Zen And The Art Of The Internet

Table of Contents

• Read this
• Preface
• Acknowledgements

• 1 Network Basics
  • 1.1 Domains
  • 1.2 Internet Numbers
  • 1.3 Resolving Names and Numbers
  • 1.4 The Networks
  • 1.5 The Physical Connection

• 2 Electronic Mail
  • 2.1 Email Addresses
    • 2.1.1 %@!.: Symbolic Cacophony
    • 2.1.2 Sending and Receiving Mail
    • 2.1.3 Anatomy of a Mail Header
    • 2.1.4 Bounced Mail
  • 2.2 Mailing Lists
    • 2.2.1 Listservs

• 3 Anonymous FTP
  • 3.1 FTP Etiquette
  • 3.2 Basic Commands
    • 3.2.1 Creating the Connection
    • 3.2.2 dir
    • 3.2.3 cd
    • 3.2.4 get and put
      • 3.2.4.1 ASCII vs Binary
      • 3.2.4.2 mget and mput
  • 3.3 The archie Server
    • 3.3.1 Using archie Today
    • 3.3.2 archie Clients
    • 3.3.3 Mailing archie
    • 3.3.4 The whatis database

• 4 Usenet News
  • 4.1 What Usenet Is
  • 4.2 The Diversity of Usenet
  • 4.3 What Usenet Is Not
  • 4.4 Propagation of News
  • 4.5 Group Creation
  • 4.6 If You're Unhappy
  • 4.7 The History of Usenet (The ABCs)
  • 4.8 Hierarchies
  • 4.9 Moderated vs Unmoderated
  • 4.10 news.groups & news.announce.newgroups
  • 4.11 How Usenet Works
  • 4.12 Mail Gateways
  • 4.13 Usenet "Netiquette"
    • 4.13.1 Signatures
    • 4.13.2 Posting Personal Messages
    • 4.13.3 Posting Mail
    • 4.13.4 Test Messages
    • 4.13.5 Famous People Appearing
    • 4.13.6 Summaries
    • 4.13.7 Quoting
    • 4.13.8 Crossposting
    • 4.13.9 Recent News
    • 4.13.10 Quality of Postings
    • 4.13.11 Useful Subjects
    • 4.13.12 Tone of Voice
    • 4.13.13 Computer Religion
  • 4.14 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
    • 4.14.1 The Pit-Manager Archive

• 5 Telnet
  • 5.1 Using Telnet
    • 5.1.1 Telnet Ports
  • 5.2 Publicly Accessible Libraries
  • 5.3 The Cleveland Freenet
  • 5.4 Directories
    • 5.4.1 Knowbot
    • 5.4.2 White Pages
  • 5.5 Databases
    • 5.5.1 Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL)
    • 5.5.2 PENpages
    • 5.5.3 Clemson Univ. Forestry & Agricultural Network
    • 5.5.4 University of Maryland Info Database
    • 5.5.5 University of Michigan Weather Underground
    • 5.5.6 Geographic Name Server
    • 5.5.7 FEDIX--Minority Scholarship Information
    • 5.5.8 Science & Technology Information System
    • 5.5.9 Ocean Network Information Center
    • 5.5.10 NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)
    • 5.5.11 U.S. Naval Observatory Automated Data Service

• 6 Various Tools
  • 6.1 Finger
  • 6.2 Ping
  • 6.3 Talk
  • 6.4 The WHOIS Database
    • 6.4.1 Other Uses of WHOIS

  7 Commercial Services

  • 7.1 Electronic Journals
  • 7.2 Commercial Databases
  • 7.3 Clarinet News

  8 Things You'll Hear About

  • 8.1 The Internet Worm
  • 8.2 The Cuckoo's Egg
  • 8.3 Organizations
    • 8.3.1 The Association for Computing Machinery
    • 8.3.2 Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
    • 8.3.3 The Electronic Frontier Foundation
    • 8.3.4 The Free Software Foundation
    • 8.3.5 The League for Programming Freedom
  • 8.4 Networking Initiatives
    • 8.4.1NREN

• 9 Finding Out More
  • 9.1 Internet Resource Guide
  • 9.2 Requests for Comments (RFCs)

• Conclusion
• Appendix A Getting to Other Networks
• Appendix B Retrieving Files via Email
  • Archive Servers
  • FTP-by-Mail Servers
• Appendix C Newsgroup Creation
  • Discussion
  • Voting
  • The Result of a Vote
  • Creation of the Group
• Glossary
• Bibliography
  • Books
  • Periodicals & Papers

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