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NetWeek 4/10/88
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********* A BITNET news summary for the week of April 10, 1988 **********
NetWeek provides a brief look at recent events in Bitnet. Items noted here
will be covered in further detail in NetMonth. For a subscription send the
following command to LISTSERV@MARIST: SUB NETMONTH your_name. NetWeek is a
publication of the Bitnet Services Library.
Editor: Chris Condon, CONDON@YALEVM Issue #8
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* Before we begin...
The (ahem) March BITNET SERVERS is now on its way to electronic mailboxes
everywhere. The delay was casued by a large number of changes and
improvements, as well as the latest flu virus. Special credit goes to Glen
Overby for doing all of the work involved in finding out which servers
accept commands via MAIL. If you have any suggestions on how we can further
improve BITNET SERVERS, please let us know.
* BITNET Technical Meeting, Spring '88
Host: Xavier University
Date: Saturday, May 14, 1988
Time: 8:30 am - 6:00 pm
Where: Xavier University Campus
Cincinnati, Ohio
Bldg: College of Business Administration Building
Ledgewood Ave, Room 2
How: Get BITTECH DIRECTIO from either NICSERVE or LISTSERV@BITNIC
Free: Registration and refreshments
* Studies in Communication and Information Technology (SCIT) is an inter-
disciplinary group at Queen's Univeristy in Kingston, Ontario, which is
involved in promoting research and teaching related to the social impacts
of the new information and communication technology. Among its various
activities, SCIT mounts seminars during the academic year and publishes
occasional papers which deal with the social impacts of the new technology.
In addition, a central activity of the group is the management of an
on-line bibliographic service which contains close to 6,000 references
dealing with the social context of the new technology. This database is
being constantly updated, and as of recently has been made available to
users outside Queen's University who have access to the BITNET.
To access the SCIT database through BITNET, the user must first subscribe
to the particular database called SCIT-BIB. To do this send the following
command to LISTSERV@QUCDN via mail or message:
SUBSCRIBE SCIT-BIB your_full_name
You will receive acknowledgement in about a day, confirming your addition
to the SCIT-BIB database. Once you are subscribed, you may access the
database at your convenience. You must send SCIT queries to LISTSERV@QUCDN
via mail.
The following is the format for sending queries:
+SCITBIB
//SEARCH DD *
your query goes here
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For example:
+SCITBIB
//SEARCH DD *
SEARCH CANADA .TITLE.
BROWSE
/*
This will search for all TITLES with CANADA in them. The results will be
mailed in about a day. The inclusion of BROWSE returns the result of your
search as though you were using the normal STAIRS search.
As always, access to this service will be described in more detail in the
next NetMonth.
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