The Scout Report is posted on the InterNIC InfoGuide's gopher and WorldWideWeb servers where you can easily follow links to resources of interest. Past issues are stored on the InfoGuide for quick reference, and you can search the InfoGuide contents to find the items reported in all previous issues. The Scout Report is also distributed in an HTML version for use on your own host, providing fast local access for yourself and other users at your site.
http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html
gopher is.internic.net choose Information Services/Scout Report
Comments and contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be sent to scout@internic.net.
See the end of the report for additional information and detailed access and subscription instructions.
Errata: Last week's Scout Report included the Daily News pointer listed below. I have been alerted by several of our loyal readers that the UPI, USA Today and additional selected publications are in fact not available to the general Internet population. It is possible to follow these links through several menus, but when you reach the level of actual content a terse message is returned in place of the text of the article. (More than one reader also mentioned that they didn't appreciate being addressed as "dude" in the return message they received, but then that's another issue altogether. ;-)
My apologies for not confirming access to each publication more thoroughly and for any confusion this has caused.
Daily News - Free Internet Sources
gopher: gopher.nstn.ca
choose: NSTN CYBRARY/Internet READING Room/Daily News
>From the White House Press Release:
Book and Open-File Report Sales U.S. Geological Survey Federal Center Box 25286, MS 306 Denver, Colorado 80225In the order, specify the Publication Series Number, Title, and Unit Price as follows: Open-File Report 94-570, "Connecting to the Internet", Unit Price: $20.00. For each copy, specify the Quantity you wish to order and the Total Price (Quantity times Unit Price), then add 10% if first class delivery is desired, or 25% for transmittal outside the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Clearly indicate the Total Amount Remitted. Payment in the form of check, money order, purchase order, or Government account, must accompany the order. Do not send cash. Drafts are to be made payable to "Department of the Interior - USGS." Please note that these videotapes are distributed in the VHS NTSC format. Other formats, such as PAL or SECAM, can be produced by special arrangement
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The Scout Report is provided in multiple formats -- electronic mail, gopher, World Wide Web, and now HTML. The gopher and World Wide Web versions of the Report include links to all listed resources. The Report is released every weekend.
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is.internic.netselect: Information Services/Scout Report.
After each resource in the Scout Report one or more network addresses are listed. In all cases a convention is used for listing the network address of each resource. It is assumed that users recognize the type of address and know how to use it. However, for those users unfamiliar with the Internet we provide here the order in which addresses are listed (by network tool) and instructions for accessing additional information in the InterNIC InfoGuide about each network tool. A brief explanation of one tool, WWW is included below.
The four network tools referenced most often in the Scout Report are World Wide Web, gopher, email, and FTP. Occasionally WAIS and Telnet addresses are also listed.
After each resource at least one address is listed, and sometimes more. This is because some resources are available through multiple network tools. The network tool addresses are always listed in the same order after each resource:
A WWW address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and always begins with a string of characters followed by a colon and two right brackets. For example:
http://www.internic.net/
gopher://gibbs.oit.unc.edu:70/11/research.d/grants.d
ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/hecker/internet/slip-ppp.txt
To access the resource through the WWW you will need a WWW client installed on your host computer. Clients are available for all major computer platforms, including Macintosh, PC, and UNIX. To use a WWW client on your computer, you will need a TCP/IP connection to the Internet, either through a dedicated line connection or a SLIP/PPP connection. See the InfoGuide for additional information about the World Wide Web and for sites which archive WWW clients. For more information about SLIP/PPP, which can be used over a dial-up connection, see the document listed in the NetBytes section above.
gopher://is.internic.net/11/infoguide/using-internet/basic-resources/email/
Gopher to: is.internic.net
** Choose: Information Services/Using the Internet/
Send email to: mailserv@is.internic.net
In the body of the message type:
send INDEX
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