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- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 21:05:01 -0400 (EDT)
- From: DOROSZ@PL9000.PLH.AF.MIL
- Subject: gopher course- free
- To: netug@mh.PLH.AF.MIL
-
- NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN'
-
- Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland
-
- "Navigating the Internet: Let's go Gopherin'" is a two or three
- week, electronic mail, distance education course that will
- introduce the new and intermediate user of the Internet to the
- popular navigating tool--Gopher.
-
- The Internet Gopher, developed by the University of Minnesota, is
- a navigating tool that incorporates basic Internet services
- into one easy-to-use program. File transfer and remote login are
- simplified by Gopher; Gopher knows the remote machines' Internet
- addresses, thus relieving the user of the tedious chore of
- remembering and entering the sometimes encryptic Internet
- addressing schemes.
-
- This course will last for two or three weeks and will cover the
- basic connections to a Gopher, look at selected Gopher sites,
- create Gopher "bookmarks", and search "Gopherspace" with the help
- of the powerful program--Veronica.
-
- Information on different types of Gopher clients that are
- available and their primary differences will be explained, and
- installation and maintenance of a Gopher client and server will
- conclude the course.
-
- The course will consist of e-mail instructions and illustrations
- that can be read and followed, or participants can save the
- information to read at their own pace and location.
-
- Dates: October 18, 1993 through the beginning of November.
-
- Costs: Free
-
- To register for "Navigating the Internet: Let's go Gopherin'"
- sign up to the list gophern by sending an e-mail message to the
- listserv:
-
- listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
-
-
- In the body of the e-mail message enter:
-
- subscribe gophern Yourfirstname Yourlastname
-
- This will automatically register you for the course.
- (Note the missing "i and g" in gophering)
-
- This course is intended for new, novice or intermediate Internet
- users. You should be able to read and use your e-mail and a
- TCP/IP connection is needed to actually use Gopher. Those on
- Internet services who do not have full Internet access may not
- receive all the benefits of the course. Also note that there
- will probably be more than 100 e-mail messages of varying
- lengths. Please consider your disk space and any e-mail costs
- before registering for the course.
-
- Richard J. Smith
- smithr@clp2.clpgh.org
- The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
-
- Jim Gerland
- gerland@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
- State University of New York at Buffalo
- Academic Services, Computing and Information Technology
- Manager, Network User Support Services
-