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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION 1.0
CONTEMPORARY NEWS AND DISCUSSION SOURCES 2.0
INTERNET CONFERENCES: USENET 2.1
MAILING LISTS 2.2
LISTS RUN FROM LISTSERVERS & LISTPROCESSORS 2.3
OTHER MAILING LISTS 2.4
INTERNET RELAY CHAT (IRC) 2.5
IRC SERVERS 2.6
IRC CHANNELS 2.7
ARCHIVE, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND DATABASE SEARCHES 3.0
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SOVIET ARCHIVES 3.1
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY-
CENTER FOR SLAVIC AND RELATED STUDIES 3.2
ANONYMOUS FTP 3.3
FTP SITES 3.4
TELNET 3.5
TELNET SITES 3.6
GOPHER 3.7
SOME SELECTED GOPHER DESTINATIONS 3.8
WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW) 3.9
WWW PUBLIC CLIENTS 3.10
ADJUNCT SYSTEMS 4.0
RELCOM 4.1
SOVSET 4.2
PEACENET AND GLASNET 4.3
IGC CONFERENCES 4.4
CONCISE 4.5
SOVAM TELEPORT 4.6
MANAGING WHAT YOU GET 5.0
PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES 6.0
CONCLUSION 7.0
DISCLAIMER 7.1
THE AUTHOR / EDITOR 7.2
SOURCES 7.3
ADDITIONAL SOURCES/SUGGESTED READING 7.4
GLASNET RUBLE PRICE LIST Appendix A
MODEM SET UPS IN US & xUSSR Appendix B
LONG DISTANCE EURASIAN GLASNET ACCESS Appendix C
COMMERCIAL CONTACT SERVICES Appendix D
IREX REPORT Appendix E
MAINSTREAM COMMERCIAL NETWORKS Appendix F
INTRODUCTION 1.0
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The mass media buzz about concerning the emergence of an
"information superhighway" seems to have a narrow, myopic focus
on the commercial potentials of this technological feat. However
nice it may be to call up movies on demand and play interactive
video games against virtual opponents, these abilities are a
frivolous distraction of serious resources. The power of this
network lies in the potential to breakdown the barrier of
publication production that separates interested readers from
authors. Not to suggest that people will stop buying books or
other media, but people will know which publications they want to
buy for contemporary purposes and access archived publications
for historic purposes. If the internet represents the primordial
beginning of this superhighway, then a case study consisting of a
search for bodies of information concerning specific topics may
be of interst. This paper is a summary of the internet sources I
have uncovered in my search for alternatives to the mainstream
media sources concerning Eastern Europe (EE) and the Former
Soviet Union (FSU). I have divided my findings into two
catagories: contemporary news and discussion sources and archived
documents, directories and bibliographies. I have interspersed
my own observations and commentary as I deemed appropriate. Just
as the internet as an amorphous and ever-changing body resources,
I imagine that the content of this paper will require constant
updating. I have not the ability to verify the current status of
every resource.
To the best of my knowledge, as of March 1994, they are all
presently in existance.
The emphasis here is on the free resources open to the
internet public. There may be more resources available on the
mainstream commercial on-line services such as America OnLine,
CompuServe, and Prodigy as well as Sovam Teleport, FidoNet,
Dialog, Lexis/Nexis and Clarinet. Since this is unfunded
research and this is a non-commercial product (you can send me
money if you want to but I'm not selling this work; though I will
send you a Thank You card if you do make a cash contribution),
substantive discussion of these resources is not explored.
Perhaps in the next edition...The fee services included are
PeaceNet/GlasNet and Sovset. Also, see the appendices.
Included are lists, archives and conferences thought to
exist that concern political issues, security issues, economics,
human rights, linguistics, some global environmental issues, and
broad interest affairs in the region. I have also included in
the appendices a broad report from IREX that covers sources of
general internet information, some technical background including
connectivity in the FSU (beware: some of that discussion may
repeat the material provided by GlasNet), the Relcom/Demos
systems, SUEARN, and the Sovam Teleport system. Resources that
deal with religious topics have been included only for the
purpose of encouraging discussion of the interplay between
cosmological views and group identification. I have'nt yet found
groups that deal with Islamic issues. However, as I become aware
of these resources, they will be included in subsequent editions.
The religious interests deemed applicable include the widely
practiced religions of Europe; please don't berate me for
excluding zen-buddhist resources here. If the feedback warrants,
i.e. the peoples of Central Asia, say, the Tadjiks, are unfairly
excluded because of this, I will attempt remediation.
Specialized groups focusing on computing, chemical engineering,
et cetera as they pertain to the region are excluded for brevity.
Consulting the bibliography and sources cited will point the
interested reader to other resources such as these that were
deemed by me to be too far out on the periphery of the topic.
This compendium does NOT contain any information on how to
obtain access to Internet/Usenet/EARN/CREN/etc.. For questions of
such a general nature please check other sources available on the
network like , where you can find many Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQ) Lists, or, for example, read some files
available via anonymous ftp from (18.72.1.58),
stored in the directory /pub/usenet.
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CONTEMPORARY NEWS AND DISCUSSION SOURCES 2.0
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Little can be said by the author about Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
as it is not run on any of the systems that the author works on.
Other than "live discussion," contemporary sources and current
events are accessible via two methods: conferences and mailing
lists. Conferences are ongoing delayed (not live interactive)
dialogues that consists of a huge hierarchicly structured set of
files called Usenet. Not all internet computers carry all Usenet
files and some "read" the updates more promptly and rapidly than
others. To access these conferences, one must acquire
familiarity with a "news reading program." The system I've used
at San Francisco State University's VAX1 has "rn" and "tin."
There are other applications that run at different internet site
computers such as "nn" and "trn." Discussion of how to use a
news reading program is outside the scope of this paper, however
there are a number of "internet guide books" on the book stands
these days.
I acquired whatever proficiency I have with those programs
by typing "man tin" and "man rn" at the system prompt. By the
way, I find "tin" much more approachable than "rn." LISTSERV
mailing lists usually have two e-mail addresses. One is the
equivalent of a "magazine circulation department," those who are
only responsible for seeing that the reading material gets to the
subscribers. The second is the list-owners' address. This
usually the "editor of the magazine" if it's a moderated list or
"editor of the letters page" if it's a discussion group type
list.
INTERNET CONFERENCES: USENET 2.1
If you do not have Usenet access: Messages can also submitted to
the newsgroups by e-mail. You need to send it to the following
address:
selected.group@cs.utexas.edu
soc.culture.austria
soc.culture.baltics
soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna
soc.culture.bulgaria
soc.culture.cis
soc.culture.croatia
soc.culture.czecho-slovak
soc.culture.esperanto
soc.culture.europe
soc.culture.german
soc.culture.jewish
soc.culture.magyar
soc.culture.misc
soc.culture.polish
soc.culture.romanian
soc.culture.soviet
soc.culture.ukrainian
soc.culture.yugoslavia
soc.couples.intercultural
soc.history
soc.politics.arms-d
soc.roots
alt.current-events.bosnia
alt.current-events.russia
alt.music.world
alt.news.macedonia
alt.politics.europe.misc
alt.politics.ec
alt.peace-corps
alt.religion.all-worlds
alt.uu.lang.russian.misc
bit.listserv.catholic --> CATHOLIC
bit.listserv.christia --> CHRISTIAN
bit.listserv.cinema-l --> CINEMA-L
bit.listserv.c18-l --> C18-L
bit.listserv.earntech --> EARNTECH
bit.listserv.euearn-l --> EUEARN-L
bit.listserv.film-l --> FILM-L
bit.listserv.folklore --> FOLKLORE
bit.listserv.history --> HISTORY
bit.listserv.mideur-l --> MIDEUR-L
bit.listserv.sganet --> SGANET
bit.listserv.slovak-l --> SLOVAK-L
bit.listserv.su-earn --> SUEARN-L
bit.listserv.tesl-l --> TESL-L
bit.listserv.travel-l --> TRAVEL-L
bit.listserv.xcult-l --> XCULT-L
eunet.politics
misc.news.east_europe.rferl
nordunet.dcom.baltics
sci.environment
talk.environment
talk.politics.misc
talk.religion.christian
talk.religion.misc
talk.politics.soviet
talk.politics.cis
rec.aviation.military
rec.heraldry
k12.lang.russian
clari.news.europe
clari.news.gov.international
clari.news.hot.east_europe
clari.news.hot.ussr
To get more info on clarinet send mail to .
(Pasek)
MAILING LISTS 2.2
Mailing lists are a way to receive regular dispatches in
your e-mail "in-box". The disadvantage arises when one goes on
vacation and does'nt "check the mail" for a while; the mail can
accumulate into an enormous pile. Apart from this problem, this
is a good system for listening in and putting in one's thoughts
on a topic.
I have provided some detail on lists that I have experience
with. To the best of my knowledge, these are all operating
lists. However, evaluating them all would be a daunting task; a
task disallowed by time constraints. User feedback, or reviews,
may be included in future editions.
LISTS RUN FROM LISTSERVERS & LISTPROCESSORS 2.3
Listserver addresses from which the discussion lists are
distributed, can be obtained substituting by word
, for example runs from
. Some of the mailing lists are
available in the form of Usenet news. The following list contains
only discussion lists open to the public.
Each discussion list run from a listserver has two e-mail
addresses, each one for a different purpose. You send commands to
the ListServ address and messages to the group address.
Whenever it was possible mail addresses were given for each
ListServer in the Internet domain. If the user requires a
BitNet, CREN, EARN or other specific addressing format, ask your
system support personnel how to address mail items. If there is
only another system's node given, it means I have'nt found the
internet "conversion." However, there are gateways. See Krol or
Hahn or, again, ask your friendly system support personnel.
There are also some addresses given in brackets - these have
quasi-Internet form and may work, although no guarantee here :-(
If your machine is capable of sending and receiving Internet
mail, then to subscribe, using mail send the following command to
listserv@node.domain.etc:
SUB List-L your_full_name
where "your_full_name" is your REAL name, and NOT your network
userID. For example: SUB List-L John Doe
If you are connected to CREN/EARN/etc. _and_ capable of using
interactive messages, you can use syntax:
TELL LISTSERV at HOST SUB List-L your_full_name
or send mail to
LISTSERV AT HOST
with the following command
SUB List-L your_full_name
Other useful commands (although they may vary slightly on
different machines - use HELP first to find out):
INDEX List-L sends a list of the available
archive files
INFO GENINTRO retrieves "General Introduction Guide"
REVIEW List-L returns the network address and the
names of all subscribers (if public)
SET List-L NOMAIL temporarily cuts off the mail delivery
SET List-L MAIL reinstates mail delivery
SIGNOFF List-L unsubscribes you from the list
LIST sends description of all lists
LISTPROC is a new software, performing similar functions to the
LISTSERV, but more sophisticated.
When you subscribe to a mailing list, you will get a
confirmation message and instructions on how to access archives
and indices, how to post messages, how to cancel your
subscription and other information. Though most of the mailing
lists operate similarly, it may behoove the user to save all of
these initial messages just in case one were to later seek a back
issue or cancel the subscription.
AATG
American Association of Teachers of German
aatg@indycms.iupui.edu
ACDGIS-L
Geographical Information Systems & related technologies with
the focus on Central Europe
acdgis-l@vm.akh-wien.ac.at
AFA-FIN@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu
The Financial Economics Network is a recent development.
Divided into 40+/- channels, or sublists, that cover a wide
range of topics in economics and finance. Subscribe first
to the "master list" and receive a directory of channels
with instructions for subscribing to them.
Wayne Marr, Clemson University, marrm@clemson.clemson.edu
John Trimble, Washington State, trimble@vancouver.wsu.edu
To Subscribe: Send a message "Sub AFA-FIN your name"
without quotes,with your actual name, not e-mail address, to
listserv@wsuvm1@csc.wsu.edu
AIBIBL
IBM's Academic Initiative "Library Systems" in Poland
aibibl@plearn.edu.pl
AMCA-L
Alumni and friends of Croatian universities.
amca-l@vm1.mcgill.ca
ARMS-L@buacca.bu.edu
ARMS-L invites discussion of war, peace, arms races, and
arms control. Not a very active list but may be a good
place to generate some lively discussion.
To Subscribe: Send a message "Sub Arms-l your name"
without quotes,with your actual name, not e-mail address, to
listserv@buacca.bu.edu
AMNESTY
Amnesty International newsletter
AMNESTY@JHUVM.hcf.jhu.edu
BALT-L@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
The Baltics List is concerned with current affairs in
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The latter is not as well
covered but this is still an excellent source. The Estonian
Foreign Ministry frequently sends complete speeches as well
as their press releases. If you subscribe to Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty, you'll want to delete the "Baltics
Related Items Extracted from RFE/RL" because you will have
read them already. Available also
BALT-L at UKACRL
balt-l@ib.rl.ac.uk
To Subscribe: Send a message "Subscribe Balt-L your name"
without quotes,with your actual name, not e-mail address, to
listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
BERWRO-L
Discussion of Berkeley/Wroclaw Activities
berwro-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
CAR-CS
Weekly newsletter "Carolina" - news from Czechoslovakia.
Czech version
car-cs@earn.cvut.cz
CAR-ENG
Weekly newsletter "Carolina" - news from Czechoslovakia.
English version
car-eng@earn.cvut.cz
CASID-L
Canadian Association for the Study of Intl. Development.
casid-l@vm1.mcgill.ca
CATHOLIC
Discussion of the Catholic approach to Christianity.
catholic@auvm.american.edu
Usenet: bit.listserv.catholic
CENASIA@vm1.McGill.CA
Discussion of former Soviet republics in Central Asia.
cenasia@vm1.mcgill.ca
CERRO-L@aearn.edvz.univie.ac.at
The Central European Regional Research Organization's
emphasis is on economic issues pertaining to Eastern Europe.
A good place to make enquiries for statistical sources and
economic data. A joint initiative of University of
Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, Slovak
Academy of Sciences and University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Available also as
cerro-l@helios.edvz.univie.ac.at
To Subscribe: Send a message "Subscribe Cerro-L your name"
without quotes,with your actual name, not e-mail address, to
listserv@aearn.edvz.univie.ac.at
CESNET-L
Discussion on Czech Educational and Scientific Network
(CESNET)
cesnet-l@earn.cvut.cz
CHOMOR-L
Polish humor list
chomor-l@archimedes.pol.lublin.pl
CIBER-L
US Dept. of Education Center for International Business
Education (Univ. of Maryland)
ciber-l@umdd.umd.edu
CIT$W
The Cracow Institute of Technology discussion forum.
cit$w@plearn.edu.pl
CROMED-L
Covers current events in Croatia, particularly in medicine.
Also used as a tool to gather medical and humanitarian help.
cromed-l@aearn.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at
CSISNEWS
Newsletter for members of Czechoslovak Society of Computer
Science
csisnews@earn.cvut.cz
CSTEX
Discussions on Czech version of TeX; connected with CSTUG
cstex@vax.felk.cvut.cz
CTU-NEWS
Newsletter of the Czech Technical University in Prague
ctu-news@earn.cvut.cz
C18-L
Interdisciplinary discussion on XVIII-th century
c18-l@psuvm.psu.edu
Usenet: bit.listserv.c18-l
DEVEL-L
Discussion forum on technology transfer in an international
development. Sponsored by Volunteers in Technical
Assistance (VITA).
devel-l@auvm.american.edu
DISARM-D@uacsc2.albany.edu
Disarmament discussion monthly digest processed through
DISARM-L; also features special contributions.
disarm-d@uacsc2.albany.edu
DISARM-L@uacsc2.albany.edu
Discussions and monthly digests on disarmament.
disarm-l@uacsc2.albany.edu
DNN-L
DevelopNet news distribution (see DEVEL-L)
dnn-l@auvm.american.edu
DONOSY-L
Daily news bulletin from Poland
(subscribe Donosy-L)
Editors: Donosy-Redakcja@fuw.edu.pl
listproc@fuw.edu.pl
EARNEST
The EARN monthly newsletter
(earnest@frors12.bitnet)
EARNTECH
Discussion of European Academic Research Network
(EARN) issues
earntech@bitnic.educom.edu
EAWOP-L
The European Association of Work and Organization
eawop@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl
EC
Discussions of the European Community.
ec@vm.cc.metu.edu.tr
ECA-L
The European Center-Atlanta is an initative of the Institute
for EastWest Studies, non-profit organization formed to
assist Eastern European and xSU nations in transition to
market economies
listserv@gsuvm1.gsu.edu
ECONOMY
The economy and economic problems of Less Developed
Countries
(economy@tecmtyvm.bitnet)
EEC-L
Discussion on the programs in Training and Technology
sponsored by European Community.
eec-l@auvm.american.edu
E-EUROPE
The East European Business Network.
Discussions on doing business in Eastern Europe and
transition of EE-countries to market economies.
e-europe@pucc.princeton.edu
EGOPHER
Discussion of gophers devoted to Economics.
egopher@shsu.edu
LISTSERV@SHSU.edu
EMHIST-L
Early modern history forum
(emhist-l@rutvm1.bitnet)
EOCHR
Discussion of Eastern Orthodox Christian
eochr@qucdn.queensu.ca
EUEARN-L
Forum on computers and communications in the same
geographical area as Mideur-L
euearn-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
Usenet: bit.listserv.euearn-l
EURO-LEX
All EUROpean Legal Information Exchange
EURO-LEX at DEARN
euro-lex@vm.gmd.de
EUROPE-L@gsuvm1.gsu.edu
Regents' Global Center European Council from
Georgia State University - Atlanta
To Subscribe: Send a message "Subscribe Europe-L your name"
without quotes,with your actual name, not e-mail address, to
listserv@gsuvm1.gsu.edu
EXPAT-L
Discussion of immigration issues
expat-l@cis.vutbr.cz
FICINO
Discussion on Renaissance and Reformation
ficino@vm.utcs.utoronto.edu
FOLKLORE
Discussions of folklore
folklore@tamvm1.tamu.edu
GAZETA-DIST
Review of daily news; distributed on Polish Fidonet
listproc@poniecki.berkeley.edu
gazeta-dist@poniecki.berkeley.edu
GAZETKA
Polish news from Big Apple (New York, that is)
gazetka@ia.pw.edu.pl
GEOGRAPH
Geography discussion list
GEOGRAPH@FINHUTC.hut.fi
GER-RUS
Germans from Russia discussion
ger-rus@vm1.nodak.edu
GERLINGL
Older Germanic languages (to 1500)
gerlingl@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
GERMAN-L
German Teaching materials
german-l@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca
GOVDOC-L
All about the government documents
govdoc-l@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca
govdoc-l@psuvm.psu.edu
GRMNHIST
German history forum
grmnhist@ibm.gwdg.de
grmnhist@vm.usc.edu
GUST-L
Polish TeX users group discussion list
gust-l@vm.cc.torun.edu.pl
GW
Supplement to "Gazeta Wyborcza" in Krakow
gw@uci.agh.edu.pl
HABSBURG
Discussion of Austrian history since 1500.
habsburg@vm.cc.purdue.edu
H-ETHNIC
Ethnic history discussion list
h-ethnic@uicvm.uic.edu
H-JUDAIC
Jewish history discussion list
h-judaic@uicvm.uic.edu
H-LAW
Legal and constitutional history list
h-law@uivcm.uic.edu
H-NET
Discussion on HUNGARNET, Hungarian Academic & Research Ntwrk
h-net@huearn.sztaki.hu
HBONE-L
Hungarian IP backbone
hbone-l@huearn.sztaki.hu
HISTORY
Discussions about history as a science, computers and
historians; bringing history closer to other sciences.
history@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
Usenet: bit.listserv.history
HLIST
The Holocaust Information list is devoted to Holocaust
research, and to the refutation of those who deny the event.
hlist@oneb.almanac.bc.ca
HOLOCAUS
Holocaust discussion list
holocaus@uicvm.uic.edu
HOSPEX
Database for those interested in being a host to foreign
visitors or finding a host when they are traveling abroad. A
request for subscription will result in sending you the
host's form to be filled and resent to HOSPEX@PLEARN. Only
then you can subscribe and be given access to HOSPEX data.
hospex@plearn.edu.pl
HOSPEX$P
Discussion and drafting of HOSPEX policies
hospex$p@plearn.edu.pl
HOSPEX-L
Discussion forum on hospitality exchange related to HOSPEX
database
hospex-l@plearn.edu.pl
HUNGARY
Discussion related to Hungary and Hungarian culture, history
(hungary@ucsbvm.bitnet)
INA
Discussions of Czech privatization
ina@ant.fee.vutbr.cz
INTDEV-L
International development and global education
INTDEV-L@URIACC.uri.edu
INT-LAW
Foreign and international law libraries discussions
int-law@vm1.spcs.umn.edu
INTER-L
Association of International Educators list
inter-l@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
INTERCUL
Study of intercultural communication
intercul@vm.its.rpi.edu
ISAFPAS
International Studies Association FPAS
isafpas@asuvm.inre.asu.edu
IVRITEX
Hebrew TeX list
ivritex@taunivm.tau.ac.il
JUDAICA
Judaic studies newsletter
judaica@taunivm.tau.ac.il
LABOR
Discussion of Labor Economics.
labor@shsu.edu
LISTSERV@SHSU.edu
LODZ$L
Discussion forum for the academic community in Lodz, Poland
LODZ$L at PLEARN
lodz$l@plearn.edu.pl
LORE
Folklore discussion list
lore@vm1.nodak.edu
MEDIEV-L
Discussion for scholars and students of the Middle Ages
(283 A.D. to 1500 A.D.)
mediev-l@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu
MENDELE
Discussion on Yiddish literature and language.
mendele@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu
mendele@yalevm.cis.yale.edu
MIDEUR-L@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
Discussion of Middle European history, culture, politics and
current affairs; in the countries located anywhere between
the Adriatic and the Baltic Seas, and between the
German/Austrian borders and the xUSSR. Available also
Usenet: bit.listserv.mideur-l
To Subscribe: Send a message "Subscribe Mideur-l your name"
without quotes,with your actual name, not e-mail address, to
listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
MODELUN
Model UN bulletin
modelun@indycms.iupui.edu
MULTI-L
Language and education in multilingual setting
MULTI-L@vm.biu.ac.il
multi-l@barilvm.biu.ac.il
NABOKV-L
Vladimir Nabokov forum
NABOKV-L at UCSBVM
NASK
Discussion of NASK (Polish Academic and Scientific Networks)
NASK at PLEARN
nask@plearn.edu.pl
NATODATA@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
The NATO organization publishes colloquium and conference
results and statistics, speeches by NATO member government
leaders and the NATO leadership, and press releases.
To Subscribe: Send a message "Subscribe NATODATA your name"
without quotes,with your actual name, not e-mail address, to
listserv@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
NET
Forum for Internet beginners in Czech
net@vax.felk.cvut.cz
NET-L
Forum for beginning Polish users of Internet and Bitnet
net-l@vm.cc.torun.edu.pl
NEW-LIST
Announcements of the new mailing lists
new-list@vm1.nodak.edu
NISS
Newsletter for Internationalizing Social Sciences
niss@plearn.edu.pl
NORDBALT
Networking between Nordic and Baltic countries
nordbalt@searn.sunet.se
ORTHODOX
Discussion of the Orthodox Christianity and its impact and
resurgence within Russian & her neighbors.
orthodox@arizvm1.ccit.arizona.edu
PAS-L
Academic network in Prague
pas-l@earn.cvut.cz
PCORPS-L
International volunteers discussion
pcorps-l@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu
PER
Discussion forum for a project on ethnic relations at
the Warsaw University
per@plearn.edu.pl
PERBIB at PLEARN Database PERBIB
perbib@plearn.edu.pl
PERDB at PLEARN Database PERDB
perdb@plearn.edu.pl
PLOTKI
General public gossip distribution list
plotki@ia.pw.edu.pl
POLAND-L
Discussion forum on Polish culture and current events.
poland-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
POLARCH
Discussion of Polish archives located at
polarch@poniecki.berkeley.edu
POLIP
Discussion about Internet at Warsaw University
polip@fuw.edu.pl
PONIECKI-L
Poniecki Fonudation general interest broadcast list
listsproc@poniecki.berkeley.edu
poniecki-l@poniecki.berkeley.edu
PRASOWKA-DIST
Weekly dispatch of articles from Polish press
listproc@poniecki.berkeley.edu
prasowka@poniecki.berkeley.edu
PRYZMATL
News from Technical Univ. of Wroclaw
pryzmatl@plwrtu11.ci-pwr.wroc.edu.pl
RELIGIA
Religious discussions list
religia@uci.agh.edu.pl
RENAIS-L
Discussion by students and scholars of the history
of Renaissance
renais-l@ulkyvm.louisville.edu
RFE/RL DAILY REPORT
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty daily news report
rferl-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
Usenet: misc.news.east_europe.rferl
ROOTS-L
Genealogy discussion list; there is a family surnames
index available via listserver or anonymous ftp from
vm1.nodak.edu (134.129.111.1)
roots-l@vm1.nodak.edu
Usenet: soc.roots
RUSAG-L
Russian agriculture
rusag-l@umdd.umd.edu
RUSHIST@earn.cvut.cz
Discussion fo Russian history from Ivan III (XV c.) to the
end of Romanov dynasty (1917). Maybe also available
rushist@vm.usc.edu
RUSSIAN
Discussion of Russian language and literature issues.
russian@asuvm.inre.asu.edu
RUSTEX-L
Discussion of the Russian version of TeX, other Russian text
processing systems, thesauri, spell checkers, keyboards etc.
rustex-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu.
SAMORZ-L
Discussion of student governments in Polish universities
samorz-l@vm.cc.torun.edu.pl
SCOLT
Foreign language education
scolt@catfish.valdosta.peachnet.edu
SEELANGS
Discussion on Slavic & E. European Languages & literatures
seelangs@cunyvm.cuny.edu
SGANET
Student government global mail network.
sganet@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
Usenet: bit.listserv.sganet
SGANET-E
Student government European mail network
sganet-e@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
SIBERIA
DIscussion on Siberia
SIBERIA at JPNIMRTU
SLOVAK-L
Discussion of Slovak culture, etc.
slovak-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
Usenet: bit.listserv.slovak-l
SOVHIST@earn.cvut.cz
Discussion fo the Soviet history from the February Revolution
in 1917 to the fall of the Communist rule in 1991
sovhist@vm.usc.edu
STUDENT
student@nov.iem.pw.edu.pl
SUEARN-L
Connecting the USSR to Internet digest
suearn-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
bit.listserv.su-earn
TESL-L
Forum for teachers of English to speakers of other languages
tesl-l@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Usenet: bit.listserv.tesl-l
There are also discussion subgroups (available also from
LISTSERV at CUNYVM):
TESLCA-L Computer assisted language learning
TESLEC-L Penpals
TESLIC-L Intercultural communication
TESLIE-L Intensive English program
TESLIT-L Adult education and literacy
TESLJB-L Jobs and employment issues
TEX
Polish TeXnical topics list
tex@ia.pw.edu.pl
TEX-D-L
German TeX users communication list
tex-d-l@vm.gmd.de
TEX-EURO
Distribution list for European TeX users
TEX-EURO@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
TOLKIEN
Discussions of works by J.R.R. Tolkien in Czech and Slovak
tolkien@pub.vse.cz
TRADE
Discussion of international trade issues.
trade@csf.colorado.edu
listserv@csf.colorado.edu.
TRANSLAT
Theory and practice of translation
translat@wuvmd.wustl.edu
TRANSY-L
Transylvania University alumni
transy-l@ukcc.uky.edu
UJ-NET
Jagiellonian University Network
uj-net@if.uj.edu.pl
UN
Discussion of United Nations
un@indycms.iupui.edu
UNCJIN-L
United Justice criminal justice information network
uncjin-l@uacsc2.albany.edu
URALDEV
Community and Rural Economic Development Interests
uraldev@ksuvm.ksu.edu
LISTSERV@KSUVM.KSU.EDU
VAL-L
Discussion on changes in the Communist countries, ranging
from Cuba and Vietnam to xUSSR
val-l@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu
WMUN-L
World model United Nations 1993
wmun@@earn.cvut.cz
WROCLAW
Not a true discussion group, distributes weekly newsletter
from Wroclaw called "Socjety Journal", in Polish
wroclaw@plearn.edu.pl
WWII-L
World War II discussion forum.
wwii-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
XCULT-L
International intercultural newsletter created by students at
Penn State University.
xcult-l@psuvm.psu.edu
Usenet: bit.listserv.xcult-l
9NOV89-L
Discussion of the recent events in the former GDR.
9nov89-l@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de
The list of mailing lists available on the Internet is available
by anonymous ftp from ftp.nisc.sri.com (192.33.33.22) in the file
/netinfo/interest-groups.
The following lists, when last checked, have ceased to exist:
EC431-L@YALEVM.cis.yale.edu
TPS-L@indycms.iupui.edu
SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu
RUSSIA@indycms.iupui.edu
UKRAINE@indycms.iupui.edu
See section 6.0, PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES.
(Pasek and personal findings)
OTHER MAILING LISTS 2.4
The lists listed here are using other forms of distribution than
the ListServ, and are usually run by some individuals to whom
you should direct the inquiries about joining the list.
AGORA
A forum for Hungarian speakers. Send inquires and
contributions to the address of the list-owner (start the
subject field with the word AGORA).
agora@world.std.com
To get help: in the subject field write only $SEGITS
AUS-VIEWS
Subset of Cro-Views aimed at Australian Croatians
joe@mullara.met.unimelb.edu.au
BALTIC OBSERVER
An English language newspaper from the Baltic States.
Reported to arrive zipped and uuencoded. One must join the
files, as they arrive in pieces, under one filename, then the
file must be unencoded with `uudecode ' on a Unix
machine and then the resulting file must be decompressed! Yow!
bo@lynx.riga.lv
BOSNET
Moderated mailing list on news and discussions about Bosnia
and Herzegovina
zukicn@wl.aecl.ca (Nermin Zukic)
hozo@math.lsa.umich.edu (Hozo Iztok)
CATHOLIC-ACTION
Discussion of the Catholic evangelism, church revitalization
and preservation of Catholic teachings. Moderated.
freeman@vpnet.chi.il.us (Richard Freeman)
CATHOLIC DOCTRINE
Discussion of orthodox catholic doctrine under jurisdiction
of pope John Paul II. Archive server
catholic-request@sarto.gaithersburg.md.us
COUNTEREV-L
Discussion on monarchies and restoration thereof
ae852@yfn.ysu.edu (Jovan Weismiller)
CROATIAN-NEWS/HRVATSKI-VJESNIK
News from Croatia, Slovenia and other countries of xYU
English edition: croatian-news-request@andrew.cmu.edu
Croatian edition: hrvatski-vjesnik-zamolbe@andrew.cmu.edu
To subscribe send a message containing your name, e-mail
address, state/country where your account is; also put
state/country info in the 'Subject:' line.
CRO-NEWS/SCYU-DIGEST
Discussion of news from Croatia, Slovenia and other countries
emerging from former Yugoslavia. Not moderated
cro-news-request@mph.sm.ucl.ac.uk (Nino Margetic) (?)
CRO-VIEWS
Opinion service on Croatia nad other xYugoslavian republics.
joe@mullara.met.unimelb.edu.au (Joe Stojsic)
CZECH THE NEWS
Newsletter of the Czech embassy
72360.544@compuserve.com
DYRDYMALKI
Bi-Weekly digest derived from the Polish press
zbigniew@engin.umich.edu (Zbigniew J. Pasek)
EESTI RINGVAADE
Biweekly review of Estonian news (in English) dispatched by
Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
dmardist@vm1.vm.ee (David Mardiste)
E-LIST
News and discussion on Estonia
vilo@cs.helsinki.fi (Jaak Vilo)
EUROPEAN REVIEW
European football newsletter
s947607@umslvma.umsl.edu (Pavel Nikiforovitch)
FOLK-DANCING
Discussion on folk dancing
tjw+@pitt.edu (Terry J. Wood)
FREE UNIX FOR ROMANIA
hancu@crim.ca (Marius Hancu)
FRIENDS OF BULGARIA
Monthly newsletter distributed by Open Society
OSOSO at BGCICT
(ososo@bgcict.bitnet)
GLASINFO
Ad hoc electronic bulletin on Russia
bcaon@netcom.com (John Bacon)
GNET
Archive/journal related to the effort of bringing the net
to the lesser-developed nations
gnet_request@dhvx20.csudh.edu
GROCH Z KAPUSTA
Weekly news and commentaries on situation in Poland as seen
from Krakow, Poland
Bielewcz@uwpg02.uwinnipeg.ca (Mirek Bielewicz)
HIX
There exists a mail server containing information about the
Hungarian electronic resources, i.e. discussion lists,
newsletters, etc. Information is in Hungarian.
Hollosi Information Exchange (HIX):
gtoth@phoenix.princeton.edu
In the subject field write only: HIX
The text of the letter is: HELP all
HR-L
Human rights
hr-l@vms.cis.pitt.edu
IB
Forum for people involved in the International Baccalaureate
Diploma Program
hreha@vax2.concordia.ca (Steve Hreha)
INFO-RUSS
Informal communication in Russian-speaking (or having related
interests) community.
info-russ@smarty.ece.jhu.edu (Aleksander Kaplan)
INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND COMMERCE
Discussion of intl. trade, commerce, and the global economy
info-request@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca
JABLKO-L
Discussion of Czech users of Macintosh computers
jablko-l-request@cuni.cz
JEWISH
Discussion of Jewish topics, emphasizing the law
avi_feldblum@att.com (Avi Feldblum)
JUGO
News and discussions about the current events in xYu
dimitrije@buenga.bu.edu (DImitrije Stamenovic)
KUHARSKE BUKVE
Cooking recipes in Slovene, weekly, moderated digest.
kuharske-bukve@ijs.si
kuharske-bukve@uni-lj.si
KUNDERA-LIST
Discussion of works by Milan Kundera
kundera-request@anat3d1.anatomy.upenn.edu
LITURGY
Christian liturgy
liturgy@mailbase.ac.uk
MAGYAR
List on pre-1600 Hungary and the history recreation
dl-server@bransle.ucs.mun.ca
(subscribe magyar first_name_last_name)
MAILING-LISTS
Info on mailing lists from xYugoslavia
mailing-lists@krpan.arnes.si
MAK-NEWS
Discussion group on Macedonia
mak-news@uts.edu.au
MET
Magyar Elektronikusz Tozsde - info in Hungarian stock and
commodity exchange
h4458orc@ella.hu
METLICE
Monthly magazine in Czech
metlice@mbox.fsv.cuni.cz
MIGRA-LIST
Mailing list on international migration
MIGRA-LIST-REQUEST at UTAHCA
migra-list-request@cc.utah.edu
MOLIVA at UTAHCA (Maurizio Oliva)
moliva@cc.utah.edu
MILITARY
Discussions of the military technology
military-request@att.att.com
military@att.att.com
NOVICE-MZT
News of Ministry for Science and Technology of Republic of
Slovenia
novice-mzt@krpan.arnes.si
novice.mzt@uni-lj.si
OGLASNA DESKA
Digest of postings from SLON (Yugoslavian DecNet).
In Slovene, Croatian and Serbian.
oglasna-deska@ijs.si
oglasna-deska@uni-lj.si
PIGULKI
Digest on the network news from Poland, in English, irregular.
ZIELINSK at NYUACF (Marek Zielinski)
zielinski@acfcluster.nyu.edu
davep@acsu.buffalo.edu (Dave Philips)
PISMA BRALCEV
Daily digest on travel, books and other non-political issues.
In Slovene.
pisma-bralcev@ijs.si
pisma-bralcev@uni-lj.si
RENEWS
Monthly digest on networking and computing in Russia.
nev@renews.relcom.msk.su
ROKPRESS
Moderated mailing lists on Slovenia
tkosir@acs.ucalgary.ca (Tomaz Kosir)
ROMANIANS
Mailing list for discussion, news, and information in
Romanian language.
mihai@sep.stanford.edu (Alexander Mihai Popovici)
RSTUDENT
Daily news and columns from the independent student radio
station "Radio Student" in Ljubljana. In Slovene.
tkosir@acs.ucalgary.ca (Tomaz Kosir)
SCCRO-DIGEST
Mail distribution of soc.culture.croatia
cro-news-reqest@medphys.ucl.ac.uk
SCYU-DIGEST
Digest of postings from
cro-news-request@mph.sm.ucl.ac.uk (N. Margetic)
SLAVLIBS
slavlibs@library.berkeley.edu
SII
News and discussion about the events in xYu involving Serbs
owner@moumee.calscatela.edu
SOVAM
Sovam US newsfeed
usasupport@sovusa.com
SOVOKINFORM
CIS news, events, general information; usually in
transliterated Russian
burkov@drfmc.ceng.cea.fr
To subscribe send messgae SUB SOVOKINFORM
SOVSET
carat.arizona.edu
SPOJRZENIA
A biweekly e-journal, devoted to Polish culture, history,
politics, etc. In Polish.
spojrz@k-vector.chem.washington.edu (Jerzy Krzystek)
ST. PETERSBURG BUSINESS NEWS
Daily digest of business information extracted from Russian
newspapers, stock reports, etc. Both Russian and English
versions available. Commercial.
aag@cfea.ecc.spb.su (Elena Artemova)
arg@stu.spb.su (Vladimir S. Zaborovsky)
SZEMLE
News digest about Hungary. To subscribe, send a message with
the Subject: KELL
ujsagker@vuhepx.phy.vanderbilt.edu
THEATRE
General discussions of theatre
theatre-request@world.std.com (Elizabeth L. Newman)
Usenet: rec.arts.theatre
TINLIB-L
Discussion of the TINLIB library system
tinlib-l-request@cuni.cz
TRAVEL-ADVISORIES
USA Dept. of State travel advisories for countries around
the world
travel-advisories-request@stolaf.edu
To subscribe send message: SUB TRAVEL-ADVISORIES
UKRAINIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
Newsletter of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
userciuk@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca
ULTRIX
Discussions of Ultrix operating system in Czech
ultrix-request@cuni.cz
URP PRESS
Press service of the Ukrainian Republican Party
gerelo@cam.org (Mykola Sereda)
VIZANTIJA
News and discussions about events in xYu involving and
affecting Serbs; also public actions related to these events
dimitrije@buenga.bu.edu (Dimitrije Stamenovic)
VREME
Newsletter published by the Vreme News Agency in Belgrade,
in English
dimitrije@buenga.bu.edu (Dimitrije Stamenovic)
THE WINDSOR VITER
Newsletter of the Ukrainian Canadian Business and Professional
Association of Windsor
hlynka@server.windsor.ca (Myron Hlynka)
WORKERS WORLD
News dispatch with a marxist flavor
ww@blythe.org
YIDDISH
Discussion of Yiddish language and culture; in English and
transliterated Yiddish
dave@lsuc.on.ca (Dave Sherman)
(Pasek)
INTERNET RELAY CHAT (IRC) 2.5
Live interactive discussions are conducted on this system.
However, its use is prohibited on the system I'm on and I have'nt
the funds to pay for exploration of this on a commercial access
provider. Reader feedback on the utility of IRC would be
appreciated.
IRC SERVERS 2.6
galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl
ktts.kharkov.ua
monolit.kiev.ua
uvt.tuzvo.sk
vulcan.mimuw.edu.pl
IRC CHANNELS 2.7
#Polska
#Krakow
#Warszawa
#Poland
#POLSEX
(Pasek)
ARCHIVE, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND DATABASE SEARCHES 3.0
=====================================================
One needs to be conversant with internet applications such as
Gopher, Telnet and Anonymous FTP in order to access these types
of data. Though some introduction is included in the sections
bearing those titles, a detailed discussion of how to utilize
these programs is outside the scope of this paper. However, they
are widely discussed in the current literature found on the
"internet" bookstore shelves. If the feedback warrants it, I
shall update the sections of this paper to discuss use of these
applications in further detail. Otherwise, best advice is to
check out the SOURCES section and the sources mentioned in the
IREX report, Appendix E.
Library of Congress Soviet Archives 3.1
Telnet marvel.loc.gov (login: gopher)
FTP seq1.loc.gov
/pub soviet.archive
American University
CENTER FOR SLAVIC AND RELATED STUDIES 3.2
The American University
3301 New Mexico Avenue
Suite 304-A
Washington D.C. 20016
(202) 362-6934
Thanks to the efforts of office mates, "Demokratizatsiya," CSRS
is now in the process of cataloging "Foreign Affairs" journals
from 1989-1992, "Foreign Broadcast Information Daily Reports"
(FBIS) from 1984-1991, CIA Directorates, as well as "The
Economist," "Time," and "Fortune" magazines containing articles
relevant to Eastern Europe and the former USSR. The CSRS
computer is hooked up to the AU mainframe for access to ALADIN
and CMS. Call (202) 362-6934 for office hours for the week.
THE SOVIET ARCHIVES
The willingness of the new Russian Archival
Committee under Pikhoya to cooperate in preparing this exhibit
with the Library of Congress dramatizes the break that a newly
democratic Russia is attempting to make with the entire Soviet
past. They are helping to turn material long used for one-sided
political combat into material for shared historical
investigation in the post-Cold War era.
This exhibit is also remarkable for what it contains: the
first significant number of documents ever shown anywhere from
what may be the most important new source of primary materials
for understanding the history of the twentieth century. These
documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the workings of
one of the largest, most powerful and long-lived political
machines of the modern era. As in any modern archive, there is
more bureaucratic verbiage and fewer instant revelations than one
might hope for. But the documents that the Library of Congress
has here chosen from the 500 made available from the Russian
archives cover the entire range of Soviet history from the
October Revolution of 1917 to the failed coup of August 1991.
They include material from archives that had been key working
files of the Communist rulers until August 1991: the archives of
the Central Committee, the Presidential archive, and the KGB.
This exhibit illustrates both the domestic and the foreign
policy of Soviet rule.
*The first section covers internal politics and aspects of
Soviet reality that were hidden or falsified in official
propaganda. These include the unannounced decisions and votes of
the higher organs of the Communist Party, as well as the
repressive activities of the Soviet security organs and various
organs charged with controlling literary freedom and organized
religion.
*The second section, dedicated to Soviet-American relations,
shows how those relations were conducted between governments,
between the publics of the two countries, and between the
Communist parties of the USSR and the USA. This section
documents cooperative as well as confrontational periods in that
relationship.
The material in the exhibit offers only a small suggestion
of what the vast archives of the paper-intensive Soviet era may
eventually reveal. The material suggests that totalitarian
practices of terror and forced labor began earlier and more
deliberately than have often been assumed. The ruthlessness,
originality, and complexity documented in these records suggests
bureaucratic dictatorship cut off from the people--and provides
many hints of why Communist rule both lasted so long and fell
apart so fast.
All Soviet documents available with Gopher may be retrieved
via FTP.
Also available online are 25 GIF images of the original
documents that have been translated in the handbook. Viewing
these images will require appropriate hardware and viewing soft-
ware for your respective computer. These documents are not
currently available via Gopher. If you wish to download them,
use your favorite FTP program to do so. Remember that GIF files
must be transferred as binary files.
From Gopher menu "Other Gophers" "North America" "USA"
"Washington D.C." "American University"
All files are FTPable from darwin.cc.nd.edu in
/pub/soviet.archive
Anonymous FTP 3.3
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program allows a user to
transfer files to and from a remote network site. "Anonymous
FTP" indicates that a user may log into the remote system as user
"anonymous" with an arbitrary password (as a courtesy use your
e-mail address as a password).
FTP is the ability to move one file from a host computer to
the computer that provides one access to the Internet.
Furthermore,if one's local personal computer is on a computer
network with the computer that is providing access to the
Internet, one can transfer the file once more to the local
computer by means of FTP.
To transfer a file using FTP, one must know that address of
the computer where the file is stored and the name of the file.
The file may be either a written text file or it might be a
binary file (if it is a text file, it is a written document, such
as an article, essay, directions to acquire more information,
etc.; if it is a binary file, it might be a spreadsheet, a
computer program, etc.;). For example, if Steve Herro's
autobiography was a written file (herro.txt) stored on the St.
Norbert College academic mainframe computer (sncac.snc.edu),
stored in the public section of sncac.snc.edu, the directions to
acquire the text would be the following (once one has logged onto
the mainframe that has provided access to the Internet):
1.
2. login with and then or
3. (literally, this means change to the public
directory of the sncac.snc.edu computer)
4.
5.
6.
The user still has to move the file from the computer that has
provided him or her access to the Internet to his or her own
personal computer. The procedures for this final transfer vary.
FTP SITES 3.4
AUSTRALIA
laserspark.anu.edu.au
CANADA
ftp.cc.umanitoba.edu /rec-travel extensive collection of
travelogues and other travel infos
CROATIA
atlas.irb.hr
thphys.irb.hr
ftp.ifs.hr
cromath.math..hr
carnet.hr
CZECH REPUBLIC
a1well.feld.cvut.cz (147.32.192.31)
adelard.dcs.muni.cz (147.251.48.1)
dec51.lf2.cuni.cz (193.84.64.5)
decsys.vsb.cz (158.196.1.10)
earn.cvut.cz (147.32.1.3)
ftp.fee.vutbr.cz (147.229.9.10)
ftp.muni.cz (147.251.12.8)
ftp.vse.cz (146.102.16.9)
ftp.vslib.cz (147.230.16.1)
ftp.zcu.cz (147.228.54.11)
novell.felk.cvut.cz (192.108.160.5)
rhino.cis.vutbr.cz (147.229.3.10)
sipek.vscht.cz (147.33.2.40)
vax.felk.cvut.cz (192.108.160.2)
vcdec.cvut.cz (147.32.1.21)
EUROPE
ftp.wu-wien.ac.at ()
/pub/cerro Archive of CERRO-L
ftp.funet.fi (128.214.6.100)
nic.funet.fi
/pub/culture/russian Extensive archive covering almost
all aspects of Russian culture
rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
/pub/soft/tex/fonts/ams Cyrillic TeX fonts
HUNGARY
ftp.elte.hu
ftp.sztaki.hu
inform.inf.bme.hu
novell.aszi.sztaki.hu
POLAND
alfa.camk.edu.pl (148.81.25.1)
/pub/pigulki
/pub/GUST/MeX Package for Polish TeX for DOS
cc.ncu.edu.pl
copernicus.astro.torun.edu.pl
frodo.nask.org.pl
ftp.cc.torun.edu.pl
ftp.fuw.edu.pl
/pub/Donosy Donosy archive
ftp.ia.pw.edu.pl
ftp.mimuw.edu.pl (148.81.12.1)
/pub/hospex files related to HOSPEX list
/pub/polTeX Polish TeX files
galaxy.uci.edu.pl
jetta.if.uj.edu.pl
ldhpux.immt-pwr.wroc.edu.pl
merkury.atm.com.pl
sigma.im.uj.edu.pl
sirius.astrouw.edu.pl
/Acta Astronomica archive
titan.coi.pw.edu.pl
zfja-gate.fuw.edu.pl
zsku.p.lod.edu.pl
SLOVAKIA
ccfly.tuke.sk
frdsa.utc.sk
ftp.eunet.sk (192.108.130.33)
nic.uakom.sk
savba.savba.sk
uvt.uniag.sk
uvt.utc.sk
zodiac.upjs.sk
UKRAINE
monolit.kiev.ua
USA
bric-a-brac.apple.com
/software/mac/sys.soft.intl/ Intl. versions of Mac system
dhvx20.csudh.edu GNET archive
ftp.cica.indiana.edu Fonts
ftp.cs.umd.edu /pub/cyrillic
ftp.hyperion.com /pub/x-cyrillic.tar.Z
ftp.stolaf.edu (130.71.128.9)
/pub/travel-advisories/advisories
travel advisories issued by US State Dept.
ftp.uu.net /uumap UUCP maps
jam.cog.brown.edu (128.148.208.200)
/pub/ruscat Cyrillic text viewer for vt220
kekule.osc.edu /pub/russian Cyrillic fonts
lynx.ps.uci.edu (128.200.29.14)
/pub/polish/polmac Polish fonts for the Mac
mcsun.eu.net Cyrillic fonts and keyboards
moose.cs.indiana.edu
/pub/phonedir xUSSR Long Distance Phone Directory
moxie.oswego.edu (129.3.20.3)
/pub/COUP docs on Soviet coup in August '91
msdos.archive.umich.edu (141.211.164.153)
/msdos/foreign_lang/russian
/msdos/dos_fonts/cyryllic
/mac/system.extensions/font
and lots of other goodies...
poniecki.berkeley.edu (128.32.162.54)
/pub/polish archive for almost all Polish e-press
rtfm.mit.edu (18.72.1.58)
/pub/usenet-by-group/soc.culture...
seq1.loc.gov (140.147.3.12)
/pub/soviet.archive Files at the Library of Congress
spider.math.ilstu.edu (138.87.132.21)
user: ftp password: your.e-mail.address
pub/pl/kawaly collection of Polish jokes (in Polish)
sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/academic/history Soviet archives from Lib. of Congr.
and other history materials
wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (192.88.110.20)
/PD1/MSDOS.EDUCATION/RUSEN125.ZIP Russian-English on-line
dictionary
wiretap.spies.com
/Gov
constitutions of various nations, treaties, speeches,
conferences; form colonial England to Maastrict - a plethora
comments to archive@wiretap.spies.com
xUSSR
(comments on accessibility pulled up on WWW-truth TBD)
surplus.demos.su 192.91.186.130 not accessible
moscvax.demos.su ??? not accessible
newcom.kiae.su 144.206.136.5 not accessible
fagot.turbo.nsk.su 192.188.187.30
ncc.free.msk.su 193.124.3.1 still accessible
ftp.pczz.msk.su 193.124.24.129 still accessible
rd.izhmark.udmurtia.su 193.124.1.130 not accessible
hq.izhmark.udmurtia.su 193.124.1.131 not accessible
info.elvis.msk.su 192.153.171.60 still accessible
ftp.kiae.su ??? not accessible
sovcom.kiae.su 144.206.136.1 not accessible
(Pasek, Herro and personal findings)
TELNET 3.5
Telnet is the name of the computer software that enables a
person to connect from one computer on the Internet to another
computer's database on the Internet. The database that the user
is interested in may be an index to journal articles, a library
online catalog, etc. Below are listed some telnet addresses for
computers that have helpful information to those in world trade.
When using telnet, note that the user is connecting to a
larger computer by means of a personal computer. If the user is
using an IBM compatible computer, the person should use VT100
emulation. (After connecting, the user is asked for the terminal
type or the emulation; if VT100 is given, press return; if it is
a choice, choose it; it the terminal type must be typed in, type
VT100.)
Also note that most telnet connections may be broken by
. A system that a person has logged onto will usually give
the user the proper procedures for logging out, but if not,
and at the telnet>, .
(Herro)
TELNET SITES 3.6
ABSEES Online
American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
(ABSEES) Online contains bibliographic citations for journal
articles, government and research reports, dissertations, books,
and chapters of books published in the United States and Canada.
In excess of 10,000 entries are filed.
telnet alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
(login: absees, password: slavibib)
comment to absees@uxl.cso.uiuc.edu
Economic working papers--telnet netec.mcc.ac.uk (login: netec,
password: netec)
This computer houses an index to, and the full text of, many
academically oriented papers on economics. To transfer the full
text of the papers, one must be adept at decompressing files.
Economic BBS--telnet infopath.ucsd.edu (login: infopath)
This is the Gopher server for the University of California
at San Diego (more about Gopher later!). There is a reference
section on the main menu that includes the CIA World Fact Book
(which offers almanac type information on every country in the
world), a geographic name server (which provides geographic
information on localities in the United States), and the United
States State Department Advisories (which offers travel
information on foreign places to tourists and business people).
The Economic BBS is actually under the heading world.
Select world, then select by subject area, then select economics,
then select economic bulletin board. The bulletin board offers a
number of helpful databases, such as a directory of economists,
economic data available in spreadsheet format, lists of
government information sources, trade news, etc.
Vienna Stock Exchange--telnet fiivs.01.tu-graz.ac.at (login:
BOERSE)
The user must read German to use this database. The
database discloses stock rates for hundreds of Austrian stocks.
CARL Uncover--telnet pac.carl.org
Uncover allows the user to search a database of over 14,000
journals, from 1988 to the present. The user may search the
database by author of article, title of journal, or keyword from
title of article. Furthermore, articles may be faxed to the user
from CARL after the citation has been discovered.
Catalog of United States Government Publications--telnet
starmaster.uhcc.hawaii.edu
This uses the same interface as CARL Uncover. After
connecting to this database, you can search a catalog of
thousands of government documents by author, title, or keyword.
Fedworld Gateway--telnet fedworld.doc.gov
Note that this address is often busy. Try it during late
evening or early morning hours. It is packed with federal
government information.
Economic Bulletin Board--telnet ebb.stat-usa.gov (login: guest)
This service includes texts of speeches related to
economics, bulletins distributed by government offices related to
economics, trade promotion material, etc. Note that much of the
information is only available to registered users.
EconData--Telnet info.umd.edu (login: gopher)
Select "Education resources" and then select "Economic
data". One may also use Gopher to same address for same
information. This database includes the National Income and
Product Accounts, balance of payments, flow of funds, CPI, PPI,
the Penn World Trade Tables (permission needed), International
Financial Statistics (if your organization is a member of the
Inter- University Consortium for Political and Social Research),
blue pages from the Survey of Current Business, and state
and local data including employment, earnings, GSP and state
personal income. The data is in a computer file which must
be decompressed.
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
This project brings together 66 household surveys from 21
countries into a common database to make studies of
international economic comparisons easier. For instance, it
includes Current Population Surveys from the U.S., French
Surveys of Income, and a Hungarian Income Study. The
average survey has approximately 9,000 households with more
than 20,000 members. To maintain confidentiality and restrictions
on use, the data remains on the host computer in Luxembourg and
researchers run jobs remotely on that system through electronic
mail. Users must first register to use the database. For
information, contact the following: Tim Smeeding
(smeeding@suvm.bitnet), Caroline de Tombeur
(eplisjr@luxcep11.bitnet).
Jewishnet/Hebrew University - Jerusalem
telnet vms.huji.ac.il (login: jewishnet)
anezka.vc.cvut.cz (147.32.240.22)
Library of the CVUT
(Login: library)
varda.ics.muni.cz (147.251.12.8)
Library of the Masaryk University
(LOgin: tinlib password: anonym)
echo.lu (158.64.1.36)
European Commision Host Organization - free databases
info.rutgers.edu (128.6.26.25)
CIA World Factbook
ktts.kharkov.ua
monolit.kiev.ua
olimp.irb.hr
Library of the Rudjer Boskovic Institute
(Login: ISIS)
opac.nsb.hr
National and University Library (Croatia)
(Login: OPAC)
ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu (129.237.1.30)
History databases (Login: history)
CIS info (Login: ex-ussr)
tulibb.kkt.bme.hu (152.66.114.1)
Technical University of Budapest library catalog
(Login: aleph at CCL> prompt type ?/eng for English version)
192.187.128.6
Bulgarian news (Login: vestnik)
193.2.64.42
University of Ljubljana library catalog
(Login: INFO select K to access catalogs)
(Pasek, Herro and personal findings)
GOPHER 3.7
Gopher is a widely used internet utility that allows one to
search nested and linked menues for internet archives and, at
specific sites, full text documents. I have found searching
Gopher to be akin to tackling a maze; lots of dead ends but very
satisfying successes. "Gopherspace" is not a two dimensional
maze that one could map out on a single sheet of paper but more
closely resembles a multi-dimensional super-solid with
interconnected mazes. The menu choices that end in "/" lead to
more menues, the "(?)" leads to a keyword search. Some Gopher
keyword "search-paths" seem to only examine filenames whereas
others search indexed file sets for keyword matches. When one
arrives at a "(?)" Gopher prompt, some groping will reveal which
type of search it conducts. The numbered entry can select an
item or the cursor up and down keys. "u" moves up a menu to the
previous screen. After viewing a end-product file, one is
presented with a choice to "s" save the file to your system file
area or have it mailed to your mailbox space.
SOME SELECTED GOPHER DESTINATIONS 3.8
United Nations Gopher Server--gopher nywork1.undp.org
Contains United Nations press releases, directories,
resolutions, documents from the United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development, etc.
Wiretap--gopher wiretap.spies.com
This Gopher server contains the full text of the NAFTA
Agreement, Government Accounting Office Transition Reports, and
other government documents from the United States and around the
world. This server contains so much information that it is
advised that the user log on and browse it at his or her will.
Library of Congress Gopher Server--gopher marvel.loc.gov
This Gopher server includes much helpful government
information. Follow these menus to find appropriate international
documents, Federal government information/state, local, foreign,
and international government/international government
information. I recommend experimenting with this Gopher server
to see all kinds of information available.
Radio Free Europe Daily Report--gopher gopher.lib.umich.edu
Select "News services", select "Radio free Europe daily
report". This is only available to non University of Michigan
users during nonpeak hours. Try it late at night or on the
weekends for reports from radio free Europe.
Area codes--Gopher gopher.uoregon.edu; login:
Select "Desktop Reference", select "Geographic and
Travel Information", select "World Telephone Codes". This
database allows users to search for country and area codes in
several ways.
Economic Bulletin Board--gopher una.hh.lib.umich.edu and login
. Select "ebb"
The U. of M. gopher downloads information from the
Economic Bulletin Board, including Current Business Statistics,
Economic Indicators, Employment Statistics, Industry Statistics,
Summaries of Current Economic Conditions, etc. More
specifically, Durable Goods Shipments and Orders, Housing Starts,
Monthly Wholesale Sales, Business Cycle Indicators, Revised
Composite Indexes and Indicators, and Summary Text Files for
Economic Indicators. The major file areas are arranged
alphabetically by topic.
Economic Development Information Network--gopher psuvm.psu.edu
23. On initial login, ignore the userid and password prompts.
>From "command" , select edin from main menu.
Menu options include: Pennsylvania State Data Center in
which you can find data for any state in several areas including
Business, Capital Resources, Government, Income, Labor Force,
etc.; Demographic and Economic Database Files which allows one to
select geographic preferences and then topic areas; Procurement
Leads - in international trade and agriculture; and the Economic
Development Directory in which one can design search criteria to
select programs or agencies of use.
Times around the World--gopher esusda.gov, choose Internet
Services and Information, choose Local Times Around the World
This alphabetical listing by country gives the Current
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and the Universal Coordinated Time for
cities around the world. Cities include Ann Arbor, MI; Oslo,
Norway; Zagreb, Croatia; Lancaster, UK; Bangkok, Thailand; etc.
CERRO Gopher
From the Gopher menu, make the following menu choices:
"Other Gophers" - "Europe" - Austria" -
"University of Economics" - "Netzwerk Ressourcen..." - "CERRO:
..." voila, there you are.
This is definitely the best way of getting to the
CERRO-archive. Why? The Gopher-based Archive contains links to
material on other Gopher-servers that is not accessible through
FTP.
If you can't get into Gopher at MSU but can Telnet, you can
telnet to "gopher.wu-wien.ac.at" and login as "gopher". This gets
you into the main Gopher-menu. Least attractive option: find an
FTPMAIL-gateway and use FTP through e-mail. In this case you
simply write the FTP-commands into an e-mail and send them to the
gateway. The program there does the FTPing for you and mails you
back the result. There is a file "index.txt" in the CERRO-archive
that shows the content. Get this one first and select the files
you want to download. FTPMAIL is usually a pain. Just like the
old days of computing when you turned in your pile of punch cards
and picked up the output on the next day just to find out that
you have mistyped something. To get "index.txt" from the
CERRO-archive you should send the following commands to FTPMAIL:
connect ftp.wu-wien.ac.at
cd /pub/cerro
get index.txt
quit
There are CERRO archives maintained at Rice University, however
their equivalency is yet to be determined.
gopher.worldbank.org
GOPHERS: The big list...
AUSTRIA
gopher.ai.univie.ac.at
gopher.kardio.akh-wien.ac.at
AUSTRALIA
laserspark.anu.edu.au
CROATIA
smile.srce.hr (root gopher of CARNet)
zagreb.mz.hr
maja.zems.etf.hr
gopher.ifs.hr
CZECH REPUBLIC
csmat.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (193.84.58.222)
decsys.vsb.cz (158.196.1.10)
gopher.cesnet.cz (192.108.152.13) Czech root gopher
gopher.cuni.cz (192.108.152.13) Charles University
gopher.fee.vutbr.cz (147.229.9.10)
gopher.feld.cvut.cz (147.32.192.5)
gopher.fsv.cvut.cz (147.32.129.4)
gopher.jcu.cz (160.217.1.10)
gopher.ms.mff.cuni.cz (193.84.56.1)
gopher.upol.cz (158.194.7.2)
gopher.vscht.cz (147.33.1.4)
gopher.vslib.cz (147.230.16.1)
gopher.zcu.cz (147.228.54.11)
pub.vse.cz (146.102.16.9) Prague U of Econ.
rhino.cis.vutbr.cz (147.229.3.10)
vcdec.cvut.cz (147.32.1.21)
EUROPE
concise.funet.fi
CONCISE database accesible via gopher
gopher.who.ch
World Health Organization
GERMANY
134.96.82.13 U Saarbruecken
Archiv gegen Auslaender Innenfeindlichkeit
gopher.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de TU Munich
gopher.inf.tu-dresden.de TU Dresden
gopher.rrz.uni-koeln.de U Koeln
gopher.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de U Karlsruhe
gopher.tu-magdeburg.de TU Magdeburg
gopher.uni-konstanz.de U Konstanz
gopher.uni-passau.de U Passau
gopher.uni-regensburg.de U Regensburg
serversun.mdv.gwdg.de U Goettingen
HUNGARY
mars.sztaki.hu
bmeik.eik.bme.hu
POLAND
galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl
gopher.ae.poz.edu.pl
gopher.atr.byd.edu.pl
gopher.fuw.edu.pl
gopher.ia.pw.edu.pl
gopher.torun.edu.pl (158.75.2.5)
gopher.umcs.lublin.pl
ldhpux.immt-pwr.wroc.edu.pl
mvax.ci-pwr.wroc.edu.pl
plearn.edu.pl
ruby.poz.edu.plucs
ucstoux1.cto.us.edu.pl Silesian Univ. C.C.
vm.cc.torun.edu.pl
volt.iem.pw.edu.pl
SLOVAKIA
ccsun.tuke.sk
decef.elf.stuba.sk
fpdas.utc.sk
frdsa.utc.sk
frdsa.utc.sk
kosice.upjs.sk
nic.uakom.sk
savba.savba.sk Slovak Academy of Sciences
sk2eu.uniba.sk
sun.savba.sk
uvt.uniag.sk
vsld.tuzvo.sk
UKRAINE
ktts.kharkov.ua
USA
andrea.stanford.edu
/Egyeb Magyar Nyelvu Archivumok/Fekete Zoli (AGORA)
gopher.undp.org United Nations Development Program
gopher.uwo.ca
world-factbook92
Louisiana Tech Gopher
/Electronic Media/ISSN Serials/Donosy
poniecki.berkeley.edu (128.32.162.54)
access to collection of Polish goodies also available via
anonymous ftp from the same site
sunsite.unc.edu
russian studies or history - Soviet archives from Library
of Congress
Other GOPHERS exist all over the net and the majority of them
contain duplicate pointer selections. To list all of the GOPHERS
would forsake brevity. However, there are unique collections
distibuted around the net which the author will persist in
exploring and, hopefully, eventually catalogue.
(Pasek, Herro and personal findings)
WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW) 3.9
The World Wide Web is a searching system that works with
Hypertext links; operative words in a sentence contained in a
file links to other files in a webbed chain topics and
definitions. Every file becomes, in effect, a menu.
The newly prevalent user interfaces such as Mosaic use this
system glide through the branches of the internet. My
experience has revealed a good number of bugs; links that are not
open, dead ends and otherwise thwarted searches. However, this
sustem does hold a great deal of promise, so don't dispair.
WWW PUBLIC CLIENTS 3.10
To access telnet to the host address and login as .
fserv.kfki.hu
sun.uakom.cz
vms.huji.ac.il
(Pasek and personal findings)
ADJUNCT SYSTEMS 4.0
===============
Network and communication systems are in place that operate
independently of the internet but provide e-mail, USENET and/or
direct log-on links to the internet. I still have a great deal
of exploring ahead of me in regards to these resources. However,
what follows are my findings so far.
RELCOM 4.1
Relcom (Russian ELectronic COMmunications) services include
e-mail, USENET news and access to USENET archives. The messages
are mostly in Russian and encoded in KOI-8. Cyrillic fonts and
keyboard maps are available from mailserv@kiae.su or using
anonymous ftp from .
Getting info: send to as the message body
a line containing "HELP"
send to as the message body
a line containing "LIST"
Subscribing: send to as the message body
a line containing "SUBSCRIBE group_name".
Help:
(I break away here to some helpful commentary from Jan Labanowski
pulled up on WWW, with some minor modifications of my own, which
includes the Relcom Help file - The Editor, Ian)
This is a file, which I (Jan Labanowski, jkl@osc.edu) derived
from the original help file for RELCOM news and added my comments
and explanations. Of course, the original help file is good,
compact, etc. But I hope, that some of you may find my
experiences with RELCOM news useful. The original help file which
I received from RELCOM is called relcom.help. Comments are
pointed to with end-notes (a) and (b).
Jan Labanowski
Ohio Supercomputer Center
jkl@osc.edu JKL@OHSTPY.BITNET
1. What is RELCOM News.
In the USA (my perspective) and in the WEST in general, there
is USENET, called News. There are thousands of news groups,
with topics varying from math to sex stories. They differ from
electronic mail in this, that the news articles are shared by
all people at the given machine, while e-mail (even if
messages are identical) is stored separately for each mailbox.
Also, before you can read the news articles your administrator
has to install the service on your machine. Even, if the news
are installed on your machine, you do not have to read them,
and after some time, the old articles (even if you did not
read them) will be deleted automatically to make disk space
for new ones. Network news are mostly in English, or if in a
foreigh language, the English (should say Latin) letters are
used to transliterate foreign languages. I understand that
RELCOM works in a similar way in countries of former USSR.
However, the major difference is that articles are mostly in
Russian and the codes for Russian characters require 8 bits
per character, while Latin codes require only 7 bits. Since
many western network news servers, mailers, gateways, etc. are
not prepared to handle full 8-bit character codes they mess up
the Russian letters. Formally, RELCOM news service uses so
called RELCOM-KOI8 character set. The lower 0-127 character
codes are standard ASCII codes (i.e., contain all Latin
letters, punctuation, digits, etc.) while codes above 127
contain Russian letters. However, there are ways to obtain
intact 8-bit codes, by encoding them, and decoding them later
at the final destination.
2. How to obtain RELCOM news?
You need to send special message to the address:
newsserv@newcom.kiae.su
as described below. You send commands to the
newsserv@newcom.kiae.su
it will react by sending you things back. Below are the
annotated entries from the original RELCOM HELP file. Do not
be surprised with long delays in obtaining files from RELCOM
server.
This automatic mail server relays news articles from Relcom and
USENET via usual E-mail. If you want to use server you should
send e-mail letter containing the list of commands to the address
newsserv@newcom.kiae.su.
Subject is ignored. Command name can be in upper or lower case,
all other arguments are case sensitive.
Here comes brief description of available commands:
HELP Send this file. All subsequent commands are
ignored.
LIST Give the list of all news groups with brief
description.
LIST Give the list of news groups from the given
hierarchy. For example, "list comp.sources".
SUBSCRIBE group Subscribe to group in notify mode.
Server will periodically send you a list of
commands to retrieve new articles in the
following format:
GROUP news.answers
-ART 100 size author subject
In order to get the articles you interested
in simply uncomment corresponding commands
and send it back to server. Don't remove
GROUP commands!
** see (a) **
FEED group Subscribe to group in feed mode. All new
articles from a group will be immediately
sent to you.
WARNING:
Never use feed mode if you're not
completely sure that you need *all*
articles and your e-mail connection is
stable and permanent. This mode can
easily cause e-mail traffic jams making
impossible to send or receive any
electronic mail at your machine. This
can result in disconnecting your machine
from net by some administrator, so be
careful.
** see (b) **
RFEED size group Subscribe to group in restricted feed
mode. All articles smaller than given size
(in kilobytes) will be sent to you as in feed
mode. Lists of bigger articles will be sent
to you as in notify mode.
UNSUBSCRIBE group Unsubscribe from group.
UNSUBSCRIBE all Unsubscribe from all groups.
FORGET If you were subscribed to some groups, and
later unsubscribed, server continues to send
you lists of newly created or deleted news
groups, hoping that you might get interested
in them. To finally unconnect from server
give command FORGET.
CHECK Show the list of groups subscribed to.
GROUP group Go to the group. This group becames
"current" (for commands ARTICLE, INDEX,
LINDEX).
ARTICLE number Send specified article.
ARTICLE Send an article with specified message-id.
INDEX [number [number]] Show list of articles in current group.
The format of the list is the same as in
subscribe mode. Arguments specify the range
of article numbers.
INDEX - all articles
INDEX 700 - all articles from number 700
INDEX 700 750 - articles in range 700...750
LINDEX [number [number]] Show detailed list of articles in the
following format:
Issue:
Subject:
From:
Date:
Message-ID:
Size:
PACK Enable packing mode. All articles sent to
you will be packed, compressed and encoded.
This will reduce the volume and the total
number of transmitted files. This mode is
highly recommended. You should unpack
received batches by one of the special utilities
UNBATCH, UUNPACK or use mailer BML, which
decodes batches on the fly. You can get the
UNBATCH program (with sources) for MSDOS by
command
SEND uunpack-dos
or for Unix 386
SEND unbatch-386
or for Xenix 286
SEND unbatch-286
If you need only sources of unpack programs
you can get them by
SEND uunpack-src
and
SEND unbatch-src
PACK OFF Disable packing mode.
SEND Show list of files available on request.
You can get these files by command SEND
with parameters.
SEND file Get a file. The following files are
available:
unbatch-dos 29k program UNBATCH for MSDOS
unbatch-386 42k program UNBATCH for Unix 386
unbatch-286 38k program UNBATCH for Xenix 286
unbatch-src 20k sources of program UNBATCH
uunpack-dos 23k program UUNPACK for MSDOS
uunpack-286 29k program UUNPACK for Xenix 286
uunpack-src 8k sources of program UUNPACK
GSTAT [hierarchy] Get information about subscriptions on
groups. For each group is listed: name,
number of articles (approximately), and
number of subscribers in SUBSCRIBE, FEED and
RFEED modes.
USTAT [address] Get information about user subscriptions.
User address is a regular expression in SH
style. For example, command "ustat alex@*"
will print information about users with name
alex. For each user is listed: name, total
number of groups, and number of subscriptions
in SUBSCRIBE, FEED and RFEED modes.
TIME Print current date and time.
QUIT Shows server that all commands are over.
WARNING: don't use user name "uucp" or "news" to receive news -
server ignores these names.
In order to submit an article you should send the article with
the header field "Newsgroups:" containing the comma-separated
list of newsgroups (all newsgroups should be valid) to the
address newsserv@newcom.kiae.su.
The default distribution of the message is the whole world, so
you should think twice before sending your article. Remember it
will be read by thousands or millions of readers around the
world, so your message should not be offensive, should not
violate copyright laws. Never write things already written by
somebody. It's better to restrict distribution area to be as
small as possible. You can do it using the header field
"Distribution:". Valid distributions are:
world, eunet, su, russia, moscow
Example:
% mailx newsserv@newcom.kiae.su
Subject: testing
~: headline Newsgroups relcom.test
(continue)
~: headline Distribution su
(continue)
Twas brilling....
EOT
%
Please send all questions to usenet@kiae.su.
Bug reports and propositions please send to Serge Vakulenko,
vak@kiae.su.
(a) Example: At some point, I have sent the following message to
newsserv@newcom.kiae.su
PACK
SUBSCRIBE relcom.commercial.chemical
SUBSCRIBE relcom.commercial.estate
SUBSCRIBE relcom.commercial.infoserv
SUBSCRIBE relcom.commercial.medicine
SUBSCRIBE relcom.commercial.money
SUBSCRIBE relcom.commercial.transport
SUBSCRIBE relcom.renews
SUBSCRIBE relcom.jusinf
QUIT
PACK means, send me the news in a packed form (however, the
subjects are always sent to you as normal text, without packing).
SUBSCRIBE means: send me subjects of new articles appearing in
the above newsgroups.
As a result, I receive from time to time a message like:
< To: jkl@osc.edu
Subject: List of new Usenet articles
From: newsserv@newcom.kiae.su
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 20:15:24 GMT
Sender: news-service@newcom.kiae.su
X-Class: Slow
Status: R
To order articles remove `-' from the first column of
corresponding lines and send the list back to
newsserv@newcom.kiae.su.
GROUP relcom.jusinf
-ART 16 3.2K gorin@jusinf.msk.su nOWYE CENY NA
\KSPRESS-INFORMACI@... >
If I decide to get the message back, I am sending the following
message to newsserv@newcom.kiae.su (not
news-service@newcom.kiae.su !)
GROUP relcom.jusinf
ART 16 3.2K gorin@jusinf.msk.su nOWYE CENY NA
i.e., I only remove the '-' in front of ART and the full text of
the article is returned to me in a PACKed from.
(b) The FEED is different from SUBSCRIBE command above. For
example, sending
PACK
FEED relcom.spbnews
QUIT
to newsserv@newcom.kiae.su will result in sending you the PACKed
news in this group (in this case: relcom.spbnews) without asking.
You will get them, even if you do not want them. They will came
as PACKed. You will need the program to unpack them. You cannot
read packed news directly.
3. What to do with a compressed file which you get from RELCOM?
When you get the PACKed news from RELCOM server, you need to
unpack/unbatch them. The format used for packing the news is
not a simple uuencode. The news articles are additionally
compressed. The programs which unpacks the news is called
unbatch. The original program is simple to use. Assuming
that you saved the message from RELCOM as a file: relnews.mail,
you just do:
unbatch relnews.mail
and your original relnews.mail file is replaced with a
uncompressed file with news articles in KOI8 character set on
UNIX machine or Alternativnyj/Lexicon character code on the PC.
There is a cosmetic problem with the unbatch program. It
overwrites the original file. With very minor modifications, I
produced the unbatch1. This program takes 1 or 2 arguments
on the command line. If one argument is used, it acts as the
original, i.e., overwrites the original file with an unbatched
file. If two arguments are used, the second argument is a name
of the output file. For example:
unbatch1 relnews.mail relnews.unb
will leave the relnews.mail file intact, and save
unbatched/uncompressed file as relnews.unb.
4. How to read the news. If you have Cyrillic display fonts, you
can just display your file. For fonts for X-windows and
MS-Windows are available. You need to install them. Consult
the documentation how to do it. The other possibility is to
transliterate the file, i.e., change codes for Russian letters
to some Latin letters or sequences of Latin letters.
The TRANSLIT program will allow you to do it, but there are
many others if you do not like it.
5. How to print the news?
I use LaTeX with WNCYR fonts. But there are many other ways
and packages (e.g., the "Diplomat Software" 714-474-6968
offers fonts for MS-DOS and popular wordprocessors for a
modest price). You can also get the Dmitri Vulis public domain
package, ADDPAGE for the PC which has fonts for Epson
printers.
Jan Labanowski
jkl@osc.edu
*** ***
Relcom hierarchy:
relcom.ads
relcom.ads.comp
relcom.archives
relcom.archives.d
relcom.bbs
relcom.commerce
relcom.commerce.audio-video
relcom.commerce.chemical
relcom.commerce.construction
relcom.commerce.consume
relcom.commerce.energy
relcom.commerce.estate
relcom.commerce.food
relcom.commerce.household
relcom.commerce.infoserv
relcom.commerce.jobs
relcom.commerce.machinery
relcom.commerce.medicine
relcom.commerce.metals
relcom.commerce.money
relcom.commerce.orgtech
relcom.commerce.other
relcom.commerce.stocks
relcom.commerce.talk
relcom.commerce.tobacco
relcom.commerce.transport
relcom.exnet
relcom.exnet.quote
relcom.fido.ru.hacker
relcom.fido.ru.networks
relcom.fido.ru.unix
relcom.fido.su.books
relcom.fido.su.c-c++
relcom.fido.su.general
relcom.fido.su.hardw
relcom.fido.su.music
relcom.fido.su.pol
relcom.fido.su.tolkien
relcom.fido.su.virus
relcom.humor
relcom.infomarket.quote
relcom.infomarket.talk
relcom.jusinf
relcom.kids
relcom.lan
relcom.maps
relcom.mn.economics
relcom.mn.faxdigest
relcom.mn.laws
relcom.mn.newspaper
relcom.msdos
relcom.music
relcom.netnews
relcom.netnews.big
relcom.penpals
relcom.politics
relcom.postf.business
relcom.postf.exchange
relcom.postf.military
relcom.postf.news
relcom.postmasters
relcom.postmasters.d
relcom.sources
relcom.talk
relcom.teleputing
relcom.terms
relcom.test
relcom.wtc
relcom.x
suug
suug.org
ukr.archives
ukr.binf
ukr.commerce
ukr.commerce.chemical
ukr.commerce.energy
ukr.commerce.food
ukr.commerce.household
ukr.commerce.machinery
ukr.commerce.metals
ukr.commerce.misc
ukr.commerce.money
ukr.commerce.orgtech
ukr.commerce.price-lists
ukr.commerce.talky
ukr.comp.newprods
ukr.dilo.arts
ukr.dilo.law
ukr.dilo.marketnews
ukr.dilo.money
ukr.finance
ukr.gc.chronical
ukr.gc.normativ
ukr.law
ukr.maps
ukr.netnews
ukr.nodes
ukr.press.dovira.svit
ukr.rules
ukr.soft-house
NOTE: Relcom server works as a mail server. Due to the traffic
volume and network limitations to obtain a response may take
a day or two. Be patient. If it does not work, try to communicate
with Relcom using European Internet nodes as relays (nodes in
Sweden or Finland are a good choice).
(Pasek)
SOVSET 4.2
Soviet and East European Studies Data Library
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
1800 K Street, NW Suite 400
Washington D.C. 20006
Tel: 202-775-3257
Fax: 202-775-3199
email: support@sovset.org
ftp sovset.org
Fees per hour: internet $15
CompuServe $25 (non-profit use)
corporate $40
Login and password requires advance arrangement.
Offers conferences, speech texts, news services, regular reports
and a phone and address directory for Moscow.
Sarah C. Helmstadter, Executive Director
PEACENET AND GLASNET 4.3
GLASNET INFORMATION
Version 3.1 10 March 1994
"GlasNet (R)" - A Computer Network for Pro Bono Groups
in the Former Soviet Union, GlasNet is the first non-profit,
non-governmental telecommunications network to be established in
the Former Soviet Union. It is a network for people there who
have access to electronic communication equipment; typically a
personal computer of some kind and a modem (See Appendix B below
for more information on modems). Anyone with access to the
Internet of any of the networks listed below can exchange Email
with GlasNet users.
GlasNet was featured in a March 9, 1994 page 1 story in the New
York Times on Russian networking by Michael Specter; a text file
version can be supplied by Email; send requests to
glasadmin@igc.apc.org
GlasNet's goal is to offer easy and inexpensive information
exchange between diverse groups within the Former Soviet Union,
including scientists, educators, cultural groups, journalists,
environmentalists, business people, computer enthusiasts, and so
forth. It also enables Former Soviet Union groups and
individuals to correspond electronically with their counterparts
in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. GlasNet is non-profit
(revenues are kept equal to expenses), and serves the
communication needs of pro bono groups in the Former Soviet Union
who could not otherwise afford modern communication services.
Charges to GlasNet users in the Former Soviet Union are entirely
in rubles, and will be kept as low as possible while maintaining
good system services. GlasNet has been operating in Moscow since
March of 1991.
Thanks to the International Science Foundation for the Former
Soviet Union, GlasNet Moscow now has a direct connection to the
Internet. GlasNet service between Moscow and other parts of the
Internet is reliable and rapid; typical Email messages exchanged
between the US and Moscow arrive at their destination a second or
two after they were sent.
GlasNet is a member of the Association for Progressive
Communications (APC), a global network-of-networks with host
computers in Argentina (Wamani), Australia (Pegasus), Brasil
(AlterNex), Canada (Web), Ecuador (Ecuanex), England (GreenNet),
Germany (ComLink), Mexico (LaNeta), Nicaragua (Nicarao),
Slovenija (Histria), South Africa (SangoNet), Sweden (NordNet),
Ukraine (GLUK), Uruguay (Chasque), and the USA (IGC -
PeaceNet,EcoNet)
GlasNet has recently upgraded to Sun Microsystems equipment in
Moscow; this should increase perfomance by a factor of 2 to 4.
The Moscow in-dial modems support speeds from 300 to 14,400 bps,
and a wide range of protocols including V.32 bis, V.42, and MNP.
The current GlasNet Moscow hardware configuration supports up to
4,000 user accounts; of these up to 24 can be on line
simultaneously, depending on how many access ports (local Moscow
dial-in, ISKRA, and X.25) are available.
GlasNet also has a host computer system operating in Kiev,
operating since December of 1992. For more detail on this system
send Email to glasadmin@igc.apc.org.
Collaboration among scientists, business people, and other
specialists in the USA has been facilitated in recent years
through the use of computer-based electronic mail and
conferencing capabilities, allowing people in different parts of
the country to work on joint projects, access data banks and
information in computers all across the country, and
electronically publish new work. These powerful capabilties are
now becoming available to the general public, the non-profit
community in particular, through such services as PeaceNet and
EcoNet.
It is the goal of GlasNet to provide similar
performance-enhancing services to the fast-emerging independent
sectors in the Former Soviet Union, offering users easy access to
friends, colleagues, and potential associates in the Former
Soviet Union and abroad.
Users from many other places in the Former Soviet Union regularly
access their GlasNet accounts using long distance calls, GlasNet
accounts have been accessed in this way from as far away as
Irkutsk and Vladivostok. Access is also available from many
Former Soviet Union cities via local calls to Public Data
Networks making X.25 connections to GlasNet. See Appendix C for
more details.
Services available to GlasNet users include:
Electronic Mail
GlasNet subscribers are able to exchange messages with others on
GlasNet, other users within APC, or with users belonging to many
other networks through APC "gateways."
Networks accessible through these gateways include: America
Online, Applelink, ARPANET, AT&T LandMail, AT&T MAIL, Bitnet,
BIX, BOLNET, CARINET, CGNET, CIGnet, COMLINK, COMPUSERVE,
CONNECT, CSNet, DASNET, DELPHI, DIALCOM, EasyLink, ECUANEX, EIES,
ENVOY 100, FIDONET, GALAXY, GeoNet, GTE, HandsNet, HURACAN, IMC,
INET, Internet, JANET, MCI MAIL, MicroLink, NASA, NWI, OMNET,
PANDORA, PINET, Portal, PsychNet, ScienceNet, SOURCE, TCN,
Telecom Gold, Telemail, THE META NETWORK, TWICS, Tymnet/Ontyme,
UNDP;UNDRO;UNINET, UNISON, UUCP Mail Net, WELL, WORKNET, OMNET,
Usenet
Electronic mail (Email) overcomes the cost and problems of
telephone use. An electronic mail message is composed at the
user's convenience, then quickly sent by the GlasNet computer to
its destination in the addressee's host computer mailbox, which
may be in Moscow or halfway around the world. When the person to
whom it is sent logs in to his or her local network host
computer, the message is waiting. Transmission is immediate, and
there is no need for both parties to be present simultaneously.
Costs are less than long distance telephone calls or those of air
parcel services.
FAX
GlasNet provides its users with the ability to send messages to
FAX machines. FAX messages are sent directly from Moscow to FAX
machines in the Former Soviet Union; FAX messages are sent as
Email from the Former Soviet Union to California, and then as FAX
messages from there to FAX machines in the US. Similarly FAX
messages can be sent as Email from the US to GlasNet, and from
there as FAX messages to FAX machines in the Former Soviet Union.
Most users find that this system provides more reliable delivery
than direct FAX-in-the-US to FAX-in-the-Former Soviet Union
calls.
Because of the bit-mapped nature of FAX encoded messages it is
not possible for users to receive FAX messages via the
character-oriented GlasNet system.
Electronic Conferencing
An electronic conference is a written conversation with other
users; a conference is created to discuss a particular topic or
to facilitate communication between people working on a joint
project. GlasNet users can start their own conferences on topics
of interest, or are able to participate in on-going conferences
on other APC networks. Although anyone on any of the networks
listed above can exchange Email with GlasNet subscribers, people
in the US must be subscribers to the IGC networks PeaceNet or
EcoNet in order to participate in IGC or APC conferences with
GlasNet users. Contact information for IGC is given below. Many
of the Usenet News Groups available through Internet are carried
on GlasNet and can be posted to or read from by GlasNet users.
GlasMail (R)
People without a personal computer and a modem can still
communicate using GlasNet's GlasMail service: in November 1991
GlasNet began offering this new service. It allows reliable
communication between people who have no Email or other
equipment. Messages can be delivered using phone calls, FAXes,
Email, letters, or telegrams. The messages are sent rapidly and
reliably between the USA and the Former Soviet Union by Email;
they are translated into the specified form and dispatched from
Moscow (or San Francisco at the US end). Prices range from $5 to
$18 for normal messages, depending on the speed and cost of
delivery. Delivery can be as short as 1 day from from receipt of
a message in the USA to its delivery in the Former Soviet Union.
Messages from the Former Soviet Union to the USA can be delivered
more rapidly.
For detailed information on GlasMail send a request to
glasmail@igc.apc.org.
------------------------------------------------------------
The Russian staff of GlasNet opposed the coup of August 1991 and
courageously kept GlasNet operating during it. GlasNet was used
to keep GlasNet users informed about the fight against the coup,
and to pass information about it back to the West. Similar
information exchange was maintained during the siege of the
Parliament Building in October of 1993.
For further information on GlasNet, please use the contacts
below.
In the Former Soviet Union:
GlasNet User Support
Email: support@glas.apc.org
GlasNet Technical Information
Alexander Zaytsev, Technical Director.
Email: alexz@glas.apc.org
GlasNet Moscow office address:
107074 Moscow
ul. Sadovaya-Chernogryazskaya, 4
suite 16 3rd floor
(near metro KRASNYE VOROTA)
voice telephone: (095)207-0704
voice telephone and FAX: 207-0889
Data telephone numbers: 262-4857, 262-0209.
Both 4857 and 0209 are equipped with rotaries; incoming calls are
automatically routed to one of 16 data lines.
In the USA:
David Caulkins
Barbara Loebner
GlasNet USA
437 Mundel Way
Los Altos, CA 94022
(415)948-5753 voice
(415)948-1474 fax
Email:
glasadmin@igc.apc.org (from Internet)
People in the USA who wish to access GlasNet and do not have an
account on one of the APC-connected gateway networks listed above
should get an account on one of the IGC networks: PeaceNet or
EcoNet. For information about these networks, contact:
IGC
18 de Boom
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415)442-0220
(415)546-1794 fax
Email: igcoffice@igc.apc.org
It is possible to sponsor a GlasNet account for colleagues in the
Former Soviet Union by making dollar payments to IGC in the USA;
accounts sponsored in this way are effectively free to users in
the Former Soviet Union.
There are two ways to pay for GlasNet accounts:
1. From the USA by establishing a Sponsored Account. These cost
$25 per month, plus a one-time $60 setup charge. The $25 per
month covers connect, gateway, and storage charges up to 600,000
characters per month of traffic. Special services (FAX, telex,
X.25 access, etc) are not included in the $25 monthly charge.
Sponsored Accounts are paid for in dollars to the GlasNet USA
office. After an initial payment to set up the account
(typically $85; $25 1st month and $60 one-time setup fee),
accounts are billed monthly in the USA.
Sponsored Accounts are often used by people visiting the Former
Soviet Union. For visits less than 3 weeks, guest accounts are
available for $20.
2. People in the Former Soviet Union can pay directly in rubles.
See Appendices for more.
IGC CONFERENCES 4.4
The user interface I have encountered on PeaceNet is fairly
friendly; the user just selects "c" for "conferences" from the
main menu. However, one must know the name of the conference
desired; searching for topical keywords to locate a conference is
easy at SFSUVAX1 with tin but time consuming at PeaceNet.
However, these conferences frequently provide a thoughtful forum
for discussion and therefore may be worth seeking out.
Conference list update as of March 2, 1994 included are in the
catagories xUSSR, Disarmament, Economics, Europe, Human Rights,
Mailing Lists, Military and Security, News, Nuclear Weapons and
Testing:
aiha.info -- Information of general interest to
professionals and students interested in the
provision of technical assistance,
particularly health care-related aid--to the
peoples of the former Soviet Union.
aiha.med-pol -- Invites participation from health professionals
and others interested in health issues. It
supports the AIHA U.S.-NIS hospital
partnerships by providing a means to exchange
views on health care policy issues.
aiha.med-treat -- This conference invites participation from
doctors and others interested in health
issues. It supports the AIHA U.S.-NIS
hospital partnerships by providing a means to
exchange information on clinical issues of
interest to the partnerships.
act.wb94 -- For groups around the world to post information
about actions and campaigns planned for the
50th Anniversary of the Bretton Woods
Institutions (World Bank [WB] and
International Monetary Fund [IMF]).
ax.fondad -- Forum on Debt and Development (FONDAD),
following up on the problems of external debt
in the so-called 'third world', including
analyses and concrete actions within social
movements.
ai.general -- This is a public conference where Amnesty
International news releases, short reports,
campaign actions and other human rights and
Amnesty International information is posted.
ai.letter -- For activating users to send
letters/telexes/faxes to Government officials
all over the world in order to urge them to
release prisoners of conscience. The
letters are written by Amnesty International.
ai.students -- Amnesty International news and ideas of
interest to students and youth in general.
ai.uan -- Amnesty International's Urgent Action Alerts on
torture and other human rights violations.
(See also the ai.letters conference.)
aihre.general -- Discussion of human rights education. Please
post comments, suggestions, information, and
the like.
bas.magazine -- The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists specializes
in nuclear and arms control issues,
international affairs, and species survival.
Conference includes: expanded contents pages,
yearly index, history of the Doomsday Clock,
& ordering info.
basic.nato -- News and information on NATO's policies,
weapons, strategies, important meetings,
research activities and the response of the
peace movement. Sponsored by the British
American Security Information Council.
baltic.news -- News and views from and about the Baltic
countries.
bitl.baltic -- BitNet ListServ conference on the Baltic
Republics and related topics. Includes
ongoing discussion, news, and networking.
bitl.biodiv -- This list has been created to discuss the
"Needs and Specifications for a Biodiversity
Network," which is the theme of the workshop
that will be held in Campinas, Sao Paulo,
Brazil, in July 27-31, 1992.
bitl.conslink -- A BITNET LISTSERV discussion on Biological
Conservation.
bitl.devel -- Bitnet mailing list about development issues.
bitl.newlists -- Announcements of new bitnet listserve mailing
lists. BitNet lists originate outside of the
APC systems as mailing lists (i.e., their
messages arrive via email). They may be
imported into conferences. Contact 'support'
for more information.
bitl.politics -- Echoes the Bitnet list on politics.
bitl.sanet -- Echo of the Sustainable Agriculture Network's
mail group, SANET-MG. Its purpose is to share
ideas, information, questions, etc. about
networking sustainable agriculture
information.
bitl.seanet -- This is an echo of a BitNet mailing list which
is a discussion of South East Asian regions,
including politics, human rights,
environmental issues, and other issues.
bitl.travel -- Echoes the BitNet mailing list, TRAVEL-L, which
is a forum for the discussion of travel and
tourism.
bitl.pen -- BitNet list of the Progressive Economist
Network piped in to a conference. Includes
ongoing discussion of economic and social
issues by leading progressive economists
bitl.russia -- BitNet mailing list on Russia, ported to a
conference.
ctb.clips -- Up to date information via the major wire
services on the state of the nuclear testing
negotiations in Geneva and other related
topics. The conference, run by the CTB
Clearinghouse will be updated daily at 10 am
cdi.military -- This conference is for the distribution of
materials from the Center for Defense
Information and the discussion of related
topics.
ccic.fpr -- From July 1993 to May 1994, CCIC will be
preparing foreign policy recommendations for
the Government of Canada in 3 principal
areas: i) building a framework for our
common future; ii) economic justice; and iii)
human rights and democratic development.
child.crc -- UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child.
coc.brettonwds -- Invites academics and NGOs around the world to
evaluate the Bretton Woods institutions
(World Bank, IMF, & GATT) and consider
proposals for new global economic
arrangements that would advance sustainable,
equitable and participatory development.
disarm.seas -- General discussion and information for
activists and others interested in issues
around Disarm the Seas.
dev.worldbank -- News and discussion of World Bank activities
and their impact on the environment,
development and economics of the world,
especially third world countries.
disarm.ctb-npt -- For NGOs preparing special NGO report on
possible amendments of the current treaties
CTB (Comprehensive Test Ban) and NPT
(Non-Proliferation Treaty) and a place to
elaborate approaches for strengthening the
int'l regime of non-proliferation.
disarm.testing -- Information and discussion about nuclear
weapons tests, actions of American Peace Test
and related issues, including nonviolence.
disarm.trans -- Information about the transport of nuclear
materials and warheads by road, air, rail,
sea, etc. May include time-urgent
information on convoys on the road.
earthtimes -- This conference contains "Earth Times", an
independent newspaper focusing on sustainable
development and such interrelated economic
and social issues of the international system
as environement, population and trade.
econ.ethinvest -- A conference about socially responsible and
ethical investing.
econ.green -- Green Economics
econ.justice -- Info/stats/studies on such topics as Reverse
Robin Hood or Reagan/Bush era; regressive
taxation; S&L ripoff; etc.
econ.saps -- For NGOs, trade unions and popular movements
working to halt IMF and World Bank structural
adjustment programs (SAPs) and make room for
grassroots alternatives. Para los que
trabajan para detener los programas de ajuste
estructural (PAEs).
econ.saps.uk -- To exchange information on research and
campaign work of UK NGOs working on
Structural Adjustment Programmes related
issues. Although a UK conference, NGOs,
academics, or any other group working on this
issue will have the opportunity to
participate.
end.convention -- Reports and discussion around the European
Nuclear Disarmament Conventions and process.
energy.eur -- Discussion of all aspects of European energy,
particularly energy conservation and
renewable energy sources.
env.europe -- Environmental news and discussion for all
Europe.
exyugo.refugee -- News for and about people who have been forced
to leave the ex-Yugoslavian region, and wish
to contact those left behind - and vice
versa. Also for contact between those within
the region, and between those abroad.
env.newsletter -- This is a read only full-text library of
periodicals, occasional publications and
papers published by organizations active in
local, regional, national and international
environmental issues.
end.convention -- Reports and discussion around the European
Nuclear Disarmament Conventions and process.
env.centasia -- To discuss environmental, political, and
related issues pertaining to Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan, Kirghistan, Turkmenistan,
Tadjikistan, and Azerbaijan, former republics
of the Soviet Union. Feel free to post in
Russian.
env.cis -- Up-to-date forum on the growing numbers of U.S.
and ex-Soviet NGO activists pursuing the goal
of global environment sustainabilty with an
emphasis on the protection of ex-Soviet
eco-systems.
env.siberia -- News, information & discussion about
protecting Siberia's environment.
env.ukraine -- Environmental issues in the Ukraine and
discussion on the problems of sustainable
development for the states in transition.
gen.shortwave -- Provides transcripts of news items and more
detailed reports from shortwave radio
broadcasts. Uploaded daily.
greenbusiness -- Issues of socially and environmentally
responsible business.
gen.newsletter -- Articles for newsletters about a variety of
issues. Most are taken from other
conferences on the networks. Pull from here
for your newsletter, or share your newsletter
articles here.
glasnost.news -- News, information and discussion of political
change in Eastern Europe.
gen.racism -- Discussion of racism and other forms of
color-based discrimination.
hr.development -- News and information on the right to
development as established by the Commission
on Human Rights as a basic human right.
hr.eurmideast -- For information on human rights in the
countries in Europe and the Middle East only.
hrnet.asia-pac -- Human rights issues in Asia and the Pacific.
hrnet.children -- Human rights issues concerning children.
hrnet.eur-mide -- Human rights issues in Europe and the Middle
East.
hrnet.intllaw -- Human rights issues in international law.
hrnet.ngo-gen -- Human rights issues of general interest to
NGOs.
hrnet.racism -- Materials concerning racism and xenophobia as
they pertain to human rights.
hrnet.ref-migr -- Human rights issues concerning refugees and
migration.
hrnet.un-doc -- Offical documents of the United Nations
concerning human rights issues.
hrnet.un-gen -- General human rights information regarding the
United Nations.
hr.eurmideast -- For information on human rights in the
countries in Europe and the Middle East only.
ipb.news -- Publications from and news about the
International Peace Bureau. News about
campaigns and actions around the world,
coverage on inter-governmental negotiations
and UN reform, and news and discussion about
other IPB events.
ippnw.campaign -- To aid in the planning and execution of
campaigns to end the nuclear weapons era.
ippnw.ceasefir -- Announcements of nuclear testing, proposed
actions and strategy and other relevant
information towards a Comprehensive Test Ban.
ippnw.docs -- Various documents collected by IPPNW that deal
with nuclear war and related issues.
ippnw.student -- For medical students and friends associated
with International Physicians for Prevention
of Nuclear War, discussing opportunities for
international collaboration on topics of
disarmament, environment, development and
medical community.
intl.economics -- Discussion of a variety of international
economic issues.
ips.cuba -- Receives news articles from IPS concerning
Cuba.
ips.english -- Current, English-language news stories from
Inter Press Service.
isar.journal -- This conference contains "Surviving Together",
a journal on relations with the former Soviet
Union. "Surviving Together" is pubilished by
ISAR, and covers development, the
environment, economics, women, civil society
and other topics.
justice.europe -- News and information from the Statewatch
bulletin, the Campaign Against Racism and
Fascism [CARF] magazine, and the BISS
information exchange on the European state.
lcs.letsoft -- Issues on LETSystem software development.
lets.canada -- News and information for and about LETS (Local
Employment and Trading Systems) in Canada.
lets.oz -- Local Employment Trading System - a money-free
work exchange economy. Australian groups
inform and communicate here.
lets.uk -- News about Local Economic Trading Systems
(LETS) in the UK.
lets.women -- This LETS conference acts as a forum for
support and general information sharing.
list.econdev -- This is an Internet/Bitnet mailing list
populated by a small group of online
consultants who are using the Internet to
discover ways of using information in
regional economic development.
list.ipe -- International Political Economy Net is a member
of the consortium of communications for a
sustainable future, and includes students and
scholars interested in IPE.
labr.cis -- The conference contains postings about trade
unions/workers movements, economics and other
related issues in Russia/CIS.
list.natosci -- Information on the North American Treaty
Organization (NATO) Science and Environment
Programmes.
list.bosnet -- Echoes the Internet mailing list on Bosnia.
list.croatia -- Echoes the Internet mailing list on Croatia.
list.jugo -- Echoes an Internet mailing list.
list.macedonia -- Echoes the Internet mailing list for the
Macedonian News Network.
list.nato -- This list will distribute public data from NATO
such as press releases, speeches, NATO
articles, communiquies, NATO REVIEW,
fellowship programmes, NATO fact sheets, etc.
list.serbia -- Echoes the Internet mailing list for the
Serbian News Network.
list.vreme -- Articles from Vreme, Serbia's leading
opposition news magazine.
list.holocaust -- Mirrors the BitNet list, HOLOCAUS, which covers
the Holocaust and related topics such as
anti-Semitism; Jewish history in the 1930s
and '40s; and closely related themes in the
history of World War II, Germany, and
international diplomacy.
list.hrscience -- A group of scholars interested in the
SCIENTIFIC study of human rights. Discussion
here is intended to encourage the
quantitative study of human rights by putting
human rights researchers in contact with each
other.
list.yrights -- Bitnet/Internet list on the human rights of
youth and children.
list.berita -- Malaysian and Singaporean news, SEA news of
interest to Malaysians and Singaporeans, and
Islam-related news. For news only -- NO
DISCUSSIONS, PLEASE.
list.carr -- Mirrors the Computer Assisted Reporting &
Research mailing list.
list.ipe -- International Political Economy Net is a member
of the consortium of communications for a
sustainable future, and includes students and
scholars interested in IPE.
list.iprussia -- Share ideas, experiences, questions, answers,
plans, and progress relative to implementing
the Internet in Russia.
list.nation -- Discussion of articles and issues as they
appear in the Nation Magazine. Mirrors a
internet mailing list. This conference is
not sponsored by The Nation.
list.nethappen -- Internet list which will distribute other
network information services type
announcements.
list.pcorps -- Echoes the Internet mailing list on the Peace
Corps (PCORPS-L).
list.rego.us -- A meeting place for sharing information an
discussions about "reinventing
government"--the process of making
government work better and cost less.
list.rusag -- Communication among Americans and between
Americans and Russians on the state of
Russian agriculture and the desirability for
cooperation in this field.
list.sfbike -- Internet mailing list to discuss bicycle
transportation issues in the San Francisco
area.
list.russia-telecoms -- Non-technical discussions about
telecommunications in Russia.
motherjones -- This conference contains articles from "Mother
Jones", one of the United State's premier
alternative magazines.
mlateral.news -- Summarizes recent developments in multilateral
governmental bodies with special attention
paid to structural issues. Topics include
the United Nations, International Monetary
Fund, World Bank, GATT, OECD, and others.
multimonitor -- Contains the publication "The Mulitnational
Monitor"
mil.accidents -- Accidents and incidents involving
military/nuclear ships, convoys, equipment.
military.index -- Contents pages from defense and military
publications are posted here.
metta.news -- METTA's newsletter, Gardenia, provides
historical accounts, resources and analysis
of events that advance the knowledge and use
of nonviolence throughout the world.
nation.samples -- Public conference with sample articles from the
Nation, one of the Unites State's oldest
progressive magazines.
nonviolence.to -- Contains bi-monthly publication 'Nonviolence
Today' to increase the understanding and use
of nonviolence.
nw.general -- Tracks nuclear warheads and components as they
travel on public U.S. transportation routes.
npsg.milflight -- Current information about environmental and
health impacts of military training and
testing throughout the world with emphasis on
Canada, U.S. & Europe.
pa.lobby -- Current detailed information on legislation
that Peace Action (formerly SANE/Freeze)
supports, including strategy plans and action
alerts.
pa.local -- Local SANE/Freeze groups share successes,
frustrations, expertise with each other.
pa.media -- Sample press releases, statements and
letters-to-the-editor supplied by Peace
Action (formerly SANE/Freeze).
pax.sanctions -- A forum for news and discussion about the use
and abuse of sanctions.
pns.baltic -- Originating from PeaceNet Sweden/NordNet,
discussion of networking projects in around
the Baltic Sea.
pns.news -- News in and around PNS - Nordnet.
pbi.news -- Newsletters and reports published by Peace
Brigades International, and discussions on
human rights and nonviolent movements in
Latin America and South Asia.
prn.radionews -- News and current affairs from Public Radio News
Service (PRNS).
psr.bulletins -- Medical consequences of nuclear weapons and
nuclear war. Sponsored by the Physicians for
Social Responsibility.
reg.ussr -- News and information about the former Soviet
Union, Russia, CIS.
rainfor.worldbank -- Information about World Bank activities
pertaining to rainforest issues.
reg.eeurope -- News and information from and about East
Europe.
reg.exyugoslav -- News of the former republics of Yugoslavia.
reg.weurope -- News and information about Western Europe.
servas.travel -- General information about Servas International,
a global organization that promotes
person-to-person contact between hosts and
travelers interested in promoting world
peace.
sci.military -- Discussion about science & the military.
sgr.news -- For open discussion on matters of interest to
SGR (Scientists for Global Responsibilty);
incorporating Electronics and Computing for
Peace (ECP), Psychologists for Peace (PfP),
and Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (SANA).
sipri.press -- Carries documents, publications, press
releases, and parts of the Yearbook following
the status of disarmament and armaments in
the world, all published by SIPRI, the
Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute, SIPRI.
transcont.news -- The Transatlantic Peace Newsletter from the
peace work foundation 'Die Schwelle' in West
Germany, offering a European perspective on
issues of disarmament, peace work and the
churches.
toes.general -- Discussion and information about The Other
Economic Summit (TOES), including alternative
economics.
toes.summit -- Used during The Other Economic Summit (TOES) to
share information about issues arising from
the summit. (Will soon be merged with
toes.general.)
trade.canada -- Economic and social repercussions of the
freetrade deal between Canada and the US.
trade.library -- A repository for trade related information:
fact sheets, press releases, statistics,
statements or other pertinent documents.
trade.news -- Summaries of the latest news stories relating
to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT), the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) and other trade issues.
trade.strategy -- An open dialogue on trade-related issues. Much
of the discussion may spring from reactions
to the news reported in the TRADE.NEWS
bulletin. Anyone can contribute. IATP
started the conference but does not control
its content.
trc.archive -- The Trade Resource Consortium archive houses
studies and other scholarly works that
directly respond to the current research
needs of international non-governmental
organizations concerned with trade and
environment related issues.
toxics.militar -- Information about toxics and environmental
problems at military bases. Co-sponsored by
Arms Control Research Center (ARC), Foreign
Bases Project (FBP), National Toxics Campaign
Fund (NTSF).
transcont.news -- The Transatlantic Peace Newsletter from the
peace work foundation 'Die Schwelle' in West
Germany, offering a European perspective on
issues of disarmament, peace work and the
churches.
vana.peace -- Issues of war, peace and militarism from the
point of view of veterans.
women.east-west -- A forum to discuss gender issues in the
radically altered societies of East and
Central Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Sponsored by the Network of East-West Women
(NEWW).
yugo.antiwar -- Discussion about the work for peaceful
solutions of the yugoslavian domestic war and
conflicts. Several languages are used here.
zmagazine -- Conference of miscellaneous articles published
in "Z" Magazine and discussion by readers.
(GlasNet and IGC)
CONCISE 4.5
CONCISE is the COSINE Network's Central Information Service
for Europe. CONCISE provides information about COSINE projects,
networks, conferences, networking products, special interest
groups, project databases, directories, Email services and
other networked services in Europe. Available by e-mail, ftp
and gopher.
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