From: joke@Germany.EU.net (Joerg Heitkoetter) Originator: joke@Germany.EU.net (Joerg Heitkoetter) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,de.newusers.questions,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.infosystems,comp.infosystems.www,alt.folklore.computers,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,alt.internet.services,k12.ed.tech,k12.ed.comp.literacy Subject: FAQ: EFF's (Extended) Guide 2.3, Life, and Everything... Followup-To: comp.org.eff.talk Date: Summary: This posting tells you everything you ought to know about an exciting project that helps so-called Newbies to survive their first year on The Net. It gets you softly into most of the often severe details of mindboggling complexity that popup when you're hooked into The Net. It is also intended to help you get around the trap doors, avoid pitfalls and other non-funny things (e.g. local gurus that laugh at you), you'll encounter during life as a Netizen in Cyberspace. It is styled after a FAQ list, ie. "Frequently Asked Questions and their respective Answers". Keywords: Internet, Big Dummy's Guide, Newbies, Introduction, Babelfish, Help, EFF The-FAQ-Version: 13 Day-of-Last-Change: September 13, 1994 Period-of-posting: quarterly parody /'paeredi/ n. & v. -- n. (pl. -ies) 1 a humorous exaggerated imitation of an author, literary work, style, etc. 2 a feeble imitation; a travesty. -- v.tr. (-ies, -ied) 1 compose a parody of. 2 mimic humorously. --- The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary Ahoy! This is a reminder to get your hands on a copy of "EFF's Guide to the Internet", either the original or extended version(s). It's your free ticket to a round trip through Global Networks, Life in Cyberspace, and Everything... So, SYSTEM ADMINSTRATORS everywhere: Get this for your LOCAL DUMMIES! Throw printouts into your terminal pools, install it online, do whatever you want, only *selling* it is NOT ALLOWED! This electronic version comes for FREE! The easiest way to get the original ASCII-only version is by sending any e-mail to netguide@eff.org; in return the guide comes split into several pieces. However, there're many more elaborate versions available. Read on! -=- * -=- * COPYRIGHT? Copyright 1993, 1994 Electronic Frontier Foundation, all rights reserved. Redistribution, excerpting, republication, copying, archiving, and reposting are permitted, provided that the work is not sold for profit, that EFF contact information, copyright notice, and distribution information remains intact, and that the work is not qualitatively modified (translation, reformatting, and excerpting expressly permitted however - feel free to produce versions of the Guide for use with typesetting, hypertext, display, etc. applications, but please do not change the text other than to translate it to another language. Excerpts should be credited and follow standard fair use doctrine.) Electronic Frontier Foundation, 1001 G St. NW, Suite 950 E, Washington DC 20001 USA, +1 202 347 5400 (voice) 393 5509 (fax.) Basic info: info@eff.org; General and Guide related queries: ask@eff.org. -=- * -=- * WHAT ABOUT AN OVERVIEW OF THIS FAQ LIST? Enclosed in this posting you'll find 5 files from the Texinfo version (cf below) of The Guide: (0) NEWS, some informational stuff, that explains what happened since the last issue of this posting/FAQ/README; the most recent changes and whatever... (1) WELCOME, the original, official welcome message by the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Mitchell Kapor; the foundation that hired Adam Gaffin for this writing job. (2) README, a file that answers most of your questions concerning the Texinfo project of The Guide. (3) SERVERS, a file that lists all Internet resources/locations The Guide is accessible from; either as simple file(s), or as online readable HyperText multimedia book! (4) VERSIONS, a file, ie. a table, that lists all the currently available versions of The Guide (cf README for the differences). (5) CREDITS, a list of all the people (consciously and unconsciously) involved in this project. If I should have forgotten you, please I'd regret it. Please, drop me your address once again. (6) POLICY, terms and conditions under which the sources of The Guide are distributed. -=- * -=- * WHERE'S A WORLD-WIDE WEB TEST-DRIVE INSTALLATION? For a test drive, point your favorite Worl Wide Web client to URL: "http://www.Germany.EU.net/books/eegtti/eegtti.html" therein you'll find some maps that contain the other W3 sites around the globe. This Guide is the most read on a global scale! -=- * -=- * WHAT ABOUT UPDATES? The Guide has been publish by MIT Press as *Everybody's Guide to the Internet" in July 1994. Adam Gaffin continues to update the book on a monthly basis; look for "Everybody's Internet Update" postings on USENET, in group alt.internet.services and comp.org.eff.talk. You can subscribe to a mailing list, an then have updates automatically delivered to you. Email subscription works by sending a message body of "subscribe net-update" [no quotes] to listserv@eff.org -=- * -=- * SO, WHATZ THE PROBLEM? (with apologies to Douglas Adams) There are of course many problems connected with young ape-descended life forms, of which some of the most popular are `What is life all about?' `Will I ever be able really to understand young ape-descended life forms of the oppopsite sex?' And `What is EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet?' The Encyclopedia Galactica defines the "EFF's Guide to the Internet" as a mostly interesting attempt by the EFF to bring knowledge to the people. The marketing division of Sirius Cybernectics Corporation defines "EFF's Guide to the Internet" as `Your Electronic Online Pal Who's Fun To Be With.' The Texinfo editor of "EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet" defines it as `The Best Stuff I've Been Involved In Since Breakfast.' Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the "EFF's Guide to the Internet" as a mostly interesting but useless attempt by the EFF to bring knowledge to the people...? -=- * -=- * WHO WROTE IT? This Guide, originally written by Adam Gaffin, then a senior news reporter, of Middlesex News, Boston, MA, comes in an easily understood language, and provides almost all information you'll ever need to survive, when you got stranded in this mindboggling universe called Internet, ie. the Net of all Nets on this crazy planet. So take this writing as kind of electronic Babelfish, that helps you to understand what the hell everybody out there is talking about. -=- * -=- * WILL I BE ABLE TO READ IT? The Guide is available (in one format at least) for all currently running computer architectures, from Amiga to CRAY, although some IBM EBCDIC main- frames might have problems with the ASCII versions. But usually you won't work with these anyway. (And thus won't have to worry what EBCDIC is all about...) It comes in printable (TeX DVI, PostScript, ASCII) and electronically readable formats (World-Wide Web/HTML, GNU Info). You will definitely be able to read one version at least! -=- * -=- * WHERE DO I FIND The Guide? The Guide actually *is* wide-spread, globally speaking; distribution site locations range from KOREA to JAPAN to AUSTRALIA to USA to CANADA to the UNITED KINGDOM to GERMANY to SWITZERLAND to AUSTRIA to BETELGEUZE to SOUTH AFRICA to RUSSIA. Only LATIN AMERICA is missing at present. So what about the Southern hemisphere, folks? Where are you, Netizens? (The complete list is appended below.) -=- * -=- * HOW CAN I CONTRIBUTE? If you find any mistakes/typos/inaccuracies/whatever in this posting drop me a mail; if you have newer informatio than the ones listed below drop me a mail; if you have questions, please folks, *READ THE GUIDE FIRST*, it's all in there. Given you're a system/ftp/WWW administrator: Please consider installation of The Guide on your site; and please let me know. The more sites carry The Guide, the sooner these postings will go away... ;-) Anyway, enjoy the trip! Ciao, -joke === ____ === Jörg Heitkötter === / / / ___ ___ _/_ === joke@Germany.EU.net === /---- / / / / /___/ / === EUnet Deutschland GmbH === /____ /___/ / / /___ / === Emil-Figge-Str. 80 ===== ===== D-44227 Dortmund ===== Connecting Europe since 1982 ===== Voce/Faxe +49-231-972 -2222/-1111 -=- * -=-