Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!FINSUN.CSC.FI!harper From: harper@FINSUN.CSC.FI (Robert Harper) Newsgroups: bionet.users.addresses Subject: (none) Message-ID: <9106041518.AA13203@finsun.csc.fi> Date: 4 Jun 91 15:18:13 GMT Article-I.D.: finsun.9106041518.AA13203 Sender: daemon@genbank.bio.net Distribution: bionet Lines: 52 Subject: Poetry, history and facts about networking ( New Book ) Dear Bionaut Biomch-L, HSPNET-L, Medinf-L, and Info-net readers, The following book announcement was received this morning from Digital Equipment Corporation in Switzerland: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tracy L. LaQuey (Ed.), University of Texas "The User's Directory of Computer Networks" Digital Press, 12 Crosby Drive, Bedford, MA 01730, USA 1990 Paperbound, 630 pp., Order # EY-C200E-DP Toll-Free number (US only): +1(800)343-8321. "Full of poetry, history, and facts both useful and arcane, the *Directory* is at once a networker's almanac and a browser's delight." -- Stephen Wolff, Director, DNCRI, US National Science Foundation. Here's how to track down virtually every network available to academics and researchers. This new book, with its detailed compilation of host-level information, provides everything you need to locate resources, send mail to friends and colleagues worldwide, and answer questions about how to access major national and international networks. Extensively cross-referenced information on ARPANET/MILNET, BITNET, CSNET, ESnet, SPAN, THEnet, USENET, and loads of others is all provided. Included are detailed lists of hosts, site contacts, administrative domains, and organizations. Plus, a tutorial chapter with handy reference tables reveals electronic mail "secrets" that make it easier to take advantage of networking. Selected networks covered: NSFNET, AARNet, SPAN, BITNET, Internet, JUNET, UUCP, CSNET, JANET, THEnet, EARN, NetNorth, HEPnet, ESnet, NSN, MILNET, ONet, DRJ, ARPANET, Cypress, USENET, NORDUNET, and others. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hopefully, the book does also address some more recent developments such as the merger of BITNET and CSNET into CREN, and the fact that EARN, BITNET and NetNorth are fully integrated components of what is loosely known as BITNET (including also GULFNET, BITNETJP and others). Herman J. Woltring, Eindhoven/Nijmegen, The Netherlands Moderator, Biomch-L@HEARN.BITNET / Biomch-L@nic.SURFnet.NL (Biomechanics and Movement Sciences) P.S.: I understand that the book is on stock in the USA for domestic delivery only, at US $ 34.95; ordering can be done by credit card at the toll-free number mentioned above, and the book will be shipped the next working day. It would seem that it is not yet available in Europe.