Zen and the Art of the Internet
A Beginner's Guide to the Internet, First Edition, January 1992
by Brendan P. Kehoe
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Network Basics
Domains
Internet Numbers
Resolving Names and Numbers
The Networks
The Physical Connection
Electronic Mail
Email Addresses
%@!.: Symbolic Cacophony
Sending and Receiving Mail
Anatomy of a Mail Header
Bounced Mail
Mailing Lists
Listservs
Anonymous FTP
FTP Etiquette
Basic Commands
Creating the Connection
dir
cd
get
and
put
ASCII vs Binary
mget
and
mput
The
archie
Server
Using
archie
Today
archie
Clients
Mailing
archie
The
whatis
database
Usenet News
What Usenet Is
The Diversity of Usenet
What Usenet Is Not
Propagation of News
Group Creation
If You're Unhappy...
The History of Usenet (The ABCs)
Hierarchies
Moderated vs Unmoderated
news.groups
&
news.announce.newgroups
How Usenet Works
Mail Gateways
Usenet "Netiquette"
Signatures
Posting Personal Messages
Posting Mail
Test Messages
Famous People Appearing
Summaries
Quoting
Crossposting
Recent News
Quality of Postings
Useful Subjects
Tone of Voice
Computer Religion
Frequently Asked Questions
The Pit-Manager Archive
Telnet
Using Telnet
Telnet Ports
Publicly Accessible Libraries
The Cleveland Freenet
Directories
Knowbot
White Pages
Databases
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL)
PENpages
Clemson Univ. Forestry & Agricultural Network
University of Maryland Info Database
University of Michigan Weather Underground
Geographic Name Server
FEDIX--Minority Scholarship Information
Science & Technology Information System
Ocean Network Information Center
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)
U.S. Naval Observatory Automated Data Service
Various Tools
Finger
Ping
Talk
The WHOIS Database
Other Uses of WHOIS
Commercial Services
Electronic Journals
Commercial Databases
Clarinet News
Things You'll Hear About
The Internet Worm
The Cuckoo's Egg
Organizations
The Association for Computing Machinery
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Free Software Foundation
The League for Programming Freedom
Networking Initiatives
NREN
Finding Out More
Internet Resource Guide
Requests for Comments
Conclusion
Getting to Other Networks
Retrieving Files via Email
Archive Servers
FTP-by-Mail Servers
Newsgroup Creation
Discussion
Voting
The Result of a Vote
Creation of the Group
Glossary
Bibliography
Books
Periodicals & Papers
Index
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