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- From: anthro-gopher@yale.edu
- Subject: Anthropology Directory Service
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- Organization: Yale University
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:08:52 GMT
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- ANTHROPOLOGY DIRECTORY
- ANNOUNCEMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL RELEASE
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- The University of Western Australia, in cooperation with the University
- of New York, Buffalo and Yale University, would like to announce the
- first, EXPERIMENTAL, release of a service for finding the names, mail
- addresses, and e-mail addresses of scholars and departments in the field
- of anthropology (including archaeology and other related fields).
-
- The great advantage of this Directory over other sources for addresses
- is that one may "search" the data base and thereby get information on
- a specific individual or institution. Once you are attached to the
- server, merely input the name of an individual OR an institution to
- receive the data currently stored in the data base.
-
- Accessing the Directory
-
- 1) Getting onto the system:
-
- The Directory is being made available via the "gopher" software, and
- is currently carried on uniwa.uwa.edu.au 70 and toto.ycc.yale.edu 7000
-
- If you are on a unix machine, the command > gopher uniwa.uwa.edu.au 70
- should connect you to the main menu for the gopher server here. Follow
- the "Departmental" entry through "people with a common interest" and
- you will be presented with the listings for the Directory.
-
- The command > gopher toto.ycc.yale.edu 7000 will connect you to the main
- menu for the gopher service at Yale University. Access the phone book
- through the "Archaeology Academics, Name-address lists". You will be
- presented with the listings for the Directory.
-
- 2) Using the system.
-
- No matter where you access the system you will be presented with a
- menu with TWO choices on a menu.
-
- The FIRST choice (the search list) will prompt for input after
- it is selected. You should enter a name (e.g. rindos), an institution
- (e.g. yale), or a location (e.g. australia). This will return a
- listing of entries containing these words. You should note that if
- you enter TWO words (e.g. new york), both words will be checked
- *independently* ("new york" as a choice will produce choices from NEW
- Mexico, NEW School, University of YORK, etc. as well as schools in
- NEW YORK). Feel free to play with the system: you can't harm it even
- if you get a funny response (though we would like to hear about such
- happenings!).
-
- The SECOND choice (the file) will display the ENTIRE directory
- beginning with *A*. This choice is being maintained for those persons
- who might wish to have GOPHER mail you the data base on which the
- searching is being done. At the moment, this is a fairly small
- experimental file but it should grow quite large over time as new data
- is entered into it. When this occurs, we will set up the entire list
- to permit FTP retrieval for those wishing a copy of the database.
-
- Disclaimer:
- We stress that this, the first announcement, is being made to "trouble-
- shoot" the system itself. At the present time the data base for the
- phonebook is in a VERY incomplete form. Hence, you should *not* be
- surprised if somebody you are looking for is NOT listed. We hope
- that the service will begin to become of real value *after* a call for
- submissions is completed and a reasonable sample of addresses are
- included. We hope that, all going well, this will occur at the
- beginning of next year.
-
- We appreciate your interest and would like to receive any comments
- or suggestions you might have. If all goes well, a second, formal,
- announcement and call for addresses will occur shortly after the
- New Year.
-
- If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact any
- of us.
-
- virtually yours,
-
- Anthro Gopher anthro-gopher@yale.edu
-
- If you want to write directly to a human please feel free to contact:
- Dave RINDOS D_RINDOS@FENNEL.WT.UWA.EDU.AU [list owner]
- Hugh JARVIS C129QP43@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU
- Tom PLUNKETT tom_plunkett@yale.edu
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