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************************************************************************** NETWORKS AND COMMUNITY :September 20, 1994 ************************************************************************** Networks and Community is a biweekly publication devoted to encouraging LOCAL resource creation & GLOBAL resource sharing. ************************************************************************** The 27th Report of 1994 is the 33rd Newsletter. ************************************************************************** ************************************************************************** Coverage in this issue includes: Notes News & Info Global Community Tools Classes & Meetings ########################################################################### Notes ########################################################################### The Internet keeps growing! If you want to observe the growth first hand, I would recommend that you subscribe to the Net-Happenings mailing list, or better yet, if you have access to Usenet newsgroups, subscribe to comp.internet.net-happenings. Gleason Sackman finds and forwards just about everything that is new and interesting on the 'Net and you are sure to find something that will help you either personally or professionally. Part of this growth includes the temptation to some less scrupulous folks to "hack" into the accounts of those of us that may not have secured access to our files. If you are not sure how secure access to your account is, don't hesitate to call your provider to have them check for you. Incidents have occurred where these "fun-loving" folks have removed "world readable" files from multiple individual accounts with a simple command! If you read newsgroups that explain UNIX tricks, make sure that you *UNDERSTAND* what you are changing BEFORE you make the changes. If you MUST leave your files "world readable/writable" please do yourself and your provider a simple favor: make backup copies of .login and any other important operational files and save them to your home system (pc/mac/etc). It will make your life much easier in the event you are hacked. Another aspect of the phenomenal growth of the Internet recently is that more people have heard it called the Info SuperHighway than called the Internet. When I'm asked what I do for a living and explain that I do tech support for a major Internet provider, they look at me like "oh... yeh... what's that?" If you tell them that it's a company that provides services on the Info SuperHighway, they understand. One positive effect of the growth of the 'Net (well, other than the fact that the growth opened up a job for me!), is that the tools available for use have improved and are evolving at a faster rate than they may have otherwise. Gopher+, World Wide Web browsers, and search engines are becoming easier to use, more effective and more comprehensive than in the past. "One to one" and "one to many" realtime interactivity is almost a reality. If you have been on the 'Net for even a short while, you have probably developed at least an e-mail relationship with someone that you wouldn't have known otherwise. I started by subscribing to the "Communet" mailing list, posting very infrequently, and when Sam Sternberg, the originator of this newsletter needed a break, just jumped in, polled the mailing list informally and started writing! You can do the same thing. If you take part in discussions on lists to which you subscribe, don't hesitate to offer help when needed. You will find that it is probably one of the most rewarding actions you can undertake. Recently, a newsletter called Net-Guide Online added my e-mail address to the other methods by which folks can subscribe to this newsletter and I have added 130 individual subscribers in three weeks from all over the world to this publication. I welcome you all and hope that I can live up to your expectations. Please let me know if I don't! -steve ########################################################################## News & Info ########################################################################## From: Gleason Sackman <[email protected]> Subject: GOPHER> Fwd: Disaster Situation Information gopher To: net-happenings <[email protected]> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 09:27:22 EDT From: Elliott Parker <[email protected]> To: Multiple recipients of list CARR-L <[email protected]> Subject: Fwd: Disaster Situation Information gopher =================== Forwarded Message =================== Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 00:59:59 EDT From: KIDSPHERE Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: Disaster Situation Information To: KIDSPHERE Subscribers <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1994 15:58:02 -0400 (EDT) From: [email protected] (Eudell Williams) Subject: Disaster Situation Information The Disaster Information Center at Volunteers in Technical Assistance uses its gopher service to make available situation report material covering disaster (emergency) situations around the world. Sources for the information include the United Nations, the U.S. Government and Private Voluntary Organizations (PVO's) active in disaster efforts. Recent situations covered include relief efforts in Rwanda refugee operation storms and flooding in Moldova floods in Niger earthquake in Algeria fires in the western US forests The gopher is reached at vita.org Richard Muffley Information Systems Manager Volunteers in Technical Assistance [email protected] Forwarded by List Owner -------------------------------------------- Elliott Parker BITNET: 3ZLUFUR@CMUVM Journalism Dept. Internet: [email protected] Central Michigan University Compuserve: 70701,520 Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 USA The WELL: [email protected] ########################################################################### Global Community ########################################################################### From: [email protected] (Don Homuth) Subject: New Scientific Discovery -- (Humor) Reply-To: [email protected] I can't resist sending this one along: NEW SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY ANNOUNCED The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by investigators at a major US research university. The element, tentatively named "administratium," has no protons or electrons, and thus has an atomic mass of 0. However, it does have one neutron, 25 assistance neutrons, 75 vice neutrons, and 111 assistant vice neutrons, which gives it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by a force that involves the continuous exchange of meson-like particles called "morons." Since it has no electrons, "administratium" is inert. However, it can be detected chemically, as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. According to the researchers, a minute amount of "administratium" causes one reaction to take more than four days to complete, when normally it would have occurred in less than a second. "Administratium" has a normal half-life of about three years, at which time it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization, in which assistant neutrons, vice neutrons and assistant vice neutrons exchange places. One study shows that the total atomic mass actually _increases_ after each reorganization. Research at other laboratories indicates that "administratium" occurs naturally in the atmosphere. High concentrations can ne found at large corporations,s government agencies and universities. It can usually be found in the newest, best appointed and best maintained buildings. Scientists point out that "administratium" is known to be very toxic at _any_ level of concentration, and it can easily destroy a productive reaction where it is allowed to accumulate. Research is now underway to determine how "administratium" can be controlled to prevent irreversible damage. Results to date have not been promising. -- Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. "Je suis un Marxiste -- un Groucho Marxiste." ([email protected]) ########################################################################### Tools ########################################################################### From: Gleason Sackman <[email protected]> Subject: SOFT> AMADEUS v.80 - PC client for Hyper-G To:net-happenings <[email protected]> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: [email protected] (Frank Kappe) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www,comp.infosystems.gopher Subject: *** AMADEUS version 0.80 available *** This is to announce the availability of version 0.80 beta of AMADEUS. AMADEUS is the PC client for Hyper-G. It runs on IBM compatible PCs running Windows 3.1x, Windows for Workgroups, Windows 4.0 ("Chicago"), and Windows NT. FEATURES: * Full Hyper-G functionality (including authoring capabilities!). * Multi-Protocol client (supports World-Wide-Web, Gopher, WAIS, FTP, and Telnet protocols). * Easy-to-use graphical user interface. * Integrated RTF->HTF converter lets you import text generated by most popular word processors. * Integrated viewers for Text (SGML), Images, and Movies. * Extensive online help. * Comes complete with 35-page user manual. * Is absolutely free software, and may be copied and used without restrictions, including for commercial applications. The latest version of AMADEUS (including user manual and installation instructions) can always be downloaded by anonymous FTP from host iicm.tu-graz.ac.at in directory /pub/Hyper-G/Amadeus. Information about Hyper-G in general can be found on the same FTP server in directory /pub/Hyper-G/doc. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank M. Kappe [email protected] Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media (IICM) Graz University of Technology, Austria Voice: ++43/316/832551-22 Fax: ++43/316/824394 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For information on Hyper-G look under ftp://iicm.tu-graz.ac.at/pub/Hyper-G ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************************************* From: Gleason Sackman <[email protected]> To: net-happenings <[email protected]> Subject: WWW> PC Express ExpressNet (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 1994 19:13:10 -0400 SENDER: [email protected] (Jeremy D. Allaire) Hello all- I've attached a press release regarding a new service for PC users on the Internet. The service, pioneered by PC Express of Mpls., MN, and called ExpressNet, is the first of its kind. PC Express has become the first PC manufacturer and seller to bundle full easy-to-use Internet access with its systems, and further, to provide all PC users on the Internet with a icon-based navigational tool to PC Internet resources. As the first to provide such a bundle, PC Express, we believe, will start a trend that most manufacturers will have to follow (and, according to rumors, will be following over the next couple of months). Please re-post or re-print this release as you see fit. We are proud to annouce and introduce this new service! Best regards, Jeremy D. Allaire Culture Shock, Inc. =============================================================================== NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 17, 1994 EXPRESSNET TO HELP CUSTOMERS ACCESS AND NAVIGATE INTERNET PC Express Will Offer Guided Access to Internet for PC Users PC Express, a Richfield, MN-based assembler and reseller of PC computers, has announced that it is offering a complete pre-installed Internet package to purchasers of the company's Express line of desktop and notebook computers. This package gives customers access to the Internet, and also helps them utilize its abundant resources via the ExpressNet Internet Gateway, a first-of-its-kind navigation tool and information source for PC users. The cost of the package is $69, which includes software, installation, a users guide to the Internet and unlimited access for the first month. ExpressNet is an intuitive icon-based interface to the Internet that makes navigation of the Global Internet easy for even novice users. According to PC Express marketing director Debra Rappaport, PC Express users who log onto the Internet will be presented with the PC Express ExpressNet Gateway, through which they can access numerous Internet resources simply by clicking on icons and key words. There is no cost for this service beyond standard Internet usage costs. In delivering users to the Internet, PC Express has partnered with Netcom of San Jose, CA, one of the world's largest commercial Internet providers. "We chose Netcom because we think they provide the most user-friendly and least expensive access to the Internet" said Rappaport. ExpressNet Will Represent an Industry-Wide First Charles Wilson, founder of Culture Shock, Inc., the company providing Internet consulting to PC Express in developing ExpressNet, explained, "what we're really creating is a virtual customer service center on the Internet for PC users. PC Express customers will get automatic access to this resource, but we're offering information of interest to Internet- connected PC users throughout the world." According to Wilson, PC Express' endeavor represents the first time a PC computer company is giving customers both a way to get to the Internet and a service center and navigation tool once they get there. More specifically, the project represents an industry-wide "first" on two fronts: by delivering Internet access as a built-in part of a PC system, and by providing on-line customer service and a gateway that will assist PC Express customers in navigating the Internet in a relatively easy manner. The need for an easy way for people to gain access the wealth of free PC- related information and resources on the Internet is what motivated PC Express to build this service. "Services such as CompuServe offer end-users plenty of PC information and resources -- but at a heavy cost, up to $9 per hour just to participate on a forum," said Rappaport. She explained that while the information on the Internet is often free, getting to it is not easy. "For the novice user, the Internet is a complicated web of information that is extremely difficult to learn. The sheer size of the system--which grows at an estimated 11% per month--represents a huge obstacle. ExpressNet has created an indexing system using World Wide Web technology to help users overcome that obstacle." "On ExpressNet, not only can users easily find forums and other information, they can easily locate and download hundreds of thousands of DOS and Windows software applications and patches that are on the Internet. If you're looking for a part, a user discussion group, shareware, software information, fonts, graphics, sounds, networking information, reference materials or current prices on a new product, ExpressNet makes them easy to find," noted Rappaport. Moreover, ExpressNet breaks new ground in providing an easy-to-use interface to file archives like Microsoft's. "Microsoft's Internet archive has traditionally been really difficult to navigate," comments Wilson. "PC Express has built an interface that organizes and makes sense of this incredible source of software and information. " In addition to PC information, ExpressNet users will have easy access to PC Express product information, service and support, according to Rappaport. "Our sales force is already on-line, and customers can easily exchange E-Mail with their reps to discuss questions about their system, find new product information, and get quotes on peripherals. Users can even browse through our catalog or read our annual report." PC Express President Dave Witherow anticipates that ExpressNet will be a great attraction for prospective PC buyers. "The publicity surrounding the resources on the Internet have created a tremendous level of interest among our customers," explained Witherow He believes that ExpressNet will represent an extension of PC Express' philosophy of being a total computer resource for customers. "Our focus has always been on helping our customers solve their computer needs through service and partnership. They want to use the Internet. We're going beyond simply getting them to the Internet - we're showing them how to use it as well." PC Express is Minnesota's largest regionally-oriented computer assembler, with 27 million dollars in annual sales, and was the first local company to offer a full five year warranty covering 100% of parts and labor on all of its desktop personal computers. ExpressNet can be accessed on the Internet with any Web browser, such as Mosaic or Cello. The Internet address (URL) is: http://www.pcxpress.com:8086/ For further information, please contact Debra Rappaport at PC Express, (612) 861-5555, [email protected], or Charles Wilson at Culture Shock, Inc., (612) 831-8786, [email protected] ########################################################################### Classes & Meetings ########################################################################### +-------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ : PATRICK CRISPEN : THE "ROADMAP FOR THE INFORMATION : : [email protected] : SUPERHIGHWAY" INTERACTIVE INTERNET : : UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA : SEMINAR STARTS IN OCTOBER 1994!! : : "ROADMAP" LISTOWNER : : +-------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ : THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS LETTER DO NOT NECESSARILY : : REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - TUSCALOOSA : +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Reply-To: ROADMAP FOR THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY DISTRIBUTION LIST <[email protected]> Sender: ROADMAP FOR THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY DISTRIBUTION LIST <[email protected]> From: Patrick Douglas Crispen <[email protected]> Subject: ROADMAP TRAFFIC REPORT - 23 AUGUST To: Multiple recipients of list MAPTEST <[email protected]> ROADMAP TRAFFIC REPORT AUGUST 23, 1994 The Traffic Report is a "short" memo sent out every two weeks. Its purpose is two-fold: 1) to keep you informed as the start-up date for the next Roadmap workshop rapidly draws closer, and 2) to double check that the Roadmap Maptest Listserv has your correct e-mail address. ROADMAP SUBSCRIBER TOTALS WORKSHOP #1 WORKSHOP #2 As of August 2, 1994: 230 Subscribers As of August 9, 1994: 7,298 Subscribers As of August 16, 1994: 12,450 Subscribers As of August 23, 1994: 16,036 Subscribers 40 Subscribers ROADMAP ENROLLMENT PASSES 16,000!! As the numbers above show, the popularity of the Roadmap for the Information Superhighway workshop has exceeded everyone's wildest imagination! To meet this incedible demand, and to keep the number of people participating in each Roadmap workshop at a reasonable number, we have added a SECOND Roadmap workshop which will begin in MID-OCTOBER, 1994!! (The first Roadmap workshop will still begin in early October 1994). But, to make room for the second Roadmap workshop, we've had to make a minor change to the first Roadmap workshop ... THE FIRST ROADMAP WORKSHOP IS NOW CLOSED TO *NEW* SUBSCRIBERS HOW CAN MY FRIENDS AND CO-WORKERS SIGN UP FOR ROADMAP? Simple! Just have them send an e-mail letter to [email protected] which says SUBSCRIBE ROADMAP YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME in the body of their letter. Remember, this will sign them up for the SECOND Roadmap workshop which will begin in Mid-October, 1994. The first workshop (the one that you are subscribed to) is closed. A MESSAGE TO ALL SYSOPS AND LISTOWNERS If you are mirroring the Roadmap workshop sessions to another list, please send us a "review <listname> by country short" file (or something equivalent) for your list so we can make sure that we don't pass capacity at the FTP, Gopher, WWW, and Telnet sites that we have lined up. Also, DO NOT UNDER *ANY* CIRCUMSTANCES MIRROR ROADMAP TO USENET!! We do not want Roadmap to become the next "Green Card Lottery" :) A MESSAGE TO ALL CLASSROOM TEACHERS FROM PATRICK CRISPEN "If you are using the Roadmap workshop in the classroom, please send me an e-mail letter telling me the name of your school, the number of students who will be participating, and the students' grade level in school. Also, even though the first Roadmap workshop is closed to new subscriptions, I will be more than willing to work around your lesson plans (including reopening the first workshop for your students if necessary)." "Finally, I still haven't heard anything from the University of Alabama about their offering CEU's for Roadmap, but I will keep on trying. If I find something out, I'll post it to the entire list." -- Patrick Douglas Crispen [email protected] UPCOMING ROADMAP MAPTEST EVENTS AND WHEN YOU WILL RECEIVE THE POSTS VIA E-MAIL FROM [email protected]: Distribution of the next Roadmap Traffic Report: September 6, 1994 Announcement of the start up date for the first Roadmap workshop: September 6, 1994 Distribution of tentative Roadmap workshop syllabus: September 6, 1994 Distribution of the final Roadmap workshop syllabus: September 20, 1994 Start of the first Roadmap workshop: OCTOBER, 1994!!! NOTE: Be looking for a letter from Patrick Crispen (Roadmap Listowner) within the next two weeks announcing the creation of the Roadmap Beta Test List (for Sysops and Net-Gods), and also answering some questions about the "interactivity" of Roadmap! If you ever need to unsubscribe from this list, please send an e-mail letter to [email protected] which says UNSUB MAPTEST in the body of the letter. : THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS LETTER DO NOT NECESSARILY : : REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - TUSCALOOSA : +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: email list server <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Subject: CPSR Conference/Event Calendar CPSR Members, If you are planning to attend a conference, please contact CPSR at [email protected] or (415) 322-3778 for easy ways for you to be a presence for CPSR. CONFERENCE /EVENT SCHEDULE Executive Summit Meeting of the Central and East European Computer Industry, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA, Sept. 25-28. Contact: [email protected], 212 924-8800 (phone) 212 924-0240 (fax) Information Superhighway Summit, San Jose, CA, Sept. 26-28. A Comnet Conference. Contact: 800-225-4698 (US) or 505 879-6700 Legal& Business Aspects of the Internet and Online Services, New York City, Sept. 29-30. Contact: 800 888-8300 ext. 6111 or 212 545-6111. "Manging the Privacy Revolution," Washington, DC, Oct. 4-5 . Contact: 201 996-1154 201 996-1883 (fax) National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists "Legal, Ethical and Technological Aspects of Computer and Network Use and Abuse" Maryland, October 7-9. Contact: 202 326-6600 202 289-4950 (fax) [email protected] "Organizing for Access, " CPSR Annual Meeting, Price Center, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, Oct 8-9.Contact:[email protected] People, Networks, and Communication '94, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 11-14. Contact: Dr. Ernest Kho, Jr. 808 933-3383 [email protected] 4th Beijing International Symposium on Computer-Based Information Management (BISCIM '94), Beijing, CHINA, Oct. 14-18. Contact: [email protected] 214 351-5008 (tel) 214 351-4861 (fax) Symposium: An Arts and Humanities Policy for the National Information Infrastructure. Boston, Mass. October 14-16, 1994. Sponsored by the Center for Art Research in Boston. Contact: Jay Jaroslav ([email protected]). American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, Alexandria, VA Oct. 17-20. Contact: 301 495-0900 (ph) 301 495-0810 (fax) [email protected] "Access 2001: Sharing Strategies for an Evolving Community Media," Hyatt Ricky's, Palo Alto, CA, Oct. 20-22. Contact: 415 949-7616. "People & Technology in Harmony," Nashville, TN, Oct. 24-28. Contact: 310 394-1811 310 394-2410(fax) Third Biennial Conference on Participatory Design, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 27-28, 1994. Sponsored by CPSR. Contact [email protected] 919 942-9773 http://cpsr.org/cpsr./conferences/pdc94/pdc94.html ftp.cpsr.org /cpsr/conferences/pdc94 directory. Information Systems Education Conference, Sponsored by Education Foundation of the DPMA, Louisville, Kentucky, October 28-30 Contact: [email protected] ALCTS Institute on the Electronic Library, San Antonio, TX October 29-30. Contact 513 873-2380 513 873-4109(fax) [email protected] ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies, Marina del Rey, CA, October 31-Nov.1 Contact: [email protected] 2nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Fairfax, VA, Nov. 2-4. Contact: [email protected] Ethics in the Computer Age, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, November 11-13. Contact: [email protected] 21st Annual Computer Security Conference & Exhibition, Washington, DC, Nov. 14-16. Contact: 415 905-2626 415 905-2218 (fax) Open Systems World, Washington Convention Center, DC, Nov. 28-Dec. 2. Contact: 301 953-9600 (phone) 301 953-2213 (fax) The Technology for Information Security Conference '94 (TISC '94), Galveston, TX, Dec. 5-8. Contact: John D'Agostino [email protected] North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, San Antonio, TX, Dec. 18-21. Contact: [email protected] Second International Conference on Information Warfare: "Chaos on the Electronic Superhighway," Montreal, CA, Jan. 18-19. . Contact: Mich Kabay, [email protected] ETHICOMP95: An international conference on the ethical issues of using Information Technology, DeMontfort University, Leicester, ENGLAND, March 28-30, 1995. Contact: Simon Rogerson [email protected] 44 533 577475 (phone) 44 533 541891 (Fax). Paper and Workshop Submissions -deadline for notification of intention to submit 8/31/94. ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction (CHI'95), Denver, CO, May 7-11. Contact 410 263-5382 [email protected] http://info.sigchi.acm.org/sigchi/chi95.html IDT 95 12th Congress - Information Markets and Industries, Paris, FRANCE, June 13-15. Organized by ADBS (Society of information professionals), ANRT (National Association of Technological Research), and GFII (French associationof information industries). Contact: 33 1 43 72 25 25 (ph) 33 1 43 72 30 41 (fax) Key Players in the Introduction of Information Technology: Their Social Responsibility and Professional Training, BELGIUM, July 5-7, 1995. Contact: [email protected] [email protected] Paper submissions by Nov. 2, 1994 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************************************** From: Gleason Sackman <[email protected]> Subject: WWW> Virtual Online University To: net-happenings <[email protected]> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 16:24:01 -0400 (EDT) SENDER: PoMo Woman <[email protected]> Subject: Virtual Online University Announcing the first Internet university Imagine attending a university with professors from around the U.S., teaching such varied topics as witchhunting in Europe to American idioms to gender issues. Imagine exploring the Sonoran Desert, then wandering the streets of ancient Rome with an international student body. Now imagine doing all this from your home. Affordable, transferrable college credit is now available on the Internet through Virtual Online University. VOU is just a telnet away to coyote.csusm.edu 8888 or anyone can browse the WWW home page at http://symnet.net/~VOU Thank you for your attention, Andie Foster Chair of Public Relations Virtual Online University -- The world is text. Nothing stands behind. There is no escape. Here in the prisonhouse of language. -- Vincent Leitch oOOo [email protected] * [email protected] * [email protected] http://romulus.housing.fsu.edu/~afoster/andie.html ########################################################################### ########################################################################### NETWORKS and COMMUNITY is a result of the work of people located throughout the global Internet community. Net facilities for the preparation of this newsletter are provided by NETCOM On-line Communications Service, Inc. Editing is done by myself. 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