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- From: anson@netcom.com (Anson Kennedy)
- Subject: Skeptics Groups Newsletters via FTP
- Date: 14 Jan 94 22:54:50 GMT
-
-
- Monthly posting of the announcement. Association for Rational Thought
- newsletters now available, details below.
-
- Electronic versions of skeptics groups newsletters are available via
- anonymous FTP from netcom.com.
-
- To access this archive, FTP to netcom.com and change directory to
- pub/anson. Archives of individual groups' newsletters are organised
- into subdirectories as described in the read me file, included below.
-
- If you do not have FTP access, you may access the archive via e-mail
- as follows:
-
- Send the following message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com:
-
- connect netcom.com anonymous
- cd pub/anson
- dir
- get README
- get files.lst
- quit
-
- This will retrieve the README file (included at the end of this message)
- and the list of all skeptics groups' newsletters available from this
- site.
-
- After you get the file list, you can then send additional messages to
- ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com to request individual files (just replace the
- "get" commands above with ones for the files you wish to retrieve).
-
- Currently, the archive has over 4.2 megabytes of newsletters available.
-
- README version 2.00, January 14, 1993
-
- New this month: Ohio's Association for Rational Thought
- newsletter and the latest _Georgia Skeptic_ and _REALL News_!
- A complete list of additions is included at the end of this file.
-
- Electronic versions of skeptics groups newsletters are provided
- here for information only. Opinions expressed in the newsletters
- do not necessarily represent those of the owner of this FTP
- archive or of any other group or individual except the authors
- themselves.
-
- Permission for reproducing articles in these newsletters varies
- from group to group. Refer to individual newsletters for specific
- conditions.
-
- Currently, this archive includes the following directories:
-
- Arizona_Skeptic - _The Arizona Skeptic_, newsletter of
- the Tucson Skeptical Society (TUSKS)
- and the Phoenix Skeptics.
- Volume 5, No. 1 through Volume 6, No. 5
- NEW!->ART_News - _ART_, newsletter of the Association
- for Rational Thought (Ohio Valley
- Skeptics).
- Volume 1, No. 2 through Volume 3, No. 4
- BASIS - _Bay Area Skeptics Information Sheet_,
- newsletter of the Bay Area Skeptics.
- June, 1982, through April, 1993
- Georgia_Skeptic - _The Georgia Skeptic_, newsletter of
- the Georgia Skeptics.
- Volume 4, No. 1 through Volume 6, No. 4
- REALL_News - _The REALL News_, newsletter of the
- Rational Examination Association
- of Lincoln Land.
- Volume 1, No. 1 through Volume 1, No. 11
-
- More will be added as they become available.
-
- A complete listing of all files available in this archive can be found
- in the file "files.lst" in directory pub/anson.
-
- Inquiries and suggestions should be addressed to Anson Kennedy,
- anson@netcom.com.
-
- New files added in the past month:
-
- Directory ART_News:
-
- NAME SIZE DESCRIPTION
- ---------------- ------ --------------------------------------------------
- ART1-2.TXT * 8912 _Ohio Valley Skeptics News_, October 1991
- ART1-3.TXT * 13164 _Ohio Valley Skeptics News_, November 1991
- ART1-4.TXT * 14853 _ART News_, December 1991
- ART1-5.TXT * 27784 _ART News_, February 1992
- ART1-6.TXT * 10978 _ART News_, March 1992
- ART1-7.TXT * 12631 _ART News_, April 1992
- ART2-1.TXT * 13754 _ART News_, October 1992
- Cold-Springs Virgin Mary; Deception; mtg. summary.
- ART2-2.TXT * 19814 _ART News_, January 1993
- Ghost investigation; Cinci. Nature Center goes
- psuedo-science.
- ART2-3.TXT * 28451 _ART News_, April 1993
- Stigmata; Statistics misuse by parapsychologists;
- Demo of "psychic" powers.
- ART2-4.TXT * 39400 _ART News_, June 1993
- "Laws" of Quack Science; Failed arguments with
- non-skeptics; officer reports.
- ART3-1.TXT * 19668 _ART News_, October 1993
- Book Review: book on how to survive "satanic ritual
- abuse" (which has, of course, been "recovered" from
- "hidden memories"); book review: _Shadows of
- Forgotten Ancestors_ by Sagan and Druyan; Quackery,
- cont.
- ART3-2.TXT * 43304 _ART News_, December 1993
- UFOs (lots of good background info); James Randi on
- NOVA (in Russia); cold reading.
-
- Directory Georgia_Skeptic:
-
- NAME SIZE DESCRIPTION
- ---------------- ------ --------------------------------------------------
- GS06-04.TXT * 28073 _The Georgia Skeptic_, Fall 1993
- "Pulling the Wool Over Their Eyes" -- Magic for
- Skeptics II, "Spirit Writing" Photographs -- Exposed,
- The Form of Angels, Ovulation vs. Cretinism, Is Gary
- Larson Psychic?
-
- Directory REALL_News:
-
- NAME SIZE DESCRIPTION
- ---------------- ------ --------------------------------------------------
- REALL111.TXT * 27277 _The REALL News_, December 1993
-
-
- --
- Anson Kennedy Internet: anson@netcom.com
- VP, Georgia Skeptics Compu$erve: 71167,2435
- (speaking only for myself, however)
- -=*=-
- Opinions expressed represent only one possible interpretation.
- The reader is invited to make a determination based upon *all*
- available information.
-
-