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NetMonth / An Independent Guide to BITNET
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* September 1992 / Issue 41 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 CREN INTRODUCES NEW STAFF
* 2.2 E-SERIALS DIRECTORY REVISED
* 2.3 BITNET NODE ANLNESC IS GONE
* 2.4 CREN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTIONS
* 3.0 Articles and Information
* 3.1 Project IDEALS
* 3.2 CREN White Pages Project
* 4.0 New Mailing Lists
* 4.1 BUSH@MARIST George Bush's Presidential Campaign
* 4.2 CFS-L@NIHLIST Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Discussion
* 4.3 CLAYART@UKCC Ceramic Arts Discussion List
* 4.4 CLINTON@MARIST Bill Clinton's Presidential Campaign
* 4.5 ELECT-L@PCCVM Campaign Managers Discussion
* 4.6 KLARINET@VCCSCENT Clarinettist's Network
* 4.7 PRISON-L@DARTCMS1 Teaching in Prisons
* 4.8 QUAKER-L@UIUCVMD Quakerism
* 4.9 RES-COMP@NKI Research Computing Forum
* 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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pol i tics
1. The art or science of political government.
2. The policies or affairs of a government.
3. Intrigue or maneuvering within a group.
4. One's general position or attitude on political subjects.
- American Heritage Dictionary
Yes, the Labor Day holiday is past here in the U.S. and that can only
mean one thing -- well, OK, it can actually mean a lot of things: end of
summer, kids back in school, Autumn not far away, new shows on TV, football
season -- but the big thing that's hard for most of us to ignore is the
quadrennial ritual that we call the Presidential election. Politics has
once again invaded the American psyche, and as we see in other aspects of
society, this is reflected in some of the new discussion lists that have
been created on the BITNET network, several examples of which you'll
find in this issue.
In compiling this month's NetMonth, it inadvertently became
the "politics" issue, with one or more items reflecting one or more of
the definition numbers listed above. I guess when you get a group of
humans together, whatever the forum, politics inevitably follows. As we
can see, however, politics doesn't have to be a dirty word. It's more a
fact of life. In classifying this month's NetMonth by the above
definition numbers we see a bit of 1, 2 and 4 represented in this month's
New Lists (BUSH, CLINTON, ELECT), a bit of 2 in the Headlines (CREN board
elections), and, as some of you may already have seen, a bit of 3 was
stirred up by the announcement of the CREN White Pages Project (Articles).
Another article in the definition 3 category may be the one on
Project IDEALS. This is not only an inventive use of computing and
telecommunications technology, but also perhaps a way to teach some
positive politics. Fostering international communication and
understanding is a worthwhile goal that computer networks are enabling
just by their existence. Project IDEALS attempts to take this idea a step
further by creating an actual curriculum in this regard.
So, on we go into this political season. In spite of all this
political activity we can still concentrate on the other aspects of this
time of year such as the change in seasons (on BIOSPH-L?), or what's new
in school (on ERL-L?), or what's on TV (on MIT-TV-L?), or how the
football bounces (on SPORTPSY?)... well, you get the idea. And if we can
make it past the election in November, then we can get down to the real
business of definition number 1 and start debating whether U.S.
government is an art or a science.
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* 2.0 Headlines ***
* From various sources ******************
* Send your Headlines to NMONTHED@UNTVM1 ***
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*2.1* CREN INTRODUCES NEW STAFF (Jim Conklin, from BITNEWS@BITNIC)
I would like to introduce two new technical members of the CREN
staff and one administrative staff member:
Yingying Zhou has been working at BITNIC since last October but has
not previously been introduced to the BITNET community. Yingying
graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of the District of
Columbia with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. She is
responsible for a variety of BITNET-related support software, handling
mail to the INFO, LISTMGR, and POSTMASTER accounts at BITNIC, and the
system backups of the IBM 9370. She is also the list owner for many of
the LISTSERV lists at BITNIC. Yingying can be reached over the network
as ZHOU@BITNIC.
Marco Hernandez joined the CREN technical staff in July and has
experience with both VM and Unix, and as a user of both BITNET and the
Internet. He recently completed a Master of Science in Computer
Methodologies at Baruch College in New York City (part of the CUNY
system). Marco has worked in various capacities for the New York City
government for the past 5 years. He will be dividing his time between
general BITNET support and work on new CREN services. He can be reached
as MARCO@BITNIC or HERNANDEZ@BITNIC.
Ann O'Leary also joined the CREN staff in July. She replaces Gigi
Jones as the CREN Financial Coordinator, with responsibility for
tracking CREN's receivables and payables, reconciling to the bank
statements, collecting dues, and related activities. Ann has several
years' experience handling financial responsibilities in retail business
and will soon graduate with a Bachelor's degree in Business
Administration. Ann's network address is OLEARY@BITNIC.
We are pleased to have Yingying, Marco, and Ann with us and hope
that you will enjoy working with them over the network and perhaps over
the phone and in person as well.
*2.2* E-SERIALS DIRECTORY REVISED (Michael Strangelove, from HUMANIST@BROWNVM)
Announcing the Revised Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters
EDITION 2.1 - July 1992
The revised edition of the Directory of Electronic Journals and
Newsletters is now available on the Net. The Directory has been split into
two files, EJOURNL1 DIRECTRY (2824 lines long) and EJOURNL2 DIRECTRY (4077
lines long). This revision documents over thirty new electronic serials that
have appeared since the first edition, released one year ago. Presently, the
Directory is available only in low ascii text via LISTSERV.
Special thanks belong to Ann Okerson and the Association of Research
Libraries for making this project (along with Diane Kovacs' Directory of
Academic Discussion Lists and Interest Groups) the first copyrighted serial
publication that is available both in hard copy as well as being freely
available on the Net in electronic text.
And thanks all to the many individuals around the globe such as Peter
Scott, Carl Briggs and Tony Barry who take the time to inform me of the
appearance of new electronic serials.
Michael Strangelove (441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA)
University of Ottawa
>>> How To Retrieve This Directory From Networked Sources <<<
The Directory is currently available in low ascii text from the following
location:
CONTENTS PROJECT Listserv Fileserver
Send the following commands as an e-mail message to listserv@uottawa or
listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
GET EJOURNL1 DIRECTRY
GET EJOURNL2 DIRECTRY
Please note the spelling carefully;
- there is no "A" in "EJOURNL" and no "O" in "DIRECTRY"
NB - The Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters is not yet available
via FTP.
This project was made possible through funding from the Research Centre for
the Study of Religion, Department of Religious Studies, University of Ottawa.
For a hard copy version of this Directory, contact:
Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing
Association of Research Libraries
1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036 USA
ARLHQ@UMDC.Bitnet
(202) 232-2466 (voice)
(202) 462-7849 (fax)
*2.3* BITNET NODE ANLNESC IS GONE (Barry Finkel B19141@ANLVM.CTD.ANL.GOV)
BITNET node ANLNESC, the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy
Software Center, was shut down last December 31. All of the NESC
functions were transferred to the Energy Science and Technology
Software Center (ESTSC) located at the DOE Office of Scientific
and Technical Information (OSTI) in Oak Ridge, TN. The complete NESC
software collection is now available through ESTSC; a software catalog
is available.
Mail that was addressed to NESCINFO@ANLNESC should now be addressed to
ESTSC%A1.ADONIS.MROUTER@ZEUS.OSTI.GOV
This is where I have been manually forwarding mail addressed to ANLNESC
since January. Information about ESTSC services may also be obtained by
Mail: P.O. Box 1020, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
Telephone: (615) 576-2606
Facsimile: (615) 576-2865
We will delete node ANLNESC in the next BITNET routing table update.
Barry S. Finkel
Computing and Telecommunications Division
Argonne National Laboratory BITNET: B19141@ANLVM
9700 South Cass Avenue Internet: B19141@ANLVM.CTD.ANL.GOV
Building 221, Room B223 Phone: (708) 252-7277
Argonne, IL 60439-4844 Facsimile:(708) 252-5983
*2.4* CREN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTIONS (Amanda Rushing, from BITNEWS@BITNIC)
It's election time again for the CREN Board of Trustees! We know that
it seems pretty early, but we expect to avoid the delays we encountered
in 1992. There are four positions open on the 12-member board, and the
three-year terms will begin January 1993.
Anyone from a Member Institution may nominate candidates for a
Trustee position. Please send your suggestions to the 1993 Nominating
Committee, NOMINATE@BITNIC (via BITNET) or Nominate@BITNIC.EDUCOM.edu
(via Internet). The committee members are:
Geraldine MacDonald, Chair SUNY Binghamton
Martin Solomon U of South Carolina
Cliff Woodruff, Non-trustee Tulane University
Candidates must be employed by a Member Institution of CREN.
A listing of Member institutions, sorted by state, may be obtained
from LISTSERV. Send your request to LISTSERV (via BITNET)
LISTSERV@BITNIC or (via Internet) LISTSERV@BITNIC.EDUCOM.edu
and request the document:
STATE SITELIST
Your nominations and ideas are critical in providing insightful
leadership to guide CREN in its networking future. Forward all
suggestions to NOMINATE by October 1, 1992.
Please follow the suggested guidelines when nominating a
candidate:
1. Give the individual's name, title, department and institution.
2. Include individual's e-mail address and telephone number.
3. Specify in a short paragraph why you believe this person
would be an asset to CREN and its membership. Include
any relative experience you may know of, if possible.
Announcements and updates on the election process will be forwarded
via electronic mail to the Member Representative list and BITNEWS
The membership vote will be conducted via a postal mailing to the
Member Representatives sometime in November 1992.
In order for a Member Institution to have a vote in the election,
there must be an official appointment form on file naming the Member
Representative. If the representative has changed, please note that
changes to the Nodes File "dir" tag are not recognized without
written notice from the CEO or other high ranking official of your
institution. The current listing of CREN Member Representatives
may be obtain from LISTSERV entitled MEMREP LISTINGS. An
official appointment form is also available from LISTSERV
entitled MEMREP FORM.
If you have any questions or need additional information,
please contact Amanda Rushing at RUSHING@BITNIC or
Rushing@BITNIC.EDUCOM.edu.
The CREN Board consists of 12 members, listed below. The terms
of the four Board Members with asterisks by their names will expire
in January 1993. These individuals may be nominated to serve
another term.
Term
Expires Member Institution
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* 1993 Douglas Bigelow Wesleyan University
1995 Ronald Briggs U of Texas at Dallas
1994 Miriam Drake Georgia Institute of Tech.
1995 Ira Fuchs Princeton University
1994 Ben Klein CUNY System Office
1995 Matthew Korn IBM
* 1993 Suzanne Johnson Intel Corporation
* 1993 Philip Long Yale University
1994 Geraldine MacDonald SUNY Binghamton
* 1993 Dennis Ritchie AT & T Bell Laboratories
1994 Martin Solomon U of South Carolina
1995 Mark Strawcutter Indiana U of Pennsylvania
We look forward to your participation and suggestions.
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* 3.0 Articles and Information *
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*3.1* Project IDEALS
by David Crookall (CROOKALL@UA1VM)
Promoting an International Dimension in Education
via Active Learning and Simulation
Project IDEALS is a computer-assisted learning environment
based on multi-site, semester-long, socially-interactive simulations.
Computer technologies allow distant teams to communicate, hold
real-time teleconferences, and to obtain feedback on their
performance and progress.
Project IDEALS is firmly based on the principles of experiential
learning; it encourages students to become fully involved, motivates
them to work hard, and helps them take responsibility for their own
learning.
Objectives
* To develop competence and confidence in communicating with people
from other cultures, and so help create international friendships.
* To give students greater knowledge and understanding of
international events and issues (e.g., global environmental
problems) and to provide a context for interdisciplinary studies.
* To enhance professional skills in such areas as team work, decision
making, problem solving, leadership and negotiation, and to
develop computer literacy, clear writing and critical thinking.
Structure
The central component of Project IDEALS is a large-scale simulation
assisted by computers and telecommunications. Students take on the
roles of high-level negotiators representing various countries at an
international conference. The country teams are situated at
different campuses (usually one team per campus) and communicate
using computer networks and specialized simulation management
software.
The ultimate goal of each simulation is for teams to negotiate an
agreement related to some international situation -- for example, to
hammer out the text of a treaty governing the emissions of CFCs, the
use of the ocean's resources, or the future of Antarctica. Scenarios
may involve real or hypothetical countries.
In Project IDEALS, the experiential learning cycle is paramount,
emphasizing the importance of regular and structured reflection on
experience to convert it into learning, which in turn becomes the
basis for further practical experience.
Computers and telecommunications
In order to participate, each site needs a minimum of one
microcomputer (e.g., BBC, IBM compatible, Macintosh), a modem, a
printer, a telecommunications package, and a simple word processor.
Faculty and students do not need any special computer skills in order
to participate. Each site will also need access to the Internet (NSFnet)
telecommunications network.
The main simulation management software, called Polnet II, is
situated at the University of Alabama. It allows messages to be sent
to any number of other teams at other sites and for those teams to
sign on at any time to retrieve those messages and to send their own.
It also enables teams to participate in real-time teleconferences, in
which several teams communicate in a synchronous, conversational
mode. Finally, it collects feedback and research data.
Further information
For further information, please contact Francine Goubet or Chet
Farmer, Assistant Directors, or David Crookall, Director:
E-mail: crookall @ ua1vm.bitnet or ua1vm.ua.edu
fgoubet3 @ ua1vm.bitnet or ua1vm.ua.edu
cfarmer1 @ ua1vm.bitnet or ua1vm.ua.edu
Project IDEALS
English/Morgan, Box 870244 Telephone: 205-348-9494
University of Alabama Facsimile: 205-348-5298
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA
*3.2* CREN White Pages Project
by Jim Conklin (CONKLIN@BITNIC)
SUMMARY
CREN is embarking on a "white pages" directory services project, to
provide its participating members with production (i.e., essentially
complete) white-pages information on faculty, staff, and students at
participating CREN member organizations. The time line for the project
includes agreement on a policy for acceptable use of this data in six
months. Within a year, full participation in production directory
services by a limited number of organizations is planned, after which
all CREN members who are willing to abide by the "Directory Services
Acceptable Use Policy" and install the necessary software will be
invited to participate.
Mail-server software will then be developed in the 1993-4 time
frame, to simplify the end-user e-mail name-space to the form of
user@organization, for participating CREN members. This software will
use the directory data within the participating organization to provide
distribution of mail sent to a central organizational host, to the
appropriate hosts and usernames for the designated recipients.
The electronically available data will include, for each staff and
faculty member, and hopefully each student, a minimum of the
individual's electronic address plus, optionally and eventually,
additional data such as office telephone number, postal address,
interests, department, etc., with modifiers to indicate the individual's
willingness to allow this data to be used for various purposes.
All who wish to participate in the formulation of a usage policy for
white pages data should immediately subscribe to a discussion list,
WHITE-PG@BITNIC, which has been created for this discussion. This
policy must:
* make it accessible to those who need it, and
* protect the individuals listed from unwanted uses of the data.
Representatives of CREN member organizations which have experience
in providing White-Pages services and might be willing to contribute
some staff time to the development of software to be made available to
CREN members for the common good are urged to contact Jim Conklin at
JBC@BITNIC or jbc@bitnic.educom.edu..
WHY
White pages directory services are desired by both end users and
support staff, because it's now frequently difficult and time consuming
to determine the electronic address of someone they wish to contact.
The Internet White Pages Pilot Project is not a very useful
production service, despite its technical success, because of the
voluntary nature of individual participation and the resulting low
percentage of faculty, staff, and students listed in the database for
most of the participating institutions.
Widespread institutional willingness to include all faculty, staff,
and students in an electronically accessible directory will require
policies which will ensure that inclusion does not result in unwanted
electronic mail or phone calls. Insofar as possible, directory software
should help to enforce such policies.
WHAT
CREN will develop policies, in cooperation with its membership, for
the use of directory information which will make it acceptable to US
higher education institutions (and hopefully a much broader community as
well) to provide electronic access to the electronic addresses of their
faculty, staff, and students. CREN is in a unique position to
accomplish this, with essentially all major US colleges and universities
included in its membership. An electronic mailing list for development
of such policies has been created (WHITE-PG@BITNIC), and an initial
draft policy will be prepared and distributed to the list subscribers to
facilitate discussion.
Based on such policies, CREN will encourage the participation of its
members in a production white pages service to be coordinated by CREN
and available only to organizations which agree to abide by (internally
enforce) the CREN white-pages policies.
CREN will attempt to establish a CREN White Pages Working Group,
consisting of a few of its member universities which are already
participating in the Internet White Pages Pilot Project or otherwise
providing directory services, to develop improved Directory User Agent
and Directory Service Agent software based on ISODE QUIPU software and
tools, and software interfaces to whois, finger, and possibly other
alternative servers being used at these universities to provide White-
Pages information. The goal of this Working Group and the BITNIC staff
will be to set up an initial production CREN White Pages directory
service, with data including essentially all faculty, staff, and
optionally students, for the institutions participating in the CREN
White Pages Working Group. This service should be operational by July
1993, with participation to be broadened immediately thereafter to
include other CREN members which agree to the CREN White Pages policies
and to the installation of the white-pages software developed by the
Working Group.
The participating organizations will have substantial say in the
design of the system, because of their experience in providing such
services to their own campuses and meeting their own needs. The initial
implementation will probably be based on a central CREN server which
will accept information requests from campus servers and solicit the
requisite directory information from other campus servers. This central
server will need to maintain information on the details of the campus
servers it queries in order to compose a proper query to them. The
campus servers will presumably maintain a list of the participating
campuses, which will be used in formulating the requests they send to
the central server.
FINANCIAL
It will be necessary for CREN to join the ISODE Consortium in order
to have access to the improved software it will be developing and to
distribute to CREN members the ISODE-based software developed by the
CREN White Pages Working Group. In view of the start-up nature of this
project, the ISODE Consortium is willing to accept CREN as a member with
dues based initially on the number of organizations participating in the
CREN White Pages Working Group. As additional CREN members decide to
participate in CREN's White Pages Services, CREN's ISODE Consortium dues
will increase, based on the number of participating members. (Annual
dues are $10,000 for fewer than 10 participating institutions, then
$20,000 for fewer than 25, and $30,000 for 25 or more.)
In order to expedite the progress of this project, it may also be
necessary to pay for some consulting to help bootstrap staff and
overcome whatever difficulties the Working Group may encounter. Some
travel for the Working Group representatives may also be necessary.
AND, THEN, CAMPUS MAIL SERVERS AND SIMPLE MAIL ADDRESSING
Following completion of the initial production CREN White Pages
software, CREN plans to proceed immediately to develop mail-server
software to allow each participating organization to accept mail for all
of its faculty, staff, and students at a single organizational host
address and route it to the proper username and host, using the
organizational White Pages Information for that purpose. The goal is to
have operational server software ready for distribution to CREN members
by July 1994. This software should be developed through the cooperative
efforts of CREN staff and the CREN White Pages Working Group if
feasible, or through other consulting or cooperative arrangements. The
software should be written to run on multiple platforms and should be
designed to handle Internet and BITNET mail with proper headers (but not
NJE Class M files without BSMTP headers and envelope).
APPENDIX: SAMPLE WHITE-PAGES INFORMATION
The following provides an initial cut at the information which the
white pages directory in an organization might include, perhaps starting
out with only the minimal name and electronic address, and eventually
expanding to include additional information useful professionally
outside the organization as well as within, and possibly the information
useful within the organization but unlikely to be made available outside
it.
White-Pages Information: People in Organizations
* Minimal (Initial)
* Organization Identification
* Individual's Name
* Individual's Electronic Address
* Additional -- Organizational-Professional
* Office Phone, Postal Address
* Professional Duties, Organizations, Interests
* . . .
* Additional -- Supplemental, Limited-Distribution
* Home Phone, Postal Address, E-Address
* Family Members' Names, . . .
* . . .
Availability and Usage Modifiers for Each Information Element
* Availability
* Organizational Sub-Unit Only
* Organization Only
* Named Entities Only
* Combinations of the Above
* General (Everyone)
* Individual Only -- "No" List Generation
* Usage
* List Generation
* By Named Entities Only
* For Meeting Announcements Only
* For Professional Announcements Only
* For Any Non-Commercial Use
* For Commercial Advertisements
* Combinations of the Above
White Pages Example
Data Element Availability Use
Org: US; NJ; CREN; BITNIC General
Name: Jim Conklin General
E-Addr: CONKLIN@BITNIC General No-List
E-Addr2: JBC@BITNIC N-List-1 List
. . .
Off Ph: +1 202 872-4200 General No-List
Off Ph2: +1 202 331-5367 N-List-1 No-List
Prof Int1: BITNET General No-List
Prof Int1: BITNET N-List-2 List
Prof Int2: Net. Services General Meeting
Prof Int3: POP Software General Prof,Adv
. . .
N-List-1: CREN Staff, CREN Board, EDUCOM, Wife, Son
N-List-2: BITNIC, EARN-NIC, CAREN-NIC, . . .
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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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