INTERNET CLASS #2-4 TABLE OF CONTENTS: -- Looking at E-mail in folders -- CERN's Home Page -- Virtual Library by Subject -- Category Subtree -- Index -- Basic Internet Resources -- Listservs (E-mail Discussion Groups) -- Search Master List of Discussion Groups -- Lists of listservs - with or without abstracts -- Challenge of the Week -- Appendix A -- What is a Listserv -- Appendix B -- Subscribing, Unsubscribing, and Posting to a Listserv. -- Appendix C -- Other Listserv Commands -- Appendix D -- Searching a Listserv Archive -- Appendix E -- Map02 Lesson -- Listserv File Server Commands ACTIVITY #1 At this menu you will see: WELCOME TO S.E.O.R.F This is the South Eastern Ohio Regional Freenet. If you are having problems, or want more information on some service of SEORF, select HELP. You can select the following SEORF services: What's new in SEORF as of Jan. 30 SEORF local and regional interest areas Administrative area (applications, regulations, explanations) --> Personal Services And you can select the following network services: Academy One World Wide Network Services You can select the old interface here. But it will go away soon. --------------------------------------------- At the SEORF Main Menu select 'Personal Services': At the Personal Services area you will see the following menu: The Personal Services page reflects the SEORF services that pertain to your account, and in general do not effect any other accounts. The services available are: --> Read and send mail If you see an error message about /tmp/mbox.something, select Emergency mail fix. then try elm again. Change your password Edit your plan file that is shown to other users Edit your signature file that is appended to each mail message Manage the files in your home directory. ---------------------------------------- At the Personal Services Menu select 'Read and Send Mail': -- Read your first mail message by selecting one of the messages with the up or down arrow keys to move the highlighted block and then hit return. If your message is more than one screen move to the next screen by a) hitting the spacebar or b) hitting the 'next screen' key above the arrow keys. To go back to the index of mail messages that you have received type 'i' -- DO NOT HIT RETURN. -- What I want you to do is look at a message in a folder that you saved last week. Do this by using the 'c' for change and then at the prompt 'change folder to', enter '=bobt' for example, hit return. You will now see all of the messages in the 'bobt' folder. You may read any of these by using the same procedure that you normally use to read your mail. No go back to the original index by entering the letter 'c' for change folder and at the prompt type '!' - this will take you back. -- What do you do if you forget the names of your folders? When you type 'c' to change folders, at the 'change folder to' prompt, enter '=*' and you will be given a listing of all your folders. You then enter '=foldername'. -- Exit mail via 'q' - it will ask if you want to go back to linx, hit return for yes. --------------------------------------- ACTIVITY #2 -- At the seorf main menu select the 'World Wide Network Services'. The following menu will appear: *** To access the network services previously provided on SEORF, in the old format, select original menu These new services are also now available: The University of Kansas home page (home of lynx). --> CERN's home page (home of WWW) MAY BE SLOW NCSA Mosaic home page. O'Rielley and Associate's The Whole Internet Catalog. Libraries and associated resources Other Freenets allowing guest logins A list of gopher sites of interest to k-12 teachers/students. A list of sites with special k-12 resources. Other selected network services resources Lists and searches of online resources *** At the WWW menu select 'CERN's home page (home of WWW) MAY BE SLOW'. The following menu will appear: *** THE WORLD-WIDE WEB This is just one of many access points to the web, the universe of information available over networks. To follow references, just type the number then hit the return (enter) key. The features you have by connecting to this telnet server are very primitive compared to the features you have when you run a W3 "client" program on your own computer. If you possibly can, please pick up a client for your platform to reduce the load on this service and experience the web in its full splendor. For more information, select by number: * A list of available W3 client programs * Everything about the W3 project --> * Places to start exploring Have fun! *** -- What you want to do next is use the down arrow key to thumb through the highlighted areas to 'Places to start exploring'. You will want to save this menu item on your personal bookmark menu so that you can come back to this point easily in the future -- to do this type 'a' followed by 'l' (this is a lowercase L). Select the 'Places to start exploring'. You will see the following menu: *** WWW ICON GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE WEB There is no "top" to the World-Wide Web. You can look at it from many points of view. Here are some places to start. --> Virtual Library by Subject The Virtual Library organizes information by subject matter. List of servers All registered HTTP servers by country by Service Type The Web includes data accessible by many other protocols. The lists by access protocol may help if you know what kind of service you are looking for. If you find a useful starting point for you personally, you can configure your WWW browser to start there by default. See also: About the W3 project . *** -- Explore the items on this menu. All three are very interesting. You can find resources by subject, in a particular country or by protocol. -- Go to 'Virtual Library by Subject' - by selecting this menu item you will see the following menu: *** VIRTUAL LIBRARY THE WWW VIRTUAL LIBRARY This is a distributed subject catalogue. See Category Subtree, Library of Congress Classification (Experimental), Top Ten most popular Fields (Experimental), Statistics (Experimental), and Index. See also arrangement by service type ., and other subject catalogues of network information . Mail to maintainers of the specified subject or www-request@info.cern.ch to add pointers to this list, or if you would like to contribute to administration of a subject area. See also how to put your data on the web. All items starting with ! are NEW! (or newly maintained). New this month: [IMAGE] Electronic Journals [IMAGE] Finance [IMAGE] Medieval Studies [IMAGE] Aboriginal Studies This document keeps track of leading information facilities in the field of Australian Aboriginal studies as well as the Indigenous Peoples studies. Aeronautics and Aeronautical Engineering African Studies Agriculture Animal health, well-being, and rights Anthropology Applied Linguistics Archaeology Architecture Art Asian Studies Astronomy and Astrophysics Autos Aviation Beer & Brewing Bio Sciences Biotechnology Pharmaceutical development, genetic engineering, medical device development, and related fields. Chemistry Climate research The Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ, German Climate Computer Centre) Cognitive Science Collecting Commercial Services Communications Community Networks Computing See also Tcl and Tk, Visual Languages and Visual Programming , and Mobile and Wireless Computing Conferences Cryptography, PGP, and Your Privacy Crystallography Applications in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Earth Sciences, Molecular Biology, Materials Science and Physics. (by geographic location) Culture Dance Demography & Population Studies Design Covering Fashion, Graphic, Environmental, Industrial and Interaction design. Earth Science Education ! Electronic Journals Encyclopedia Encyclopedia Britanica Online Energy This list covers energy policy, sources, distribution, generation, and transmission. It also includes alternative and renewable energy sources, including energy efficiency. Engineering (with many sub-lists). Environment ! Finance Fish Forestry Fortune-telling Tarot Cards , I-Ching, Biorhythm . Furniture & Interior Design Games Geography Geophysics German Subject Catalogue This document covers German resources of the Virtual Library History See also History of Science, Technology & Medicine Home pages The complete collection of Web documents maintained by individuals the world over. Now automatically updated. Human Computer Interaction Human Factors The McDonnell Douglas Human Modeling System (MDHMS) is a 3-D interactive modeling system providing the capability to analyze human body fit and function within a geometric structure. Human Rights The International Student Festival in Trondheim, ISFiT-94 is proud to announce its WWW-page with lots of information on human rights. See also Human-Rights Information Through Essex International Affairs Italian General Subject Tree This document covers Italian resources of the Virtual Library Landscape Architecture Languages Latin American Studies Law Libraries Linguistics Literature Mathematics Medicine ! Medieval Studies Meteorology Middle East Studies Movies Movie database browser ; The "English Server" Film and Television ; Depth Probe E-Zine, a collection of movie, book and modern culture reviews. Museums Music Oceanography Paranormal Phenomena Information is gathered from various news groups as well as submissions from interested parties and case histories from officially documented hauntings and paranormal activities. Philosophy American Philosophical Association ; the "English Server" Philosophy ; Objectivism Physics Political Science Directed at Political Science researchers Politics and Economics Prospectus the Cranfield University Postgraduate Prospectus Psychology " Psycoloquy " electronic journal. Yale Psychology Publishers Recipes The Recipes Folder --> Recreation Reference Roget's Thesaurus . English and technical dictionary . Experimental English dictionary ; the "English Server" Reference . Religion See also Buddhist Studies Russian and East European Studies Secular Issues Social Sciences Sociology Spirituality Sport Standards and Standardization Bodies Statistics Sumeria Files on alternative science, suppressed and neglected medical ideas, plus areas for politics, fiction, animal issues, and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. Telecommunications Tibetan Studies U.S. Federal Government Agencies US Government Information Sources Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) United Nations and other international organizations Vision Science Whale Watching Web Wine -- Wine, Wine Growing & Wine Making World-Wide Web Development Other virtual libraries We are looking for icons! _________________________________________________________________ *** -- All of these menu items can be explored as well. By selecting 'Recreation' for example, you will see the following menu: *** GAMES AND RECREATION Information categorized by subject. This list is maintained separately by thoth@cis.ufl.edu. Email him directly if you find a consistently broken link (remember it may be a transient problem outside my control) or have anything to add to this list. It may take a month or two, but that's how I ensure that the page is ``durable''. (Yeah, that's why. Good excuse, Bob.) See also other subjects. Please mail www-request@info.cern.ch if you know of online information not in those lists. If you have a URL which documents a game or recreational pastime, send me email, I'll add it to this list. Games and Recreation includes computer games, board games, card games, role-playing games, scuba diving, skydiving, kite-flying, anything that a reader could participate in. Some things I don't think belong here include mail-order catalogues, electronic storefronts (at least, not yet), and entertainment (professional sports, television). Pages that document a commercial game product are fine. Sports have their own page. (damaged) means that a site is not currently in service, but hopefully will be soon. If you notice that it is back online before I do, drop me a line and I'll remove the sign. (dead) means that a URL is no longer valid and I have no idea what the new one should be. If you know what it should be, drop me a line. I really want a "robot" that will detect dead links. If you know of something simple that can check a page for dead links, email me and you'll get a credit. Computer Games and Recreation * Paradise Netrek. A multi-player graphical space combat game. * Netrek. The parent sport for Paradise Netrek. * Crossfire. A multi-player graphical cross between Nethack, Moria and Gauntlet. More sites at City College, and Cardiff. * XPilot. A multi-player graphical space combat game. * Bolo. A graphical multi-player tank game for Macintoshes. * Rule your own country in *Empire*, the internet's most detailed and intense strategy-wargame. + Empire FAQ and monthly magazine EMPIRE NEWS: + Empire Users Guide and info on currently running games: * Nethack, a classic ASCII-graphics sword&sorcery game. * A massive list of MUDS (Multi-user Dimensions). You can find docs, source, newsgroups, papers, further pointers here. A list of all publicly open Internet MUSHes here. Specific MU*s: DuneMUSH. + DuneMUSH II. + GarouMUSH * The BattleTech 3056 home page. * DOOM is an immensely popular PC game. Several pages about it are accessible through the DWANGO archive (warning. That archive is heavy on the graphics). Links to many other pages about DOOM, DOOM II, and the new project, Heretic, are on the DooMGate archive (again, graphics). * Sokoban. Two versions of a fascinating puzzle with lots of boards. There is XSokoban, which stores scores in the WWW. You can also (damaged) play Sokoban directly using the WWW! * The Roguelike Games Home Page at krl * The NetHack Home Page at krl * The Angband Home Page. * The Moria Home Page. * IVI Publishing publishes several CD-ROM titles in the Health, Reference, Educational, Children's, and Entertainment genres. * Outland is an internet gaming site for Macs on the internet. It seems very reasonably priced. * Speaking of toys you can play with using the Web, here's Zarf's List of Interactive Games on the Web. * dig the Raymond Interactive Theatre (tm). * A few weird things at cybersight.com: + Joe's Adventures: a unique add-your-own adventure. + For those traditionalists, try Bob's Mishap, a linear story you can add a sentence or two too. * The Maze, a WWW maze where every square has someone's question. * CEB Internetworked Games, a company dedicated to creating free, multi-player internet games. * BU's Interactive WWW games * The DragonSpires Page documents a prototype graphical mud. Card Games * Bridge. The most widely played card game in the world with a telnet-style game server. * The IRC Poker Dealer page. * Perhaps more generically there's the USENET newsgroup rec.gambling. * Magic: the Gathering. A game played with collectible cards. + WotC's own Magic page + Darrell Budic's page + FuzzFace's Magic Page + Bingham's page + The Boston Magic Club's page. * These collectible card games are becoming popular. Check out the Star Trek (TNG) Customizable Card Game. Board Games * Chess Archives and the Internet Chess Library for the discriminating chess enthusiast. * The Internet Go Server is accessible to those who can telnet igs.nuri.net 6969. Hop on as guest and type "help". Also check out the numerous Go pages: + at Texas. + Colorado State University Go Club. + Jan Steen's page. + Ken's Go Page. + the Go Teaching Ladder Review Archive. * There's a web page for The Guide To The Game Of Othello. You can now play Othello over the internet if you can telnet faust.uni-paderborn.de 5000. * You can play Backgammon over the internet if you can telnet fraggel65.mdstud.chalmers.se 4321 (thanks to those guys who straightened out my ls and es). Check out The WWW Backgammon Page. * Ken's Game Cabinet has information on a number of board games. * Railroad Board Games home page. It contains information, tips, and Battle Stories from such favorites as the "Crayon" games, the 18xx series, and others. * Advanced Squad Leader. A WWII tactical game system published by the Avalon Hill Game Company. * Fat Messiah Games publishes a number of board games. Table Games Anyone have an air hockey site? * A Foosball archive. * The rec.games.pinball archive with rules sheets and tip sheets for many games. Miniature-Based Games * Command Decision. World War II miniatures rules which emphasize command and control at the battalion level. * An archive for miniatures with a fantasy slant. * The Miniatures Page, a WWW magazine for miniatures gamers. Includes game reviews, miniatures listings, magazine article indexes, and other material. Play By Mail games Model Building * LEGO Information * Railroad-related Internet Resources Role-Playing games Ever wanted to pretend you were someone else and save the princess/city/world? * Nero Ashbury, a live-action roleplaying group based in Brooklyn, NY. * Greg Boug's RPG page. * the Vampire WWW Server * the GreatMinds project * Anders' Mage Page * John Gavigan's Highlander supplement for the WoD * Dragonflight, a Seattle-based, non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of role-playing, miniatures, and boardgames. * Dagorhir Outdoor Improvizational Dark Age Battle Games, a live-action battle gameing group in IL, OH, MD, TN, and VA. * Surge's RPG information. * AD&D at the Stack * The Interactive Literature Foundation is a collection of RPGers and other gamers. * Thomas Petersen's Role-Playing Game Internet Resource Guide in Europe. Miscellaneous Games * Dig the Scottish Tiddlywinks Association. Do not underestimate the complexity of tactics in this game. * Vocabulary Word Puzzles and Word Games Miscellaneous Hobbies * Some stuff about COMICS. * Juggling Information Service Fish Information Service. Did you know that Phone Cards are collectible? Information for the Science Hobbyist. Food & Drink Beer & Brewing now has its own WWW page! * For the homebrewer in you: Spencer's Beer Page or maybe a visit to The Virtual Pub. * the Grapevine Wine Drinkers Forum carries reviews and information about wines from all over the world * The official home page of the Wine mailing list. * Vegetarian recipe archive. * eGG, the electronic Gourmet Guide, an internet zine devoted to food and cooking. Dancing toon: ``Polkadot?'' Dot: ``Again?'' - Animaniacs, Anvilania episode. * R. French's Western Square Dance Web server has the Callerlab program lists, a square dance computer program, information for challenge dancers, and more * The International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs is an umbrella group of over 40 clubs in the US and Canada * Tech Squares, the MIT club. * The Strathspey Server, an archive of the Strathspey mailing list which provides a forum for discussion of Scottish Country Dancing. * A dancing gopher site. Outdoor Pastimes The catch-all for anything I haven't gotten around to grouping yet. (I've been getting reports that www.recreation.com is down. I think the domain is toast). * If you like walking around something other than a mall, you can check out the Backcountry Home Page * Skydive Archive for those of you that like to hop out of perfectly good airplanes with a big sheet on your back. * For Recreational and Technical SCUBA Divers there's the Aquanaut SCUBA Magazine * The Climbing Archive for people who think horizontal surfaces are for carpet. * Kite flying. * An Aviation gopher site for you pilots. * The Fishing Page. * Dig The Virtual Flyshop with photos, stories, movies, knots, and links to newsgroups and other fishing-related WWW pages. * IGLOO, the International Gay and Lesbian Outdoor Organization which offers a wide range of outdoor activities, including (but not limited to) hiking, bicycling, skiing, sailing, camping and rafting. * Crawling around underground might not be outdoors, but still, here are the Yale Speleology Server and the Lancaster University Speleological Society. * Bicycling. * Or for those who can't afford both wheels: Unicycling. * The Global Cycling Network (VeloNet). * (damaged) The Boating Directory for all types of boating information. * (damaged) The Paddling Directory for canoeing, kayaking, and rafting information. * (damaged) The Internet Runner has race schedule and other running-related information for those who live life at a faster pace. * World Wide Windsurfing for those who know life's real priorities. * the Naturist Home Page. * The Internet Ski Guide, maintained by Knowledge Plus Multimedia Publishing. * Ski Web with regional information. * Horses! on the Internet - Equinet. Information and listings of interest to the equestrian. * The Saltwater Fishing Home Page * The Bass Fishing Home Page * The North Carolina Kayaking Home page * The North Carolina Outer Banks Windsurfing Home Page * The Volksmarch and Walking Index Outdoor Participatory Sports This now has its own subcatalogue! Click on the href above. URLs for sports should be emailed to john@atm.ch.cam.ac.uk. Things that should have been submitted to John: * While blatantly commercial, the Ryde to the Cup home page is still well done. Travel * Canadian Himalayan Expeditions for the traveler who wants to hike about a bit. * International Universities offers exceptional travel/study abroad programs around the world. Why not be an au pair in the French Riviera?!? * Check out The Rec.Travel Library, travel information and stories by people from around the world, who have traveled around the world! * Datawave has a page with some travel information, and even more unrelated internet resources. * Enjoy a virtual visit to Napa Valley. * Virtual Vacation. This web site has pictures of places with hyperlinks that let you "walk" around. If you can digitize photos of your environment, you could add a Virtual Vacation to its database. * Information about Alaska * The Internet Guide to Hostelling, the Internet worldwide guide to budget travel. Humor * Where the Buffalo Roam is a cartoon feature uniquely suited to the World Wide Web's subversive technology. Its unique brand of pull-no-punches humor leaves some readers laughing, and others calling for the cartoonist's immediate execution. * John M. Zakour's cartoons, in English and Spanish. * Jay's Comedy Club, a collection of humor from strange places. * Dr. Fun archive, full-color JPEG cartoons. * The Funny Times, humor outpost on the WWW Miscellania * the Weightlifting Page. Miscellania II (stuff which doesn't really belong here) * Books That Work's home page. A site for home repair, landscaping, gardening, and other things that some crazy people call recreation. * Reaction Graphics, an image-laden tourist trap on the information superhypeway with killer T-shirts. * Steve's Ant Farm, has a JPEG of the guy's ant farm that is updated every hour. OTHER SITES WITH GAMES AND RECREATION INFO * The Illuminati Online BBS has quite a bit of gaming info. * There's a site with many USENET FAQs called Games Domain. * Fun at Florida State University. * The George Washington University Gamer's Society has snippets of info about lots of games including board games and role-playing games. * ZIOPTIS is a bunch of nut-cases from Detroit who provide zany skit performances over the phone. While I personally have never called them, the idea sounds cooler than Pluto to me. * The Great Outdoor Recreation Pages, featuring descriptions of many National Parks and information about outdoor activities. * Sports subcatalogue of the WWWVL Recreation according to GNN Each of these entries is a list in itself. * Cooking * Gardening * Hobbies * Pets * Recreation * Miscellaneous Related WWWVL pages * Sports * Beer & Brewing * Dance * The WWW Sport Fishing Home Page *** -- You can now select 'Backcountry Home Page' and you will be given the following menu: *** Welcome to the Backcountry Home Page. FOUNDED JANUARY 14, 1994 This page is an attempt to organize and archive the backcountry related information that is available on the Internet. Some of the information contained in these pages has been taken from the rec.backcountry Usenet group. Much of the information has been contributed by individuals. _________________________________________________________________ Click here to jump to the Pages Click here to See What's New [INLINE] I am always looking for contributions. So, if you have any new ideas, gear recommendations, trip reports, tips you use on the trail, etc. let me know! If you have any questions or comments, or would like to contribute to the page, please send me e-mail. You can read A Beginner's Guide to HTML to learn how to "mark up" a document. _________________________________________________________________ I did a little clean up on the links to other pages. I thought it was getting a bit long. Everything should still be there. Let me know if I dropped something. _________________________________________________________________ Local Pages * Announcements and News * Distilled Wisdom * Events * Fun Stuff * Gear Review and Recommendations * The Gallery * Hiking Clubs --> * Learning It * The Library * Map of Colorado Backcountry * Places of Interest * Recipes * Tips * Trailside * Travel * Trip Reports * Weather Information * Miscellaneous Links to Other Pages * Links to Backcountry Home Pages * Links to Individual Home Pages * Links to Government Home Pages * Links to Miscellaneous Home Pages * Links to Commercial Home Pages Odds and Ends Killer Cows! This is a spoof of a r.b. thread concerned with the dangers cows posed to hikers. Eeeewww... Where's my filter?! _________________________________________________________________ The Backcountry Home Page is maintained by: Stephen Johns, johns@swri.edu The views contained here are not necessarily those of Mr. Johns or Southwest Research Institute. *** -- From here you ought to select 'Learning It' which will giv you the following men: *** LEARNING IT Here are some places that will be more than glad to help you improve your backcountry skills. __________________________________________________________ --> How Not To Get Lost - Read This! Outward Bound The National Outdoor Leadership School Smoky Mountain Field School *** -- For those interested in not getting lost, what to do if you get lost or how search teams work -- this is a good article. _________________________________________________________________ ACTIVITY #3 -- Use the 'Backspace key' (to access the History Page), this key is located directly above the Enter or Return key. Move the cown arrow key to the line Virtual Library the WWW Virtual Library -- this will jump you back to where we started Activity #2. -- You may search the entire list by selecting 'Index' at 'The Virtual Library - the WWW Virtual Library' menu. By selecting this menu item will get the following screen: *** CUI W3 CATALOG _________________________________________________________________ Please enter a search word/pattern or provide a Perl regular expression: Submit ____________________ NB: Searches are case-insensitive. _________________________________________________________________ Welcome to CUI's W3 Catalog, a searchable catalog of W3 resources. There are currently 12485 entries. You may also consult the list of recent changes (78 kbytes). For information about the contents of this catalog, see the W3 Catalog overview. NB: For clients without support for forms, an alternative interface is available. *** -- If you use the down-arrow key to place the cursor on the line for text entry and enter a key word, then use the up-arrow key to move the cursor on top of the word 'Submit' and hit the return key, it will search for sites that offer information on that topic. -- If you use the left-arrow key to back up to the 'Virtual Library - the WWW Virtual Library' and move the cursor to highlight the words 'Catalog Subtree' on 'The Virtual Library - the WWW Virtual Library' menu and hit the return key you will find an expanded listing of the Subject listing viewed above. ----------------------------------------- ACTIVITY 4 LISTSERVS Use your Bookmark Menu by typing the 'v' for view to return to 'Inter-Links, Internet Access' and the following menu will appear: *** INTER-LINKS INTERNET ACCESS INTRODUCTION * About Inter-Links * New Features FEATURES --> * Basic Internet Resources * Fun and Games * Guides and Tutorials * News and Weather * Library Resources * Reference Shelf * Miscellaneous * Search Inter-Links * Feedback Happy New Years! (a summary) Rob Kabacoff, Nova Southeastern University *** -- Then select 'Basic Internet Resources' and you will see the following menu: *** INTERNET RESOURCES SERVICES * Gopher Holes * Hytelnet (Resources via Telnet) --> * Listservs (E-mail Discussion Groups) * Software Libraries and FTP Sites * World Wide Web SEARCHING * Finding People on the Internet * Finding Topics on the Internet TOPICAL * Diversity * Education * Employment * Government * Health * Psychology *** -- At this menu select 'Listservs (E-mail Discussion Groups)' and you will see the following menu: *** E-MAIL DISCUSSION GROUPS The Internet provides thousands of discussion groups via e-mail by allowing users to place themselves on electronic mailing lists. FINDING A LIST --> * Search Master List of Discussion Groups * Directory of Scholarly E-Lists * Alternate Listing HELP FILES -- SEE APPENDIX A-D OF THIS LESSON * What is a Listserv? * Subscribing, Unsubscribing, and Posting * Other Listserv Commands * Searching List Archives *** -- Now select 'Search Master List of Discussion Groups' and you will see the following menu: *** SEARCH LIST OF DISCUSSION GROUPS Use this page to search for interesting e-mail lists to join. Details --> * Enter a phrase to search for. * The search is case insensitive. Source The database of lists employed here comes from the list of Bitnet and Internet Interest Groups maintained at Dartmouth College. There are currently more than 5900 entries! The database is updated weekly. *** -- At the bottom of the screen you will notice that it asks you to type 's' and then enter a keyword to search for. Try entering 'Genealogy' and you will be given the following list of discussion groups: *** Mailing Lists Matching genealogy _________________________________________________________________ Genealogy discussion list GENE-L Addresses * GENE-L@GITVM1.BITNET (list) * LISTSERV@GITVM1.BITNET (listserv) _________________________________________________________________ Lifeline Genealogical Database LINES-L Addresses * LINES-L@VM1.NODAK.EDU (list) * LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU (listserv) * Cliff Manis (owner) DESCRIPTION LINES-L will serve as a vehicle for topics related to the enhancement of "LifeLines Genealogical Database and Report Generator". LifeLines is an experimental, second-generation Genealogical system. LINES-L is for the exchange of information, reports, programming hints, ideas and also an electronic newsletter about the LifeLines Genealogy program which works on the Operating Systems: UNIX (Sun3/4) and Xenix386. Dr. Thomas T. Wetmore IV is the program author. _________________________________________________________________ ROOTS-L Genealogy List ROOTS-L Addresses * ROOTS-L@VM1.NODAK.EDU (list) * LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU (listserv) * ROOTS-OP@VM1.NODAK.EDU (Alf Christophersen) (owner) DESCRIPTION ROOTS-L is a mail Discussion List for Geneaological Matters. Topics include techniques, requests for help, software, etc. _________________________________________________________________ Search Results: 3 lists found. * Listserv Page * Inter-Links Home Page *** -- The second item on the Listservs (E-mail Discussion Groups) menu is 'Directory of Scholarly E-Conferences' click on this and you will see the following menu -- check it out as well: *** Directory of Scholarly E-conferences (mailing lists, newsgroups, etc) [IMAGE] Presented here is the Directory of Scholarly E-conferences (Mailing lists, newsgroups, etc.) 1,790 e-conferences are listed, in 62 different categories. * Read the Copyright Notice on the Scholarly E-Conference List. * Browse Academic E-Conference Categories * Keyword Search of E-Conference Descriptions * User Guide to Operating Electronic Mailing Lists *** ACTIVITY #5 At the bottom of the screen is a menu. You should use the letter (G) for GO and then enter the following address or URL Linkname: Mailing Lists Filename: http://www.brandonu.ca/~ennsnr/Resources/mail.html You must enter the address exactly as it is listed, small letter for small letter, capital letter for capital letter and symbol for symbol. The "~" mark is on the top row of keys (next to the 1 in the numeric row). After you enter the address, hit the return key and you will jump to that site. there you will find a menu that looks like the following: *** MAILING LISTS All links on this page are active as of March 24, 1995 * Nettrain + listserv@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU subscribe nettrain YourFirstName YourLastName * Net-Happenings [ WOW ] + majordomo@is.internic.net subscribe net-happenings or subscribe net-happenings-digest + Gopher archive * Net-Resources + listserv@is.internic.net subscribe net-resources YourFirstName YourLastName --> * List of Listservs with abstracts --> * Searchable List of Listservs [ WOW ] --> * List of Listservs *** By selecting * List of Listservs with abstracts you will load a very large list of mailing list which have abstracts to explain what the list is all about. By selecting * Searchable List of Listservs [ WOW ] you will once again be able to search the mailing list using key words. By selecting * List of Listservs you will load a list of mailing lists that have an address and the title of the list -- therefore a much shorter list. You should bookmark one or more of these for future reference. ---------------------------------- ACTIVITY 6 THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE 1. Let's say you are considering a visit to Walt Disney World. What hours would the Magic Kingdom be open this week? While looking at this information, you find the absolute worst time of the year to visit -- when is this? 2. As of today, the Galileo space probe to Jupiter is how many miles from the Earth? What is the status of the probe? 3. The Appalachian Trail is how may miles in length? 4. Lets say you want to go white water rafting and you have heard about this river called the Youghiogheny. How many rafting segments does it have and what is the Upper section like? 5. Greg Jones is interested in geography. Find the listserv address for a discussion group that deals with geography and give me how Greg might join this group. You should also find a way for Greg to get off the list should it overwhelm his e-mail box with messages. ANSWERS WILL APPEAR AT THE END OF THE NEXT LESSON _________________________________________________________________ ANSWERS FOR THE LAST CHALLENGE OF THE WEEK 1. You access the 'HIstory Page' by striking the 'backspace key'. I gives a listing of all the places that you have visited since you logged onto seorf. You can use the down arrow key to return directly or select a site that you have previously visited during the current login session. 2. Using the search key - '/' and then entering the text that you want to find. 3. In setting a bookmark you first enter 'a' to add and the 'd' for the URL of the page that you are viewing, or the 'l' for the link that is currently highlighted. The Bookmark menu provides a listing of personally selected sites that you have previously visited and would like to return to sometime in the future. This menu may be viewed at anytime by pressing the letter 'v'. 4. The seorf Want Ad area within Seorf City. 5. a. With Veronica b. With Jughead c. By Topic or Subject Follow any of these leads to get information in text files. Once you find something that is of interest to you, type 'p' for print (menu item at the bottom of the screen), then use the down arrow key to select 'mail document to yourself' and hit return. If you modified your options menu in Activity #2 then your internet e-mail address will appear and you just hit return to have that document mailed to yourself. Be sure to log out of seorf bye typing 'q', and answering the 'do you want to quit' prompt - yes. At this point you will be back at the seovec Connect> prompt. If you are at school this is your ending point. If you are logged in from home you need to disconnect your modem from the school's modem. I do this by typing '+++' and then at the 'ok' prompt I type 'atho' and I get the 'disconnected, no carrier' message. However you do it with your communications software, make sure that you are fully disconnected before turning your computer off. APPENDIX A WHAT IS A LISTSERV? The Internet provides thousands of discussion groups via e-mail by allowing users to place themselves on electronic mailing lists. A listserv is program that maintains one or more of these mailing lists (i.e., a list server). A listserv automatically distributes an e-mail message from one member of a list to all other members on that list. Listservs maintain thousands of lists in the form of digests, electronic journals, discussion groups and the like. When you subscribe to a list, your name and e-mail address is automatically added to the list. You will receive a standard letter of welcome (via e-mail) telling you about the list. From that time on, you will receive all mail (postings) sent to the list by its members. You may follow the discussions or join in on them. If you respond, you can send your response to the list (in which case, all members of the list will receive it), or to an individual on the list. You can signoff (unsubscribe) from a list at any time. You can also get a listing of all the members of a list and their e-mail addresses. APPENDIX B SUBSCRIBING, UNSUBSCRIBING, AND POSTING Subscribing To subscribe to a list, send an e-mail message to the listserv address with one line in the body of the letter: SUB listname yourname where listname is the name of the list, and yourname is your full name (e.g. sub SAS-L John Smith). Unsubscribing To have your name removed from a listserv, send an e-mail message to the listserv address with one line in the body of the letter: SIGNOFF listname where listname is the name of the list (e.g. signoff SAS-L). Posting If you have an article (comments, questions, etc.) that you wish to distribute to all members of a list, send it as e-mail to the list address for that list. Please note that the list address is different from the listserv address. APPENDIX C OTHER LISTSERV COMMANDS Acknowledgment You can control the amount of acknowledgment you receive from a list at the completion of a mail operation by sending an e-mail message to the listserv address with one line in the body of the message: SET listname option where listname is the name of the list, and option is ACK, MSGACK, or NOACK. ACK provides mail acknowledgement, MSGACK provides acknowledgement of interactive messages only, and NOACK provides no acknowledgement. Review and Conceal Sending an e-mail message to the listserv address with one line in the body of the message: REVIEW listname will provide you with the network address and name of all the list's subscribers. Sending an e-mail message to the listserv address with one line in the body of the message: SET listname CONCEAL hides your name from users issuing the REVIEW command. APPENDIX D SEARCHING A LISTSERV ARCHIVE Many lists archive past messages and it is possible to search these archives for a given topic. To search an archived list, send an e-mail message to the listserv address, placing the search commands in the body of the letter. There is an extensive set of possible search commands. A simple example is given here. Sending // DATABASE SEARCH DD=RULES //RULES DD * SEARCH phrase IN listname INDEX /* will return all articles from the list "listname" that contains the text "phrase". The listing you will receive (via e-mail) has articles which match the criterion listed by article number and subject line. Use the article numbers to send a second message: // DATABASE SEARCH DD=RULES //RULES DD * SEARCH phrase IN listname PRINT ALL OF numberlist /* This will list the contents of articles indicated by the numberlist (e.g, PRINT ALL OF 105, 342, 501). APPENDIX E MAP02: LISTSERV FILE SERVER COMMANDS "Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius" -- Benjamin Disraeli Remember when you subscribed to the Roadmap list? You sent an e-mail letter to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU which said SUBSCRIBE ROADMAP YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME in the body of your letter. Well, the SUBSCRIBE command SUBSCRIBE listname < full name > is just one of dozens of LISTSERV commands that you can use by sending an e-mail letter to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU (or to any other LISTSERV address) with a command in the body of your letter! First off, what is a LISTSERV? Well, a LISTSERV is a mailing list program designed to copy and distribute electronic mail to everyone subscribed to a particular mailing list. We will talk much more about LISTSERVs and LISTSERV commands next week, but LISTSERVs work on a concept called "mail explosion." A single piece of e-mail is sent to a central address (the LISTSERV's address), and the LISTSERV then "explodes" the letter by duplicating that single letter and sending one copy of that letter to every single person subscribed to a particular mailing list (1). This "mail explosion" concept is what allows me to communicate with all of you with just a single e-mail letter sent to a central address. What we are going to talk about today, however, is the LISTSERV file server. In an effort to keep this group's mail volume to a minimum, I've placed many of the "optional" workshop files on the University of Alabama's LISTSERV file server. What is a LISTSERV file server? Well, besides distributing letters, LISTSERVs can also serve as a "library" of files -- files that YOU can retrieve using nothing but a simple e-mail letter sent to the LISTSERV's address with a few simple commands in the body of that letter. When you subscribed to the Roadmap list, you mailed an e-mail letter to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU with this command in the body of your letter: SUBSCRIBE list-name < full name > To get files from the University of Alabama's LISTSERV file server, you are going to send another letter to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU with a NEW command in the body of your letter: GET filename filetype F=format Now that may look a little intimidating, but you are about to see that the GET command is as easy to use as the SUBSCRIBE command. Let's break the GET command down into its individual parts: GET tells the LISTSERV that you want it to send a file to you. filename filetype tells the LISTSERV the name of the file that want it to get (for example: COPY NOTICE, ROADMAP 94-00001, RFC 1462, etc.). F=format tells the LISTSERV how you want the file sent to you. For what we are doing, lets use F=MAIL (that way the LISTSERV will e-mail the files to you). Now suppose I tell you that there is a file on the LISTSERV file server at the University of Alabama called COPY NOTICE. What do you have to do to retrieve this file? Well ... 1) Address an e-mail letter to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU (remember, you are about to send a command, and all commands must be sent to the LISTSERV address). 2) In the body of your letter type GET COPY NOTICE F=MAIL How about if I told you there was a file on the LISTSERV file server at the University of Alabama called RFC 1462? Well, again you would send an e-mail letter to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU, but this time the body of the letter would say GET RFC 1462 F=MAIL Think you can handle this? I hope so ... because this is your first homework assignment (eeeeek!). There are three files on the LISTSERV file server at the University of Alabama (LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU). Those files are: filename filetype description COPY NOTICE The Copyright notice for the entire Roadmap workshop, along with the workshop's acknowledgments. NET INTRO My own special explanation of what the Internet is and how it works RFC 1462 The OFFICIAL "What is the Internet" RFC/FYI by Krol and Hoffman (this is kind of advanced stuff). What I want you to do is use the GET command to get at least one of these files (you can get more than one if you want). What do I want you to do with the file after you get it? READ IT!! (As I said yesterday, PLEASE do not send the files back to me -- my mailer can not handle the volume of your resonses). That's your homework. Have a GREAT weekend!! ----- What if the GET doesn't work? First, realize that it may take a few hours for the LISTSERV to process your request and send the file back to you (hence the "patience" quote at the opening of today's lesson). If, after an incredible amount of time has passed, you have not heard back from the LISTSERV, double check that you used the correct address: LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU (thats "you-ay-won-vee-em"). Second, make sure the GET command is in the BODY of your letter. Finally, make sure that you have included all of the parts of the GET command (GET filename filetype f=format). If, after all of this, the command still does not work, talk with your local Internet service provider (do NOT write to me). Chances are, the problem is that your mail program is putting the wrong return address onto your letters. This is a local problem, and your local Internet service provider should be able to give you some suggestions. (Again, do NOT write to me!) SOURCES: (1) LISTSERV User Guide, EARN Association, July 21, 1993 PATRICK DOUGLAS CRISPEN THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS LETTER DO NOT PCRISPE1@UA1VM.UA.EDU NECESSARILY REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - TUSCALOOSA. ROADMAP: COPYRIGHT PATRICK CRISPEN 1994. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ROADMAP COMMENTS By Bob Tripp MAP02 -- "Listserv" -- A mailing list program designed to copy and distribute electronic mail to everyone subscribed to a particular mailing list. There are discussion groups for everything imaginable from soup to nuts. In addition to this lesson you can find out more about Listserv and e-mail discussion groups at the following URL on SEORF by using the 'G' or Go Command: Linkname: E-mail Discussion Groups URL: http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/listserv.html Owner(s): mailto:kabacoff@alpha.acast.nova.edu size: 17 lines mode: normal The information given at this site includes help files on: -- What is a Listserv -- Subscribing, Unsubscribing, and Posting -- Other Listserv Commands -- Searching List Archives -------------------------------- A giant list of mailing lists, last updated on December 17, 1994 is posted at the following URL on SEORF by using the 'G' or Go Command: Linkname: List Of Mailing Lists URL: gopher://gopher.utah.edu/1ftp%3artfm.mit.edu%40/pub/usenet/news .answers/mail/mailing-lists/ Owner(s): None size: 17 lines mode: normal