To all patient (and not-so-patient ;-) Scout Report subscribers:

...A month or two ago the Info Scout took a bad turn on the trail, and was ambushed by outlaws with some bad medicine they were feeding to unsuspecting Scouts. This required the Scout to set up camp and stay put until the bad medicine was overcome by the good medicine of health treatments, rest, and good friends and family. The Scout is back in the saddle now and plans are to return to sending weekly reports from the frontier...

Alas, yes there is life off the 'Net that sometimes needs attention! :-) Apologies for the recent series of events preventing regular publication of the Scout Report -- it seems that between sick systems and sick people it hasn't been a good Spring for scouting! All your notes of interest and inquiry as to the whereabouts of the Scout Report were appreciated and inspiring. It is good to hear that so many of you consider it a valuable resource and have missed its appearance in your mailbox and on the Web.

Thanks for your interest, enthusiasm, and patience.

Best Regards,

Susan Calcari
Info Scout


The Scout Report - April 28, 1995

A Service to the Internet Community Provided by the InterNIC

The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators, the InterNIC's primary audience. However everyone is welcome to subscribe to one of the mailing lists (plain text or HTML) or visit the Web version of the Scout Report on the InterNIC server:
http://rs.internic.net/scout_report-index.html

Additional information and detailed access and subscription instructions are included at the end of each Scout Report.

Highlights In This Week's Report:

Open Position with the InterNIC

Candidates are sought for the position of NIC Liaison, a newly established leadership position within InterNIC Registration Services. The NIC Liaison will be responsible for determining how the InterNIC can assist campus Network Information Centers (NICs) and libraries in supporting their local Internet users. The successful candidate will have experience in higher-education in the support of Internet users, and be innovative and self-motivated in the establishment of new InterNIC services on a national level. Excellent writing and public speaking are a must for the distribution of information over the network and at conferences around the country. The NIC Liaison will be an employee of Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) in Herndon, Virginia, outside Washington D.C. NSI manages the InterNIC Registration Services project under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. For more information about the open position, send mail to the address below or see the full description on the Web:

Mail: recruit@rs.internic.net

Web: http://rs.internic.net/liaison.html

World Wide Web

Gopher

National Information Infrastructure (NII)

  • NATIONAL ELECTRONIC OPEN MEETING ON "PEOPLE AND THEIR GOVERNMENTS IN THE INFORMATION AGE" MAY 1-14, 1995. The Clinton Administration's Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the National Technical Information Service's (NTIS) FedWorld, and the National Performance Review (NPR) will be sponsoring a national electronic open meeting entitled "People and Their Governments in the Information Age," from Monday, May 1 to Sunday, May 14, 1995. You may participate through multiple methods:

    The open meeting will focus on five topics:

    NetBytes

    Weekend Scouting

    About the Scout Report

    The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered by the InterNIC to the Internet community as a fast, convenient way to stay informed about network activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place selected new (and newly-discovered) Internet resources.

    A wide range of topics are included in the Report with an emphasis on resources thought to be of interest to the InterNIC's primary audience, the research and education community. Each resource has been verified for substantial content and accessibility within a day of the release of the Report.

    The Scout Report is provided in multiple formats -- mailing lists for both a plain text and HTML version; gopher; and World Wide Web. The gopher and World Wide Web versions of the Report include links to all listed resources. The report is released every weekend.

    In addition to the plain text version, the Scout Report is distributed in HTML format allowing sites to post the Scout Report on local WorldWideWeb servers each week. The result is faster access for local users. You are welcome and encouraged to re-post and re-distribute the report. Note that copyright statements appear on all versions of the Scout Report, and we ask that these be included when re-posting or re-distributing.

    If you haven't yet subscribed or told your friends and colleagues, now is the time. Spread the news by word-of-net. Join 20,000 of your colleagues already using the Scout Report as a painless tool for tracking what's new on the 'Net!

    Comments and contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be sent to scout@internic.net

    -- Susan Calcari
    InterNIC Info Scout

    Scout Report Access Methods

    Resource Addressing Conventions

    After each resource in the Scout Report one or more network addresses are listed. Every attempt is made to use the same convention in each listing for 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 using 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 forward slashes. 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 can use a WWW browser installed on your desktop computer, or a "command-line" WWW client on your local Internet host computer. Web browsers are available for all major computer platforms, including Macintosh, PC, and UNIX. Check with your local support center or your Internet Service Provider for more information about Web browsers installed on the Internet host computer or for your desktop computer.


    Copyright Susan Calcari, 1995.

    Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of the Scout Report provided the copyright notice, this permission notice, and the two paragraphs below are preserved on all copies.

    The InterNIC provides information about the Internet and the resources on the Internet to the US research and education community under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The Government has certain rights in this material.

    Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, AT&T, or Network Solutions, Inc.