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THE ONLINE WORLD MONITOR
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The Online World Monitor newsletter (ISSN: 0805-6315) is a bi-monthly,
ASCII online product. Initially meant as a free, optional offering for
supporters of The Online World resources handbook, it is also open for
subscription by others.
The book and the newsletter are companions. While the book describes the
online world as it is, the newsletter tracks changes. It can more freely
focus on selected offerings or phenomena than can be done within the strict
framework of the book.
The newsletter contains tales about discoveries that never made it to the
handbook . . . Glimpses of what goes on . . . Trends . . . Spotlights on
important new developments around the world.
Volume 1 Number 1 (June 1994) had the following contents:
1. The batch approach to networking. (File: TOW SAMPLE3)
2. Spotlight on important developments: Telnet to CompuServe. SimTel.
Live voice conversations over the Internet.
3. Pointers to Interesting conferences, newsgroups, and resources
4. Changes - sic transit gloria mundi
Services come and go, change names, move to other "homes".
What the heck is going on?
Volume 1 Number 2 (August 1994):
1. The World Wide Web resource: Tests of the Lycos WWW search engine.
Other "find your way through the maze" services.
2. The World Wide Web by email. (File: TOW SAMPLE1)
3. on important developments
4. Pointers: Interesting conferences, newsgroups, and resources
5. Changes
Volume 1 Number 3 (October 1994):
1. Accessing the Web from a Unix shell account (File: TOW SAMPLE2)
2. Test result: Mosaic out, Netscape in?
3. Spotlight on important developments.
4. Pointers to Interesting conferences, newsgroups, and resources
5. Tracking Changes, - or sic transit gloria mundi.
Volume 1 Number 4 (December 1994):
1. Focus on Africa (File: TOW SAMPLE4)
2. Update: Europe
3. Spotlight on important developments:
- Patent searches on the Internet
- Trend: commercial services on the Internet
4. Pointers
5. Interesting conferences, newsgroups, discoveries.
6. Important changes
Supporters of The Online World book gets one free copy of the newsletter.
Those registering for six updates per year, gets a one year subscription
to the newsletter.
For information about the book, send email to LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU (or
LISTSERV@NDSUVM1 on BITNET) with the following command in the text of your
mail:
GET TOW MASTER
Information is also available via the World Wide Web on the following URL:
Web: http://login.eunet.no/~presno/index.html
and on the gopher at cosn.org. Select Networking Information/Reference/The
Online World. You can also try gopher wuecon.wustl.edu 671 . Selection:
Online Book. This option includes the choices "The Online Book by Chapter/"
and SEARCH Online Book <?>.
Subscription form:
Yes, I would like to subscribe to The Online World Monitor newsletter.
Please fill in the following information:
Name ___________________________________________
Company _______________________________
Address__________________________________________
City ___________________ State or Province ________ ZIP or Postal Code ________
Country __________
Email Address: __________________
Newsletter Subscription Prices:
Delivered by electronic mail in ASCII format:
Payment (mark off your choice with (x) below): NOK 175/year (around US$25)
( ) Check or money order payable to Odd de Presno in U.S. funds enclosed
( ) Bank transfer (SWIFT) to 6311.05.27189
(Kredittkassen 4800 Arendal, Norway)
( ) VISA ( ) MasterCard ( ) American Express
Credit card number __________________________________ Exp date _______
Note: You should not send your credit card number by email, unless
the data is sent in PGP encrypted form. For information about
how to do this, read the instruction at the end of this
appendix. If PGP is not available, use fax, or ordinary mail.
The Online World Monitor newsletter
Odd de Presno
4815 Saltrod, Norway.
Email: opresno@extern.uio.no
Fax : +47-370-27111
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How to send your registration using PGP encryption
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To use this method, you must have a copy of the freeware program PGP
(Pretty Good Privacy) by Philip Zimmermann. It is available for MS-DOS,
VAX/VMS, Unix, and other computers.
Various versions of this program can be retrieved from online services all
over the world. If you have access to the Internet, use Archie to locate a
recent version. I am currently using version 2.3a.
Version 2.3a is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.eunet.no . The file name
is pgp23a.zip . You will find it in the /pub/msdos/misc/ directory.
Follow these steps to encrypt your registration form (you may be able
to do this _without_ reading the documentation):
Step 1
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Store your completed registration form on your disk using the file name
ORDER.FRM.
Cut out the text below, and store it using the file name ONLINE.ASC.
*-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3a
mQBNAi0jCjcAAAECAKBK1u0JZHZSEh50P3TdgSApuZCEWQh2Nsxw1pYrC4bgy/md
bAN3UFrkgwShtnpPIjm+GcXFBiKpZ5kDuT9T9x0ABRG0FW9wcmVzbm9AZXh0ZXJu
LnVpby5ubw==
=AXgT
*-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Remove the asterisk ()* character at the beginning of the first and last
lines of the PGP Public Key before adding it to your keyring. For example,
the line
*-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
should be changed to
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Do the same with the last line to make it
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Step 2
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Add ONLINE.ASC to your public keyring using the command:
pgp -ka online.asc
Step 3
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Encrypt ORDER.FRM using the command
pgp -ea order.frm opresno@extern.uio.no
The resulting file will be called ORDER.ASC.
Step 4
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Send ORDER.ASC by email to opresno@extern.uio.no , or presno@grida.no .