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NetMonth / An Independent Guide to BITNET
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* May, 1992 / Issue 39 Edited by Philip Baczewski / NMONTHED@UNTVM1 *
* Chris Condon, Editor Emeritus *
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* CONTENTS:
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* 1.0 Bitnotes
* 2.0 Headlines
* 2.1 LISA COVI LEAVES BITNIC
* 2.2 NEW CREN BOARD AND OFFICERS
* 2.3 BITNET-MFENET GATEWAY SHUT DOWN
* 2.4 EARN CONNECTS TO RUSSIA
* 2.5 BITNET DUES SET
* 3.0 Articles and Information
* 3.1 Library Computing and BITNET
* 3.2 Electronic Discussion Lists and the Scholar
* 4.0 New Mailing Lists
* 4.1 TEXTILES@TREARN.BITNET Textiles & Clothing Studies
* 4.2 Milton-L@URVAX John Milton List
* 4.3 Russia on ListServ@IndyCMS Russia and her neighbors list
* 4.4 HELP-NET on LISTSERV@TEMPLEVM.Bitnet Network Help
* 4.5 CLASSM-L on LISTSERV@BROWNVM.BITNET Classical Music
* 4.6 C+Health on LISTSERV@IUBVM Computing and Health
* 4.7 CREWRT-L on LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET Creative Writing Pedagogy
* 4.8 CHAIRS-L@FAUVAX.BITNET Academic Chairpersons
* 4.9 REGISTRAR-L@CORNELL.EDU Registrars
* 4.10 CANADA-L on LISTSERV@VM1.MCGILL.CA Canadian Issues Forum
* 4.11 EUEARN-L on LISTSERV@UBVM.BITNET Computers in Eastern Europe
* 4.12 EC on LISTSERV@IndyCMS.BITNET European Community
* 4.13 Library on ListServ@IndyCMS Libraries & Librarians
* 4.14 CHPOEM-L on LISTSERV@UBVM.BITNET Chinese Poems
* 4.15 WORLD-L on LISTSERV@UBVM Non-Eurocentric World History
* 4.16 GARDENS on LISTSERV@UKCC Gardens and gardening
* 4.17 AFRICA-L on LISTSERV@BRUFPB.BITNET Forum Pan-Africa
* 4.19 SEASIA-L on LISTSERV@MSU Southeast Asian Studies
* 4.20 FEMREL-L on LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET Women and Religion
* 5.0 Administrivia
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* 1.0 Bitnotes *
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* By Philip Baczewski *
* University of North Texas *
* NMONTHED@UNTVM1 *
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There is always an element of sadness and loss when a
good friend moves on to new opportunities. We feel that
loss keenly as we recognize that Chris Condon must
relinquish his long and much appreciated editorship of
NetMonth. Chris, we wish you the very best in your new
endeavors, and we welcome your continued insights in
NetMonth whenever you may have time to share them with us.
We are delighted that Philip Baczewski is willing to
assume the role of NetMonth editor. We eagerly anticipate
his wisdom and the exciting and helpful articles that
you, the readership, will contribute to a renewed
NetMonth. Welcome, Philip!
- Jim Conklin, Director of BITNIC
About five years ago, I was named as the first (and so far only) BITNET
INFOREP for the University of North Texas (actually, back then we were
called North Texas State University, but that's a different story). I
was afforded this "honor" and responsibility because BITNET access was
primarily achieved via our academic mainframe system and I was a primary
mainframe user support staff member at the time. I also happened to be
within eyeshot of the Academic Computing Director when he was making his
decision. I, however, like many others in our department and at our
University, was a newly initiated BITNET user. I was faced with the
challenge of providing information to others about a resource that I
barely new about myself. I did have one information source that proved
to be huge help in this task: NetMonth.
NetMonth was a great clearinghouse for information about BITNET. I
always found references to new mailing lists and servers and from there,
a world of BITNET services opened up. Along with NetMonth came a file
called BITNET SERVERS which documented the various file and list servers
available on BITNET. If you are a long-time subscriber to NetMonth, I
may not be telling you anything you don't already know. I do want to
underscore the usefulness of this publication to emphasize how much I
missed it once it no longer came on a monthly basis. As with many
BITNET endeavors, NetMonth has always been a volunteer effort and its
production and distribution in the past can be credited to Chris Condon.
When he was a student at Yale, Chris almost single-handedly wrote and
edited NetMonth. At the risk of recounting the story of Puff the Magic
Dragon, I'll take the liberty of saying that once Chris took a job as a
computing professional in Manhattan, it was harder for him to get access
to BITNET and the resources associated with it and so NetMonth came no
more (or at least infrequently).
I have always appreciated NetMonth and the job that Chris did with the
publication, so when I had the opportunity to talk to some of the BITNIC
people at the 1992 EDUCOM conference, I volunteered to take over
editorship of NetMonth if Chris was in favor of such a move. He was and
I did and so here we are, finally -- the latest issue of NetMonth. I
hope to make this a monthly habit, however, I also will beg forgiveness
in advance if NetMonth occasionally seems to be NetBiMonth. This issue
may look a bit different than some in the past. I have taken the
liberty of making some slight format changes. Previous issues included
IBM carriage control characters for easy printing. In this issue,
sections are numbered in a legal-style format (1.1, 1.2, etc.) in an
attempt to accommodate easier on-line browsing. A postscript version of
this and subsequent issues of NetMonth (suitable for binding) will be
available for anonymous FTP (or BITFTP) from ftp.unt.edu in the /pub/netmonth
directory. Also missing with this month's issue is a new version of BITNET
SERVERS. If it is practical to keep maintaining that file, it too will
come with future issues.
Finally, let me encourage you to send your comments, questions, complaints,
suggestions, or contributions for NetMonth to NMONTHED@UNTVM1. NetMonth
exists to serve the BITNET user community. The more feedback received,
the more responsive the publication can be. And let me stress again,
contributions are welcomed, encouraged, solicited, appreciated...
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* 2.0 Headlines ***
* From various sources ******
* Edited By Philip Baczewski *************
* Send your Headlines to NMONTHED@UNTVM1 ***
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*2.1* LISA COVI LEAVES BITNIC (Jim Conklin, from BITNEWS@BITNIC)
Lisa Covi has decided to return to school, to pursue graduate work
next fall. In the intervening months she'll be touring the country,
camping, hiking, and visiting graduate schools to make her choice as to
which one to attend. Then she'll work at a camp in Maine for the
summer, for a total change of pace before starting graduate school.
Lisa, we've enjoyed having you as a member of BITNIC, we wish you the
best as you head off to new endeavors!
We'll be looking for the right person to replace Lisa here at the
BITNIC and would appreciate any suggestions you might care to send our
way. The job description for Lisa's replacement, along with that of the
CREN Executive Director position, is posted in LISTSERV@BITNIC, in the
file CREN POSITION. Thanks to action by the Board to increase BITNIC
staffing by half an FTE next fiscal year, Lisa's replacement will be
able to spend full-time on BITNIC and CREN activities, including new
software and services for CREN members.
Some of Lisa's work will be handled by Yingying Zhou, who joined the
BITNIC team in October and has been helping develop internal software as
she became familiar with BITNET-specific operations and software such as
LISTSERV. Some of you have already had assistance from Yingying, and
she'll be helping many more of you in the future. We're pleased to have
Yingying on the BITNIC staff and believe you will be also as you get to
know her better.
*2.2* NEW CREN BOARD AND OFFICERS (Douglas Bigelow, from BITNEWS@BITNIC)
The CREN Board of Trustees is pleased to announce four new board members,
elected to three-year terms on January 27th, 1992.
They are:
Ronald Briggs, University of Texas at Dallas
Ira Fuchs, Princeton University (reelected)
Matthew Korn, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Mark Strawcutter, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Continuing board members are:
Term ends:
Douglas Bigelow, Wesleyan University 1993
Miriam Drake, Georgia Inst. of Technology 1994
Suzanne Johnson, Intel Corporation 1993
Benjamin Klein, City University of New York 1994
Philip Long, Yale University 1993
Geraldine MacDonald, SUNY Binghamton 1994
Dennis Ritchie, AT&T Bell Laboratories 1993
Martin Solomon, University of South Carolina 1994
The 1992 board officers are:
Ira Fuchs, President Philip Long, Vice President
Douglas Bigelow, Secretary Geraldine MacDonald, Treasurer
The entire board may be reached via electronic mail to CREN-BD@BITNIC
or CREN-BD@BITNIC.EDUCOM.EDU.
*2.3* BITNET-MFENET GATEWAY SHUT DOWN (Barry Finkel, from INFOREP@BITNIC)
The gateway between BITNET and MFENET is terminating. MFENET has converted
to TCP/IP, so all MFENET nodes are now accessible via the Internet. We tried
to notify gateway users, but there were problems sending mail back to them.
The MFENET entry in DOMAIN NAMES should be removed (I don't know if it can be
done for the April distribution). We are not sure if we can return mail back
to the senders. Here is a table of MFENET node names and corresponding
Internet node names:
MFENET Name Internet Name MFENET Name Internet Name
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CCC CCC.NERSC.GOV LM1,LMP1 MPX1.LAMPF.GOV
CCV CCV.NERSC.GOV LM2,LMP2 MPX2.LAMPF.GOV
ANL ANLCV2.ANL.CTD.GOV LSN,LSL LSLVAX.LANL.GOV
ANV ANLCHM.CHM.ANL.GOV LNS,MIV MITLNS.MIT.EDU
APHA ANLPHY.PHY.ANL.GOV LSV MFE-GATE.LANL.GOV
APHB ANPH09.PHY.ANL.GOV MIT,MIN NERUS.PFC.MIT.EDU
APHC ANPH10.PHY.ANL.GOV MIA ALCVAX.PFC.MIT.EDU
APHD ANPH11.PHY.ANL.GOV MIF FRED.PFC.MIT.EDU
APHE ANPH12.PHY.ANL.GOV MIH HOLMES.PFC.MIT.EDU
APHF ANPH13.PHY.ANL.GOV NYU,NY MFDD.NYU.EDU
ATF FEDC06.FED.ORNL.GOV OER,DOE OERV01.ER.DOE.GOV
BNL0,BNLCF0 BNLFC0.BNL.GOV ORFE FEDC07.FED.ORNL.GOV
BNL,BNLCL1 BNLCL1.BNL.GOV ORN FEDC04.FED.ORNL.GOV
BNL3,BNLCL3 BNLCL3.BNL.GOV PNL PNLG.PNL.GOV
BNL4,BNLCL4 BNLCL4.BNL.GOV PPE,PPEV PPEV.PPPL.GOV
BNL6,BNLCL6 BNLCL6.BNL.GOV PPL,PPPL,PPC USC.PPPL.GOV
CBV CEBAF2.CEBAF.GOV SAB SAV89.PMTF.SANDIA.GOV
CMR CUPLVX.APNE.COLUMBIA.EDU SAV CPVD.SAIC.COM
FNA FNMFE.FNAL.GOV SAMC MCLAPO.SAIC.COM
FPP,AN2 ANLCMT.CMT.ANL.GOV SDF CPVS1.SAIC.COM
FSU,SCRI1 SCRI1.SCRI.FSU.EDU SDS M5.SDSC.EDU
FS2,SCRI2 SCRI2.SCRI.FSU.EDU SSC,SSC1 SSCVX1.SSC.GOV
GAV,GA,GAC GAV.GAT.COM UCE UCE.FUSION.UCLA.EDU
ISU,ISE VAXLE.AMESLAB.GOV UCP,UCV UCLAPH.PHYSICS.UCLA.EDU
SAT,ITR,ITER SAT.IPP-GARCHING.MPG.DE UTA,IFS FUSION.PH.UTEXAS.EDU
LBV CSA2.LBL.GOV UTN FRCESN.PH.UTEXAS.EDU
LBW CSA3.LBL.GOV UTP,UTPE PERV.PE.UTEXAS.EDU
LLL LLL.LLNL.GOV UTV SOLAR.PH.UTEXAS.EDU
LLV LLV.LLNL.GOV UW,UWM UWMFE.NEEP.WISC.EDU
LMP,LMP0 MPX0.LAMPF.GOV UWS UWS.AA.WASHINGTON.EDU
*2.4* EARN CONNECTS TO RUSSIA (Billy Barron, from various sources)
The first EARN node in Russia (then USSR) was made operational on November 5th,
1991. It is at the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in Moscow and
is named SUEARN2. Russia and other parts of the previous USSR have been and
still are connected by the GlasNet and Relcom network. The postmaster of
SUEARN2 is Michael Kuzminsky.
*2.5* BITNET DUES SET (Jim Conklin, from BITNEWS@BITNIC)
The CREN Board, at its February meeting, adopted the consolidated
dues structure shown below, to take effect July 1, 1992.
As has been the case for several years, this dues structure includes
NO direct inflationary increases. In fact, based on current budgetary
information, some members in the middle and upper budget categories will
find their dues reduced for FY'92-93.
CREN Dues for the current fiscal year and for FY '92-93 are
available from LISTSERV@BITNIC as the file CREN COST.
CREN FY '92-93 Dues
Adopted at the Feb. 3, 1992 Board Meeting
For-Profit Member's Annual Revenue
Or Non-Profit Member's Annual Budget FYE'93 Dues
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Non-Profit For-Profit
At Least But Less Than Members Members *
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$20 million $750 $1,125
$20 million 55 million 1,000 1,500
55 million 130 million 2,000 3,000
130 million 200 million 3,000 4,500
200 million 350 million 4,000 6,000
350 million 500 million 6,000 8,000
500 million 1 billion 8,000 11,000
>1 billion 8,000 12,000
* Second site of for-profit member pays $750 service fee for BITNET
service, if not connected internally through member's own network.
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*3.1* Library Computing and BITNET
by Billy Barron, University of North Texas (billy@untvax)
I am fairly well known for my work on Internet library access. I thought that
I would look into the uses of BITNET for library computing for a change.
The most publicized library application of computer networking has been OPACs
(Online Public Access Catalogs). An OPAC is a bibliographic database of books,
journals, etc. Almost all of the OPACs require an interactive remote login
session to use them. Unfortunately, BITNET does not provide this service, but
BITNET does provide other useful library related services.
A few OPACs are accessible via Electronic mail. However, no list of these
has been compiled. The best way to find out about these is to watch the
PACS-L mailing list discussed below.
The most obvious use of BITNET for libraries is mailing lists. The majority of
library related lists are available on LISTSERV. One of the most interesting,
especially in relation to computer networking is PACS-L@UHUPVM1. The Public
Access Computer Systems forum covers the use of computing in libraries ranging
from OPACs to CD-ROMs. A document called "Library-Oriented Computer
Conferences and Electronic Serials" by Charles W Bailey, Jr. gives a complete
list. Though it may be available directly on BITNET, it is definitely
available for anonymous FTP at the HYDRA.UWO.CA site mentioned below under
the file name LIBCONFERS.TXT.
For those BITNET users out there who do not have Internet access, many files on
libraries are available on the Internet via anonymous FTP. You can still
acquire these files using Princeton's BITFTP service (see the October, 1989
issue of NetMonth for more information on BITFTP). Some of the major sites
include:
SITE DIRECTORY
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FTP.UNT.EDU pub/library
HYDRA.UWO.CA libsoft
ARIEL.UNM.EDU library
Also, some files and archives are available on LISTSERV@UHUPVM1 and
LISTSERV@KENTVM.
While BITNET does not allow interactive access to OPACs, it does provide
librarians and library users with other useful services and information.
*3.2* Electronic Discussion Lists and the Scholar
by Philip Baczewski, University of North Texas (NMONTHED@UNTVM1)
This article appeared in "The Network Connection" column
in _Benchmarks_ (March/April 1991, Vol. 13, No. 3), the
University of North Texas Computing Center newsletter.
I recently received the Winter 1992 issue of a newsletter called
_REACH, Research & Educational Applications of Computers in the
Humanities_, published by the Humanities Computing Facility of the
University of California at Santa Barbara. In scanning this
publication, I found it to be reinforcement for the fact that the
use of Wide Area Networks is affecting the accomplishment of
scholarship in many fields. In this one issue alone are
announcements of electronic mailing lists on topics including
Buddhist studies, Hermann Hesse, German history, modern British
literature, French studies, Arabic language and literature, Spanish
and Portuguese history, and Chinese poems. The eight lists
discussed in this eight-page newsletter are just the tip of a much
larger iceberg. The number and variety of scholarly on-line
discussion lists has grown with geometric proportions. (Reach can
be received electronically by sending the command SUB REACH your
name to LISTSERV@UCSBVM.)
If these eight are the tip of the iceberg, then how do you find the
iceberg? That question may have a number of answers. For many
years, the file LISTSERV GROUPS was the primary source for BITNET
mailing list information, however, the number of lists has
out-paced this file's maintenance. Several other sources have
taken this file's place, however. One way to find out what lists
are maintained on BITNET LISTSERVs is to send the command LIST
GLOBAL to the nearest LISTSERV installation (in UNT's case,
LISTSERV@UTDALLAS). One word of warning, however: this command
will generate and send to you a file which is over 3000 lines long.
The lists are in alphabetical order, so if you are looking for the
location of a list, this file can be very helpful. If, however,
you are looking for mailing lists on your particular field of
study, it could take a while to scan over 3000 entries.
Fortunately, there is an alternative source for BITNET (as well as
Internet) mailing lists and discussion groups. Diane Kovacs, of the
Kent State University Libraries, has compiled a directory of
electronic mailing lists and news groups and has recently released
a fourth revision. The directory is actually a set of files which
can be acquired from LISTSERV@KENTVM and via anonymous FTP from
KSUVXA. KENT.EDU (in the Library directory).
The files which make up the directory are as follows:
ACADLIST README (explanatory notes for the Directory
with an index)
ACADLIST FILE1 (Anthropology-Education)
ACADLIST FILE2 (Futurology-Latin American Studies)
ACADLIST FILE3 (Library and Information
Science-Music)
ACADLIST FILE4 (Political Science-Writing)
ACADLIST FILE5 (Biological sciences)
ACADLIST FILE6 (Physical sciences)
ACADLIST FILE7 (Business and General Academia)
ACADLIST CHANGES (all the major additions, deletions
and alterations)
The organization of lists and news groups by subject allows easy
access to those on one particular field of study. This is obviously
a valuable service to the Wide Area Network community of scholars.
Another similar very useful directory is one of electronic
journals, compiled by Michael Strangelove at the University of
Ottawa and available from LISTSERV@UOTTAWA as well as
LISTSERV@BROWNVM. It consists of two files, EJOURNL1 DIRECTRY and
EJOURNL2 DIRECTRY, with entries organized by category of
publication (journal, newsletter, digest, etc.). Each entry has the
journal title, ISSN number (if any), a description, subscription
information, submission information, related electronic mailing
lists (if any), back issue information, and a contact name and
address.
There is no doubt that scholars' use of wide area networks will
continue to grow. As more and more scholars are involved in using
wide area networks, "scholar support personnel," i.e. librarians
and academic computing professionals, are increasingly involved in
enhancing the scholar's process of obtaining network resources,
both in relation to access method and information content. We may
be quickly approaching the day when network directories such as
these are used as commonly as card catalogs are today.
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** 4.0 New Mailing Lists **
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Mailing lists are being created on a daily basis. What follows are
selected offerings posted to the mailing list NEW-LIST@NDSUVM1.BITNET,
moderated by Marty Hoag at North Dakota State University. If you want
to keep up with new lists on a daily basis you can subscribe to this
mailing list by sending the command SUBSCRIBE NEW-LIST
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