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MaasInfo.TopIndex = Toplevel index to all major InterNet indexes,
nicknamed "the Index of Indexes", by Robert Elton Maas. This is Version
0.17 (1992.Feb.27), containing pointers to approximately 50
machine-readable internet-accessible online indexes.


%% Change history (only recent or major/significant changes included here)

% Changes from version 0.16 to 0.17

Moved TopNode and other toplevel meta-indexes to special section.
Removed pointer to a list of Macintosh-specific FTP sites as being not
of general enough interest for this toplevel index. Cleaned up
shareware and introductory sections a little. Included additional FTP
sites for UseNet FAQ files.

% Changes from version 0.15 to 0.16

Started including indexes of local collections that are heavy in
documents about how to use the network. Also some general cleanup.

% Changes from version 0.14 to 0.15

Changed all FTP specifications to ftp (lower case) so that unix users
can copy&paste without having to convert to lower case themselves.
Otherwise, just a few items of new info and some cleanup.

% Changes from 0.10 to 0.11 *major*

* Note that an important split occurred between version 0.10 and 0.11, so
all versions 0.10 or earlier should be discarded as soon as any version
0.11 or later and files MaasInfo.DocIndex and MaasInfo.HowNet containing
that split-off sections have all been obtained. *

Tutorial info that was physically in version 0.10 has now been moved to a
new file MaasInfo.HowNet, except for one paragraph that was moved into
MaasInfo.Archie.

Direct pointers to documentation (except indexes), that were in version
0.10, have now been moved to a new file MaasInfo.DocIndex. Now this file
MaasInfo.TopIndex points only to indexes and other similar files such as
bibliographies, deserving its nickname "the Index of Indexes".


%% Copyright notice and "trivial shareware" policy

Although the information that was assimilated into this index is mostly
public domain, and a few segments of description were copied verbatim
or with slight edit from other online indexes or from how-to documents
themselves, this particular collection selection and organization of
the information, as well as most of the descriptive wording, is
original work by Robert Elton Maas. Accordingly this document is
Copyright 1991 & 1992 by Robert Elton Maas, all rights reserved. Any
commercial resale requires prior approval from the author.

This file is distributed for personal (non-resale) use as "trivial
shareware". You may obtain this index of indexes for free and examine
it for as long as you want (but it'll be semi-obsolete within a few
months at the present rate of change). If it is worth more than a
dollar to you, you should contact the author to arrange payment by
giving the author some other information of comparable value the author
wants, unless you have already provided such information or have
compiled one of the major indexes listed here or written of the major
documents listed in MaasInfo.DocIndex or have been maintaining one of
the major network services listed directly or indirectly in the
MaasInfo files or if you have been maintaining an archive site where
these files are posted for anonymous access. Your "payment" to the
author or major contribution to the InterNet public also entitles you
to obtain newer versions from an anonymous FTP site or BitNet server
and to use those newer versions yourself (not for resale) without
further "payment".

Additional ways to "pay" the author are to answer some of the questions
in MaasInfo.SQWA (Specific Questions Waiting for Answers), or to submit
to this author an index of worthwhile information you have for barter
(don't send the information itself initially, just the index) that I
don't already have, and let me pick some information I'd be interested
in receiving as your shareware payment.

The author can be contacted on the voice telephone: [phone]
Also short electronic-messages (up to 50 lines) at:
 408-249-7916 (RealmOfWonder) [e-mail]
and longer electronic-messages at:
 408-245-7726 (DarkSideOfMoon) ...!apple!uuwest!rem or [e-mail]


%% What you need to know before you can make much use of this TopIndex

It is assumed that you know how to send and receive electronic mail,
including saving a message into a disk file and downloading that disk
file to your personal computer if you have one. It is also assumed you
know how to run the FTP program if you are on InterNet, or have a
friend to do it for you and put the file(s) on a diskette for you if
you are not on InterNet. If you want to contact online services such as
NIC's WHOIS, the 'Archie' file-finder, and various online public-access
catalogs for libraries, you'll need to be on InterNet with TCP/IP
TELNET capability, and you'll need to know how to use TELNET from your
system. In summary, you should have general knowledge of these three
major classes of programs, and also you should know the particularities
of the versions of these programs on your particular host. If you don't
yet know how to run those programs from your account, have somebody
help you to get MaasInfo.DocIndex and to then get some of the
introductory tutorials about how to use these programs.

After each description (usually of some lower-level index) I try to
provide access information (how to get a copy of the file).
- If you see a line starting with "To:" what follows is an e-mail
address, and following indented lines are what you send to that address
(but not indented when you send them). E-mail can be sent from all the
networks (InterNet BitNet UseNet; FidoNet CompuServe etc.).
- If you see a line starting with "ftp", what follows is the name and
internet number of the host you must connect to using the FTP program.
Then on the same line or a following indented line is the directory or
Unix path and the name of the file. The syntax is always given in Unix
format, that is directoryname/subdirectorynames/filename. Most FTP
programs operate with that syntax, but your program at your site may
vary. You may find it necessary to use one or more explicit cd (i.e.
Change Directory) command(s) then specify the filename as a separate
command, rather than specifying the full path and filename within a
single command. Be aware that some directory names (such as on
nic.ddn.mil) actually contain a colon within the directory name. You
must include that colon where shown here. Note that most FTP sites are
Unix which are case sensitive. To avoid possible problems, always type
the directory name(s) and filename in the same case as given here.
Live (interactive) FTP is available only on InterNet, but can be used
indirectly from the other nets via FTP-mail servers.
- If you see a line starting with "telnet", what follows is the name
and internet number of the host you must connect to using the TELNET or
TN3270 program (which one depends on complicated matters I can't
discuss here, try TELNET first). Following lines (indented) contain
exactly what you must type to get started (don't indent when typing
them). Mostly TELNET is used to connect to online servers rather than
to obtain files, so most of these are in MaasInfo.HowNet rather than
here. TELNET is available on InterNet only.

Note on electronic mail (e-mail) addresses in this document: Any
address with an atsign followed by words separated by periods, such as
[e-mail], are InterNet domain-style addresses which
can be used from most places, perhaps with slight modification.
Any address with atsign followed by a single word, such as
REM@SUWATSON, are BitNet addresses which can be used only on BitNet.
Outsiders wishing to e-mail to a BitNet address must indirect their
mail via some BitNet/InterNet gateway. For example, to mail to the
BitNet address REM@SUWATSON, try [e-mail].
From some hosts you can simply append .BITNET, for example:
[e-mail].
Any address consisting only of words separated by exclamation marks,
possibly preceded by three dots, such as ...!uunet!lgnp1!phil, are
UseNet paths and probably need to be modified to work from your
particular location. Get the Inter-Network Mail Guide if you need help
sending e-mail from where you are to some address you see here.

When connecting via anonymous FTP, the remote system will request a login
account and then a password. The official convention is that the login
account is ANONYMOUS and the password can be anything at all. But most
systems now require the password to be your true InterNet mailbox. Some
systems even check that you are calling from the same place you claimed
in your password, and refuse to give you service if the host name you
give is different from the host name your host identifies itself to be.
There's a new convention for anonymous FTP access sweeping the net,
namely that the login account is FTP instead of ANONYMOUS. The rest is
all the same. Some hosts will let you use either account, while some will
insist on one or the other only. I haven't bothered to include in this
index the fact of which convention is used at each site, so you should
try both and see which works with a particular FTP site (for the second
attempt if the first failed, use the QUIT command to disconnect, then
reconnect; or issue the LOGIN command without disconnecting). At least
one FTP host requires the password be GUEST instead of your e-mail
address, but it tells you in the initial banner so you should read that
banner before proceeding to send the password.

When requesting files from a BitNet server, sometimes you will get a
nasty-sounding message back saying that server isn't the one closest to
you, or isn't the one assigned to your country. You should jot down the
name it suggests as the one closer to you, and use it in all future
requests to the same class of server (NETSERV, LISTSERV, FILESERV etc.).
Before requesting a large file from any BitNet server, it might be a good
idea to first send a HELP query. That sends you back documentation for
the current software on that server (in case you get stuck) and also
tells you if you're using some inappropriate server. BitNet users not in
North America should be especially careful not to request a large file
from a North America server unless there is no other way to get it. If
you discover BitNet servers in different continents from any that I have
listed here, that have the same files listed here, please tell me which
files you found on which server so that I can include that information in
a later version of this index.

BitNet users may sometimes prefer to send their requests via RSCS instead
of via SMTP (e-mail). For example, if you see an entry that says:
To: NETSERV@BITNIC
 GET BITNET USERHELP
if you are on VM/CMS you can: TELL NETSERV AT BITNIC GET BITNET USERHELP
on VAX\VMS you can: SEND NETSERV@BITNIC "GET BITNET USERHELP"

This file contains pointers to indexes&lists only, not to tutorial
documents (those pointers can be found in MaasInfo.DocIndex and some of
the bibliographies listed here; in addition, some special services not
documented anywhere else are briefly introduced in MaasInfo.HowNet).
Beware, the filenames at the start of each entry might not exactly
match the online filenames, for various reasons not worth mentionning.

Note that I include only files available by InterNet FTP or e-mail
daemon, not files available only within UseNet newsgroups nor files
available only on special information retrieval systems such as WAIS or
dialup bulletin boards. Also I generally restrict my coverage to plain
text (ASCII) files, not specially formatted such as TeX or PostScript
or word-processors. All this applies also to MaasInfo.DocIndex.

One major item of how-to documentation that really should be in this
toplevel index is preliminary instructions for accessing BitNet
listservers and fileservers: The general convention is to send a
one-line e-mail message (with no Subject: line), containing the word
'HELP' (no quotes), to the listserver at the host if you are on BitNet,
for example LISTSERV@SLACVM, or if an InterNet address is listed, such
as [e-mail], or via some known InterNet/BitNet
mailbridge if you are not on BitNet, for example
[e-mail]. For example, if this index
mentions NETSERV@BITNIC in some other context, you can assume that
sending HELP to that address will result in your receiving introductory
documentation for the NETSERV service on host BITNIC, which may be
useful for exploring other files and services available on this same
server and other similar NETSERVs on other hosts.

I use the convention that major sections start with double-percent, and
sub-sections start with single-percent. This means that in XEDIT on
VM/CMS you can get an outline by saying ALL/%%/, and in virtually any
text editor you can skip from one major section to the next by
repeatedly searching for the string '%%'. Each description of a single
document is terminated by a single blank line, and each section by a
second blank line.


%% InterNet Resource Guide

The InterNet Resource Guide was the official attempt at a toplevel
index to the InterNet, but is so grossly deficient as to be unworthy of
the title. But it does contain some references to obscure network
resources that I haven't seen listed anywhere else. I will summarize
the chapters here and describe the ways it can be accessed if you
really want to look at some parts of it.

Chapter 1: Computational Resources -- Mostly these are special-purpose
supercomputers. If you need such computational facilities, this is the
place to find out about them them. Otherwise this chapter is of no value
to you.

Chapter 2: Library Catalogs -- This is a list of online public-access
library catalogs (replacements for card catalogs) which happen to be
accessible directly from the InterNet. Only 21 such catalogs are
described here. You would do better to look at INTERNET.LIBS and
LIBRARIES.TXT (described later in this index) each of which contains a
larger listing and is updated frequently.

Chapter 3: Archives -- This is a list of some of the anonymous-FTP
archives on the InterNet. Unfortunately it deliberately omits all the
archives related directly to any InterNet BitNet or UseNet interest group
(any direct-mail distribution, digest, conference or newsgroup), covering
instead only those few obscure archives that are not only stand-alone but
which also have some exceptional kind or size of archives. Accordingly
this chapter is quite small. Consider it only as a supplement to the
vastly larger amount of information obtainable in regard to UseNet
newsgroups (see USENET.PERIODIC which indexes the files in the
PIT-MANAGER.MIT.EDU archive) BitNet (check out the list of BitNet LISTs
and query relevant LISTSERV to get more info, and check out the other
BitNet servers) and InterNet (check out the List of Lists = INTEREST
GROUPS and query relevant -REQUEST addresses to find out about archives
if not explicitly mentionned in INTEREST GROUPS), and also check out the
Archie file-finder service (see MaasInfo.DocIndex for pointers to info).

Chapter 4: White Pages -- This is a list of three special-locality
online address books (for NASA Ames Research Center, DDN Network
Information Center WHOIS Service, and CREN/CSNET User Name Server
``ns''), plus an ongoing NYSERNet/PSI project to provide an
InterNet-wide white-pages (but that project hasn't gotten anything of
value yet), plus a "Knowbot Information Service" which is supposed to
automatically interface you to the other services. Unless you need to
know specially about people who work for NASA Ames, or you need to use
the CREN/CSNET User Name Server, you don't need this chapter. See also
the White Pages server, introduced in MaasInfo.HowNet.

Chapter 5: Networks -- Describes in general the many networks connected
to InterNet by TCP/IP or by SMTP mail bridges. It's pretty good for
understanding all the nets, but if you just want to send e-mail between
nets the Inter-Network Mail Guide is more direct and useful.

Chapter 6: Network Information Centers -- This tells you about the various
Network Information Centers on the various networks. Each has special
information capabilities particular to its net. If you want to know where
the official information sources for a particular network are, this is
the place to start. In particular, [e-mail] recommends the
NSI-DECnet node database, documented in Section 5.

Chapter M: Miscellaneous -- This has brief information about each of
these services: Linotype Postscript Typesetter, Department of Energy
Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC), Geographic Name Server,
MOSIS Chip Fabrication Server, Nest - A Network Simulation Testbed,
PROPHET, Computer Network Broker for Standard Electronic Parts, Vax Book.
I don't think I'll ever want to use any of those services, except
possibly the Geographic Name Server which is supposed to be able to give
latitude and longitude of nearly any city I can name.

Access to this document as a whole is quite difficult in my opinion.
The document is broken into chapters (as given above) and the chapters
are broken into sections (one for each resource described). Each
section of each chapter is a separate file, a rather tiny file by
current-day standards, about a page or less of text except in a few
cases that extend to a second page, and at most of the sites where
these can be found each file is compressed using Unix's
compress/decompress utility. Thus you can't get these files at all from
most sites unless you are logged into a Unix machine and set your FTP
program in binary mode. You can get a whole chapter in one tar.Z file,
but then when you uncompress and untar it you find each section is a
separate file again, and the table of contents of each chapter has
exactly the same name as the table of contents of any other chapter, so
really you have to put each tar.Z file in a separate directory before
untarring them to avoid losing all but one of the tables of contents.

But if you are on a Unix system, and really want some of the chapters:
ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4)
 login: anonymous
 (Need hyphen as first character of password to avoid ABEND)
 cd info/resource-guide
 get toc.txt (master table of contents, plain ASCII text file)
 get chapter*-txt.tar.Z (compressed tar for one chapter, *=1,2,3,4,5,6,M)

Now back in your Unix shell, as I said, put each of those files in a
separate directory, one per chapter, then in each such directory:
uncompress chapter*-txt.tar.Z (yields chapter*-txt.tar)
tar xvf chapter*-txt.tar (prints name of each section-file as it is
  unarchived, which goes as fast as your modem will run since the sections
  are so very tiny).
You now have intro.txt (the table of contents for the particular chapter)
plus a bunch of individual section files in each Unix directory.

It's also available, each section a separate file:
ftp nnsc.nsf.net (192.31.103.6, 128.89.1.178) resource-guide/Chapter*/**
ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4)
 login: anonymous
 (Need hyphen as first character of password to avoid ABEND)
   info/resource-guide/chapter.*/section*-*.txt
ftp ftp.jvnc.net (aka jvnc.net nisc.jvnc.net) (128.121.50.7)
      pub/resource-guide/chapter.1 ... chapter.m/section1-1.txt ...

It's also available, each section a separate file, via e-mail. To
receive the help file with instructions for using the Info-Server and a
list of the Guide's sections and chapters:
To: [e-mail]
 Request: resource-guide
 Topic:   resource-guide-help
 Request: end

The text of the Internet Resource Guide is now available in two parts
totaling 440K. Unfortunately these files contain embedded TAB and
FORMFEED characters which appear as semicolon and doublequotes
respectively when displayed on VM/CMS instead of their intended functions
of indentation and pagination. Because the two files total more than 256k
so you have to wait 24 hours after ordering one part before you can order
the other part.
To: LISTSERV@WUVMD
 GET IRG1 DOC
 GET IRG2 DOC

It's also available as a HyperCard 2 stack (won't run in HyperCard 1.x.x
and can't be converted to run), which requires Macintosh system 6.0.5 or
higher. Also needs these fonts: Palatino (18 14 12 10), Helvetica (14
12), Courier (12).
ftp sumex.stanford.edu (36.44.0.6) info-mac/card/internet-tour-40.hqx
ftp nnsc.nsf.net (128.89.1.178) internet-tour/
  Internet-Tour-README (8k)
  Internet-Tour4.0.2.sit.hqx (629k)


%% Other toplevel meta-indexes/lists

I don't know any other document that so completely points to all the
major indexes as this (MaasInfo.TopIndex) does, but there are some
other attempts in addition to the InterNet Resource Guide that might be
worth perusing:

TopNode (9k) -- Somewhat similar in purpose to this TopIndex, and to
the InterNet Resource Guide; in this case nicknamed the "Catalog of
catalogs". TopNode points to some indexes and to the InterNet Resource
Guide, but has additional references to printed (published) documents
describing InterNet, to online database search software and info-finder
services, and to other network resources. On the other hand TopNode
contains very little actual information about how to obtain the various
indexes and other documents and services it mentions. It's a little bit
too diverse for me to outline&evaluate it like I did for the Internet
Resource Guide. By the Coalition for Networked Information, not yet
available by anonymous FTP or other automatic means, contact George
Brett <ghb@ecsvax> for more info about when it might be released.
Update: The authors said 1991.Aug they are fleshing it out now, so
it'll be more than just an outline by the end of that month, but as far
as I know it's still not fleshed out or posted as of 1992.Feb.27.

The AARNet Resource Guide (Australian local version of Internet Resource
Guide) -- Info from [e-mail]
ftp aarnet.edu.au (139.130.204.4) pub/resource-guide/
      resource_guide_archives.txt <44k (mostly shadows of internat.arch.)
      resource_guide_compresources.txt <16k
      resource_guide_directories.txt <8k (WHOIS, X.500)
      resource_guide_libraries.txt <24k (OPACs in Australia)
      resource_guide_netmembers.txt <60k
Unfortunately these files are filled with ASCII TAB characters, which on
VM/CMS merely display as semicolons.
ftp ftp.unt.edu (129.120.1.4) LIBRARY/AARNET.GUIDE (107k)

GLOBAL.LISTS or LISTOF.LISTS (<8k) -- Some Lists of Lists -- Points to
lists of interest groups and to specific interest groups for helping
beginners. Directly contains instructions for searching the
interest-group database. Updated 1991.Aug.22, compiled by Marty Hoag
<[e-mail]>
To: LISTSERV@TEMPLEVM
 GET GLOBAL LISTS


%% Lists of interest groups (mailing lists, newsgroups, digests, etc.)

WARNING to persons planning to subscribe or submit articles to a group:
(1) NEVER send subscription orders to the group itself or a lot of people
will get mad at you. Instead send subscription orders to the person or
process responsible for maintaining the subscription information for that
particular group. Requests to an automated server such as LISTSERV must
be exactly in the correct format. Requests to a person can be worded any
way you want, but try to keep them brief and polite.
(2) It is often best to browse the archives of a group, or become a
member and just-listen for a while, before submitting any articles, both
to learn whether posting on the group would really reach people
interested in your article, and to become familiar with the customs and
guidelines/rules pecular to that group.
(3) Avoid submitting very large messages, especially source code that
hardly anybody will be able to use, except to those few interest groups
that are set up specifically for that.
(4) Don't repeat the same questions that have been asked and answered
many times before. For many UseNet newsgroups there are files of FAQs
(Frequently Asked Questions, with answers) available in the newsgroup
server and/or by FTP at PIT-MANAGER.MIT.EDU (see USENET.PERIODIC). These
FAQ files contain a wealth of useful information! If you have a question
you think might already have been asked by others, consult the FAQ file
first, and post only if you don't see the question with answer in the FAQ
file. If the interest group doesn't have a FAQ file that you can find,
ask somebody already in the group, perhaps the person in charge, if there
is such a file for that group.
(5...) See the network ettiquette documents for further advice along
these lines.

ATTENTION maintainers of these indexes, and other network experts: Please
tell me if there are any alternate sites for the larger of these indexes
in other continents, so that I can post those alternates here and readers
can then use them where apropriate to reduce intercontinental bulk.

% Comprehensive

INTEREST.GROUPS (800k) -- The famous "List of Lists", every known open
mailing list and digest on the InterNet and BitNet, in alphabetical
order. (Mail to [e-mail] to add or delete an
entry to that list.) (Bad news from [e-mail] (Steven, for the
SRI NISC): INTEREST GROUPS is not updated with any great frequency at
this time.)
To: LISTSERV@NDSUVM1
 GET INTEREST PACKAGE (511k, old version?, split into eleven pieces)
To: [e-mail]
 Send netinfo/interest-groups (817k, split into 23 pieces)
ftp ftp.nisc.sri.com (192.33.33.22) netinfo/interest-groups (800k)
ftp noc.sura.net (192.80.214.100) nic/interest.groups (800k)
ftp csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (134.115.4.1) pub/library/listof.lists (800k)


% UseNet specific

ACTNEWS.NEWUSEN (All PubGps) (41k) -- List of Active Newsgroups (with
appx. half-line descriptions of each), also includes cross-reference to
InterNet names of linked newsgroups, posted to newsgroups news.lists,
news.groups, news.announce.newusers, by Gene Spafford
<[e-mail]>
ftp pit-manager.mit.edu (18.72.1.58)
      pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers/List_of_Active_Newsgroups

list-of-newsgroups (<40k) -- This is a substantial revision of a list
originally maintained by Gene Spafford. It is not complete. By Edward
Vielmetti <[e-mail]>
ftp ftp.cs.toronto.edu (128.100.3.6)
      pub/emv/news-archives/list-of-newsgroups

ALTNEWS.NEWUSEN (49k) -- Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies, describes the
following alternate hierarchies: alt, bionet, bit, biz, clarinet, gnu,
ieee, inet/ddn, K12, u3b, vmsnet; posted on newsgroups news.lists,
news.groups, news.announce.newusers by [e-mail] (Gene
Spafford).
ftp pit-manager.mit.edu (18.72.1.58)
      pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers/Alternative_Newsgroup_Hierarchies

PUBMAIL1&2&3.NEWUSEN (<116k, in 3 parts 37k&35k&38k respectively) --
Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists (259 mailing lists described here),
posted to newsgroups news.lists, news.announce.newusers, by
[e-mail] (Gene Spafford), alphabetical by name of group, this
is a list of mailing lists available primarily on the UUCP network.
ftp pit-manager.mit.edu (18.72.1.58) pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers/
     Publicly_Accessible_Mailing_Lists,_Part_I
     Publicly_Accessible_Mailing_Lists,_Part_II
     Publicly_Accessible_Mailing_Lists,_Part_III

REGHEIR.NEWUSEN (All RegGps) (71k) -- Regional Newsgroup Hierarchies (128
UseNet newsgroups that are geographically restricted/local), posted to
newsgroups news.lists, news.groups, news.announce.newusers by
[e-mail] (Andrew Partan).
ftp pit-manager.mit.edu (18.72.1.58)
     pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers/Regional_Newsgroup_Hierarchies

USENET.SOCIALGP (<16k) -- A Guide to Social Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
on the Usenet, from [e-mail], posted to newsgroups:
news.announce.newusers, news.groups.
ftp pit-manager.mit.edu (18.72.1.58) pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers/
     A_Guide_to_Social_Newsgroups_and_Mailing_Lists

% BitNet specific

LISTSERV.GROUPS (<52k) -- List of BITNET discussion groups, also referred
to as LISTSERV lists, and ARPANET SIGs.
To: [e-mail]  (BitNet: LISTSERV@BITNIC)
 GET LISTSERV GROUPS

LISTSERV.LISTS#1 (was 366k when I downloaded it, now 440k) -- There is
no header or description, just very long lines, longest 610 chars, each
divided into fields by TAB characters. It lists each interest group
together with the e-mail address for posting mail and the e-mail address
for sending requests to the server, then lots of extra information such
as description. (Beware, different file from LISTSERV.LISTS#2.)
To: LISTSERV@DARTCMS1
 SEND LISTSERV LISTS
ftp DARTCMS1.DARTMOUTH.EDU (129.170.16.19) SIGLISTS/LISTSERV.LISTS

LISTLIST.LISTS (372k) -- Tab-delimited, very long lines (probably the
same as LISTSERV.LISTS#1)
ftp bitnic.educom.edu (192.52.179.2) ANONYMOU/LISTLIST.LISTS

LISTSERV.LISTS#2 (169K in May, 184k now in August) -- List of all
LISTSERV lists known to LISTSERV@UCBCMSA on the day you ask for the
file. Three neat columns: Network-wide ID, Full address, List title.
Lines truncated at a particular column (about 80 or 100). Many of the
interest groups have additional lines saying (Peered). (Beware,
different file from LISTSERV.LISTS#1.)
To: LISTSERV@NCSUVM  (or any other LISTSERV?)
 LIST GLOBAL
ftp utarlvm1.uta.edu (129.107.1.6) BITNET/LISTSERV.LISTS

% Special kinds or limited topics

LISTMOD.NEWUSEN (19k) -- List of Moderators, i.e. this is a list of all
known digests and other moderated interest groups, posted to newsgroups
news.lists, news.groups, news.announce.newusers, by [e-mail]
(Gene Spafford).
ftp pit-manager.mit.edu (18.72.1.58)
      pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers/List_of_Moderators

ACADLIST (<344k, split into six files by general catagories except that
liberal arts are split into three sections 1,2,3 alphabetically, plus
separate index) -- "Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences", a
subject-organized index of interest groups (mostly BitNet, some
InterNet) that are of academic/scholarly interest. It overlaps
considerably with INTEREST.GROUPS but has shorter less-technical
descriptions which may be easier for beginning network users to
comprehend on first reading. By Diane K. Kovacs <DKOVACS@KENTVM>
<[e-mail]>.
To: LISTSERV@KENTVM (or LISTSERV@BROWNVM or LISTSERV@UOTTAWA)
 GET ACADLIST README  (explanatory notes for the Directory, 12k)
 GET ACADLIST INDEX   (index of entries by entry and page number, 24k)
 GET ACADLIST FILE1   (l.a.: anthropology to geography, 72k)
 GET ACADLIST FILE2   (l.a.: history to linguistics, 56k)
 GET ACADLIST FILE3   (l.a.: literature to writing, 72k)
 GET ACADLIST FILE4   (biological sciences, 64k)
 GET ACADLIST FILE5   (physical sciences, 48k)
 GET ACADLIST FILE6   (business and general academia, 32k)
ftp ksuvxa.kent.edu (131.123.1.1) ACADLIST.FILEn (n = 1,2,3,4,5,6) etc.
ftp csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (134.115.4.1) pub/library/acadlist.*
On JANET (in UK), connect telnet-style to host UK.AC.GLASGOW.BUBL (note
this is word-reversed from InterNet which would be BUBL.GLASGOW.AC.UK),
from the main menu select D--Directories and from sub-menu select
D9--Kovacs(8.91)

EJOURNL1&2.DIRECTRY (76k&122k respectively) -- Directory of Electronic
Journals and Newsletters (over 500 scholarly lists, about 30 journals,
over 60 newsletters, and 15 "other" titles), by Michael Strangelove
<[e-mail]> 4-177 Goulburn Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
K1N 8E3; Network Research Facilitator, University of Ottawa.
To: LISTSERV@UOTTAWA
 GET EJOURNL1 DIRECTRY
 GET EJOURNL2 DIRECTRY
ftp csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (134.115.4.1) pub/library/e-journals.dir 200k

INFO-SERVERS (7.5k) -- Library-Oriented Computer Conferences and
Electronic Serials, by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
ftp noc.sura.net (192.80.214.100) nic/info-servers
ftp hydra.uwo.ca (129.100.2.13) LIBSOFT/LIBCONFERS.TXT


%% Lists of Servers, FTP sites, public-access hosts

WARNING for using FTP sites and servers:  The transatlantic and
transpacific links are low-bandwidth and overloaded, so you should try to
connect to a site within your own continent if you plan to transfer any
file(s) of considerable size. This applies both to obtaining files from
sites&servers you find listed in these indexes, and to obtaining some of
the larger indexes themselves. (Any file over 30k might be considered
"too large" for some circuits.)

ATTENTION maintainers of these indexes, and other network experts: Please
tell me if there are any alternate sites for the larger of these indexes
in other continents, so that I can post those alternates here and readers
can then use them where apropriate to reduce intercontinental bulk.

BITNET.SERVERS (57k) -- List of network servers and services, a
publication of the BITNET Services Library. If you know of anything that
should appear in this list and does not, (or of something listed here
that is no longer active) please send mail to BITLIB@YALEVM. Contents:
NETSERV file servers/user directory servers alphabetized by name of host;
User Directory Servers; Nonstandard file servers alphabetized by name of
service, and sub-alphabetized by name of host; LISTSERVs which will
accept the /WHOIS command alphabetized by name of host; LISTSERV List
servers alphabetized by name of host, followed by two list servers that
have other names; How to Find the Right Mailing List; LISTSERV filelists
alphabetized by name of host, including brief summary of kinds of files
on each host; The Relay conference machine network, alphabetized by name
of host; Electronic magazines alphabetized by the full name of the
magazine (which is NOT the same as the pseudo-user name you post to),
with full (paragraph sized) descriptions of each.
To: [e-mail]  (BitNet: NETSERV@BITNIC or NETSERV@MARIST)
 GET BITNET SERVERS
ftp syr.edu (aka ftp.syr.edu) (128.230.1.49) networks/doc/bitnets.txt
ftp utarlvm1.uta.edu (129.107.1.6) BITNET/BITNET.SERVERS

ODIN.FTPLIST (163k) -- List of all known anonymous-FTP sites, with a
general description of archive topics for each. Same as ODIN.SITES except
in expanded white-delimited fields format, by [e-mail] (Jon
Granrose). Posted to: comp.misc, comp.sources.wanted
ftp pilot.njin.net (128.6.7.38) pub/ftp-list/ftp.list
ftp syr.edu (aka ftp.syr.edu) (128.230.1.49)
      networks/doc/ftplist.txt (151k)

ODIN.SITES (90k) -- Same as ODIN.FTPLIST except in compact "::"-delimited
fields format, by [e-mail] (Jon Granrose).
ftp pilot.njin.net (128.6.7.38) pub/ftp-list/sites

(See also Chapter 3: of the InterNet Resource Guide for FTP sites.)

NixPub.Long (44k) -- Annotated listing of public-access UseNet hosts,
computers you can dial directly from your home using a modem and
read/post UseNet newsgroups, either for free or for some reasonable rate
such as $12/month. Format of the entry for each host is a single summary
line followed by additional descriptive text of a few lines. The summary
line shows the date this entry was last updated, telephone number, host
name, location (city and state or province or country), modem baud rates
supported, and hours open. Posted to newsgroups: comp.misc, alt.bbs.
From Phil Eschallier <[e-mail]> (UUCP: ...!uunet!lgnp1!phil)
(CIS: 71076,1576)
ftp uop.uop.edu (138.9.200.1) pub/nixpub.long    (3 months old)
ftp GVL.Unisys.COM (128.126.220.102) pub/nixpub/long  (current)
To: [e-mail]
 send nixpub long

NixPub.Short (11k) -- Similar to NixPub.Long except each host entry is
condensed to a single line using lots of abbreviations, and all
information from NixPub.Long that doesn't fit into that format has been
omitted.
ftp uop.uop.edu (138.9.200.1) pub/nixpub.short    (3 months old)
ftp GVL.Unisys.COM (128.126.220.102) pub/nixpub/short  (current)
To: [e-mail]
 send nixpub short

BITNET.NODELST (264k) -- BITNET NETWORK DEFINITION, From BITEARN NODES
VERS9108, a tabular listing showing: Node Nr, Node Name, Connected Via,
Remarks, Sys Type, Last Update. The field of interest is Remarks which
contains the name of the university or other company where the node is
located, useful for keyword searching.
To: NETSERV@UCBCMSA
 GET BITNET NODELST

BITEARN.NODES (2512k)
ftp bitnic.educom.edu (192.52.179.2) ANONYMOU/BITEARN.NODES
ftp utarlvm1.uta.edu (129.107.1.6) BITNET/BITEARN.NODES

(Information from [e-mail] not yet verified:) BITEARN database
has more information than BITNET NODELST for all nodes regardless of
their geographical locations. It is accessible under the name BITEARN, in
the sense that LISTSERV DATABASE commands of the form "SEARCH FOO IN
BITEARN" work. I do not believe it is a file that you can retrieve in its
entirety.

BITNET.LISTS (248k) -- A simple listing of all nodes on BitNet -- Three
neat columns Node Site and System, alphabetical by Site. (This file is
grossly mis-named. Perhaps somebody wrote some other file such as one of
the flavors of BitNet.Nodes with this name by mistake??)
ftp vm1.nodak.edu (134.129.111.1) bitinfo/Bitnet.lists

INTERNET.LIBS (OPACs) (55k) -- INTERNET-ACCESSIBLE LIBRARY CATALOGS &
DATABASES (describes about 33 systems by my quick scan, listed by state)
(Not sure if the following refers to this particular file:) Send
corrections and additions to Art St. George: [e-mail] or
[e-mail] (other author is Ron Larsen).
Update: infoguide.08-12.txt claims this list of OPACs now contains over
100 online library catalogs and databases in the U.S. and overseas. I'll
have to get this version and compare with the one I already have.
To: LISTSERV@UNMVM
 GET LIBRARY PACKAGE
ftp nic.cerf.net (192.102.249.3)
      cerfnet/cerfnet_info/internet-catalogs-04-91.txt (As new
       versions are posted the numbers may change.)
ftp Ariel.unm.edu (129.24.8.1) library/internet.library
ftp ftp.unt.edu (129.120.1.4) LIBRARY/STGEORGE.TXT 252k
ftp csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (134.115.4.1)
      pub/library/internet.library.list 255k
On JANET (in UK), connect telnet-style to host UK.AC.GLASGOW.BUBL (note
this is word-reversed from InterNet which would be BUBL.GLASGOW.AC.UK),
from the main menu select D--Directories and from sub-menu select D7--St
George/Larsen(4.91).

internet-lib-abbr.txt (32k) -- Internet-Accessible Library Catalogs &
Databases, by Art St. George, University of New Mexico (smaller than
above, but with same name, not sure what the difference is).
ftp nic.cerf.net (192.102.249.3) cerfnet/cerfnet_info/internet-lib-abbr.txt

LIBRARIES.TXT (132k) -- UNT's Accessing On-line Bibliographic
Databases, by Billy Barron <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]>. -- List of hundreds of U.S., Canadian, Australian and
other libraries that allow access to their on-line catalogs. Includes
instructions for logging in. The Appendix has notes on how to use the
most common retrieval engines for library catalogs. Note, it says
VM/CMS systems (IBM mainframes) can't access any OPACs except those
with 3270 mode, but in fact it is possible on some OPACs such as MELVYL
to set the terminal type to TTY or OTHER, which can then be used (with
some awkwardness) from VM/CMS.
ftp ftp.unt.edu (129.120.1.4) library/LIBRARIES.TXT
(It is also available in WAIS format.  See online-libraries.src on the
directory-of-servers.)
Some related files in the same directory:
      LIBRARIES.ADR (11k) - Numeric IP addresses of Internet libraries
      LIBRARIES.CONTACTS (15k) - Contacts for some of the Internet libraries
On JANET (in UK), connect telnet-style to host UK.AC.GLASGOW.BUBL (note
this is word-reversed from InterNet which would be BUBL.GLASGOW.AC.UK),
from the main menu select D--Directories and from sub-menu select
D8--Barron (8.91)
ftp csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (134.115.4.1) pub/library/opacs.list 125k

INTERNET_LIBRARIES.TXT (<60k) -- INTERNET LIBRARIES -- A guide to
library opacs and databases on the Internet, by Dana Noonan.
FTP hydra.uwo.ca (129.100.2.13) LIBSOFT/INTERNET_LIBRARIES.TXT

(See also Chapter 2: of the InterNet Resource guide for library catalogs.)

JANET-OPACS (55kbytes) -- OPACS in the UK (British library catalogs), a
list of interactive library catalogues on JANET, compiled for the JANET
User Group for Libraries, by the University of Sussex Library. -- Info
from [e-mail] -- A listing, with full information
on use, of online catalogs that allow access to users over the Internet
through JANET (the U.K. Joint Academic Network). Most British
Universities and some Polytechnics are represented. For a full guide to
this service contact: [e-mail] with the following
text in the message:  Request: janetpad  Topic: userguide Access to
JANET: telnet sun.nsf.ac.uk
(Some information copied from infoguide.08-12.txt, not yet verified.)
JANET-OPACS -- OPACS in the UK: a list of interactive library catalogues
on JANET, compiled for the JANET User Group for Libraries, by the
University of Sussex Library, 5 May 1991 <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail] (from within U.K.)
To: [e-mail] (from anywhere else on InterNet)
 SUBSCRIBE LIS-INFO firstname surname
 GET LIS-INFO JANET-OPACS
 INDEX LIS-INFO
ftp ftp.unt.edu (129.120.1.4) LIBRARY/UK.LIB
ftp csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (134.115.4.1) pub/library/JANET.OPACs.list

edtext (918k) -- File Edinburgh text format NRS table (short format) --
Seems to be a listing of nodes (mostly in UK) and services on those
nodes, and internal info about ports to those services.
ftp ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk (128.232.0.56) niftp/edtext (918k)
 (Warning, that host is down a lot, so try again later.)

Index to Project WAIS (Wide Area Information Service) servers -- Brewster
Kahle <[e-mail]> says: The directory of WAIS servers is only
available over wais, it is the directory-of-servers. I have sent out
lists of it every so often. If you want the description, just ask the
directory of servers. (I.e. the only way to find out what servers are
available and what's on them is to first install software on your Unix
host and then connect to a server with it. There is absolutely no
directory presently available by normal means.) There are are a few
mailing lists on this subject that you might want to be on:
;wais-interest: only announcements like this (1 a month or so)
;wais-discussion: moderated mailings every 1 or 2 weeks.  Good
;;;stuff including all on wais-interest.
;wais-talk: unmoderated for implementors and interactive discussions.
Requests to wais-<foo>[e-mail].  Archives available from
wais server: wais-discussion or anonymous ftp from quake.think.com.
Update from Brewster Kahle <[e-mail]>, the July 31 issue of the
monthly WAIS notice, containing information about how to get more
information, is available now:
ftp quake.think.com (192.31.181.1) /pub/wais/wais-discussion/
      internet-beta-2-announcement.text

ASTRA.$PACKAGE -- by ASTRA Working Group ([e-mail])
-- A European information system.
To: [e-mail]  (BitNet: LISTSERV@ICNUCEVM)
 INDEX ASTRA

JANET (154k) -- A list of janet hosts, without any description or other
commentary about the hosts, presented mostly as lists of addresses (in
two columns for UK(major...minor) and RestOfWorld(minor...major) domain
system), with instructions how to mail to various sets of hosts.
To: NETSERV@UKACRL
 GET JANET SITELIST
ftp muwaya.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (128.250.20.2) pub/janet

Index to Project Gutenburg files -- These are full-text versions of
full-length books that were published so long ago their copyrights have
expired. [e-mail] says they are working on a catalog of
Gutenburg archives, and we should stay tuned to the monthly newsletter
which is published in PACS-L. Unfortunately this newsletter isn't posted
anywhere except as part of PACS-L, which has about 15 postings a day, so
if you're not on PACS-L about the only easy way to get this newsletter
quickly is to ask [e-mail] to send it to you via e-mail.

Zamfield-BBS.List (31k) -- Zamfield's Wonderfully Incomplete, Complete
Internet BBS List -- Internet BBS list Update, by
[e-mail], Posted on alt.bbs.internet every so often.
-- Uses TAB characters for indenting, thus can't be used on some kinds of
systems that don't understand the 8-character convention for TABs.
ftp Wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) pub/Internet-BBS.list.8-12-91.Z
 (Need - as first character of password!! Unix-specific compression.)
** Does anybody know where this file is accessible as plan ASCII text,
not data-compressed or otherwise screwed up? **

INTERNET.BBS (<8k) -- BBSs available on the Internet, 1990.Oct, By Billy
Barron <[e-mail]>
To: LISTSERV@TEMPLEVM
 GET INTERNET BBS

CTILIS.RES.GUIDE (<124k) -- "CTILIS Resources Guide,  3rd Ed." -- Listing of
various services available at universities and public schools mostly in
Britain. Includes Authoring systems, Database management, DeskTop
Publishing, Expert systems, Free-text searching, Library management,
Speech recognition, online databases & information retrival services.
To: [e-mail] (Reverse if you're in the UK)
 SEND LIS-INFO CTILIS.RES.GUIDE
Other information about how to use this fileserver, from Kokas Karoly
<[e-mail]>:
To: [e-mail] (I presume?) (You may have to be a member?)
 help
 index
 lists
 send mailbase userhelp
To: [e-mail] (for human help)

(Info from [e-mail] not yet verified:) The BITNET LINKS file
has a length (currently 265 Kb) and structure that can be handled by most
text editors. It's just a text file listing the BITNET nodes one per
line. It doesn't contain nearly the amount of information that is in
BITEARN. I'd suspect NETSERV is the most likely of the possibile ways to
get it.

Fidonet Node List (>1 megabyte) -- Includes node number, name of SYSOP,
and name of host (truncated), updated quite regularly.
ftp asuvax.eas.asu.edu (129.219.30.5) stjhmc/nodelist.txt

HOSTS.TXT (<896k) -- DoD Internet Host Table
ftp bitnic.educom.edu (192.52.179.2) ANONYMOU/HOSTS.TXT

(There should be an online index of PARA demo-sites -- I've tried
asking [e-mail] and the PARA group, but so far nobody
has told me where such an index might be found.)

(There should also be an online directory of direct-dial numbers and
login protocols for public access into public library catalogs, but I
haven't seen it posted anywhere. If anybody knows of such a list, please
tell me where it is. Update: There may be some of this information
within the InterNet OPAC indexes.)

(There should be an index of all software, both for InterNet hosts and
for personal computers, that interfaces through the network to a remote
information-retrieval server. These would include WAIS, PARA, NNTP etc.
Has anybody started creating an index of such software and accompanying
installation instructions?)

cwis-l (<20k) -- List of Campus-Wide Information Systems (upcoming
events, class schedules, etc.), and freenet bulletin board systems,
available by TELNET, with instructions for logging into them as a guest.
Includes sites worldwide. Most sites handle VT-100 emulation only. By
Judy Hallman <hallman@unc>.
FTP ftp.oit.unc.edu (128.109.157.30) pub/docs/cwis-l

INTERNET.CONNECTS (old name, need to purge it) inet.services (correct
name) (<8k) -- list of internet connections -- posted weekly to
alt.bbs.internet, by Scott A. Yanoff <[e-mail]>
ftp csd4.csd.uwm.edu (129.89.8.4) pub/inet.services.txt


%% Bibliographies and lists of documents, and other general indexes

MaasInfo.DocIndex -- Bibliography of online tutorial and other
documents useful for learning how to use many of the available InterNet
(and BitNet) resources, by Robert Maas -- Pointers to approximately 41
tutorials and other online documents describing network services.
Posted most of the same places as this file (see section at end).

USENET.PERIODIC (<40k) -- List of Periodic Informational Postings, From:
[e-mail], Newsgroups: news.lists, news.announce.newusers.
Basically each major UseNet newsgroup has postings such as "FAQ"
(Frequently-Asked Questions with answers) posted monthly. These files
contain a wealth of information specific to the topic of the particular
newsgroup. The archive of all these periodic postings is on
"pit-manager.mit.edu" (18.72.1.58), and is accessible via anonymous ftp
in the directory "/pub/usenet".  The structure of this directory is such
that each subdirectory is a newsgroup name, and the files in the
subdirectories are the periodic postings.  The filenames are constructed
by mapping the titles to filenames in a pretty simple way, e.g.
    /pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers/Answers_to_Frequently_Asked_Questions
The archive is also accessible via mail archive server.  The address of
the server is [e-mail].  The names are the same,
with the "/pub/" chopped off.  To retrieve the file mentioned above, you
would send mail to the mail-server with a subject or body of
    send usenet/news.announce.newusers/Answers_to_Frequently_Asked_Questions
Or to summarize all that in one line:
ftp PIT-MANAGER.MIT.EDU (18.72.1.58)
      pub/usenet/NameOfNewsgroup/NameOfPeriodicPostingFile
To obtain the list of periodic postings, which is itself a periodic posting:
ftp pit-manager.mit.edu (18.72.1.58)
  pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers/List_of_Periodic_Informational_Postings
Update 1992.Feb.27: There are now additional FTP archive sites for
the periodic postings (mostly FAQ documents):
ftp ftp.uu.net (137.39.1.9) usenet/NewsGroupName/FileName
  (Need hyphen before password to avoid crashing FTP program.)
ftp archive.cs.ruu.nl (131.211.80.5) NEWS.ANSWERS/* (strange system)
  (Need hyphen before password to avoid crashing FTP program.)
To: [e-mail] (heavily Unix oriented: tar shar uuencode etc.)
 help
 send INDEX
ftp cnam.cnam.fr (192.33.159.6) pub/FAQ/* (Small collection only)

Index of RFCs (149k) -- RFC means 'Request For Comments'. This is the way
that new protocols for the InterNet get agreed upon. One person or group
writes an RFC and publishes it via NIC (Network Information Center), and
lots of other network experts criticize it, and maybe it gets changed and
re-issued as a new RFC, and finally everyone important agrees to follow
it exactly without further changes, and that RFC implicitly becomes a
standard instead of just a request for comments. -- This 'index' is
really just a sequential listing of all the RFCs since the ARPANET
started in the early 70's, in reverse chronological order.
To: [e-mail]
 Subject: RFC INDEX
You can browse the RFCs using an interactive numeric menu system by
TELNETting to NIC.DDN.MIL then typing NIC. Unfortunately I don't remember
how to actually get any of the RFCs sent to me via e-mail, nor how to
access them via FTP, except for the index of RFCs. Anybody else know?
Update: A few of the RFCs are available on various sites, but
unfortunately many of them are compressed with a Unix-specific utility.
But maybe you'll get lucky and the one you want is in plain ASCII format.
(Or maybe somebody will tell me where the complete archive of RFCs in
plain ASCII format is located?)
[e-mail] said that munnari.oz.au has a pretty
complete set of RFCs (not yet verified). /E/
ftp ftp.nisc.sri.com (192.33.33.22) rfc/rfc-index.txt
ftp ftp.jvnc.net (aka jvnc.net nisc.jvnc.net) (128.121.50.7)
      rfc/rfc-index.txt(153k)
ftp nnsc.nsf.net (128.89.1.178) rfc/rfc-index.txt
Some individual RFCs are listed elsewhere in this index, and in
MaasInfo.DocIndex. In addition to the locations listed for these
specific files, most RFCs can also be obtained from these places:
ftp ftp.jvnc.net (aka jvnc.net nisc.jvnc.net) (128.121.50.7)
      rfc/rfc*.txt  (replace * by the actual number)
ftp nnsc.nsf.net (128.89.1.178) rfc/rfc*.txt  (replace * by number)
To: [e-mail]
 send rfc*  (replace * by the actual number)
To: [e-mail]
 subject: rfc*  (replace * by the actual number)

RFC1175.TXT (67-97k bytes) = Where to start: A bibliography of
internetworking information (42 p.) -- by a team that includes the famous
Tracy LaQuey <[e-mail]>, other members: Bowers, K.L.; Reynolds,
J.K.; Roubicek, K.; Stahl, M.K.; Yuan, A.  FYI on where to start: A
bibliography of internetworking information.  1990 August; 42 p. -- This
memo contains a bibliography of information about the Transmission
Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) internetworking system.  This
FYI RFC is a compilation of abstracts of articles, bibliographies, books,
newsletters, RFCs, conferences, and guides that the new or intermediate
level user might find useful when learning about the Internet and/or how
to use what the Internet has to offer. References are provided for those
who wish more in depth information on internetworking.
FTP: NIC.DDN.MIL (Unfortunately I can't make heads or tails of that
nonstandard non-heirarchial file system. Can somebody provide
instructions how to find the RFC directory containing all the RFCnnnn.TXT
files?)
ftp ftp.nisc.sri.com (192.33.33.22) rfc/rfc1175.txt (67k)
ftp uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.5.50) RFC/1175.Z (compressed, for Unix only)
ftp syr.edu (aka ftp.syr.edu) (128.230.1.49) networks/doc/ibib.txt
An old version when it was still in draft form, comments to
[e-mail], beware:
ftp nic.cerf.net (134.24.99.3) cerfnet/cerfnet_info/
      where-to-start-bibliography.txt (97k)

RFC1000.TXT, Request For Comments reference guide,
1987 August; 149 p., 324kbytes, by Reynolds, J.K. & Postel, J.B.,
is a true subject-oriented index, but of course doesn't include mention of
all the RFCs since then.
ftp uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.5.50) RFC/1000.Z (compressed, Unix only)
ftp ftp.nisc.sri.com (192.33.33.22) rfc/rfc1000.txt

RFC1118.TXT (64k) -- HitchHiker's Guide to the Internet (Sept. 1989).
24p.-- It consists mainly of pointers to other places, literatures, and
hints that are not well documented. By Ed Krol.
ftp uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.5.50) RFC/1118
ftp nic.cerf.net (134.24.99.3) cerfnet/cerfnet_info/
      hitchhikers-guide-to-internet.txt
ftp ftp.nisc.sri.com (192.33.33.22) rfc/rfc1118.txt
ftp aggie.ucdavis.edu (128.120.2.9) Hitchhikers.Guide
ftp syr.edu (aka ftp.syr.edu) (128.230.1.49) networks/doc/hgi.txt

Information Available on the Internet: A Guide to Selected Sources (35k)
-- Similar to the InterNet Resource Guide except that it also contains
unofficial information and pointers to other indexes, August 12th, 1991,
by the Network Information Center, tel.: [phone], fax: (301)
982-4605, e-mail: [e-mail] -- Here's a summary of what the file
indexes: Using the Network (Documents that help users become familiar
with the Network), Library Catalogs (Directories, Databases, News
Groups/Interest Group, Bulletin Boards, Software), Documents that deal
with network administration, protocols, etc., Supercomputer Centers. --
Tutorial on using anonymous FTP within the file itself. -- ** WARNING **
This file tells how to log into at least one restricted system, namely
'Nicolas'. Accordingly anyone attempting to use the instructions within
this file is in danger of doing something illegal. I've sent a message to
[e-mail] asking that they delete the information about 'Nicolas'.
ftp noc.sura.net (192.80.214.100) nic/infoguide.08-12.txt
     (the number may change as new versions are posted)

networking-bibliography.txt (2k) --
Introductions to Internetworking, A BIBLIOGRAPHY
("borrowed" from material handed out at the July 27-28 1989
Denver Internetworking Conference Sponsored by the Merit
Computer Network) Has tabs that don't work on VM/CMS.
ftp nic.cerf.net cerfnet/cerfnet_info/networking-bibliography.txt

net-read.txt (138k) -- Network Reading List: TCP/IP, UNIX, and Ethernet,
version 3.0, dated August, 1991 -- An annotated list of books and other
resources focusing on three networking technologies that are in wide use:
TCP/IP, UNIX, and Ethernet. A mix of resources is presented ranging from
introductory information to in-depth technical details. The list covers
nearly 70 items. From: Charles Spurgeon <[e-mail]>.
To: [e-mail]
 send docs net-read.txt
ftp ftp.utexas.edu (128.83.185.16) pub/netinfo/docs/net-read.txt

spaf.HowNetInfo (3k) -- "How to Get Information about Networks", how to
get information about the National Science Foundation (NSF) Internet,
periodic posting on news.admin news.announce.newusers, by Randall
Atkinson <[e-mail]> via Gene Spafford
<[e-mail]>, version of 1991.Jul.25 expires 1991.Oct.23.
ftp PIT-MANAGER.MIT.Edu (18.72.1.58) pub/usenet/  (two copies:)
     news.admin/How_to_Get_Information_about_Networks
     news.announce.newusers/How_to_Get_Information_about_Networks

STANTON.BIB (32k) -- Libraries and Information Resources, Networks, a
bibliography, compiled by Deidre E. Stanton, Perth, Western Australia
<[e-mail]>, in alphabetical order by author.
Heavily oriented to libraries and online information services.
ftp csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (134.115.4.1) pub/library/stanton.bib
ftp hydra.uwo.ca (129.100.2.13) libsoft/internet_biblio.txt

PARKER.BIB (23k) -- Computer Networking Bibliography -- Compiled by:
Elliott Parker, Journalism Dept., Central Michigan University, Mt.
Pleasant, MI 48859 USA <[e-mail]> <BitNet: 3ZLUFUR@CMUVM>
<Compuserve: 70701,520> -- This is some documentation on networking.
There has been no attempt to make it comprehensive and the main focus is
on material of use to the beginning networker, rather than engineers,
network managers, or researchers.
ftp csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (134.115.4.1) pub/library/parker.bib
To: COMSERVE@RPIECS
 SEND COMPUNET BIBLIO

netbib.txt (<24k) -- Syracuse University Network Bibliography --
This is a bibliography of publications on various kinds of
networking. It is intended for use at Syracuse University and
includes publications specific to Syracuse University as well as
publications of more general interest. Author: John Wobus
ftp syr.edu (aka ftp.syr.edu) (128.230.1.49) networks/doc/netbib.txt

ABSTRACTS(Syracuse) -- TruncatedFilenames & titles of files with
paragraph-size descriptions.
ftp syr.edu (aka ftp.syr.edu) (128.230.1.49) networks/doc/ABSTRACTS

TITLES(Syracuse) -- TruncatedFilenames & titles of files, format is two
columns: File(8chars...+3blank) Title(66chars), for files on
icarus.cns.syr.edu ~ftp/info
ftp syr.edu (aka ftp.syr.edu) (128.230.1.49) networks/doc/TITLES

INDEX(Syracuse) -- One-level subject breakdown -> titles-in-subject.
ftp syr.edu (aka ftp.syr.edu) (128.230.1.49) networks/doc/INDEX

software (<24k) -- Network Software List -- Descriptions of
communication software and FTP sites where they can be found, by David
Lemson <[e-mail]>.
ftp ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.5.59) doc/pcnet/software

NETINFO.FILELIST (44k) -- Local directory listing. The files include
some general net tutorials & lists.
To: LISTSERV@BITNIC
 GET NETINFO FILELIST

OTALIST.FORMAT (132k) -- Oxford Text Archive -- Massive list of
machine-readable texts (mostly ancient literature) in many languages;
sorted primarily by language, within that by author, and within that by
title. Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2
6NN, Tel. [phone] <[e-mail]>
To: LISTSERV@BROWNVM
 GET OTALIST FORMAT (plain-text formatted version)
 GET OTALIST SGML (tagged SGML version)
From JANET, consult the list interactively on HUMBUL, or request a copy from
OXFORD.VAX (the filenames are OX$DOC:TEXTARCHIVE.LIST and
OX$DOC:TEXTARCHIVE.SGML respectively).
To: [e-mail]
 (Request-text addressed to a human, specify which version you want.)


%% Special formatted indexes or documents (not plain ASCII files)

Generally I list only ASCII files in this index of indexes, but a few
non-ASCII files of special merit are in this section:

% Macintosh

NET-DOC.HQX -- from [e-mail], [e-mail],
V5057U@TEMPLEVM, version 0.1b of the NetDoc Project.  This is a
stand-alone DocMaker document that will eventually cover many topics of
Network interest, now: Introduction to BITNET/CREN, Using RiceMail on the
IBM/CMS system, Intro to FTP, Introduction to Listserv. More additions
are planned, including Introduction to VAX/VMS mail, and UNIX, elm
mailers, readnews, ...
ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu (36.44.0.6) info-mac/misc/net-doc-10.hqx


% MS-DOS (IBM-PC and clones)

HYTELNET by Peter Scott <[e-mail]> - It is a hypertext TSR.
It covers the Internet/JANET Libraries (follows the Barron Guide
closely), CampusWide Information Systems, BBSes and other sources of
information available over the Net.
ftp ftp.unt.edu (129.120.1.4) LIBRARY/HYTELN30.ZIP;3
     (the numbers change as those are version numbers).

CATALIST by Richard Duggan <[e-mail]> - A hypertext version of
the Barron Guide to Internet Libraries that runs under MS-Windows.
ftp zebra.acs.udel.edu (128.175.8.11) pub/library/
      cat10.exe
      fullcat.exe
      readme.txt
ftp ftp.unt.edu (129.120.1.4) library/catalist/
      CAT10.EXE;2
      FULLCAT.EXE;2
      README.TXT;2


%% Where this file and other MaasInfo files are posted for anonymous access

North America #1 (problems to [e-mail]):
To: [e-mail]  (BitNet: FILESERV@SHSU)
 SENDME MAASINFO  (to send the whole package, which includes all the below:)
 SENDME MAASINFO.TOPINDEX*  (just the three pieces of this one 57k file)
 SENDME MAASINFO.DOCINDEX  (etc. for all the other files, none of them split)
 DIRECTORY MaasInfo  (annotated directory of MaasInfo files in server format)
ftp Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) maasinfo/
      MAASINFO_FOR_FTP.TOPINDEX  (57k, all in one piece for FTP only)
      MAASINFO.DOCINDEX  (etc. for all the other files, none of them split)
ftp Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) MAASINFO.DESCRIPTION (annotated directory)

North America #2 (problems to BILLY@UNTVAX or [e-mail]):
ftp ftp.unt.edu (129.120.1.4) ARTICLES/MAAS/MAASINFO.TOPINDEX

Europe - United Kingdom (problems to [e-mail]):
From the InterNet do all this; from JANET omit the first two steps:
TELNET SUN.NSF.AC.UK
Login: janet
hostname: UK.AC.GLASGOW.BUBL  (JANET domain-names reversed from InterNet)
After specifying the terminal type, then pressing return to get the main
menu, select entree D--Directories, and in the sub-menu select D10--Maas
(was misspelled when I tried, but it may be fixed by now).
Note: You cannot formally FTP these files, but you can print to screen,
and collect a transcript locally if your terminal emulator has that
capability, then edit out the prompts for each new page when you are
offline. You can also have a copy e-mailed to your host; send your
request to D. M. Nicholson <[e-mail]> (remember to
reverse the domain-style name, thus actually uk.ac.strathclyde.vaxb, if
you are on JANET instead of InterNet.)

Europe - Continental:
There is no FTP or fileserver access yet, but somebody in Greece has
volunteered to set up an FTP host soon, and in the meantime to manually
send copies by e-mail to interested people. Send your request to:
Bitnet: VARVERI@GRATHDEM
Internet: [e-mail]
x400: c=gr;prmd=ariadne-t;o=ariadne-t;ou=isosun;s=varveri

Australia #1 (problems to [e-mail]):
ftp aarnet.edu.au (139.130.204.4) pub/doc/MaasInfo.TopIndex.V0.14
      (The 0.14 is the version number, which will vary.)

Australia #2 (problems to [e-mail]):
ftp ftp.utas.edu.au (131.217.10.1) /pub/doc/MAASINFO.TOPINDEX

There are some additional sites having these files that you can find
via 'archie', but some of their copies are a few months out of date.

Elsewhere (Tiawan, Saudi Arabia, South America, India, etc.):
(There's nothing near you, so you gotta fetch it long-distance.)

Most of these FTP & fileserver sites have the other MaasInfo files in
the same directory where MaasInfo.TopIndex is posted. Be sure to
cross-check against MaasInfo.Files (3k), an annotated list of all
MaasInfo files, to be sure you have the latest version of each file.


%% End of MaasInfo.TopIndex