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new version of the online world resources handbook (fwd)



[I just downloaded the new version of Od de Presno's online book
about the internet.  It has about 800k of text, very comprehensive.
The following message tells how to get it.  I used lynx since I access
the internet over a phone modem and can't use mosaic.  If you can,
get it yourself, its good experience, then you will know how to find
other things on the internet.  Otherwise I can send it, but there will
be a delay of a few weeks because I will have to wait until there is
a megabyte of extra space for my internet account. Also some mail
systems will choke on 800+ kbyte messages.  I also have it zipped
as a 380 kbyte binary file if you can receive MIME (pine compatible)
binary files over your email.
TH, thodges@beta.tricity.wsu.edu]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 15:30:42 +0200
From: Odd de Presno <presno@grida.no>
To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Subject: new version of the online world resources handbook

For immediate release:


              THE ONLINE WORLD - online resources handbook
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                   (New release: September 19, 1994)


The Online World resources handbook is out in its eight release. Version
1.7 can be retrieved by modem from services all over the world, including
from the project's new World Wide Web server at the following URL:

    http://login.eunet.no/~presno/index.html

Since the last release in July, it has strengthened its focus on resources
in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

The changes and additions also reflect Internet's continued strong growth
in the number of service providers, offerings, and users, and extended
global contents.

Highlights include how to quickly find information in World Wide Web pages,
find great WWW sources, WAIS data bases, gopher menus, and file archives
(ftp); how to search Usenet's Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) reservoir;
and how to find information resources and news sources by country.

A large number of users can only access Internet's resources by email. The
book now explains how email users can read and search World Wide Web pages,
WAIS databases, and Veronica. It has more on Usenet by email, and hints on
how to handle mail returned due to error in contents, and how to get off
that mailing list.

Other new pointers: CompuServe, Dialog, Data-Star and ECHO on the WWW.
Data-Star's European business offerings. Microsoft on the Internet. Global
demography and population information. Australian and New Zealand wines.
Images from the Vatican Library's collection of books and manuscripts.
Genealogy. Art from the Louvre in France. The British Library. The United
Nations. The Organization of American States. The Council of Security and
Cooperation in Europe. French news summaries. The latest UK news.

It sure does not stand still! The Internet is moving so fast that printed
books are obsolete the moment they appear in print. Not so with this The
Online World resources handbook. A new online version appears every second
month.

If reading an electronic book is too hard, adapted print versions of the
book is now available in English (in Canada), German (in Germany), and
in Norwegian. Print versions focusing on Australia, Spain, Iceland, and
Denmark will be published shortly.

 THE AUTHOR
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>From his electronic cottage on the southern coast of Norway, author Odd de
Presno advises on the practical use of the GLOBAL online information
resource.

  (His house stands in a small bay, about 7 kilometers from Arendal. It is
  so close to the ocean, that his computers could potentially exchange
  views with fish and sea gulls. :-)

 THE BOOK'S CONTENTS
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The book explores selected applications across continent, country, network
and service boundaries to show how user needs can be met.

Examples range from databases to entertainment and the bizarre to special
services for  professionals and organizations. He shares insights on the
use of major global networks and services as the Internet, Usenet, BITNET,
Fidonet, Echo, CompuServe, DIMDI, NIFTY-Serve, and others.

de Presno has more than 20 years of experience with online services, both
as a service provider and a heavy user. In his spare time, he runs KIDLINK,
a global network for kids 10 - 15 years of age. Since he founded it in
1990, over 24,000 kids in 64 countries have participated in the programs.

 WHERE TO GET THE BOOK
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By anonymous ftp:

  ftp://OAK.Oakland.Edu:/SimTel/msdos/info/online17.zip          [326 KB]
  ftp://ftp.ismennt.is/pub/online-books/online-world/online.txt  [810 KB]
  ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/doc-net/online17.zip

CompuServe: IBMCOM Library 5 as ONLINE.ZIP

By email: Get the file TOW WHERE as described below for instructions.

By Gopher: See below.


 FOR MORE BACKGROUND INFORMATION :
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The easy way
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Gopher to cosn.org. Select: Networking Information/Reference/The Online
World.

For information about KIDLINK, gopher kids.ccit.duq.edu 70 .

Information by email
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Send your requests to LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU (or LISTSERV@NDSUVM1 on
BITNET) . Put the following type of command in the TEXT of your mail to
retrieve desired documents (the subject line is ignored) :

    GET <archive name> <file name>

Replace <archive name> and <file name> by names from the list below.

Archive       File      What does this file contain?
------        -------   ----------------------------
TOW           INDEX     The Online World book's contents
TOW           WHERE     How to  retrieve The Online World shareware
                        book by modem?
TOW           OPRESNO   Who is Odd de Presno?
TOW           WHATSNEW  The book's update history.
TOW           MONITOR   Information about The Online World Monitor
                        newsletter
KIDLINK       GENERAL   What is KIDLINK?


Example: To get the file INDEX, use the command

              GET TOW INDEX


 FOR PERSONAL ATTENTION
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Write me at opresno@extern.uio.no , or by fax to +47-370-27111. I will
reply as soon as possible.

           Thanks,

       Odd de Presno
(Author, publisher, Norwegian)