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From: alderson@alderson.stanford.edu (Rich Alderson)
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Internet for the Completely Ignorant
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.203622.12505@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 14 Jun 91 20:36:22 GMT
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In-Reply-To: mark@hermesa.uucp (Mark McWiggins)

In article <1991Jun12.194021.2478@hermesa.uucp>, mark@hermesa (Mark McWiggins) writes:
>I'm not *completely* ignorant, but I've been a uucp-only Usenet user for
>some years, and my organization now has an Internet number.  We're unsure
>of all our options and would generally like background on the setup of
>the Internet, etc.
>
>Can you recommend a book or other information resource for somebody
>in this position?  Thanks in advance.

I would recommend that you obtain Internet RFC 1118 ("The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet") and perhaps RFC 1180 ("TCP/IP tutorial").
--
Rich Alderson   'I wish life was not so short,' he thought.  'Languages take
Tops-20 Mgr.    such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
AIR, Stanford                                           --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@alderson.stanford.edu                            _The Lost Road_