Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 07:56:24 CDT From: Patrick Douglas CrispenTo: tourbus@colossus.net Subject: ROADMAP ---------------------- TOURBUS - 20 JULY 1995 ---------------------- /~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~~/~~~|~\ |____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____/ | \ | /_____|---\ / --T-H-E---I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T---T-O-U-R-B-U-S--> ///////| | | |///////| | ~~~/~~~\~/~~~\~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~\~~~~ \___/ \___/ "Why Surf When U Can Ride The Bus?" \___/ TODAY'S STOP: ROADMAP "ARE WE THERE YET?" -- me Like a really bad rash that simply refuses to go away, I am back with a brand new installment of TOURBUS (woo-woo!). Today's TOURBUS stop actually shows you something that a lot of you have already visited: the squirrel-infested world of the Roadmap workshop. If you *have* already participated in Roadmap, don't despair -- today's TOURBUS will also point you to some really neat Roadmap Gopher and Web sites that you may not have heard about yet. So what is Roadmap? Well, Roadmap is a free, 27 lesson Internet training workshop that I developed last Fall. There are 3 reasons why I chose Roadmap as our first TOURBUS stop: 1. I am a sucker for blatant self-promotion ("go me!"), 2. There are some TOURBUS subscribers who have never even heard of Roadmap (gasp!) and I really feel that the Roadmap workshop can help everyone get a whole bunch more out of TOURBUS, and 3. Next week is "Internet Week." I'll explain the "Internet Week" thingy in a minute. First, let me tell you a little more about Roadmap and how you can still participate in the workshop. As I said, Roadmap is a free, 27 lesson Internet training workshop. Each of the 27 lessons are in the form of an e-mail letter, and each lesson tells you a little more about how to use a particular Internet tool or service. Some of the lesson topics include: e-mail, LISTSERV, Netiquette (who can forget THAT lesson?), Usenet, Telnet, FTP, Archie, Gopher, Veronica, and the Web. With that said, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that you can no longer subscribe to any of the Roadmap workshop's LISTSERV distribution lists (waaah!). Wait ... it gets worse. At this point in time, I really don't have plans to repeat the Roadmap workshop anytime in the near future. That's the bad news. The good news is that even though you can no longer subscribe to Roadmap, I have set up a way that you can get all of the Roadmap workshop lessons sent to you! I have placed every single one of the Roadmap workshop's 27 lessons on a computer at the University of Alabama, and you can retrieve these lessons using a few, simple e-mail commands (am I a great guy or what?). To find out how to retrieve the Roadmap workshop lessons, and to find out a little more about the Roadmap workshop itself, all you have to do is send an e-mail letter to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU (that's "you-ay-won-vee-em") with the command GET MAP PACKAGE F=MAIL in the *BODY* of your e-mail letter. NOTE: Simply replying to the letter that you are reading right now with a GET MAP PACKAGE F=MAIL command will *NOT* work. You must send a *NEW* letter to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU with the command GET MAP PACKAGE F=MAIL in the body of your letter for your command to work. After you send your letter off, a computer at the University of Alabama will process your letter, and will -- usually within 24 hours -- e-mail you two letters: one telling you a little more about the Roadmap workshop, and another telling you how you can retrieve the workshop lessons with a few, simple e-mail commands. Cool, huh? But what if you are allergic to e-mail? (hey, it could happen). Well, you can also retrieve the Roadmap lessons using FTP, Gopher, or the Web. (A little aside: if you don't know what FTP, Gopher, or the Web are, you are not alone. Its really easy to get confused by all of this "tecnho-babble" floating around the Internet. The Roadmap workshop helps you cut through this techno-babble and teaches you how to USE tools such as FTP, Gopher, and the Web). The Library of Congress' Internet Users Group has created an FTP archive for the Roadmap lessons ("go me!" part two). If you are hell-bent on using FTP to retrieve the lessons, you should: 1) Seek professional help before you hurt yourself, and 2) Visit ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/iug/ For those of you who are Gopher fans, check out the Roadmap archives on the University of Alabama's gopher server (gopher://ua1vm.ua.edu:70/). The workshop files are in the "Network Resources, Services and Information" menu. I am also pleased to announce that dozens of sites around the world have put the Roadmap lessons on the Web. If you want to take a look at some of these sites, point your web browser to the Roadmap Homepage at http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/roadmap.html (By the way, that little squiggley thing (~) is called a tilde; its the key in the upper left hand corner of your keyboard that is covered with dust because you have never had to use it before). Finally, what is this "Internet Week" thingy? Well, it seems that the University of Alabama was not able to give me college credit for my Roadmap workshop (its a long story). So, since I can't get credit for Roadmap, I decided to take an introductory computer class so that I can pick up a few extra credits ... ... and next week is "Internet Week" in this introductory class. Gosh, I'm kind of nervous about this ... I hope I don't fail :) UPCOMING ROADMAP STOPS AND EVENTS --------------------------------- ALL NEXT WEEK: INTERNET WEEK!!!! NEXT TUESDAY: ... I dunno ... ask Bob :) NEXT THURSDAY: HOMR at MIT (web) and The Internet Wiretap (Gopher) And finally, by popular demand ... TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY -------------------------------- JAWJUH - Noun. A highly flammable state just north of Florida. Usage: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck." (\__/) .~ ~. )) /O O ./ .' PATRICK DOUGLAS CRISPEN {O__, \ { PCRISPE1@UA1VM.UA.EDU / . . ) \ THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA |-| '-' \ } )) HTTP://UA1VM.UA.EDU/~CRISPEN/CRISPEN.HTML .( _( )_.' 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