Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 23:30:57 -0800 From: Patrick Douglas CrispenReply to: TOURBUS-REQUEST@LISTSERV.AOL.COM To: Multiple recipients of list TOURBUS Subject: TOURBUS - MARCH 28 - USENET INFO CENTER /~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~/~~~|~\ | "Why | Surf When / You Can | Ride The | Bus?" / | \ |__________|__________/__________|__________|________/ | \ / /______|----\ / Send INFO TOURBUS to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM ///////| | | Or visit http://www.WorldVillage.com/tourbus.htm |//////| | | |//////| | ~~~/~~~\~/~~~\~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~\~~~~ \___/ \___/ T h e I n t e r n e t T o u r B u s \___/ TOURBUS is proud to announce a new terminal of departure - the Internet Hotel at WorldVillage! When you get off the Bus, be sure to check out the latest at WorldVillage this week. ( http://www.worldvillage.com ) TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP : USENET INFO CENTER TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS : http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i/home.html I am pround to announce that my modem's manufacturer has created a software patch that fixes my recent modem problem (my modem currently does not work). There is, however, one small drawback. Wanna guess where the geniuses at my modem's manufacturer put the software patch? On America Online (AOL)!. Yeah ... THAT makes sense! I'll just use my modem (which does not work because I do not have the software patch) to login to my AOL account and download the software patch :) On a different subject, Newsweek magazine is looking for the best e-mail mailing lists on the Internet. If you have a favorite list (and no, your favorite list does *not* have to be TOURBUS), send the list's name info the folks at cscope@newsweek.com *--------------< BIG-TIME MAGAZINES FOR $10 A YEAR? >----------------* Take the 'Bus to Magazine Express for exclusive TOURBUS discounts and get Dr. Bob's new guide free! ELVIS the mailbot tells all... *---------------< E-mail: tourbus@Magazines.Com >--------------------* As shocking as this may sound, there is a whole bunch more to the Internet than just the over-publicized World Wide Web. Before the Web, and even before Gopher, Usenet newsgroups were the hot spots on the Net. As a matter of fact, with well over 15,000 different discussion groups used daily by millions upon millions of people, Usenet is still one of the hotest areas on the Net. For those of you who may have never experienced Usenet, it is a little like a room the size of the Superdome with thousands of bulletin boards on the wall. People post little slips of paper on bulletin boards whose topics interest them. Sometimes people read and/or reply to the other slips of paper on these bulletin boards, and sometimes they don't (you can find out more about Usenet and the rest of the Internet in the Roadmap workshop, a free, 27 lesson Internet training workshop. To find out how to retrieve any or all of the Roadmap lessons using nothing but e-mail, send an e-mail letter to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU that says GET MAP PACKAGE F=MAIL in the body of your e-mail letter). You access Usenet newsgroups through your local Internet service provider, who will be more than happy to tell you how to do this (and, to repeat my Roadmap mantra, PLEASE do not contact me to ask me how to access Usenet ... *ONLY* your local Internet service provider can tell you how to do this). THE USENET INFO CENTER ---------------------- Today's TOURBUS stop is the Usenet Info Center at http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i/home.html The Usenet Info Center is a totally unspectacular looking web site (they have NO graphics at all), but it is replete with really cool information. From the Usenet Information Center homepage you can access the Frequently Asked Questions for almost EVERY Usenet newsgroup, and you can also find out a whole bunch of information about these newsgroups as well. One note, though: you can't use the Usenet Info Center to access Usenet newsgroups and read articles (although the Usenet Info Center homepage does have links to other Web services that allow you to do this). The Usenet Info Center is simply designed to give you valuable information about each of the Usenet newsgroups. What sort of information can you find? Well, if you click on "Browse the Usenet Groups", you can find out stuff about each Usenet newsgroup like: * What that newsgroup discusses, * Where you can find that newsgroup's FAQ, * The number people who actually read that newsgroup each day, * The percentage of crosspostings (if you don't know what this is, trust me when I say that you want this percentage to be as low as possible), * The percentage of all Internet service providers that provide that newsgroup, and * The number of messages posted to that newsgroup each day (and each month). You will find that this information is quite valuable when you are hunting for a Usenet newsgroup that meets your particular needs. You can find out more about the format used to post each newsgroup's information by visiting http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i/info/format.html but that probably isn't going to be necessary. If you ignore the numbers in parenthesis at the bottom of each newsgroup's description, you can easily figure out everything else in each newsgroup's description. Of course, you are going to have to go though a couple of directories to get to the information about the newsgroup that you want. For example, if you wanted to find out about the "rec.food.chocolate" newsgroup, you would have to go through the "rec/" directory, and then the "rec.food/" directory to get to your final destination (but if you understand Usenet hierarchies, you'll have no problem finding your way around the directories). That's it for today. You and I have in our bookmark files dozens, maybe hundreds of sites, that we plan to actually visit someday. If you use Usenet, however, today's TOURBUS stop is actually a site that you will both use and visit frequently. -------------------------------- TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY -------------------------------- SENSUOUS - Phrase. Usage: "Honey, sensuous up, could you get me another beer?" (Special thanks goes to several bus riders for today's wurd) YOU CAN FIND ALL OF THE OLD SOUTHERN WORDS OF THE DAY ON THE SOUTHERN WORD HOMEPAGE AT http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/word.html *--------------------< SPEED UP YOUR SURFING >-----------------------* Add memory to your Laptop, Desktop or Workstation and Go Faster! CLC RESEARCH offers Rock Bottom Prices, Lifetime Warranty, and Money Back Guarantee on all products. Special Discounts for TOURBUS Riders! *-------------------< http://www.CLCR.com/memory >---------------------* ====================================================================== SUBSCRIBE : Send SUBSCRIBE TOURBUS Firstname Lastname to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM unSUBSCRIBE: Send SIGNOFF TOURBUS to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Web Site : http://www.WorldVillage.com/tourbus.htm Advertising: E-mail BobRankin@MHV.net w/ Subject: SEND TBRATES ====================================================================== TOURBUS - (c) Copyright 1996, Patrick Crispen and Bob Rankin All rights reserved. Redistribution is allowed only with permission. Send this copy to 3 friends and tell them to get on the Bus! (\__/) .~ ~. )) /O O ./ .' Patrick Douglas Crispen {O__, \ { The University of Alabama / . . ) \ *NEW ADDRESS* crispen@campus.mci.net *NEW ADDRESS* |-| '-' \ } )) http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/crispen.html .( _( )_.' '---.~_ _ _& Warning: squirrels.
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