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that broadcast to the former free web page generator Communist countries of eastern Europe.
Every day, their news departments prepare free web page generator a summary of news in those
countries, which is then disseminated via the Net, through a Bitnet
mailing list and a Usenet newsgroup.
To have the daily digests sent directly to your e-mailbox, send a
message to
listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
Leave the subject line blank, and as a message, write:
subscribe rferl-l Your Name
Alternately, look for the bulletins in the Usenet newsgroup misc.news-
east-europe.rferl.
The Voice of America, a government broadcasting service aimed at
other countries, provides transcripts of its English-language news
reports through both gopher and anonymous ftp.
For the former, use
gopher to connect to this address:
gopher.voa.gov
and for the latter, to this address:
ftp.voa.gov
Daily Brazilian news updates are available (in Portuguese) from the
University of Sao Paulo. Use anonymous ftp to connect to
uspif.if.usp.br
Use cd to switch to the whois directory. The news summaries are stored
in files with this form: NEWS.23OCT92;1. But to get them, leave off the
semicolon and the 1, and don't capitalize anything, for example:
get news.23oct92
Daily summaries of news reports from France (in French) are availble
on the National Capital FreeNet in Ottawa, Ont. Telnet to
freenet.carleton.ca
and log on as: guest.
At the main menu, select the number for "The
Newsstand" and then "La presse de France."
10.6 E-MAILING NEWS free web page generator ORGANIZATIONS
A number of newspapers, television stations and networks and other free web page generator
news organizations now encourage readers and viewers to communicate with
them electronically, via Internet e-mail addresses. They include:
The Middlesex News, Framingham, Mass. sysop@news.ci.net
The Boston Globe voxbox@globe.com
WCVB-TV, Boston, Mass. wcvb@aol.com
free web page generator NBC News, New York, N.Y. nightly@nbc.com
The Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ont. ottawa-citizen@freenet.carleton.ca
CJOH-TV, Ottawa, Ont. ab363@freenet.carleton.ca
St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times 73174.3344@compuserve.com
Illinois Issues, free page designs Springfield, Ill. gherardi@sangamon.edu
WTVF-TV, Nashville, Tenn. craig.ownsby@nashville.com
Santa Cruz County (Calif.) Sentinel sented@cruzio.com
Morning Journal, Lorain, Ohio mamjornl@freenet.lorain.oberlin.edu
free page designs WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, Minn. wccotv@mr.net
Tico Times, Costa Rica ttimes@huracon.cr
10.7 FYI
The clari.net.newusers newsgroup on Usenet provides a number of
articles about Clarinet and ways of finding news stories of interest
to you.
To discuss the future of newspapers and newsrooms in the new
electronic medium, subscribe to the Computer Assisted Reporting and
Research mailing list on Bitnet. Send a mail message of
Subscribe carr-l Your Name
to listserv@ulkyvm.bitnet.
Chapter 11: IRC, free web page editor MUDs AND OTHER THINGS THAT ARE MORE FUN THAN THEY SOUND
Many Net systems provide access to a series of interactive
services that let you hold live "chats" or play online games with
people around the world. To find out if your host system offers
these, you can ask your system administrator or just try them -- if
nothing happens, free page designs then your system does not provide them. In general,
if you can use telnet and ftp, chances are good you can use these
services as well.
11.1 free web page generator TALK
This is the Net equivalent of a telephone conversation and
requires that both you and the person you want to talk to have access
to this function and are online at the same time. To use it, type
talk user@site.name
where user@site.name is free web page generator the e-mail address of the other person.
She will
see something like this on her screen:
talk: connection requested by yourname@site.name
talk: respond with: talk yourname@site.name
To start the conversation, she should then type (at her host system's
command line):
talk free web page generator yourname@site.name
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