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                           EVERYBODY'S INTERNET UPDATE
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                            Number 6 - September, 1994
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         An online publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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This month:

1. Giving the Internet the SLIP
     1.1  Look Ma, I'm multitasking
     1.2  Hooking up
     1.3  The nitty-gritty (it ain't pretty)
     1.4  Putting it all together
     1.5  TIA: Help for the SLIPless
     1.6  When things go wrong
     1.7  FYI
2. Mining Usenet for Information
     2.1  Stanford digs the mine
     2.2  FYI
3. Aren't you hungry?  Cybereats to go
4. Public-access providers
    4.1 Italy
    4.2 California
    4.3 Connecticut
    4.4 Florida
    4.5 Nevada
    4.6 New Jersey
    4.7 New York
    4.8 Utah
    4.9 Virginia
    4.10 FYI
5. Services of the month
6. Updates/errata
7. Thanks!
8. Contact info
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1. GIVING THE INTERNET THE SLIP

If you connect to the Internet via a public-access Internet provider,
chances are good you're doing it the old fashioned way.  You start up a
communications program like Procomm, Zterm or Crosstalk, then dial into
your provider and then use programs on that site to read your mail, cruise
Usenet newsgroups, whatever.

That means having to learn a set of Unix commands.  And if you're a
Windows or Macintosh user, it means having to give up most of the features
that can make your computer easier to use, such as the ability to do
things by clicking (or double-clicking) on them with your mouse, dragging
and dropping files, etc.

There is a potentially better way -- software that uses a communications
standard called the Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP).  With a SLIP
connection, you gain back all those graphical conveniences.  You also gain
the ability to do more than one thing at once -- reading your e-mail while
downloading some large game program, for example.  And SLIP will give you
a graphical interface to multimedia applications on the Net, such as the
World-Wide Web.

Of course, there's a catch. Setting up a SLIP connection could cost you
more than a standard dial-in account, both for the cost of the software
and the cost of the connection (although both are falling rapidly).  It
could also mean some really frustrating set-up work that will make your
dentist's chair seem an enjoyable place to visit.

And as is often the case these days, MS-DOS users are being left behind.
Although there is SLIP software for MS-DOS, it requires the use of
commands very similar to those you use on a Unix system.  And there is no
graphical MS-DOS interface to the World-Wide Web.

But with all that in mind, let's take a look at how this all works and
how to get yourself started with it.

1.2  LOOK MA, I'M MULTI-TASKING

Computers tied directly to the Internet communicate with each other using
a standard known as Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
(TCP/IP).  This standard allows for direct interaction between these
computers -- so that, for example, you can tap into a database halfway
around the world over the Net (it also deals with such issues as routing
information from A to B).

This is NOT what you are doing when you dial into a public-access site
with, say, Procomm.  Once your computer and your host establish a link,
your computer basically goes to sleep and you interact with the network
via programs on your host. That terminal emulation you always have to
remember to set is merely a way to tell the host system what kind of
keyboard to pretend you'd be using if you were actually at the host
computer sitting at one of its terminals. All of the programs you need to
run to interact with the Net, from mail and Usenet readers to Gopher and
Lynx, are actually running on your provider's computer (or network); the
only time your computer wakes up is when you do something like download a
file (and even then, you're not using any particular Internet program).

SLIP changes that by making your computer an active participant on the
network.  With a SLIP account, it's essentially your host that goes to
sleep, acting only as a sort of doorway to the rest of the Internet for
you and your computer. Now your computer has direct access to TCP/IP
message packets (which can be anything from e-mail to World-Wide Web
images).  Note:  You'll often see references to PPP, or Point-to-Point
Protocol.  It accomplishes the same basic thing as SLIP, only it does it
differently. In practical terms, there's really no difference between the
two.

To do anything useful, you'll now need your own programs to retrieve
and interpret these packets -- or your own equivalents of Pine, Gopher,
tin, etc.  Typically, however, the Windows and Mac versions of these
programs work just like other Windows and Mac programs.  For example, an
FTP program will let you drag a file listed on an anonymous file directory
into a directory on your own computer (so no more getting the file to your
public-access host and then downloading it to your machine).  And Windows
users getting huge files over the net can use alt-tab to bring up another
application, Usenet, say.

Now before you rush out and spend lots of time and money on a SLIP
connection, however, be aware that there are some definite advantages to
the old way of doing things.  Besides the costs mentioned earlier, you
don't have to worry about clogging up your hard drive with all the
programs you'll need to make a SLIP link work  -- your provider has to
worry about that.  The provider is also responsible for keeping the
software running and upgrading it from time to time. Think of it as the
difference between owning your own house, where you can do anything you
want, and renting an apartment, where the landlord has to fix things when
they break.

And one of the things you simply can't do on a standard dial-up connection
is run Mosaic (with one key exception; look below for the TIA section).
With SLIP, you'll be able to use this graphic interface to the World-Wide
Web that everybody keeps talking about.  Yes, it's pretty and fun to look
at.  But watch out kids -- even with a 14.4K modem, it can be slooooow,
because of the size and number of some of the images out there.  If you
use the World-Wide Web more to find information than look at pretty icons,
you might find yourself turning off the "inline images" (i.e., the icons
and masthead photos), which most Web browsers now let you do.  Still, if
you get bored waiting for a World-Wide Web page to show up, with SLIP you
can do other things -- read mail, download a file, set up a telnet
connection somewhere, or even all three.  Yes, each of those will be
slower than if you were doing them one at a time, but generally not
enough that you'll notice.

So now you're ready to give the Internet the SLIP.

1.2.  HOOKING UP

Some Internet providers now make it really easy on you -- they'll sell you
a complete package that gives you the main Internet programs in a single
box.  All you basically have to do is tell the software your modem speed,
and credit-card number and you're off.  Netcom, with local numbers across
the country and Pipeline, in New York, are two providers that do this
(Pipeline's software technically does not use SLIP, but it works
essentially the same; more important, however, its software does not yet
support the World-Wide Web).

Spry, Inc. and O'Reilly and Associates recently released their own
"Internet in a Box" for Windows that does much the same thing for $149.
NetManage, Inc. sells its top-of-the-line Chameleon for Windows for
closer to $300.

But what if you're happy with your existing provider?  Ask them if they
support SLIP.  Many now do, typically for an additional set-up fee of up
to $30 and then an extra monthly fee of $10 to $20 a month above whatever
you're paying now (although some now offer SLIP for the same price as
regular dial-up).

But you'll need to get and configure the software.  One option is to
Internet in a Box, Chameleon or some other package. Another is to download
the software you need right from the Internet.  Using some free and low-
cost software, you can create a decent Windows SLIP package for about $40.
This includes access to the Web, e-mail and Usenet software and FTP and
telnet.  There are SLIP-ready Gopher programs, but given that you can get
to Gophers via the Web, it seems redundant to have software for it.

Mac users please bear with me.  It's not that I have anything against
Macs, but since I don't use one, I can't really talk intelligently about
them.  So here's a plea: Any Mac user who's set up a SLIP system and wants
to tell others how they did it, drop me a line!  In the meantime, see the
FYI section below for information on a World-Wide Web server that has lots
of information about setting up SLIP connections on Macs and other
computers.

1.3  THE NITTY-GRITTY (IT AIN'T PRETTY)

And now here's where things get, um, fun.  First, set up your SLIP
account.  Your provider should give you several bits of information you'll
need to configure the software:

      * A modem phone number.
      * Your user name
      * Your password
      * An IP address.  This will be your numerical Internet address
      * A host name.  This can be whatever you like, for example, your
        first name
      * A domain name or suffix.  Typically, the last part of your provider's
        address, for example: tiac.net.
      * A POP/SMTP server address or number (also known as mail host
        number).  This is the Internet address for the machine
        your mail program will connect to to fetch your mail.
      * An NNTP address (for Usenet)
      * A numerical address for a domain name server.
      * A default gateway
      * Whether the system supports straight SLIP or Compressed SLIP

Also, you'll need Windows 3.1 and at least 4 megabytes of RAM. In a word:
Phew!  Fortunately, once you set your system up, you'll never have to deal
with any of this stuff ever again (but keep it written down somewhere just
in case your hard drive melts or something). Now let's go get the software
we need.

The University of California at Santa Cruz runs a Gopher that
conveniently has much of the software we'll need.  Use Gopher to connect
to darkstar.ucsc.edu.  From the main menu, select "Network information,"
then "UCSC public ftp service" and then "PC - various DOS-Windows
utilities/programs." Now select "catsapps" and then "winsock." You'll want
to get the file twsk10a.zip, which contains the Trumpet Winsock software.
This is our SLIP connection software and includes a file called
winsock.dll (short for Windows Socket) that connects SLIP to Windows.
This application is shareware, so if you continue to use it, you should
buy it -- it's $40 (you'll find information on where to send the money
after you un-zip the file).

Now back up the menu tree once, so that you're back in the "catsapps"
menu. Select "eudora."  The file you want here is eudora14.exe.  This is
our mail program. After you get it, back up again, this time two levels,
to the "PC" menu. Select "wintrump" and get the file wtwsk10a.zip. This
will be our Usenet system.

Now disconnect from there and use anonymous FTP or ncFTP to connect to
ftp.netmanage.com.  As mentioned earlier, NetManage sells a high-end SLIP
package.  But you can get an earlier version of the software, which seems
to work well for most things, for free.  The path is
/pub/demos/sampler/sampler.exe.  We'll use this for FTP and telnet (it
also comes with mail, but Eudora has some nicer features).

Finally, there's our World-Wide Web browser.  Yes, you can certainly use
the famous Mosaic, from the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications.  But the current version of Mosaic only works with 32-bit
versions of Windows, i.e., the kind of Windows you probably don't have.
To use it at home, you'll need another, really large program called
win32s.  Partly for this reason, partly because of the way Mosaic quickly
reached the Nuts Threshold here (i.e., the point at which I started
yelling "This is nuts!" because of the rapidity with which it kept
crashing my computer), I'd recommend two other World-Wide Web browsers,
both free and both available over the Internet.

WinWeb, from EINet, looks a whole lot like Mosaic, right down to the
default gray background, but it's designed for normal Windows set-ups and
hasn't caused any grief here.  You can get it via anonymous FTP or ncFTP
at ftp.einet.net as /einet/pc/winweb/winweb.zip.  Cello, designed by
Thomas Bruce at Cornell University's Legal Information Institute, also
works quite nicely.  It has a different "feel" than WinWeb and Mosaic, but
you can customize the interface, everything from the size of fonts to
background colors.  It's available via anonymous FTP or ncFTP at
ftp.law.cornell.edu as /pub/LII/Cello/cello.zip.

1.4  PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

So now you have all this stuff cluttering up your hard drive.  Un-zip the
.ZIP files and run the files that end in .EXE (they're self-extracting ZIP
files).  Most will then be ready to go.  The one exception is sampler.exe,
which requires you to run setup.exe after it's unpacked. Also, the actual
program for Trumpet Winsock is tcpman.exe. For convenience, you might want
to put all of the applications in a single program group in Program
Manager.

Next, you configure all these programs.  First, start with the Trumpet
Winsock.  When you launch it, you should get a configuration screen.
If not, click on File and then Set Up.  Fill in all the blanks.  Click on
Internal SLIP (and, if your provider uses Compressed SLIP, click on Van
Jacobson CSLIP Compression).  When done, you'll be told to exit Trumpet to
re-start it.  Do so and re-launch the program.  This time, click on
Dialler and then Edit Scripts. Double-click on login.cmd.  This will bring
up the Notepad text editor.  Look for a line that says "output at&c1" Put
a # at the very beginning of that line, which will cause the system to
ignore that line (unless you're in Australia; otherwise the system might
not work). Save the file, and exit Trumpet.  You probably want to edit
your autoexec.bat file to include the Trumpet directory in your PATH line.

Now launch Eudora.  Click on Special and then Configuration, where you'll
again be asked to fill in a bunch of blanks, using some of the information
you got up above.  If you're online a lot, and get a lot of mail, you
might want to change the Check For Mail Every X Minutes setting from 0 to
some other number; otherwise, you'll have to "manually" get your mail. You
can also tell the system where to put any message attachments you might
get -- click on Auto Receive Attachment Directory, then the weird blue bar
next to it to mark one off.  When done, click OK.

The last thing you'll have to configure is the Trumpet News Reader.
Launch it, and if you don't get a configuration screen right away, click
on File and then Setup, which will bring up yet another config table.
One of the things you can set is the path to a .signature file (which
assumes that you want one attached to all your outbound Usenet messages).
When done, click OK, then call up File and then Network Configuration, to
answer two more questions (there's actually three spaces, but don't worry
about a Time Server setting, unless your provider gives you one).

Amazingly enough, the other programs -- WinWeb or Cello, FTP and telnet --
don't need you to do anything at all to configure them.

And now, you're ready to go.

Launch the Trumpet Winsock. Wait about 20 seconds, until you get a message
"Script aborted."  Now click on Dialler and then Manual Login and then
type

     atdt555-1234

or whatever the actual number is, and hit enter (if you're familiar with
communications scripts, you can later go back and alter the login.cmd
file to get you in automatically).  When you connect, log on
with your user name and password.  You should then get some sort of
message like "SLIP access now starting..."  Hit your escape key, which
tells Trumpet to make the SLIP connection.

And you're in!

Use alt-tab to get back to your Internet program group and click on the
Trumpet Newsreader. Here's where we'll see if you have any problems.  If
you get any sorts of error messages about how your computer can't connect
to the NNTP server, chances are the some of the configuration numbers are
wrong.  Go back into the Newsreader config section and double-check the
numbers you typed in.

But let's be optimistic and assume things worked.  The first thing that'll
happen is that your computer will download a list of every single
available newsgroup.  This could take awhile, so while that's going on,
hit alt-tab again, and this time call up WinWeb or Cello (WinWeb will take
a fair while to load up, too, because its default setting is to connect
you to the EINet Web server, a setting you can change).  Both will have a
series of "starter" Web sites for you to click on and jump to.  Try those.
Look at the pretty pictures. Try more Web sites.  If you have a specific
URL or address you want to try, click on Jump in Cello or Navigate in
WinWeb, then Load or Launch URL.

Important note here:  You always have to launch Trumpet Winsock before you
can start the other applications, at least to grab stuff off the Internet.

After a few minutes, go through alt-tab to return to the newsreader.  You
should have a list of newsgroups, which you can search.  Double click on
any groups to which you want to subscribe. When done, click on OK.  A list
of subscribed-to groups will appear on the top of your screen. Double
click on the one you want to read first.  If it's a large group, it'll
take awhile -- your system will grab all the messages. So while that's
going on, use alt-tab to get back to your Internet group and start up
Eudora.

You'll get what looks like a very simple spreadsheet -- this is actually
where you'll get a list of incoming messages, if you have any. To send
somebody a message, click on Message and then New Message.  From there,
it's pretty straightforward.  If you want to attach a file, choose between
BinHex and Mime, then, with your cursor in the header, hit control-H and
put in the file path.  When done, hit the Send button.

To check if you have new mail, click on File and then Check Mail.

NetManage's telnet is fairly straightforward.  The FTP is not particularly
hard, either.  Click on Connect, type in the name of an FTP site and your
user name and password (which for anonymous FTP will be your e-mail
address).  When you connect, you navigate the site on the right.  When you
find a file you want, set the directory on your machine where you want to
put it, then click on Copy.

1.5 TIA: HELP FOR THE SLIPLESS

A new entrant is a program called The Internet Adapter that simulates
SLIP, letting you use Mosaic and similar SLIP-type applications over a
normal connection to your existing Internet access provider.  The software
actually sits on your provider's computer.  This means that to use TIA,
you'll a  "shell account."  Generally, if you're
dumped right into Unix when you dial into your host system, you have a
shell account.  Because the software depends on your host, your host
has to run one of the types of Unix supported by TIA. Users of Free-Nets,
however, do not have such access, while some providers charge extra for
this.  You'll also still need Mosaic or some such, telnet, etc., installed
on your own computer.

To get the software, use anonymous FTP or ncFTP to connect to
marketplace.com.  In the /tia directory, you'll find copies of the
software for several Unix varieties.  In the /tia/docs directory, you'll
find documentation, answers to frequently asked questions, etc.

Once you get the software and load it in your home directory on your
public-access provider, you'll need to get a software key that will let
you use the software for 14 days -- after which the software disables
itself until you send in a check for $25.  You'll find info on how to get
this key in the /tia/read.me file on the above site.

Once you have the software up and running, it's fairly simple.  Dial into
your host as usual. After you log in, type "tia" at your command prompt
and hit enter.  This starts TIA.  Now you're ready to run the programs on
your own computer

Two caveats:  Remember all those addresses listed above that you have to
get to set up a SLIP account? You'll need several of them to configure
your software to run with TIA.  The instructions that come with the
software tell you which ones and how to get them (if you can't get them
from your provider). Also, TIA has caused something of a controversy among
access providers. Some have embraced it and bought site licenses so all
their users can take advantage of it.  Others, however, have banned it.

1.6 WHEN THINGS GO WRONG

If something can go wrong with SLIP, it will.  You could write a book
about setting up a SLIP connection (and no doubt, somebody has), so the
above directions might be a bit skimpy in some areas.  If one setting
doesn't work, try another.  The Charm Net PPP Home Page, listed below, is
an excellent place to go for more information.  Some specific things that
can go wrong:


 Some specific things:

*  You launch a program and get an "Undefined Dynalink" error message.

   This probably means you've tried to start a program while not connected
   to your SLIP provider.  Click on OK and then check to see if you're
   actually connected via Trumpet Winsock.

*  You get error messages whenever you try to use Eudora or Trumpet
   Newsreader.

*  Check your configuration settings to make sure you put in the correct
   addresses.

*  You have a SLIP connection, but get an error message the first time you
   try to use Eudora.

   Go into the configuration area and change the numerical address to the
   name one (or vice versa).

1.7 FYI

Frank Hecker's "Personal Internet Access Using SLIP or PPP; How You Use
It, How It Works," gives a good overview of how the two protocols work.
It's available via FTP at ftp.digex.net as
/pub/access/hecker/internet/slip-ppp.txt or via the World-Wide Web at
http://www.charm.net/ppp.html.

At that latter URL, you'll find numerous other documents and programs
related to SLIP/PPP access, including information and files related to
Macintosh SLIP service.

Henry Kriz has written a three-part series on connecting Windows computers
to the Internet via TCP/IP, SLIP, etc. that goes into more technical
detail than what you've just read.  It's available via anonymous FTP at
nebula.lib.vt.edu in the /pub/windows/winsock directory.  Look for a file
with a name like wtcpip05.asc, where the two digits in the first part of
the name indicate the current version number.

There's a large set of information files related to Cello at the Web
address http://www.law.cornell.edu/cello/cellofaq.html

For information on Spry products, point your Web browser at
http://www.spry.com. For information on Netcom's NetCruiser, connection to
http://www.netcom.com/netcom/cruiser.html.  And for information on
Pipeline, the URL is http://www.pipeline.com.

Useful Usenet newsgroups include comp.infosystems.www,
comp.infosystems.www.users and plain old comp.infosystems.


2. MINING FOR INFO ON USENET

Grizzled Usenet veterans (you can always tell them by the coffee-stained
leather jackets they wear) proudly recall the days when they could read
every single article posted on the network each day and still find time to
do some work.

But now, with the number of newsgroups approaching 10,000, that, of
course, is impossible.  That causes a potential problem, though.  What if
there's a discussion going on somewhere you might be interested in?  Sure,
Usenet is divided into hierarchies and newsgroups with the goal of helping
people find discussions on specific topics, but given the number of people
who now post each day, even that might mean you'll miss something.  And if
you go on vacation and you come back to 2,000 new articles in your
favorite group, the temptation is awfully high to just mark them all as
read.

2.1 STANFORD DIGS THE MINE

But what if there were software out there that scanned the Net for
articles containing keywords of interest to you?  That way, you'd get only
the stuff you're really interested in and not the dross.

Meet Stanford University's Netnews Filtering Server.  Somewhere at
Stanford sits a computer that creates a daily index of all Usenet messages
that pass through it.  Through simple e-mail commands, you can get this
machine to filter out articles for you and then send you a daily summary
of what it finds.  If the summaries of each article look intriguing
enough, you can then have the entire articles mailed to you.

The basic commands are really simple.  You tell the computer what to look
for and how frequently you want to receive its reports. Send an e-mail
message to

     [e-mail].

Leave the subject line blank, and as the message, write

     subscribe phrase or word
     period 1

For example,

     subscribe boston bruins
     period 1

would set the machine to searching for references to the Boston Bruins and
then report back to you every day (if you substituted "period 2," it would
report back to you every two days; you can go as high as 5).  There's an
optional third command, "expire,'' which you would use to tell the
computer how many days to keep looking for you.  For example,

      expire 30

would end the search after 30 days.

Now let's say you do get an article you want to read more about.  Each
article will have a message number.  To get it, write back to
[e-mail] and as your message, write

       get news.group.#

for example,

       get alt.sex.hamsters.duct-tape.4601

You can also search the Stanford database for existing articles.  Again,
write to [e-mail].  As your message, write

       search word or phrase

You'll get back a list of possibly relevant articles.

2.2 FYI

To get a more comprehensive guide to the service, which includes tips on
helping the computer better refine your searches, write
[e-mail].  Leave the subject line blank, and as your
message, write:

       help


3. AREN'T YOU HUNGRY? CYBEREATS TO GO

Pizza Hut got some national attention recently when it opened up an online
pizza-delivery service on the Internet.  Alas, it currently only serves
the anchovy-mad masses of Santa Cruz, California (the Santa Cruz
Operation, best known for its Unix software, helped set up the server),
but if it takes off, Pizza Hut could expand it nationwide.

If you want to get a taste of online food service, point your World-Wide
Web browser at http://www.pizzahut.com.  Fill in the form that pops up.
Unless you put in a Santa Cruz phone number, you'll be told you can't
actually use the service.  But then you'll get the chance to click on
"demo" and fill out a mock order form.  Experience the joy that only comes
from building your own pizza. Extra pepperoni? No problem!

And actually, for all the publicity, Pizza Hut was not the first.  That
honor goes to Celia's Chinese Kitchen in Boulder, Colo., which lets you
order either via a World-Wide Web form or e-mail.  Of course, it helps to
be in the vicinity of Boulder (mooshi chicken doesn't travel well in
parcel post). To take a look at the menu for Boulder's only dimsum eatery,
set your World-Wide Web browser to http://celias.com/celias/index.html, or
send some e-mail to [e-mail] (orders go to [e-mail]).  Oh,
they're closed on Sundays.

Several restaurants in Boston and Cambridge, Mass. are now also reachable
via the Web at http://bighorn.terra.net/ResTERRAnt (yes, you read right;
it's a service of a company called Terra Net). This is actually an
Internet-to-fax gateway: you fill out an order, it gets sent to the
eatery's fax machine. Those on a diet should check out the menu for the
Potluck Cafe in Boston, which features such appetite suppressants as
lizard-brain soup and bat's liver.

4.  PUBLIC-ACCESS PROVIDERS

What follows are listings of Internet providers not previously mentioned
in the EFF Guide to the Internet or past Updates. Systems that have "menus"
listed let you access the Internet by making choices on menus; others use
the more traditional Unix command prompt.

4.1  ITALY

Milan.  Galactica, 02/29.00.60.58 (up to 2400 bps); 02/29.00.60.91 (up to
14.4 Kbps).  Charges: 24.000 lire/month; 71.400/three months; 178.500/a
year, including IVA.  Voice: 02/29.00.61.50

Rome.  Agora, 06 69920412 (up to 2400 bps); 6990532 (9600 bps); 52271093
(14.4 Kbpss).  Also available via ITAPAC: NUA 26430303, 26420265 (1200
bps).  Voice: 06 6991742/3

Rome.  MC-link Technimedia Srl, 06 4180440 or 06 4180660 (US Robotics).
ITAPAC: NUA 26410420. Charges: 216.000 lire per year or 72.000 lire per
quarter.  Voice: 06 418921.

4.2 CALIFORNIA

Berkeley. Community ConneXion, [phone].  Log in as: guest. $10 a
month. Voice: [phone].

4.3  CONNECTICUT

Middlefield. Connix, [phone].  $20 start-up fee; $2 an hour with a
$10 monthly minimum or $20 a month for 20 hours a month. SLIP is $25 for
20 hours a month plus a $25 set-up fee. Voice: [phone].

4.4  FLORIDA

Broward County.  SEFLIN Free-Net, [phone].  Menus. Free. Voice:
[phone].

Deerfield Beach/Miami/Tampa/Orlando. CyberGate.  $17.50 a month; $29.50 a
month for 25 hours of SLIP/PPP access (plus $50 set-up fee). Voice: (305)
428-GATE or (800) NET GATE outside of 305.

Tallahassee.  Symnet, [phone]. Menus or Unix. $15 a month or six
months for $75; SLIP for $30 set-up and $30 for 30 hours a month. Voice:
[phone].

4.5  NEVADA

Las Vegas. Evergreen Internet Express. For modem number, call voice number
below. $240 a year unlimited access; $360 a year for unlimited SLIP/PPP
access. Voice: [phone].

Las Vegas.  @wizard.com, [phone].  Menus or Unix. $14.95 set-up
fee, $25 a month.  Voice: [phone].

4.6  NEW JERSEY

Wyckoff. NIC. Call voice number for modem number. Menus or Unix. $10 set-
up fee, $10 a month for 20 hours or $20 a month for 60 hours. Voice: (201)
934-1445.

4.7  NEW YORK

New York. Interport Communications, [phone]. Log on as: newuser.
$25 a month for 60 hours a month.  Voice: [phone].

Rockland County.  TZ-Link, [phone], Menus or Unix. Log in as guest
with a password of: guest.  $36 a quarter. Voice: [phone].

Rye.  WestNet Internet Services, [phone]. Log in as: new. $45 a
quarter; $150 a year. Voice: [phone].

White Plains.  Cloud 9 Internet, [phone]. Menus or Unix. $45 a
quarter or $180 a year; #90 a quarter or $360 a year for SLIP. Voice:
[phone].

4.8  UTAH

XMission, [phone].  Menus and Unix. $5 first month; $19 a month
after that.  SLIP/PPP no extra charge. Voice: [phone].

4.9  VIRGINIA

Williamsburg. Global Connect. For modem number, call voice number below.
Menus or Unix. $15 a month or $150 a year for 40 hours per month; $40 a
month or $400 a year for 70 hours of SLIP/PPP access a month. Voice: (804)
229-4484.

4.10 FYI

The Society for Electronic Access in New York maintains a comprehensive
list of Internet providers in the New York/Tri-State area.  You can get a
copy by using Gopher to connect to gopher.panix.com.  At the main menu,
select SEA.

Network-USA has created a World-Wide Web listing of Internet providers around
the world at http://www.netusa.net/ISP.


5.  SERVICES OF THE MONTH

5.1  AGRICULTURE

The Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has
an e-mail server from which you can obtain fact sheets on rural and farm
economics for each state.  To get them, write to [e-mail].  As
your message, write

     GET  OK DATA

substituting the two-letter state code for whichever state you want.

5.2 CHERNOBYL

A group of researchers at the Kurchatov Institute for Atomic Energy in
Moscow have created a World-Wide Web resource devoted to the Chernobyl
melt-down.  The URL is http://polyn.net.kiae.su/polyn/manifest.html.

5.3 GOVERNMENT/LAW

Look up Canadian Supreme Court decisions on a Web/Gopher server run by the
Research Centre in Public Law and the University of Montreal's Faculty of
Law. The Web URL is http://www.droit.umontreal.ca/; the Gopher address
gopher.droit.umontreal.ca.

Washington State legislative information is now available via anonymous FTP at
leginfo.leg.wa.gov in the /pub directory.

5.4 IRELAND

Who knows better about pubs than the Irish?  Look up reviews of pubs in
Dublin via the World-Wide Web at
http://www.dsg.cs.tcd.ie:/dsg_people/czimmerm/pubs.html.

5.5 SMILEYS

The Smiley Catalog is just what it sounds like -- a collection of hundreds
of those little ASCII faces.  Use telnet to connect to
twinbrook.cis.uab.edu 3399.  Type "help" (but without the quotation marks)
to get hints on using the system.

5.6  TRAVEL

More detours for the Virtual Chevrolet, including a New York City Web server
at http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nyc/.

5.7 WOMEN IN COMPUTING

The Ada Project at Yale University is a collection of World-Wide Web links
to information and resources related to women in computing, from their
importance in the development of the field to information on organizations
and fellowships.  Point your Web browser at
http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/tap/tap.html.


6. ERRATA/UPDATES

The author of "Travels with Samantha" (Update No. 4) is Philip Greenspun.

Don't use fido.de (Chapter 1) as a gateway to Fidonet in Germany.
Instead, use fidonet.org, as with other Fidonet addresses.


7. THANKS!

Thanks to the following folks who provided information that made this
month's Update possible: Adam Atkinson, Philip Greenspun, Michael Holzt,
David Riggins, Gleason Sackman.


8. CONTACT INFO

Everybody's Internet Update is published monthly by the Electronic
Frontier Foundation. Current and back copies are available by anonymous
FTP or ncFTP at ftp.eff.org in the pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/Updates
directory; by gopher at gopher.eff.org (select Net Info, then EFF Net
Guide, then Updates); and by WWW at
http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/Updates/

To receive the updates via e-mail, write to [e-mail].  Leave
the subject line blank, and as your message, write:

     add net-guide-request

To obtain a copy of the entire EFF Guide to the Internet, use anonymous
FTP or ncFTP to connect to ftp.eff.org and look in the
/pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide directory, or use gopher to connect to
gopher.eff.org and then select Net Info and then EFF Net Guide.  You'll
find several versions for different types of computers.  The file
netguide.eff is the generic ASCII version.

To reach Update Editor Adam Gaffin, write [e-mail].

For general information on the Electronic Frontier Foundation, send an e-
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[e-mail] / [phone]
The big dummy behind "Everybody's Guide to the Internet"