Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 16:38:25 -0600 From: Patrick Douglas CrispenTo: TOURBUS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: TOURBUS - JAN 18 1996 - EVEN MORE NEAT E-MAIL LISTS /~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~/~~~|~\ | "Why | Surf When / You Can | Ride The | Bus?" / | \ |__________|__________/__________|__________|________/ | \ / /______|----\ / Send INFO TOURBUS to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM ///////| | | Or visit http://csbh.mhv.net/~bobrankin/tourbus |//////| | | |//////| | ~~~/~~~\~/~~~\~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~\~~~~ \___/ \___/ T h e I n t e r n e t T o u r B u s \___/ TOURBUS - THURSDAY, 18 JANUARY 1996 TODAY'S STOP: EVEN MORE NEAT E-MAIL LISTS TODAY'S ADDRESSES: HUMOR@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU COMPUNOTES@RUST.NET CWD-L@CYBERWERKS.COM Hi, kids :) Last week, we looked at the three largest LISTSERV lists in the world. Today, we are going to pull our little bus of happiness over to take a look at some of the smaller, lesser-known e-mail lists. Before we do that, however, there is something that I want to share with you (although, in all honesty, this has absolutely nothing to do with the Internet). Someone sent this to me a few weeks ago, and I am STILL giggling about it. The following is an actual radio conversation released by the US Chief of Naval Operations on 10 October 1995: NAVY: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision. CIVILIAN: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to South to avoid a collision. NAVY: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course. CIVILIAN: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course. NAVY: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER ENTERPRISE, WE ARE A LARGE WARSHIP OF THE US NAVY. DIVERT YOUR COURSE NOW! CIVILIAN: This is a lighthouse. Your call. I thought you'd get a kick out of that. Anyway, let's pay some bills and get on with today's TOURBUS ... +-----------------> Netscape Road Map Training Manual <-------------------+ | Now available for use by Trainers and Presenters. This 55 page manual | | succinctly reviews the basic functions of Netscape 2.0. Get your copy | | today for just $16. FREE info & sample chapter, E-mail: CDOMEYE@AOL.COM | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ A couple of TOURBUS subscribers recently asked me to explain how they can get a list of every LISTSERV list in the world. Well, there is a "list of lists" that you can get through e-mail, but since there are now well over 7,000 LISTSERV lists in the world, I should warn you that the list of lists is quite large. If you want to see the list of lists, just send an e-mail letter to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NET with the command LISTS GLOBAL in the body of your e-mail letter. You can also get a list of all of the LISTSERV lists in the world that have a particular word in its title by using the LISTS GLOBAL / keyword command, replacing the word "keyword" with the word that you want to search for. For example, if you want to see a list of all of the LISTSERV lists in the world that have the word "HTML" in their titles, you would send an e-mail letter to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NET with the command LISTS GLOBAL / HTML in the body of your e-mail letter. Simple, huh? :) BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!! ------------------------- For those of you who don't have the time to hunt and search through the massive list of lists, the rest of today's TOURBUS post is for you! Here are a few neat lists that you might want to check out (and some of these aren't on the list of lists). HUMOR ----- One of the first LISTSERV lists I ever subscribed to was the HUMOR list at the University of Georgia. HUMOR is a semi-moderated list (before you can post letters to the HUMOR list you first have to take a "humor test" to prove to the list's moderator that you are funny (although you don't have to take a test to be able to read the posts)), and the list sees between fifteen and twenty letters a day. Some of the jokes posted to the HUMOR list are a tad bit offensive, but the HUMOR list has a really neat standing rule that all offensive posts must be clearly marked as such in their subject lines. HUMOR is also an international list with subscribers from all over the world, so from time to time there may be some "regional humor" posts on the HUMOR list that you may not understand ... or find funny (but you can always just delete these posts). To subscribe to the UGA Humor list, just send an e-mail letter to LISTSERV@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU with the command SUBSCRIBE HUMOR YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME in the body of your e-mail letter, replacing YOURFIRSTNAME and YOURLASTNAME with your first and last names. COMPUNOTES ---------- CompuNotes is a free, weekly electronic publication that includes the latest computer industry news, articles, interviews, software reviews, and pointers to some neat Web sites. I only discovered this list recently, but I feel that CompuNotes is a genuinely good on-line resounce ... and one that you should definately check out. One word of warning, though: CompuNotes is running on a Majordomo, an e-mail distribution system that is sort of like LISTSERV, only with more bugs. There is a slight chance that these Majordomo bugs may soon start to manifest themselves in the form of distribution problems ... but, fortunately, the owner of CompuNotes is looking to move the entire CompuNotes list over to a LISTSERV soon (yea him!). To subscribe to CompuNotes, send an e-mail letter to MAJORDOMO@RUST.NET with the command SUBSCRIBE YOURADDRESS in the body of your e-mail letter, replacing YOURADDRESS with your e-mail address. CYBERWIRE DISPATCH ------------------ If you are STRONGLY opposed to the Clipper Chip, The Rimm/CMU Cyberporn "Study", and the Communications Decency Act -- and if you are a BIG fan of highly caustic writing -- CyberWire Dispatch is for you. CyberWire Dispatch is written by Brock Meeks, INTER@CTIVE WEEK's Washington Bureau Chief, and the Dispatch is a hard-hitting news service that focuses on issues currently facing Cyberspace. Meeks does not hold any punches in the articles that he posts to CyberWire Dispatch, but what separates CyberWire Dispatch from other on-line rants is the fact that Meeks is a professional journalist. While Meeks may not be politically correct, he is factual ... and his reporting is held in high regard. For example, one of the articles that Meeks posted to CyberWire Dispatch on a Friday appeared in the New York Times the next day -- without attribution (obviously, Meeks now copyrights all of his articles). Meeks posts articles to CyberWire Dispatch whenever he has something to report, but on average he posts about one article a month. If you are interested in subscribing to CyberWire Dispatch (which is, of course, a free service), just send an e-mail letter to CWD-L-REQUEST@CYBERWERKS.COM with the word SUBSCRIBE in the first line of the body of your message. MORE MORE MORE! --------------- I've mentioned this a couple of times before, but if you are new to the Internet and want to learn how to find your way around, or if you only have e-mail access to the Net and want to learn how to access all of the neat tools on the Net though e-mail, just send an e-mail letter to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU with the command GET NEWUSER PACKAGE F=MAIL in the body of your e-mail letter. The LISTSERV will respond by sending you some information about both my Roadmap workshop and Dr. Bob's guide "Accessing the Internet by e-mail." BLATANT USE OF A LIST FOR PERSONAL GAIN --------------------------------------- I'm not sure if I asked this before, but if there are any combination VM Mailbook 95 and Mac Eduora Pro gurus on this list, could you please tell me the Mac Eudora Pro equivalents for the REPLY TEXT (FILE filename filetype filemode and RESEND address (FILE filename filetype filemode commands? I use these two commands dozens of times each day, and I can't really move from Mailbook to Eudora until I find the Eudora equivalents :( --------------------------------- TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORDS OF THE DAY --------------------------------- JUICY - Contraction. A question. GUFF - Noun. A deep chasm. Usage: "Juicy the Guff of Mexico?" 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