamic analysis and design of robot manipulators using. 18. Jakopac D. E.: Robot programming assistant: A new approach to ass. Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/5 If you received an error such as "Could Not Connect," try using another VERONICA choice, or try again at a later time. Now, your search is complete, and these selections (actually, there are five pages of them--only page one is shown above) are now part of a Gopher menu, which can be accessed the same way as any other Gopher menu. Notes Boolean Searching Many systems offer Boolean searching on VERONICA. Boolean searching is the ability of a system to find more than one keyword in a given title. If, for example, you wished to search for all titles containing either the word "baseball" or the word "football," you could type "baseball or football" at the keyword prompt as follows... Index word(s) to search for: baseball or football This request would find all Gopher menu items containing the word "baseball" or the word "football." Similarly, you can find menu items containing both "baseball" and "football" by typing Index word(s) to search for: baseball and football Note that any terms involving more than one word should be searched using AND or OR terms. This includes terms of more than one word. For example, you can find menu items about "acid rain" by typing... Index word(s) to search for: acid and rain Contents of Search Results A Word of Warning After a VERONICA search is complete, you can begin exploring the items which it has found. However, you should remember that each item may come from any Gopher system in the world. Therefore, be wary of any phrases such as "on campus" or "downtown," or any words which describe a location or event as if it were nearby. Perhaps it is nearby for regular users of that Gopher system. That system, however, may be thousands of miles away, so you may be very far from that "downtown area" or from the "campus" to which the article refers. Be careful. From Where Did It Come? Which leads us to our next point. If the article may not have come from nearby, how do we know the origin of the information, and the Gopher system where VERONICA found it? This is an important question. Suppose we want to use this resource at a later date. We could do a VERONICA search once more, and have VERONICA find the resource for us again. But this could take several minutes. And in a worst-case scenario, it is possible that VERONICA may be temporarily disabled when you next need this resource. It would be easier and much faster if we could have VERONICA find an item the first time, and then we would know thereafter where to go to find it ourselves. Using the Gopher option Display Technical Information About Current Item we can usually find out the location from which the item came, as well as some other information about it. For example, after performing the "robot" search described above, we pointed to the first item in the list and (while still looking at the menu) chose Display Technical Information About Current Item On many machines this is achieved simply by pressing the equals key ("="). On other systems, you may use a key such as "Command-I"), or it may be a menu choice. In any case, after selecting this item, you will see information similar to the following... Name=robot Type=0 Port=70 Path=0/under-construction/uadv/robot Host=cwis.oac.uci.edu Press to continue, to mail, to save, or

to print: From this information, we can see that the information comes from the Gopher host named "cwis.oac.uci.edu" The suffix "edu" designates this host as being part of some educational facility. The portion "uci" probably designates the particular institution, such as the University of California at Irvine. However, it is not necessary to know the precise meanings of each of these terms. Were you to wish to read this document at a later date, you would connect to this machine using telnet cwis.oac.uci.edu (the name listed as the "host") and the login anonymous. You could then find the document in the designated path 0/under-construction/uadv/robot as listed in the path. You could then either read the document. If the item were a picture or directory, or other type of file, you could access it in the appropriate way, or use "ftp" to transfer it to your own computer for your personal use, if this is permitted. Jughead Jughead is a database of Gopher links. It accepts word searches and the search result can be used to access menus on either the W&L Gopher or on many remote Gophers. There are two Jughead databases on the W&L Gopher, one (on the main Gopher menu) indexes all menus at the W&L Gopher, and the other (on the "Other Gopher Resources" menu) indexes all Gopher sites but is selective in only including high-level menu items, and does not include any file-name menus. Searches may use AND, OR, NOT connectors (a space between search-words = AND) Multiple ANDs, ORs and NOTs are evaluated left to right Upper and lower case are ignored. Words may be truncated with an '*' as the last character of the root-word as in: SUPREME COURT = both supreme and court SUPREME AND COURT = both supreme and court LAW OR LEGAL = either law or legal CONSTIT* = any word beginning with 'constit' COURT NOT SUPREME = all entries with 'court' but excluding any with 'supreme' jughead supports some special commands, where each special command must be preceeded by a question mark '?', and are listed below: ?all what ?help [what] ?limit=n what ?range=n1-n2 what ?version [what] where 'what' is a standard search string, anything enclosed in square brackets is optional, and all special commands must be preceeded with '?'. And each command is described below: ?all what returns all the hits on 'what'. ?help [what] Gives you this document and any optional hits on 'what'. ?limit=n what Returns the 'n' items on 'what'. ?range=n1-n2 Returns items from 'n1' through 'n2' ?version[what] Returns the version of jughead and any optional hits on 'what'. Only 1 special command is supported per query, and if any syntax error is encountered it is reported as the title to this document. Currently there is no way to search on the words "AND", "OR", or "NOT"; nor is there a way to break an expression into a group of smaller expressions. All words are broken into smaller words if any word contains a whitespace character or one of the following characters: !"#$%&'()+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~ Thus if a menu item has the name "A sample.file", this is broken into the three words "A", "sample", and "file. So if your search statement is: "sample.file some_thing-else", your query gets broken into the statement: "sample AND file AND some AND thing AND else", which will only return those items with all these words in the menu. jughead is an acronym for: Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display