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NETWORKS AND COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER : May 31, 1994
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Networks and Community is devoted to encouraging LOCAL resource creation &
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GLOBAL resource sharing.
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The 20th report of 1994 is the 26th weekly survey.
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Coverage in this issue includes:
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Global Community
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News From The World
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New Freenet - Seattle Community Network
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Internet Services - D.I.I.G. - Giftednet - I.C.I
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Internet Tools - HTMLASST for Windows (tm)
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Meeting - World Conference of Jewish Communal Service - Global Networking
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Global Community
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THE ONLINE "TIES THAT BIND" COMMUNITY NETWORKING CONFERENCE on COMMUNET
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On May 23,1994, Patrick Finn <patfinn@UNM.EDU> asked,
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The question of "who WE are" is still an important one. I would
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like to suggest that WE find out who WE are before we go too far down the
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path. A starting point might be people who are building communtiy
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networks or thinking about building networks, that would include
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independent projects and freenets and whatever else is out there We all
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need the same info and will be dealing with the same issues as we move
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toward meeting our goals.
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The question is "What is the common ground?"
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I don't think WE need to be afraid of an experiment, let's try something
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and see what emerges. Nothing ventured..
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Partick J Finn
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La Plaza TeleCommiunity Foundation
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Taos, NM
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In the days since the conference, these & other folks have tried to answer
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that question:
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(all responses excerpted from Communet posts to "re: Ties etc")
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Joan C. Durrance, Assoc. Prof, University of Michigan, School of Info. &
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Library Studies.
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"The flavor of the conference began to unfold at the airport. I shared a
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limo to the hotel with a freenet organizer from Texas (who I found out
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later was one of the CPB award winners), a Colorado sysop of a
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marketing bulletin board, the manager of a BBS for science teachers in
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the state of New Mexico who seeks to develop a multicultural approach,
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and an advocate of citizen democracy from a non-profit in Washington,
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DC. We bonded on the 15 minute trip to Cupertino. Five people with
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diverse backgrounds and experience who looked forward to sharing and
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learning about community network ties over the next several days. "
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From: Ken Loss-Cutler <kenlc@TENET.EDU>
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" INTENSE!
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The other highpoint, for me, was the ad hoc breakout session that evolved
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in the cafe Friday afternoon. Nancy Willard, from Eugene Oregon,
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facilitated a discussion that lasted over two hours. Steve C. had to
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virtually beg us to adjourn for the final session in another room <grin>
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(he finally resorted to wheeling in an iced-down keg/carrot-on-a-stick).
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It worked. But not before the group of 32 people (by my count) had
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discussed essential elements of a plan for action for the community
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networking movement. We'll have to wait for Nancy's posting of the notes
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she took on our discussions, but I felt like we made strong progress in
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defining and, in some cases, taking on essential goals. More important,
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I believe we bonded in a way that we would not have without that session.
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(Thanks, Nancy) "
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"The work of creating equality lies in our hands, we already "have", let's
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give it to those who don't. Even down the road there will always be those
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who don't have this tool. So the job is to create the interface that will
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reach those people. We must use our imagination and creativity to build
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the ties that bind, the link, to those who will never use a mouse, a
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keyboard or a touch screen. "
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Patrick J. Finn
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La Plaza TeleCommunity Foundation
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From: "Kari Peterson (kapeterson@ucdavis.edu)
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"awesomely complicated (this is a global phenomenon, it involves a
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coalition of interests, sectors and needs that is larger than life and
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too hard to bring under a single umbrella.)"
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"Community is what we are building in each
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of our own ways, but isn't community really a collection of individual
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relationships? Community encompasses more than that. It encompasses an
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overall atmosphere as well, but what is the basis of community? I think
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the basis for community is strong personal relationships between members of
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the community. I can't think of anything else that could be the key
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component of what we call "community."
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-- -- Grant Bowman Planning Director,
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SV-PAL -- grantbow@svpal.org Silicon Valley Public Access Link
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"A community is a group of people united by the common
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objects of their love." That incorporates three critical elements:
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shared values, unity, and intimacy...
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Ed Schwartz, Institute for the Study of Civic Values, Edcivic@delphic.com
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Who are "we"?
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What is the common ground?
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"WE" are librarians, teachers, doctors, programmers, students,
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scientists, consultants, lawyers, firefighters, police officers, nurses;
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actually, we represent just about every profession known. "WE" are
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idealistic, pragmatic, energetic folks with a strong sense of "global
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community". "WE" are probably the last remnants of a society that
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"really" believes "all are created equal". At the risk of sounding
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melodramatic, maybe we are! "WE" worry about connectivity for the
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"have nots". "WE" are the folks that are accused of being "Socialists"
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when we post to the Comm-Priv list!
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The "Ties That Bind" conference was possibly the "Woodstock"
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of the Community Computing movement. We must re-harness the momentum
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that was so prevalent at Cupertino. We need to link our systems together
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both by wire and organizationally. There are many established groups
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already in existence. Could they be informally linked together (with
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other interested parties) to form an International Community Computing
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Alliance? Or do we want to form a separate coalition of systems to
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co-ordinate legislative action while the "window" is open as Mario Marino
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so aptly stated?
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My feeling is that a *NEW* organization should be set up to take
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advantage of the loose unification that was shared by the participants of
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the Conference. As we have seen "post" conference, many of those that
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could not attend share our enthusiasm but feel a loss at having missed
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such a "watershed" event.
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To become a viable, cohesive organization, we would have to
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*focus* on as Patrick Finn put it, a "Common Ground". We need to distill
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this discussion down to three or four issues to accomplish a our goals.
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After having audited this discussion since the conference, I have noticed
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that the topics of cost, universal access to both the tools and the
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Internet, political-social-economic effect on society, and on-going
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lobbying are most often discussed. Of course there are others, but
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these offer a platform from which to start.
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In any case, something should be started soon. This is an
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election year. We should be approaching Congress with a unified,
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energetic, logical, attainable vision. If we do not do it, a void will
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be created allowing commercial interests to determine community for us.
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Think about this, discuss the heck out of it, but let's get
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moving on something! It's too important to let pass by.
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-steve covington
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NEWS of the WIRED & WEIRD **** Received from various sources
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Forwarded by Gleason Sackman - InterNIC net-happenings moderator
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Subject: E-d-u-p-a-g-e 05/21/94 through 05/28/94 EDITED BY MYSELF
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DOES INFO HIGHWAY SHUN THE POOR?
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A study backed by groups including the Consumer Federation of
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America and the NAACP charges that the advanced communications now being
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planned and built are shunning poorer neighborhoods and minority
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populations, in what amounts to "electronic redlining" -- designating
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neighborhoods as bad for business. One industry spokesman, US West's Jerry
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Brown, counters: "To say that we're going to stay out of areas permanently
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is dishonest and ridiculous. But we had to start building our network
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someplace. And it is being built in areas where there are customers we
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believe will use and buy the service. This is a business." (New York Times
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5/24/94 C5)
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AMERICANS LIKE TECHNOLOGY
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Almost one of every three households has a personal computer, and
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65% of computer users say they would miss their machine "a lot" if they no
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longer had it. The study, which was done by Times Mirror Center for the
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People & the Press, also found that people with computers spend less time
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watching TV entertainment. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution 5/24/94 A1)
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CAMPUSES WRESTLE WITH COMPUTER CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
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Campuses are increasingly dealing with computer-originated crime
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and mischief -- everything from bomb and death threats, to racist and
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sexual harassment, to forged messages such as one at Dartmouth that caused
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students to believe an important exam was canceled. While some students
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have called for a detailed list of computer commandments, campus officials
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are wary of limiting their disciplinary discretion. "If you make a long
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list of dos and don'ts, you are cajoling students into thinking, `How can I
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squeeze through that?' You should be making them think, `Should I be doing
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that?'" says a computer science professor at Kansas State. (Chronicle of
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Higher Education 5/25/94 A19)
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CYBERNOUGHTS ARE IN MINORITY
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Reporting on intense criticism on the net about a May 16th Newsweek
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article that had "sweeping generalizations" about the differences between
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the way men and women think and feel about computers, New York Magazine
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columnist Jon Katz decides that "the larger truth is harassers, pedophiles,
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and macho men constitute a fraction of the millions of ordinary people who
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use the more than 33,000 computer bulletin boards for work, news, research,
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shopping, business, marketing, and personal communications..." (New York
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Magazine 5/30/94 p.16)
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MFS OFFERS TRANSATLANTIC SERVICE
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MFS Communications will offer trans-Atlantic advanced
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telecommunications services via its private fiber optic network and
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asynchronous transfer mode switching equipment. The company is targeting
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multinational banks and investment firms in the U.S. and the U.K. that need
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high-speed voice, video and data communications capability. (Wall Street
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Journal 5/25/94 B3)
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INFO SUPERHIGHWAY WILL SPARK COMPETITION
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American Banker's Management Strategies (May 23) predicts a surge
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in competition among banks, mutual funds companies, insurance companies and
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other financial services firms, once the information superhighway becomes a
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reality and customers can track investment activities on their TV (or PC)
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screens. (Investor's Business Daily 5/25/94 A4)
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BOOKS ARE FOREVER, SAYS AUTHOR
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Fiction Pulitzer Prize winner E. Annie Prouix says that the
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information highway is "for bulletin boards on esoteric subjects, reference
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works, lists and news -- timely, utilitarian information, efficiently
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pulled through the wires. Nobody is going to sit down and read a novel on a
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twitchy little screen. Ever." (New York Times 5/26/94 A13)
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* E D U C O M * U P D A T E * 05/23/94
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EVENTS
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*Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, 11th Annual Symposium and Open
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House. University of Maryland at College Park, MD, June 13-14. This
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conference will highlight such topics as laying the foundation for the
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information superhighway, and concepts, design and evaluation of
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superteaching in the electronic classroom. Contact: Teresa Casey, e-mail
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tcasey@cs.umd.edu.
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*National Education Supercomputer Program (NESP). Roseville, MN, June
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15-18. An institute intended for those teachers currently participating
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in the NESP and would like to expand knowledge of the resource. To
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receive an application form, call 612-638-8780 or send an e-mail request
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to: halvor@TIES.K12.MN.US.
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*Gateways and Productivity: How to Do Business on the Internet and Other
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Interactive Media. University of Massachusetts, Amherst campus,
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Montague, MA, June 23. Six Practitioners address the political issues of
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using the "information superhighway" as it exists today. Topics covered
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include interactive advertising, workgroup computing, use of information
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networks to achieve competitive advantage, and strategies for promoting
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Internet usage within an organization. Contact: Jean Graef at Montague
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Institute, 413-367-0245 or e-mail OGUJGRA@dpc01.dpc.umassp.edu.
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*National Information Infrastructure: Corporate Planning and Government
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Policy. Cambridge, MA, June 27-29. Business leaders, technology managers
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and public sector, non-profit, and academic leaders are invited to
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attend this M.I.T.-sponsored conference, which will survey the
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realignment of industry, business, and government, due to the
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convergence of communications and computer technologies. Contact: Trish
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Ezekiel at 617-253-1703 or e-mail trishs@.mit.edu.
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*1994 International Symposium on Mathematics/Science Education and
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Technology. Theme: "Emerging Issues and Trends." San Diego, CA, July 21-
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23. Contact: 1994 Symposium, AACE at 804-973-3987 or e-mail
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AACE@Virginia.Edu.
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*The World Future Society presents, "Toward a New Millennium: Living,
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Learning, and Working." Boston, MA, July 24-26. The conference is
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expected to address the implications of current and future trends in
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society, technology, and values. Contact: The World Future Society at
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800-989-8274.
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Educom -- Transforming Education Through Information Technology
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New Freenet
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This message was posted to Communet recently. Welcome (almost) online!
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Community Focus on "Information Superhighway"
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Community Introduction to SCN, a New FREE Public-Access Computer System
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After 2 1/2 years of effort we are happy to announce the unveiling of the
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Seattle Community Network, a public-access computer network system that
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is FREE to use. SCN is the local affiliate of the National Public
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Telecomputing Network or NPTN, the network of community computer systems
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across the US and the world.
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We will be giving a "Community Introduction" at the Seattle Public
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Library on June 7th and will be giving a live demo. Of course you're
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all invited - but some of you probably won't be able to attend. If you'd
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like help us christen the system from long-distance we'd love to hear
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from you. To contribute a welcome message just send us a note at
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welcome@scn.org.
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Good luck to us all!
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Internet Services: D. I. I. G. *** Giftednet List *** I C I
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From: SAMSAM@VM1.YorkU.CA
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Folks - register your free-nets and civic nets. Lets make sure that the
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"heart" of the Global Information Infrastructure is documented too!
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Digital Information Infrastructure Guide (DIIG)
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DIIG@farnsworth.mit.edu
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Included Message:
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The MIT Research Program on Communications Policy at the Massachusetts
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Institute of Technology is proud to announce the release of the
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Digital Information Infrastructure Guide (DIIG).
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What is DIIG?
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The Digital Information Infrastructure Guide (DIIG) is an online resource to
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facilitate the development of the National Information Infrastructure (NII).
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DIIG is intended to provide government, business and academic leaders
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with easy access to information about current research project(s) and
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critical public and private initiatives being developed for tomorrow's
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information infrastructure. Specifically, DIIG documents research conducted
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by NII stakeholders and models the interaction between NII stakeholders and
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their interests. DIIG will provide an invaluable impartial data resource for
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coordinating and guiding the development of the National Information
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Infrastructure.
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How do I access DIIG?
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DIIG is available in "gopherspace" and in World Wide Web "hypertextspace".
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If you have a WWW client (e.g. Mosaic), open URL
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http://farnsworth.mit.edu/
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If you are using a gopher client (e.g. Turbogopher), point it at
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farnsworth.mit.edu (Port 70)
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Highlights of DIIG:
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o A collection of profiles of 37 NII-related projects and
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institutions.
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o A collection of information from over 30 other NII-related projects.
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o Links to NII information at 25 other gopher servers, including
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ACE, CPSR, CCN, EFF, HPCC, IITF, ISOC, NSF, NIST, NASA and InterNIC.
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o A collection of Bills, Public Laws and Regulations dealing with
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communications.
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My project is helping to build the NII, but it is not in DIIG.
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Send an email to diig@farnsworth.mit.edu
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You will be sent a survey that will be included in DIIG. You are also
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welcome to submit any other relevant material to be included in DIIG.
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Whom do I contact for more information about DIIG?
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---------------------------------------------------
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Russell Rothstein
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MIT Research Program on Communications Policy
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One Amherst Street
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MIT, E40 - 218
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Cambridge, MA 02139
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+1-617-253-6828
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+1-617-253-7326 (Fax)
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diig@farnsworth.mit.edu
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giftednet-l on listserver@listserv.cc.wm.edu Gifted Education
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giftednet-l on listserver@listserv.cc.wm.edu is offered by The Center
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for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary as a forum
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for gifted education. Specifically, the listserv is intended to
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disseminate information about the National Science Curriculum Project
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for High Ability Learners and the National Language Arts Curriculum
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Project for High Ability Learners. Information exchange pertaining
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to gifted learners such as research, curriculum, intellectual,
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academic, moral and ethical, social, and emotional needs is welcome.
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To subscribe to giftednet-l, send the following command to
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For example:
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HELP to the listserver to receive more information on its use.
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Owner: Linda Neal Boyce lnboyc@mail.wm.edu
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Center for Gifted Education
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College of William and Mary
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232 Jamestown Road
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
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From: Fabio Metitieri <METITIER@ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT>
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Subject: Internet Computer Index announcement
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----------------------------Original message----------------------------
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Attached is the highlights of the press release we just issued. I think
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that people on the NEWNIR mailing list will be particularly interested in
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this service, given its bredth. Please feel free to tell others about it!
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Internet Computer Index Centralizes Information about Computers
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-- Free service gives easy access to widely-dispersed Internet resources --
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Santa Cruz, California -- May 16, 1994 -- For the first time, Internet
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users can find anything available on the Internet about computers in one
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central location. The Internet Computer Index (ICI), created by Proper
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Publishing, tells users them everything that is known on the Internet about
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PCs, Macintoshes, and Unix systems. Additional information is also
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available on ICI that isn't available anywhere else on the Internet.
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Further, ICI is supported by commercial sponsors who add up-to-date
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information about their products to the ICI service.
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ICI uses the popular World Wide Web and Gopher systems to distribute its
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information. Using attractive, informative menus and hypertext, ICI gives
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up-to-date connections and pointers to the other freely-available
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information on the Internet. Anyone on the Internet, anywhere in the
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world, can access ICI 24 hours a day at no charge.
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Description of ICI
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The Internet Computer Index (ICI) is an easy-to-use, free service that
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leads Internet users to all of the information available on the Internet
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relating to PCs, Macintoshes, and Unix computers. ICI is the Internet's
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only one-stop, resource-locating service, helping users locate any
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information related to computers that is available on the Internet more
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easily and efficiently that ever before possible. ICI users can find out
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answers to their hardware and software questions, solve networking
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problems, research buying decisions, and keep up-to-date with their
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systems. Using Gopher or World Wide Web client software, any user on the
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Publishing will add more original content to ICI as a service to the
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Accessing ICI
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Internet Tools - HTMLASST for Windows - WWW Hypertext Editor
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This was forwarded by : owner-net-happenings@is.internic.net, I downloaded
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it, and set it up to use with Mosaic. I've had only about an hour with it
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so far, no problems yet, seems pretty stable. As that guy on the cable
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channel says, check it out! (sc)
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From: harawitz@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Howard Harawitz)
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Subject: HTML Assistant FAQ is available
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A preliminary FAQ for the MS Windows based hypertext editor
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"HTML Assistant" has been posted and is available on the Web.
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The URL is: "file://ftp.cs.dal.ca/htmlasst/htmlafaq.htm".
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It also contains links for downloading the editor software.
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The FAQ can also be obtained as plain text via FTP at:
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ftp.cs.dal.ca /htmlasst/htmlafaq.txt
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Howard Harawitz
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harawitz@fox.nstn.ns.ca
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MEETING of INTEREST
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From: Dov Winer <viener@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>
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Subject: World Conference of Jewish Communal Service - Global Networking
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World Conference of Jewish Communal Service
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Conseil Mondial des Services Communautaires Juifs
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Conferencia Mondial del Servicio Comunitario Judio
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Jerusalem, Israel, July 4-7 1994
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Shalom,
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The World Conference of Jewish Communal Service will take
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place from Monday to Thursday, 4-7 July 1994, in the Ramada
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Renaissance Hotel in Jerusalem following the tradition of
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convening it in Israel every four years (W.C.J.C.S.).
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This conference gathers from all parts of the world
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professionals in the areas of education and community:
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educators from the Diaspora and non-formal education
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specialists, family counsellors, community workers, social
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workers, consultants in the area of public health, geriatric
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workers and more.
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The participation of representatives from the Jewish
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communities from East Europe and South America will be
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emphasized this year in addition to the usual presence
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of involved representatives and leadership of Communities
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from North America, Europe and Israel.
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During the Conference four days several activities like
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conferences, workshops and visits witll take place.
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The present period of changes in the Jewish community in
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particular and in the world gives a particular importance to
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the meeting of professionals from Israel and the world, for
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mutual listening and fertilization not only concerning the
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professional areas but as a mean of strenghtening relations
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within the Jewish Diaspora.
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Your participation at the Conference will contribute to the
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advancement of the Jewish professional community.
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For further information you can either use reply to this email
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message or contact:
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Secretariat: P.O.B. 50006 Tel Aviv 61500 Israel
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Tel: (972-3) 5174571 TLX: 341171 KENS IL
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Fax: (972-3) 5175674 660326
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Global Jewish Networking in the
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World Conference of the Jewish Communal Service
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A session dedicated to the Global Jewish Information Network
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has been included in the program of the Congress.
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Current projects being carried in the framework of the
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network and relevant to community work will be presented.
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We expect to be able to furnish all interested participants
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with direct experiences of the potential of networking for
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community integration and professional development. Pointers
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will be given to all Jewish information available and to
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professional forums relevant to the participants needs.
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Information and materials necessary for getting a connection
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back when returning home will be distributed.
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Prof. Armand Lauffer, head of the Projec STAR at the
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University of Michigan School of Social Work has already
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volunteered his help and his students assistance for
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participants willing to get connected to the network after the
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conference.
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The program for Global Jewish Networking at the Conference is
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being established by a committee leaded by Prof. Daniel
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Elazar, chairman of the Steering Committee of the Global
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Jewish Information Network Project.
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You are invited to participate and to call the attention of
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participants coming from your community to this session.
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We expect the Conference and the networking session to become
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a landmark in the evolution of Global Jewish Networking.
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Best regards,
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Dov Winer
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Ben Gurion University
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viener@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
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Global Jewish Information Network
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telnet www.huji.ac.il login: JEWISHNET
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send to LISTSERV@BGUVM.BGU.AC.IL the message:
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SUBscribe JEWISHNT <full name of subscriber>
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