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- THE ONLINE WORLD MONITOR
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- The Online World Monitor newsletter (ISSN: 0805-6315) is a bi-monthly,
- online publication. Initially meant as a free, optional offering for
- supporters of The Online World resources handbook, it is also open for
- subscription by others.
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- 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.
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- The newsletter contains tales about discoveries that never made it to the
- handbook, glimpses of what goes on, trends, tests, spotlights on important
- new developments around the world.
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- Volume 2 Number 2 (April 1995):
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- 1. Online India
- 2. Tests, practical hints
- - The SlipKnot Web browser
- - The Free Agent news reader
- - To CompuServe by OzWin
- - Telnet to CompuServe
- - Telnet "back home" from CompuServe
- - Automated monitoring of news
- 3. Important developments
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- Volume 2 Number 1 (February 1995):
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- 1. Focus on China
- 2. Test, practical hints
- About: File transfers, finding files, efficient netnews,
- information finding strategies, email software. . .
- 3. Spotlight on important developments.
- 4. Interesting conferences, newsgroups, discoveries.
- 5. Important changes.
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- Volume 1 Number 4 (December 1994):
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- 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
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- Volume 1 Number 3 (October 1994):
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- 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.
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- Volume 1 Number 2 (August 1994):
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- 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
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- Volume 1 Number 1 (June 1994) had the following contents:
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 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:
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- GET TOW MASTER
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- Information is also available via the World Wide Web on the following URL:
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- Web: http://login.eunet.no/~presno/index.html
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- and on the gopher at login.eunet.no (URL: gopher://login.eunet.no/11/1).
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- Subscription form:
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- 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: __________________
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- Delivered by electronic mail (only). Mark of your choice of format with an
- (x) below:
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- ( ) Ascii text format
- ( ) Html format (text with hypertext codes)
- ( ) Both formats.
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- Newsletter Subscription rate: NOK 175/year (around US$25)
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- Payment (mark off your choice with (x) below):
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- ( ) 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
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- Credit card number __________________________________ Exp date _______
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- 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.
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- The Online World Monitor newsletter
- Odd de Presno
- 4815 Saltrod, Norway.
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- 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.
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- 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 2.6. You can get a copy from
- the following Web address:
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- http://login.eunet.no/~presno/sw/pgp26.zip
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- Follow these steps to encrypt your registration form (you may be able
- to do this _without_ reading the documentation):
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- Step 1
- ------
- Store your completed registration form on your disk using the file name
- ORDER.FRM.
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- Cut out the text below, and store it using the file name ONLINE.ASC.
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- *-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
- Version: 2.3a
-
- mQBNAi0jCjcAAAECAKBK1u0JZHZSEh50P3TdgSApuZCEWQh2Nsxw1pYrC4bgy/md
- bAN3UFrkgwShtnpPIjm+GcXFBiKpZ5kDuT9T9x0ABRG0FW9wcmVzbm9AZXh0ZXJu
- LnVpby5ubw==
- =AXgT
- *-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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- 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
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- *-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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- should be changed to
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- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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- Do the same with the last line to make it
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- -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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- Step 2
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- Add ONLINE.ASC to your public keyring using the command:
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- pgp -ka online.asc
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- Step 3
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- Encrypt ORDER.FRM using the command
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- pgp -ea order.frm opresno@extern.uio.no
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- The resulting file will be called ORDER.ASC.
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- Step 4
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- Send ORDER.ASC by email to opresno@extern.uio.no , or presno@grida.no .
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