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  THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN UNDERGROUND COMPUTING / Published Quarterly

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  ISSN 1074-3111         Volume One, Issue Seven        January 17, 1994

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                            TABLE OF CONTENTS



 [File #1:]

 Is There A Santa Claus                               Unknown

 What Do People Think                                 Unknown

 .SIG Heil                                            K. K. Campbell

 WWW - The Junkyard Of The Internet                   Ram Samudrala

 Austin (Tx) Zeen Scene                               Josh Ronsen

 Object Technology In Cyberspace                      Chris Hand



 [File #2]

 Deadkat                                              Deadkat

 EFF Personnel Announcement                           Stanton McCandlish

 Reader Feedback                                      Our Reader(s)

 Call Security / Voice Crypto FAQ                     Neil Johnson

 There's A Body On The Internet                       Uncle Bob's NN #103



 [File #3]

 Windows And TCP/IP For Internet Access               Harry Kriz



 [File #4]

 Windows And TCP/IP For Internet Access (Cont...)     Harry Kriz



 [File #5]

 Say What? Libel And Defamation On The Internet       Eric Eden

 Jacking In From The "Back From The Dead" Port        Brock Meeks

 Announcing Slipknot                                  Felix Kramer



 [File #6]

 Telecommunications Security                          Howard Fuhs



 [File #7]

 Old Freedoms And New Technologies                    Jay Weston

 Information Superhighway: Reality                    Reid Goldsborough

 Internet Tools Summary                               John December

 LOD T-Shirts                                         Chris Goggans



 [File #8]

 Interview With Erik Bloodaxe (Chris Goggans)         Netta Gilboa

 

 [File #9]

 Review Of Slipknot 1.0                               Scott Davis

 cDc GDU #18                                          Swamp Ratte

 My Letter To Wired Magazine                          Scott Davis



 [File #10]

 Caller ID FAQ                                        Padgett Peterson

 The Pentium Bug War Ends As We Know It               James/Ted Barr

 Pentium Non-Disclosure Agreement Of Dr. Nicely       Thomas Nicely

 The Computer Nevermore [A Late Christmas Tale]       Unknown

 Twas The Night Before Star Trek [Another One]        Unknown

 Santa Claus Source Code [The Last Late X-Mas Tale]   Unkown



 [File #11]

 My Life As An International Arms Courier             Matt Blaze

 An Open Letter To Wired Magazine                     Chris Goggans

 When Bigotry Outpaces Technology                     Douglas Welch

 Letter From Steve Case: Child Porn On AOL            Steve Case



 [File #12]

 Lee Harvey Oswald Died For Your Sins                 Gordon Fagan





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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 09:44:40 -0600

From: JAUC <dfox@fc.net>

Subject: JAUC-File1



 

 [Editor's note:  Since we did not come out with an issue anytime near

 Christmas, I am throwing all of our holiday stuff in first.  Have a

 great year]



                        IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?



 By: Unknown



 As a result of an overwhelming lack of requests, and with research help

 from that renown scientific journal SPY magazine (January, 1990) - I am

 pleased to present the annual scientific inquiry into Santa Claus.



 1) No known species of reindeer can fly.  BUT there are 300,000

 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of

 these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying

 reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.



 2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world.  BUT

 since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and

 Buddhist children, that reduces the workload up to 15% of the total -

 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau.  At an average

 (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million

 homes.  One presumes there's at least one good child in each.



 3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the

 different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he

 travels east to west (which seems logical).  This works out to 822.6

 visits per second.  That is to say that for each Christian household

 with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of

 the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the

 remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left,

 get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the

 next house.  Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly

 distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false

 but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now

 talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million

 miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once

 every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.



 This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second,

 3,000 times the speed of sound.  For purposes of comparison, the

 fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at

 a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops,

 15 miles per hour.



 4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element.

 Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego

 set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting

 Santa, who is invariably described as overweight.  On land,

 conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds.  Even granting

 that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal

 amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine.  We need

 214,200 reindeer.  This increases the payload - not even counting the

 weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons.  Again, for comparison - this

 is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.



 5) 353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous

 air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as

 spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere.  The lead pair of

 reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy.  Per second.

 Each.  In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously,

 exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in

 their wake.  The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26

 thousandths of a second.  Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to

 centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity.  A 250-pound

 Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of

 his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.



 In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve,

 he's dead now.



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                          WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK?



 [Editor's Note:  This was sent to us from a person who thought this

 was funny...and indeed it was.  But I was blown back by trying to

 discover how (or WHAT) this person was thinking... In order not to

 reveal any company or the stupidity of some people, I have deleted

 the name of the author, and removed the name of the computer company

 and replaced their name with [COMPUTER COMPANY].  The

 company is a Fortune 500 company in Texas.



 Subj:      [COMPUTER COMPANY] Suggestion Box

 Date:      94-11-11 18:49:05 EST

 From:      xxxxxxxxx

 To:        [COMPUTER COMPANY] Sysop

 To:        Sysop

 Sent on:   America Online (using WAOL 1.5)



 Field 3 = I would like for [COMPUTER COMPANY] to send me a free

 MultiMedia Computer, Monitor, printer, mouse, and modem.  I need the

 equipment to start my own Charter business, but I am furloughed (pilot)

 and can't afford the equipment.  I'll be happy to pay for it when I am

 able.



 Please send the equipment to:



 [name and address deleted to avoid terminally embarrassing the poor idiot]



 I thank [COMPUTER COMPANY] in advance for its generosity.



     xxxxx



     Here is their response:



     Subj:      Re: [COMPUTER COMPANY] Suggestion Box

     Date:      94-11-11 23:22:00 EST

     From:      xxxxxxxxxx

     To:        AirLnPilot

     CC:        xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

     Sent on:   America Online (using WAOL 2.0)



 While [COMPUTER COMPANY] understands your situation completely,

 certain regulations delineate proper handling of requests of this nature.

 Therefore I am forwarding your message to the appropriate agency. You may

 want to  follow up with them - the address is:



     Mr. S. Claus

     North Pole, Earth



 Please direct any addition requests of this nature directly to this

 department to avoid unnecessary delays, especially here at the end of

 the fiscal year.



 Glad I was able to help,



 Sincerely,



 xxxxxxxxxxx

 [COMPUTER COMPANY]



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                               .SIG HEIL



              Holocaust revisionism goes up in flame wars



 By K.K. Campbell



 It was 56 years ago today that Germans awoke to find the Nazis had

 spent the night terrorizing Jews and destroying property in something

 called "Crystal Night." It was a trial-run pogrom for the Holocaust to

 follow.



 Once upon a time, net.news (the Internet's public discussion forums)

 was swamped with flame wars about the Holocaust. They'd be found

 anywhere -- in newsgroups like alt.conspiracy, soc.history,

 soc.culture.canada, misc.headlines, alt.individualism etc.



 One of the most persistent Nazi-apologists, Dan Gannon

 (dgannon@banished.com), wildly spammed Holocaust-denying material,

 either not understanding or not caring about netiquette -- that is, you

 post appropriate material to appropriate groups. Thousands, from dozens

 of newsgroups, complained. Gannon's posts were bad enough, but they

 always brought rebuttal and endlessly repeated arguments.



 Today, most of these debates are found in one newsgroup:

 alt.revisionism -- dedicated to discussing "Holocaust revisionism," the

 claim that the Nazi extermination of Jews and other distinct peoples is

 a "hoax" exacted upon millions of unwary non-Jews.



 Anti-racist and anti-fascist online activists continue to track Gannon

 and his pals around the 9,000-odd newsgroups. One such hunter is

 Canada's Ken McVay (kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca). McVay, 53, came to

 Canada in 1967 from the U.S. and is now a Canadian citizen (holds dual

 citizenship). He's Canada's foremost online anti-revisionist warrior.



 I've been reading his stuff for years.



                              TRUE COLORS



 "When I first got started on this, everyone was sort of out there on

 their own," McVay told eye in a phone interview from his Vancouver

 Island home. "Almost by accident, working groups started coordinating

 their efforts." McVay works closely with Danny Keren (dzk@cs.brown.edu)

 and Jamie McCarthy (k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu), among others.



 The goal is not censorship. "I am absolutely, unequivocally opposed to

 any kind of censorship," McVay says.



 This is a real shift in McVay's thinking. I vividly recall reading

 McVay his posts from about two years ago, where he'd vehemently defend

 Canadian anti-hate speech laws.



 "I don't anymore. I think it's the biggest possible mistake." What

 changed his mind? "Dealing with these guys on a daily basis for over

  two years. Seeing how easy it is to shoot them down. And it is. The

 most intellectual among them are stupid and completely inept when it

 comes to historical research. And, of course, they are liars. That

 being the case, why on Earth would anyone want to shut them up or force

 them underground? I want to know who I'm dealing with. I want to know

 where they are. And I want to know how their minds work."



 To see their true colors, McVay and compatriots badger and prod

 revisionists until they drop the scholarly pretense by, say, calling

 McVay a "Jew-lover" or complaining Hitler unfortunately missed the

 parents of some Jewish netter. It happens regularly.



 "These online discussions are not aimed at getting Gannon and his pals

 to change their minds," McVay says. "That ain't gonna happen. It's to

 reach the rest - - such as the new users that pop up every September in

 universities and stumble on this stuff. Many don't know how Nazis

 operate. Most racists don't go around with a little patch on their

 shoulder proclaiming: `I hate Jews, or blacks, or natives.' But it's

 there. We work to bring it out in the open."



                         A.R. AS TESTING GROUND



 McVay and company are working on putting together a book, a primer on

 Holocaust-denial techniques. (He hasn't approached a publisher yet.)

 You often see the results of this ongoing research in alt.revisionism .

 McVay chuckles about having rabid anti-Semites ever at hand to help

 write it.



 "We throw out a chapter when we think it's done, content-wise. If the

 revisionists ignore it completely, then we know it's finished. If they

 respond, we say, `Ah! We missed that trick, calling a maple tree a

 Porsche.' So we add that argument in." A month later, they upload the

 chapter again.



 McVay says the "classic" revisionist tactic is misrepresentation of

 text. Outright lies.



 "They'll cite a historical text: `K.K. Campbell says on page 82 of his

 famous book that nobody died at Auschwitz.' Then you go to the Library

 of Congress and look up K.K. Campbell, page 82, and what you find he

 really said was, `It was a nice day at Dachau.' They get away with this

 because they know goddamn well most people don't have time to rush off

 to the Library of Congress. But people read that and say to themselves,

 `Who would lie about such a thing when it's so easy to prove them

 wrong? They must be telling the truth.' "



 The years of refutation have resulted in anti-revisionists transcribing

 mass amounts of death camp evidence and testimony into computer text

 files. McVay saved them. Soon netters requested the material. It began

 to take up so much time, he automated the process. You send an email

 request, the computer sends you back the file(s).



 The archive is now maybe 60 megs and may swell to over a gig in 1995.

 Write email to listserv@almanac.bc.ca with the message GET HOLOCAUST/INDEX --

 you'll be sent a huge index of Holocaust files (other files, too, on

 fascist racist-right groups). If you like the convenience of gopher,

 check out jerusalem1.datasrv.co.il .



 Revisionists often assert McVay "secretly" gets operating funds from

 Jews.



 "I don't," McVay says. "The hard-drives are spread out on a table with

 a Canadian Tire fan blowing right at them. I can't afford to replace

 things, if it breaks, it's gone. However, I'm upfront -- if I get

 support money, I'll take it, Jewish or not. The fact that a Jewish

 organization would offer several grand to help wouldn't change the

 value of the historical data." He'd like to put it all on CD-ROM.



 "The Internet has to be a revisionist's worst communications

 nightmare," McVay says. "They can't ignore it, because, as you and I

 know, in 10-15 years everyone in North America is going to read stuff

 through the Internet.



 "And that's the beauty of the Internet: once it's refuted in an honest

 and academic fashion, you can't run away from it," McVay says.



 When the latest revisionist recruit charges in with the same old

 pamphlets, it's almost effortless for anyone to request a file and

 reply: "We covered this two years ago. Here is the massive refutation

 of that so-called scholarly report."



 It's there. For everyone. Forever.



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           THE WORLD WIDE WEB - The JUNKYARD OF THE INTERNET



 By Ram Samudrala (ram@mbisgi.umd.edu)



 [Author's Note:]

 I am not completely happy with this, especially the second part,

 because when I started writing this I had a lot of ideas about it and

 now I seem to have run dry.  But I went ahead and finished it anyway,

 before I lost all interest.   Feel free to post this wherever...

 For those of you who are familiar with the workings of the web, you

 can skip to The Junkyard of the Internet.

 ------



     The World Wide Web



 About a year or so ago, there were about 500 HyperText Transfer Protocol

 (HTTP) servers on the World Wide Web (www).  Now, every other person on

 the Internet with some basic computing experience can install their own

 server and provide information (I'm using the world quite liberally here)

 to the web.  I wonder if Tim Berniers-Lee, the person who started the

 www project at CERN, really thought it would become the thing that

 revolutionized the Internet and end-user computing.



 And this issue, the ability to put yourself on a soapbox and be heard by

 the world, and the subsequent consequences, is what I will attempt to

 address here.  First, what does the www give us that we didn't have before?

 By posting on USENET news, for example, you're probably heard by a lot

 more people than having a web server.  Well, the main difference is that

 anything you posted normally was lost within in a few days, so your ideas

 didn't stay around long enough for everyone to assimilate.  On the web,

 your pages are permanent, and you can promote them as much as you want

 and people will continue increasing the accesses made.  But the www

 project would probably be doomed without the software that keeps

 everything working.  Almost every w^3 browser I've used has been of high

 quality (which is absolutely crucial), but one of them, NCSA's Mosaic,

 stands out in terms of availability and accessibility for a variety of

 problems.  Marc Andreessen wrote Mosaic for X and it spread like wildfire

 when NCSA released free versions of mosaic not just for X, but for a

 variety of other platforms, again, about a year ago (September). A friend

 of mine referred to it as "The Program of the Gods".



 I happened to get seriously addicted to the www at the beginning of this

 year, but I got over it soon.  I then realized that all one needed was an

 anonymous FTP server set up and they could serve documents to the www.

 I did this initially, and this is yet another design decision that has been

 crucial---the www incorporates several existing information retrieval

 mechanisms out on the net, primarily gopher and ftp.  I never thought

 gopher would be a big hit, and with the advent of the numerous w^3 browsers

 for almost any imaginable platform, there really is no need for gopher

 clients and why have a gopher server if you can get a http one up running

 just as easily? There is only a small (depending on how aesthetically

 pleasing you want your pages to look like---one can waste hours making

 things look pretty) overhead involved in converting plain documents to the

 HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the language that www browsers understand

 and use to format your text.



 Philosophically, the idea behind the www simply takes Unix philosophy to

 the extreme.  The whole Internet is abstracted as a gigantic file system,

 and HTML allows you to specify any object on the Internet, be it a movie

 of comet Shoemaker colliding with Jupiter, gifs of paintings by Dali, a

 song you recorded on your 4-track that you have a soundfile of, or things

 you should know before you delve into linear and non-linear programming,

 by linking the locations of these objects to an anchor of your choice.

 And like Unix, a link could be anything, including other programs, telnet

 /news/mail/ftp/gopher ports, or just another section of a document.  The

 touch of button that activates the anchor is all you need to access any

 particular link---the software figures out the rest for you---if it's a

 soundfile, it'll play it.  If it's a movie or a picture, it will bring up

 the appropriate viewer, and so on.



        The Junkyard of the Internet



 This is all very nice, but what it lets you do is also access the latest

 porn clip, let you see gifs of Kurt Cobain's shotgunned face, contact your

 favourite astrologer for a consultation on-line, and do on-line shopping.

 I'm not going to pass judgement on whether these things are "wrong", but

 as the web grows, it is clear that it is the entertainment side of the web

 that is thriving.  Megadeth is probably is one of the first groups to

 commercial go all out to advertise a release on the w^3 (the CD comes with

 a sticker saying "check out Megadeth, Arizona at through the www at

 http://bazaar.com or through FTP" (or something like that), and while

 Megadeth, Arizona is a cool place to visit, it is akin to the junk mail

 with colourful pictures that you receive in your postbox. It is propaganda.



 There are a lot of advantages to having entertainment information

 available on the net---but it also results in a lot of spam.  And this

 is evident not only on the w^3, but also in the USENET newsgroups,

 where the commercial Internet provider industry thrives as millions of

 subscribers come on line and run amok.  A few months ago, an advertisement

 on the net would've been flamed to ashes.  Now there is a weak response,

 but the people who opposed this are fighting a losing war.  Advertisers

 continue to spam the net.  Not to mention the increase in the number "job

 wanted" or "items for sale" ads in completely inappropriate newsgroups.

 The number of inane USENET groups created for local objects of worship

 (I am guilty of this) are numerous.  The ease with which computers can

 transmit hypermedia (pictures/movies/sounds) has not only furthered the

 www revolution but is pushing bandwidth to its limits (a state that we

 may perpetually exist in).  All this has contributed to an increase in

 the noise:signal ratio on the net as a whole, but particularly in USENET

 newsgroups and the www.



 As w^3 usage increases, and it becomes more flexible to incorporate

 some sort of a BBS-type system, like USENET, or USENET itself, in www

 browsers, then we will see a exodus from the traditional forms of

 Internet use to w^3 use, just as there is a movement from people typing

 stuff at the prompt to clicking buttons on the mouse to perform local

 tasks.  In fact, I predict that many people simply won't even figure out

 how to FTP or read news from the prompt, just like many people don't

 figure out how to do send mail from the prompt and instead type in a number

 or click on the mail icon for their favourite mailer, since they can do

 this at the click of a button.  Again, this isn't necessarily A Bad Thing.



 What this means, however, is that there will be a dichotomy that will

 exist on the Internet.  There will be people who can navigate the

 Internet only with help of the www and there will be those who can do

 both, i.e., use the prompt to do stuff.  The advantages that the

 people who do have access to the internal workings of the system is

 left to your imagination.  But what this is also leading to is the

 concentration of all the spam on the several networks that compose the

 Internet to the w^3, and hopefully it will leave the traditional forms

 of Internet use as it were.  Commercial advertisers are more likely to

 find the w^3 a more viable medium to display their wares than making

 ephemeral postings on USENET newsgroups, especially given the

 capability for multimedia plugs.  People, visionaries and otherwise,

 can put forth their agenda with ease.  Real information will be much

 harder to find even with tools like the Web Crawler.  All this will

 result in The Program of the Gods becoming a metal detector.



 Not everything has to be negative: the ability to reach the masses in

 an unprecedented way will also hopefully lead to an information

 revolution, where information will be made available free (this is

 evident in the www pages of the two camps of the San Francisco

 newspaper strike).  It will lead to independent reporting of events,

 and even though these will be biased, the perceiver, facing many

 alternatives, can discern the relevant bits themselves.  The www, more

 than anything else, will lead to a society where information is free.

 While I have always been for this, I just realized it comes with a

 price---lots of noise.  But this might push us to developing better

 software that will allow one to filter signal from noise in a

 efficient manner.



 And then of course, there's the issue of speed---there is nothing like

 the net for receiving the latest information on the fly.  Sure, it

 might be tainted, but when one's working and if, for example, one

 wants to check what the latest election results are (why one would

 want to do this is another issue), just get on your local newsgroup

 and post a message, if there isn't already a continuous thread going

 on.  And of course, we all know how the www let us view the pictures

 of Shoemaker/Jupiter collision almost as it happened.  This is

 probably the greatest advantage of maintaining a net-lifestyle.  No

 longer do we have to rely on one or two view points---you can select

 among several and information is made available as soon as it is

 disseminated.



 And what about the incorporation of computers and networking into our

 lifestyle?  We're holding the First Protein Folding Competition in

 Asilomar, CA, and the top priority is making sure we have access to

 the Internet.  We would be basically lost without this access, i.e.,

 without being "plugged in".  It is interesting how life has changed

 for some of us.  5 years ago, I hated computers and now I cannot go

 for a few hours without having access to one.  Visions of cyberspace

 as portrayed in the cyberpunk genre are still far away in reality, but

 a similar affect seems to have been achieved by the people who exist

 on the net.



 Disclaimers: the Internet isn't just about the USENET or the w^3.  I'm

 addressing only certain aspects of it.



 ram@elan1.carb.nist.gov    ...because you believe that science is the

                         greatest achievement so far of the human race

           and its long term best hope for survival and enlightenment.

                                                         ---John Moult



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                              AUSTIN ZEEN SCENE



 By Josh Ronsen (rons@quads.uchicago.edu)



 Here are some Austin zeens I've read recently. I am somewhat surprised

 on how good so many of these are, considering the somewhat stale

 nature of Austin's music scene. I've recently posted to alt.zines the

 Austin Zine Guild's "Scratch Paper" #2, which is more of an overall

 commentary on Austin Publications rather than reviews of individual

 zeens as this is. Email me if you missed SP #2, and I will send it to

 you.



 PEEK-A-BOO #10: This marks the recovery of Peek-A-Boo from a

 flirtation with blandness in recent issues, the sex issue, the

 Halloween issue, back to the glory of it's first bunch of issues. Lots

 of personality and personalities in here. An interview with Blast Off

 Country Style, a "scene girl" report (hopefully to become a regular

 column) on cute boys at a Jon Spencer show (which I missed, damnit!),

 and a page of stuff from the women who do the wonderful zeen MTM (see

 below), including a dream featuring Joan Jett, are my faves in this

 ish. Plus cool comic and xerox artwork. P-A-B is free in Austin, so I

 guess send them a dollar at 305 W. 39th St #107, Austin, TX 78751.

 They also claim to have email at boo-key@mail.utexas.edu



 SAD #1: I just picked this up today, and I like it lots. It's kinda

 tiny and is all about (surprise) sadness: people who are sad, music

 that is sad, and three pages of the sadder entries in Kafka's diaries

 (really!). Very well done. The four music reviews, Joy Division,

 Idaho, Bedhead and Timco, are rated by how likely their members are to

 off themselves. Nice touch. Cheer up the sad publisher and send 2

 stamps to 704 W. North Loop, Austin, TX 78751



 MTM #3: Another really fine Austin zeen! What's going on here? Is it

 something in the water? I missed #'s 1 and 2, and deeply regret it. A

 number of interviews here, with 7 Year Bitch, Glorium and two guys

 from Ken's Donuts. I love the witty, irrelevant questions and answers

 in the interviews. The other stuff has some very humorous and spirited

 writing, including the two editors, Lula and Alabama, trading stories

 of weird incidents in their lives, a page of "Uppity Women" you might

 not be aware of, but should (I didn't, but now I do), and an expose on

 a local strip club. This is another freebie, so sent $1 or stamps for

 this or a future issue to 2834 Salado B, Austin, TX 78705.



 RETICENCE AND ANXIETY #3: I think #4 just came out, but this is the

 first one that I've gotten (for the somewhat slimy reason that it was

 the cheapest). Written by lesbian lovers (is that really important for

 me to mention? They refer to the two interviews in #3 as being with

 "queer men", so I can call them "lesbians", can't I? Well, I will and

 there's nothing you can do about it!) who write under the pseudonyms

 R. and A. (this *is* Texas, you know, not that there is any bigotry or

 intolerance around these parts, not here!) This is very well written,

 with moving and interesting accounts of their first days after moving

 to Austin, coming out to one's grandmother, dealing with unsympathetic

 (and downright hostile!) parents and... Having two wonderful,

 intelligent, loving parents, I am always surprised to hear how shitty

 other parents can be. Anyways, interviews with film-maker Todd Haynes

 (after reading this I really want to see his film "Poison") and David

 Wojnarowicz (whose interview I have not read yet). Some political

 articles, A.'s liking for some Heavy Metal, and a photo and commentary

 of Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle round everything up. All in all,

 an interesting look into two people's lives. Sometimes it is difficult

 to separate writing like this from fiction (I read a lot of fiction).

 After all, what is the difference between writing from someone you do

 not know and a first-person fictional narrative? R&A makes clear this

 difference. $2 and 2 stamps to PO Box 2552, Austin, TX 78768. The

 other issues have differing prices, so just send them lots of cash,

 that's all I'm saying.



 ALCOHOL, DRUGS, AND DRIVING #1: There are more issues, but I haven't

 read any, and I'm not very thrilled with this, and not just because of

 the multi-page feature on the guy who gunned down 40 people from the

 UT Tower years and years ago. I think this is unequivocally inferior

 to my zeen, unlike everything mentioned above and probably below, and

 I have a problem with anyone who does something worse than me. I mean,

 if I can do something, surely you can do it better. Also they guy's

 address is not in the issue, so I have to look it up in Scratch Paper

 #2: oops, it's not in their either, so if you really want this, you

 have to come down to Austin and get it for yourself.



 MONK MINK PINK PUNK #2: This is my zeen, and it is not out yet despite

 rumors to the contrary. When it does come out (don't hold your

 breath), expect interviews with prolific punkers God Is My Co-Pilot,

 and story-teller Juliana Leuking. Also expect a unique and exciting

 format, which is under secret development in what is only known as

 "Josh's Bedroom" (it's worth spending a night there) (anyone who gets

 this reference I'll send you a prize). Email me for details on #1, of

 which I am quite proud of, and of which I have, well, more than a few

 copies left. I have been getting a lot of promo stuff in the mail from

 MMPP's not unfavorable Factsheet 5 review, including anti-rock

 Christian literature (wow, those arguments were really convincing; I'm

 burning my record collection tomorrow!), lollipops from Atlantic

 records to entice me to go see a Melvins show, and a few actually good

 records!



 ASIAN GIRLS ARE RAD #'s 1-10: A very amusing fetish zeen on the beauty

 and wonder of Asian chicks. Sounds disgusting and perverted? Well,

 it's actually quite cute and endearing. I always enjoy this...as an

 anthropological study into intercultural relations, not because

 I'm...you know...you're not buying this, are you? Anyways, Dave writes

 a lot about his life, cool moms, astronomy, taking classes,

 dishwashing, washing dishes with Asian girls and... Like an old

 friend, but only $1 a back issue. #7 has a Shonen Knife review, and a

 picture of them reading AGAR...wow! (When God Is My Co-Pilot read my

 zeen, they verbally harassed me for not liking Elliott Sharp, really!)

 AGAR c/o David O'Dell, 707 W. 21st St, Austin, TX 78705



 LAZY WAYS #1 (?): Marc just sent me his zeen as a trade for mine, so

 right off the bat you know he is cool, although he does not live in

 Austin. Lots of gloriously positive admiration for many indie-pop

 bands that don't seem to get mentioned very often, something which I

 really admire. One more article on Sebadoh and I will barf! Stuff here

 on Allen Clapp, Bomb Pops, Musical Chairs and many more bands I have

 never even heard of (and I read every issue of the Indie-(Music

 Mailing)-List). Hurrah! Marc really likes this stuff and his

 enthusiasm only infects me with the same, despite the fact that I've

 probably listened to too much of this kind of music already. $2 to

 Lazy Ways, PO Box 17861, Plantation, FL 33318.



 BLIND STUMBLING AFTERLIFE by Elisabeth Belile: This is not a zine and

 is not from Texas, but is so marvelously wonderful that I must rant

 and rave about it. Belile writes/produces some of the best and most

 rewarding poetry that I've read in years, if not ever. Her stuff is

 very dada/surreal, and seems to be the product of some cut-up process

 that is not explained. Not stream-of-consciousness, but cut-up. I

 would quote the entire thing if I could, but my fave (since getting

 this just today):



 "These are the politics of my dream:

 1. Crush Beauty

 2. Spit It Out!

 3. Plagiarize -- go naked for a sign!

 4. Appropriate when appropriate

 5. Follow and run on angel's clocks

 6. Command them to call you, *now*."



 The book is one long four-part poem, with a (not meaning to make it

 sound trite) a strong feminist bent to it, esp the last two parts. I

 really have not pondered on it's meaning yet, just enjoyed the

 beautifully powerful juxtapositions of words and phrases. This is

 must-read stuff. $4 -> Broad Press, 2816 Avenel St, LA, CA 90039.



 While on the subject, BSAL, good as it is, no where near approaches

 the power, the emotional malaise, the surrealness of the other book

 I've read from Belile, called "AFTER WITH HOPE", which is a chap book,

 and quite an amazing one at that. I do not have the words to describe

 how great this , so just trust me or email me for more info. $4 ->

 We Press, PO Box 1503, Santa Cruz, CA 95061



 Thanks to anyone who has read any or all of this. I wrote this not

 only because I really like most of these publications, and want to see

 them thrive and prosper, but also because I am generally too shy to

 write to these people myself to praise their efforts. I figure if I

 can turn anyone on to any of these, and they send letters of praise,

 well, that's just about the same, right?



 Peace,

 Josh Ronsen

 rons@midway.uchicago.edu

 ps: I am in Austin despite the email address...



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              PRESS RELEASE: Object Technology in Cyberspace



 By Chris Hand (cph@dmu.ac.uk)



 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



 Contact: Chris Hand, De Montfort University. Fax +44 116 254-1891.

 e-mail: cph@dmu.ac.uk



 ** A Hypertext version of this Press Release is on the World-Wide Web **

 **     at http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/Research/OTG/Online/pr1.html       **

 ________________________________________________________________________





 OBJECT TECHNOLOGY MOVES INTO CYBERSPACE



 Leicester, England -- 28th November 1994.



 De Montfort University's TaTTOO'95 conference to be held in January will

 feature the world's first commercial exhibition held in Cyberspace.



 A number of companies world-wide have already expressed an interest in

 sponsoring a stand in the Virtual Exhibition Hall, where anyone on the

 Internet will be able to browse on-line product information and chat in

 real time with company representatives.



 "This will be just like a `real-life' trade exhibition, but without the

 hassles of travelling long distances or struggling through the crowds",

 says Chris Hand, organizer of the Virtual Conference. "Exhibitors will

 benefit since they won't have to worry about travelling costs or time

 away from HQ. In fact, it will be possible for one exhibitor to work on

 several stands simultaneously. The potential for events of this kind is

 enormous."



 Advertising space will be available both in the Virtual Exhibition hall

 and on an integrated World-Wide Web server.  Other on-line events planned

 to run alongside the real-life conference include a Virtual Press

 Conference and Discussion to be chaired by Eric Leach of the Object

 Management Group, and tutorials on working within object-oriented

 virtual environments. Internet users will be free to mingle on-line with

 the TaTTOO'95 delegates and speakers.



 Alan O'Callaghan, conference organizer, adds: "With the recent

 investments in Object Technology by giants such as IBM, it's now more

 important than ever that we bring the message to as many people as

 possible. The Virtual Conference will allow us to do this. OT is moving

 so quickly now that if you're not on-line to it you could easily miss

 the wave."



 More details on the on-line events are available from Chris Hand

 (e-mail: cph@dmu.ac.uk) and Mark Skipper (mcs@dmu.ac.uk), fax. +44 116

 254-1891.  WWW: http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/Research/OTG/tattoo-online.html





 Background



 TaTTOO (Teaching and Training in The Technology of Objects) is an

   international conference which in 1995 will be held in the Queens

   Building, De Montfort University, Leicester on 4-6 January. TaTTOO'95

   follows the highly successful inaugural event in 1994 which was attended

   by 185 delegates from academia and industry in the UK, USA, Sweden,

   France, Holland and Germany.



 More information:



   e-mail: tattoo@dmu.ac.uk

      WWW: http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/Research/OTG/tattoo.html





 De Montfort University is recognized by the World Bank as the fastest

   growing university in Western Europe. A distributed university with

   sites in Leicester, Milton Keynes, Bedford and Lincoln, DMU is

   pioneering the use of Video-Conferencing and Internet services by staff

   and students. The School of Computing Sciences, well-known for its

   expertise in Object Technology, has been operating a World-Wide Web

   server since 1993.



Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 06:33:41 -0600

From: JAUC <dfox@fc.net>

Subject: JAUC-File2



 

                              DEADKAT



 [Editor's note:  This stuff here is published to humor you.  We do not

 in any way condone cruelty to any animal.  This was found when one of

 our editors randomly fingered an account.  If you've been into the

 hacking/phreaking scene for a while (at least since the 80's) like

 us (the editors) you will understand all of this...if not, just read it.]



 [GeeK-Speak mode: ON]



 (#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)(#)

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 (#)              /|narkiztik /<nightz uv $mokeBombz                     (#)

 (#)                       -=- [ANuS] -=-                                (#)

 (#)                  */* T-PHiLE DiViSiON */*                           (#)

 (#)                          PrEsEnTs                                   (#)

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 (#)            [KAT KiLLERZ HANDBooK TO THE BLACK ARTz]                 (#)

 (#)                    [THE FeLiS-MoRTiSiKoN]                           (#)

 (#)                  bY:  D-CeLLeRaTiON TRaUMA                          (#)

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 PHuCK YEW !@#   EYE GOT GROUNDED TODAY FER PUTTiNG THERMiTE iN THE

 FiSH TANK AT SKEWL SEW HERE EYE AM WRiTiNG ANoTHER QUaLiTY T-PHiLE FOR

 ALL YEW @!#  OH SHiT EYE FORGOT THAT DiSKLAiMER THiNG, OK:



 DiSKLAiMER:  iF YEW GO AND KiLL KATz B-KUZ OF THiS T-PHiLE, EYE AM NOT

          RESPONSiBLE, THiS iS FOR iNPHORMATION PURPOSES ONLY #@!#

          IN FACT IM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING AND BY REaDING

          THIS YER AGREEING TO NOT SUE ME AND STUFF...







                    ======================================================

            /\__/\  WELKUM TO THE FELiS-MoRTiSiKON, THE SEKRUT BLACK BOOK

 DEWMED    | x x /  OF KAT KiLLiNG, iF YEW HAVE A WEAK STOMACH OR YOU ARE

  KaT -->   \ ^ /   ONE OF THOSE GREENPEACE OR SPCA FAGGOTZ THEN PHuCK YEW

             | |    PANZIE, GO WATCH 101 DALMATIONS OR SUMTHING @!!@#

            /   \   ======================================================

           | . . |

            (" "

             )



  ONE OF MY FAVOURiTE METHODZ OF KAT EXTERMINTATION IS A PLAY ON THE

  OLD HOCKEY KARD IN THE SPOKES OF YER BICYCLE TO MAKE A KEWL SOUND

  THING, IF YEW HAVE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE WHAT ESSENTIALLY YOU DO

  IS AFFIX A HOCKEY KARD TO YER SPOKES AND AS YOU PEDAL IT MAKES A

  KEWL KLICKING SOUND..  WELL THIS IZ FOR PANZIE FAGGOTZ #@!@  IF YER

  KEWL WHAT YEW DO IZ TAKE A LiVE KAT aND AFFIX IT TO THE SPOKES OF

  YER BIKE AND PEDAL AROUND TOWN VIGOROUSLY, NOT ONLY DOEZ IT SOUND

  KEWL BUT ALSO YOU GET SUM CHOICE LOOKZ FROM ANYONE YOU HAPPEN TO

  PASS BY !@#@!



  [NoTe: Thiz method will not work on bikes without spokes,

  ie: big wheels, if you own a big wheel: get some skipping

  rope and tie one end to the kat and the other end to the back of

  your big wheel, position yourself at the top of a big hill and

  pedal downward vigorously]



  ANOTHER FAVOURITE OF MINE REQUIREZ ACCESS TO YER SCIENCE TEACHERS

  STOREROOM OR SOMEPLACE WHERE YOU KAN AQUIRE LARGE AMOUNTS OF PURE

  POTASSIUM.  BASICALLY WHAT YOU DO IS SHOVE LARGE AMOUNTS OF PURE

  POTASSIUM DOWN THE CATS THROAT AND THEN ONCE IT IS SUFFICIENTLY

  STUFFED WHIP IT INTO THE BATHTUB WHEN YER MOTHER IS HAViNG A BATH

  OR EVEN INTO A PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL.  YOU WILL REVEL IN THE XPLOSION

  OF KAT FUR AND INTESTINES THAT WILL RESULT FROM SUCH ELEETNEZZ..

  IN KASE YOU DONT KNOW, POTASSIUM + h2o (water) kauses a minor xplosion.

  THE MORE PURE POTASSIUM YEW STUFF THE KAT WITH THE BETTER THE BOOM.



  [NoTe: Another play on this method iz to stuff the kat with the

  potassium and then remark to your mom that the kat looks like it

  needz a bath, when yer mom immerses the kat in water *B00M*.. hehe

  If you want to be elaborate, talk to your mom alot about spontaneous

  combustion, fill her head with lotz of horror stories about it then

  proceed with the plan...  it will take her weekz to recover from

  the shock when FeFe goez BooM-BooM]

  [NoTe#2: ThiZ meth0d iz loadz of fun when you employ one of th0se

  panzie 'throw in yer quarterz' publik fountainz as yer detonator]



  DEW YEW HAVE A MIKROWAVE ?!?!?  iF SO THiS NEXT MeTHOD IZ DEFINITELY

  THE THiNG TEW DEW ON THoZE RAiNY SUMMER DAZE WHEN YEW R BORED OUT OF

  YER MIND @!#@!  EYE AM SURE BY NOW YEW R BORED OF MERELY JAMMiNG YER

  FAVOURiTE FELiNE iNTO THE MiCROWAVE ON HIGH FOR 10 MiNUTES, WELL HERE

  iZ A METHOD WHICH ADDZ SUM EXCiTEMENT !@#!@ WHAT YEW WiLL NEED BESiDES

  THE OBViOUS KAT AND MiCROWAVE iZ:  a) YER MOTHERZ FAVOURiTE PEARL

  NECKLACE.  b) A SHiTLOAD OF POPKORN KERNELZ !@#!@  STRiNG THE PEARLZ

  AROUND THE KAT, THROW IT IN THE MiCROWAVE AND THEN FiLL THE MiCROWAVE

  WiTH POPKORN...  KLOSE THE DOOR, CRANK IT ON HIGH AND RUN LiKE HELL #@!#

  THiS METHoD iZ VERY MESSY #!@#  THE RESULTANT EXPLOSION WiLL B MAMMOTH

  SEW MAKE SURE NOONE IZ AROUND BuT YEW WHEN YEW DEW THiS ONE !@#@!



  THiZ ENDZ PART ONE oF THE FELiS-MoRTiSiKON #@!#  PHUCK YEW !@#@!

  WATCH FER MORE QUALiTY [ANuS] PHiLeZ KUMMING YER WAY SooN !@#

  GREETZ GOEZ OUT TEW:  SKAR-TiSSUE, MuTiLaTeD-KaT [FEaR]

  SPECIAL GREETZ GOEZ OUT TEW ALL [FEaR] MEMBERZ @!#@!

  FeLiNe Exterminatorz/Anarkistik R0dentz  0H SHiT!@#  THAT REMiNDZ

  ME, EYE FORGOT TO MENTION ANARKYKON @!# OK:



  ==========================

  =      ANARKYKON '94     =

  ==========================



  EYE ARRiVED AT THE CONVENTION CENTER AROUND 5PM JUST AS SEVERED LiMB AND

  DEMONiKiZT WERE HEADiNG OUT TO GO TRASHiNG AT SMITH AND WESSON, LUCKiLY

  THEY HAD ROOM FOR ME, SO OFF WE WENT..  THE THREE OF US SPED OFF

  TOWARDZ THE SMITH AND WESSON BUILDING IN DEMONiKiZT's VAN AT QUITE

  A FRANTiC PACE ONLY STOPPING AT A RED LiGHT ONCE TO PuLL OVER AND MaCE

  AN OLD LADY WHO WUZ STaNDiNG ON A KURB.. OK, WE ARRiVED AT SMiTH AND

  WESSON JUST AZ THEY WERE KLOSING SO WE WAiTED OUTSIDE IN THE VAN UNTIL

  THE LAST EMPLOYEE HAD LEFT, AT WHICH POINT DEMONIKiZT LEAPED OUT WiTH

  SEVERED LiMB AND EYE IN TOW, WE MADE A QUIK B LiNE TO THE DUMPSTER AND

  EYE LEAPED iN..  SEVERED LiMB LiT A SMOKE BOMB TO PROViDE US WITH SUM

  DEGREE OF COVER AND QUICKLY JOINED ME iN THE DUMPZTER @!#  WE SiFTED

  THROUGH THE MEZZ AND ALL WE GOT WERE A FEW SHELL CAZINGZ AND EYE FOUND

  SUM PRiNTOUTZ FER A LAZERSKOPE PLANS OR SUMTHiNG #@!#  OK BACK TO THA

  KONVENTION CENTER #!@#  WHEN WE ARRiVED WE WERE GiVEN OUR NAMETAGZ AND

  SHuFFLED OFF TEW A ROOM WHERE A FEW TALKZ WERE GIVEN ON TERRORIZM AND A

  FEW BORING LEKTUREZ ON SNEAKING INTO BUILDINGZ AND LOCK PICKING #!@

  EYE RAN INTO RANCiD MEAT AT THE LEKTUREZ AND HE INVITED ME UP TO HIZ

  ROOM TO LOOK AT HIZ CHEMICAL WEAPONS, WHEN WE GOT UP THERE HE SUGGEZTED

  WE TEAR GAZ THE LOBBY, WHICH WE DID... NEEDLEZZ TO SAY THE POLIZE

  SHOWED AND THA KONVENTION ENDED EaRLY @!#!@  PHUCK YEW !@#@! EYE GOTTa

  GO NOW..



                                  D-CeLLeRaTiON TRaUMA

                                  [ANuS] '94

                                  $@#!$#@$@$^M



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                      EFF PERSONNEL ANNOUNCEMENTS



 By Stanton McCandlish (mech@eff.org)



 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



 Personnel Announcements at EFF.

 Contact: EFF: Andrew Taubman <drew@eff.org>, +1 202 861 7700



 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced today several

 significant personnel changes. EFF is a non-profit, public interest

 organization that seeks to protect and enhance the growth of "Cyberspace"

 (the Global Information Infrastructure) as a diverse, free, responsible

 and empowering environment.



 David Johnson has been named Chair of the EFF Board of Directors and

 Senior Policy Fellow of EFF. Johnson, an EFF Board member since 1993,

 has been practicing computer law with the Washington, DC, law firm of

 Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He has direct experience with computer networks

 as Chairman of LEXIS Counsel Connect (an on-line system for lawyers).

 He joins Andrew Taubman, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer,

 who began at EFF in September  of 1994.



 Esther Dyson has been named Vice-Chair and will serve on the EFF Executive

 Committee. Dyson is President of EDventure Holdings Inc., a venture

 capital firm focused on emerging  information technologies, particularly in

 Eastern Europe. Dyson is a member of the US National Information

 Infrastructure Advisory Council, has board memberships at the Global

 Business Network, Perot Systems, the Santa Fe Institute, and is a founding

 member of the Software  Publishers Association.



 Johnson and Dyson join David J. Farber and Rob Glaser on the EFF

 Executive Committee. Farber holds the Alfred Fitler Moore Professorship

 of Telecommunications at the University of Pennsylvania, is a fellow at the

 Annenberg School for Public Policy and at the Glocom Institute in Japan and

 was one of the creators of many of the parts that evolved into the modern

 Internet - such as CSNet, CREN, and NSFNet.  Glaser is President and CEO of

 Progressive Networks, an interactive media and services company and serves

 on such boards as the Foundation for National Programs and the Washington

 Public Affairs Network.



 EFF co-founders Mitchell Kapor (immediate past Chair) and John Perry Barlow

 (immediate past Vice-Chair) remain Directors and will continue to

 participate actively in the development and implementation of EFF policy

 programs.



 Also announced, Jerry Berman, who held the position of Policy Director, has

 left EFF. Janlori Goldman and Daniel Weitzner, who have worked closely

 with Mr. Berman over the years, and other policy staff members, also have

 left to establish with Mr. Berman a new organization to be called the

 Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). EFF wishes CDT success in its

 new venture and thanks Jerry and his colleagues for their substantial

 contributions over the past three years.



 In 1995, EFF will continue to pursue its policy mission of protecting the

 health and growth of the global computer networks. The 1995 policy agenda

 includes such projects as an innovative new "State of the Net" report;

 studies of the implications of the global nature of the net for

 jurisdictional and governance questions; a study of the protection of

 intellectual property on networks; and efforts to preserve the free

 flow of information across the Global Information Infrastructure. EFF

 expects to continue to intervene actively to counter threats to

 computer-mediated communications networks, and virtual communities, such

 as limitations on the use of cryptography and intrusions into personal

 privacy, as it has in previous years.



 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%



                            READER FEEDBACK



 [Editor's note:  This is a response form one of our readers in reply

 to the 'Porn On The Net' article we ran in the last issue]



 By Michael Stutz (at118@po.cwru.edu)



 Hello--



 I didn't see a Letters section in this issue [vol i, issue 6] and I really

 hadn't intended on writing one, but that article -- Paul Pihichyn's rant

 on porn -- was so stupid I had to say *something*.



 Calling it all those names ("filth," "slime," etc) made it immediately

 suspect. What are these things he's talking about?  Naked people.  People

 without their clothes on.  What's so filthy and slimy about that?  Nothing.



 His fears about exposing porn to children are silly; what children know

 how to uudecode, assemble and view an image?  None that *I* know.  Besides,

 what would happen if a child saw a picture of a naked woman?



 What would happen?



 Probably nothing much.  Maybe (s)he'd laugh, I don't know.  While I'd

 hardly recommend throwing porn into the laps of kids, we have to remember

 that it doesn't do much for them, either.  We're all naked and we all have

 sex.  That this guy suggested that we don't 'need' groups like alt.sex

 is more than ridiculous -- it tells me that there's a lot of people out

 there (like him) who need help.



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           CALL SECURITY, PUBLIC KEY VOICE CRYPTOGRAPHY FAQ



 By Neil Johnson (njj@pokey.mc.com)



 Call Security, Public Key Voice Cryptography FAQ

 ------------------------------------------------



 Call Security is a shareware program which provides public key

 cryptography for voice telephone conversations. In other words private

 phone conversations. Like as in voice scrambling. All you need is a

 modem, a sound card, PC, and someone to talk to (with the same).



 This my first version of the Call Security FAQ. Its very brief but

 should get you going if you plan to use it. If you have suggestions,

 comments, or criticism, please let the current editors know by sending

 e-mail to njj@mc.com. Things like, bugs, sound card how to, modem

 init. strings etc... are especially welcome.



 Many thanks to David Colston, Charlie Merritt the authors of Call

 Security. These guys have been sharing info with me regarding this

 program in the many months prior to its release.



 This is the very first & rough draft version of this faq. Some things

 are sure to be missing, just plain wrong, etc... Your get the

 point. Trust only what can you verify yourself. This faq is actually

 bound to create more questions than it answers. Hopefully it gets you

 to use Call Security.



 Call Security FAQ Author Neil J. Johnson, email njj@mc.com



 Table of Contents

 -----------------



 1. Overview, what is Call Security?

 2. How well does it sound?

 3. What kind of hardware do I need?

 4. Where do I Get Call Security?

 5. Quick, can you tell me how to run it step by step?

 5.1 Ok how do I stop talking now?

 6. How Does It Work?

 7. What public key algorithm does it use?

 8. Is it really secure?, You, decide!

 9. Is it safe to give them my public key when i upgrade from shareware

    (512 bit key) to the registered version (1024 bit key)?, Yes,

    its only the public key!

 10. How do I set up my sound card?

 10.1 How do I set up my Gravis Ultrasound?

 11. My modem is full duplex why isn't Call Security?

 12. Are there any bugs in the program?

 13. Where do I get DSZ or GSZ for doing Zmodem transfers with Call Security?



 Answers to Questions

 --------------------

 1. Overview



 Well Call Security (CS) turns your ordinary PC into a very secure

 voice telephone.  CS also works as a general purpose data

 comm. program with zmodem support, ansi/vt100 terminal, & regular

 unencrypted digital voice. Call Security is also a general purpose

 public key cryptography program for encrypting/decrypting any computer

 file (like email).



 2. How well does it sound?



 The sound quality varies depending upon how many (compressed) samples

 per second your hardware can do. Here is a little chart.



 Sample rates:

         7600  Acceptable

        10000  sounds like good CB Radio (486 with 14.4bps modem)

        16000  Real sweet



 3. What kind of hardware do I need?



 The minimum recommended system is a 386sx with a 9600bps modem & a

 sound blaster compatible sound card. A 486 system with a 14.4bps modem

 is recommended. A 28.8bps modem is still even better! You should also have

 a copy of pkunzip to uncompress the program if you get a zipped copy off

 the Call Security BBS.



 4. Where do I Get Call Security?

 Right now the only place to get it is at the following BBS phone number.

 Note I didn't see any support for kermit transfers. I recommend using zmodem

 protocol.



   Call Security BBS

   1 (501) 839 - 8579



   - Give your full name.

   - The password is "security"

   - Use the "d" command to download

   - select transfer type like "z" for zmodem (sorry no kermit support)

   - enter file name "callsec1.zip"

   - put your comm program in zmodem mode (automatic for most comm programs)



 5. Quick, can you tell me how to run it step by step?



 - DOS stuff

    >mkdir callsec1

    >pkunzip callsec1

    >pkunzip software

 - I recommend printing the documents, readme.1st, security.doc,

   svterm.doc.



 - If your in windows exit now.



 - determine which comm port your modem is on & determine the address &

   IRQ. The DOS command msd.exe (Microsoft Diagnostic) can help with this

   task. Write this down for later.



 - determine the address of your sound card. Write down for later use.



 - If you don't have a sound blaster then put you sound card in sound

   blaster emulation mode.



 - type "security" at the dos prompt.



 - Your now in the security program.  Select option A. Make My Own

   Secret & Public Keys (cursor to & hit return)



 - Now unfortunately CS makes public key exchange a hassle. You need to

   extract your public key from your key list it (& uu encode it

   optionally), and give it to the person you wish to talk to with

   CS. The first 2 steps can be done with the menu picks. The last part

   can be done with CS zmodem, if you happen to have the DSZ shareware

   program.



   Since this is a quick start guide lets skip this for now and use password

   encryption instead. If you don't want to skip the public key stuff read the

   documentation.



 - Use menu pick J. Go To Secure Voice Terminal

   You will be prompted for info on you modem set up & sound card setup.

   Just enter the info as it comes up. For sample rate select 10,000 samples

   per sec. for a 14.4 modem, 16,0000 for a 28.8, & 7,600 for a 9,600. Note:

   if you have a 386 16/SX machine don't go over 8,000 samples per second.



 - When your done setting the modem  & sound card you will be a menu for

   where to go next. Hit the return key. You will be popped into the comm.

   program/terminal emulator.



 - Now it time for one person using CS select auto answer mode & the other CS

   to dial.



 - the auto answer person/side presses function key F8



 - the caller does the following:

   press function key F6. Enter name & number of person you plan to dial.

   Note: field are separated with spaces, tab keys won't work. Now dial,

   directions are on the screen to do this (I think you just hit the return

   key).



 - The machines will now connect. Anything you type will go on their screen.

   Anything they type will go on your screen. Note, this text is not

   encrypted.



 - When your ready to talk hit alt-s on you key board. Then select

   password mode (or public key if you've done public key exchange).

   Each side now enters the same secret password (like hello).



 - On your screen it will either indicate that your listening or talking.

   to toggle listening/talking hit the space bar. To end the session hit

   the esc key. Note: it helps if you use it like a CB & say over while

   you hit the space key (when your done talking).



 5.1 Ok how do I stop talking now?

 Well If your talking you must hit the space key to become the listener.

 To end a voice session & go back to the terminal chat mode, you must hit

 the <esc> key while you are in talk mode.



 6. How Does It Work?



 In laymans terms, each person who uses CS has two keys, a matched

 pair. One is public & the other is private. The way program works is

 public key are used to encrypt voice (or computer

 files/email). Private keys are used to decrypt the voice. Hence know

 one can listen in on a conversation (or computer file/email) that was

 meant for you (encrypted with your public key).  However you still have

 to trust the person you are talking to!



 7. What public key algorithm does it use?



 No CS doesn't use the RSA [Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman] public key

 cryposystem as featured in PGP. A bonus feature of not using RSA is

 the avoidance of RSA patent restrictions.



 CS uses QPK Quick Public Keys by David Colston. This

 public key system has been reviewed by Whit Diffee, Gus Simmons

 (Sandia Labs), and posted on sci.crypt.



 On the plus side QPK is fast. On the down side the CS implementation

 of QPK does not support digital signatures. FYI, Digital signatures are

 signed with private keys & verified with public keys.



 Like virtually all public key systems CS uses QPK to encrypt a random

 (private) session key, The session key is then used to encrypt the voice

 conversation.  This is because public key systems are too slow for

 realtime voice.



 The private (session) key encryption algorithm uses a very long many

 bit linear feedback shift register LFSR pattern which is xored with

 the voice data. To greatly increase the security, only short (many

 times less than the LSFR total length) sequences of this LFSR are used

 between transmission of a new (really) random seed for the LFSR. Hence

 a random seed constantly restarts the LFSR at truly random points in

 the sequence.



 Well I'm sure I didn't do justice to the crypto stuff, but its a start.

 If you want to know more general info read the cryptography-faq. It

 can be found in news groups sci.crypt, talk.politics.crypto,

 sci.answers, news.answers, talk.answers.  Another good faq is pgp-faq

 found in news groups alt.security.pgp, alt.answers. Once you have read

 these faqs you will have to consult the authors of CS for more

 specific info on the various crypto features of CS and QPK.



 8. Is it really secure?, You, decide!



 Well the public keys system used by Call Security, QPK ( Quick Public

 Keys) by Dave Colston has survived peer review. This is good.



 Charlie Merritt did the single private key stuff. I described this

 algorithm briefly (from a phone conversation) in question 7. Maybe

 this needs further public review?



 Also we don't have the source code so its hard to check for trap doors.

 I don't know what their motivation for a trap door is however. They want

 to make money off this thing.



 Plus all the normal stuff needs to be considered, like did some one

 put a bug (transmitter) in you sound card microphone, did they break in

 and steal the private key off your harddrive/ floppy drive, etc...



 Well you decide if you think call security is secure. I think it is

 but what do I know? Only time will tell how secure CS really is.



 9. Is it safe to give them my public key when i upgrade from shareware

    (512 bit key) to the registered version (1024 bit key)?, Yes,

    its only the public key!



 Yes, the authors only want half of your public key. This public key is

 then used to create a file which enables receiving encrypted voice

 with your larger key. Note: Non-registered versions work just fine

 with registered users with large keys.



 10. How do I set up my sound card?



 Well if you have an original mono 8 bit sound blaster you do nothing.

 If you don't have a classic sound blaster then you should put you sound card

 in sound blaster (8 bit mono) emulation. Please send me email njj@mc.com on

 how you set up your sound card to work with CS. I will add the info to this

 faq.



 10.1 How do I set up my Gravis Ultrasound?



 Ultrasound cards have two sound blaster emulators. Only the SBOS emulator

 works with Call Security. Don't use MEGAEM.



 Before you run Call Security "SECURITY.EXE" Just exit windows & type

 SBOS at the DOS prompt. You should here the words SBOS installed on

 your sound card speakers, plus you will see confirmation of SBOS

 loading on your computer screen.



 If SBOS doesn't work consult your ultrasound documentation. Or read

 the gravis faq found on the news group

 comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard. Other sights for gravis sound card info

 include:



                      FTP Sites                     Archive Directories

                      ---------                     -------------------

 Main N.American.Site: archive.orst.edu             pub/packages/gravis

                       wuarchive.wustl.edu     systems/ibmpc/ultrasound

 Main Asian Site:      nctuccca.edu.tw                    PC/ultrasound

 Main European Site:   src.doc.ic.ac.uk            /packages/ultrasound

 Main Australian Site: ftp.mpx.com.au               /ultrasound/general

                                                     /ultrasound/submit

 South African Site: ftp.sun.ac.za              pub/packages/ultrasound

 Submissions:        archive.epas.utoronto.ca  pub/pc/ultrasound/submit

 Newly Validated Files: archive.epas.utoronto.ca      pub/pc/ultrasound



 Mirrors:               garbo.uwasa.fi                mirror/ultrasound

                        ftp.st.nepean.uws.edu.au      pc/ultrasound

                        ftp.luth.se                pub/msdos/ultrasound



                        Gopher Sites                  Menu directory

                        ------------                  --------------

 Main Site:             src.doc.ic.ac.uk            packages/ultrasound



                        WWW Pages

                        ---------

 Main Site:             http://www.cs.utah.edu/~debry/gus.html



 Main European Site:    http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/ultrasound/

 Main Australian Site:  http://ftp.mpx.com.au/archive/ultrasound/general/

                        http://ftp.mpx.com.au/archive/ultrasound/submit/

                        http://ftp.mpx.com.au/gravis.html



 Mirrors:

 http://www.st.nepean.uws.edu.au/pub/pc/ultrasound/



 11. My modem is full duplex why isn't Call Security?



 The simple answer is sound blasters (and virtually every other sound

 card known to the program authors) are not full duplex. You can't

 sample digital sound at the same time you are playing digital sound!



 But if the authors, Dave & Charlie start making money off Call Security

 maybe they will be motivated to do a version with 2 sound cards, one

 for record the other for playback.



 12. Are there any bugs in the program?



 Well one very minor bug is the wrong help file (security.doc) pops up

 when you request help in the terminal session of the program. What you

 really want to see is the svterm.doc file when trying to figure out

 how to send/receive voice messages. As I stated before print the

 documentation files svterm.doc, securty.doc, & readme.1st before

 running the program. Remember the Call Security is not windows

 compatible, so you can't have help in one window and call security in

 the other window!



 Another feature I find annoying is that public key exchange is not

 built in to the voice session. Okay maybe public key exchange is not

 something you want to do for every call (to prevent forgery) but at

 least make it a non-default menu pick! The best work around is to pull

 a copy of DSZ or GSZ off one of the shareware sights. This will allow

 Secure Voice to perform file exchange. Then use DSZ to exchange public

 keys prior to running a voice session.



 13. Where do I get DSZ or GSZ for doing Zmodem transfers with Call Security?



 I haven't tried personally tried DSZ or GSZ yet. But here is one FTP

 sight (the SIMTEL primary mirror sight) I downloaded DSZ from while

 writing this faq:



 FTP Location: oak.oakland.edu: /pub/msdos/zmodem

 dsz-read.me A  516    890115  Explains what DSZ program is

 dsz0920.zip B  91253  940930  X/Y/Zmodem protocol file transfer pgm

 txzm241.zip B  42734  941005  Texas Zmodem: Fast/free Zmodem prot. driver

 gsz0920.zip B  112428 940930  X/Y/ZMODEM driver with graphic file xfer



 For more info on shareware sights read the news group

 comp.archives.msdos.announce. Other SIMTEL mirror sights include:



      St. Louis, MO:  wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4)

                          /systems/ibmpc/msdos

      Corvallis, OR:  archive.orst.edu (128.193.2.13)

                          /pub/mirrors/simtel/msdos

          Australia:  archie.au (139.130.4.6)

                          /micros/pc/oak

            England:  src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.2.10)

                          /pub/packages/simtel

            Finland:  ftp.funet.fi (128.214.248.6)

                          /pub/msdos/SimTel

             France:  ftp.ibp.fr (132.227.60.2)

                          /pub/pc/SimTel/msdos

            Germany:  ftp.uni-paderborn.de (131.234.2.32)

                          /SimTel/msdos

          Hong Kong:  ftp.cs.cuhk.hk (137.189.4.57)

                          /pub/simtel/msdos

             Israel:  ftp.technion.ac.il (132.68.1.10)

                          /pub/unsupported/dos/simtel

             Poland:  ftp.cyf-kr.edu.pl (149.156.1.8)

                          /pub/mirror/msdos

       South Africa:  ftp.sun.ac.za (146.232.212.21)

                          /pub/simtel/msdos

             Sweden:  ftp.sunet.se (130.238.127.3)

                          /pub/pc/mirror/SimTel/msdos

        Switzerland:  ftp.switch.ch (130.59.1.40)

                          /mirror/msdos

             Taiwan:  NCTUCCCA.edu.tw (140.111.1.10)

                          /PC/simtel

           Thailand:  ftp.nectec.or.th (192.150.251.33)

                          /pub/mirrors/SimTel/msdos



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                    THERE IS A BODY ON THE INTERNET



 From Uncle Bob's Network News #103



 There is a body on the Internet!



 At the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of America in Chicago

 on November 18, 1994, the National Library of Medicine unveiled its

 "Visible Man," a three-dimensional, computer-generated cybernetic body,

 which is now available on the Internet.  "Visible Man" is an atlas of

 the human body, assembled digitally from thousands of x-ray, magnetic,

 and photographic images of cross sections of the body of Joseph Paul

 Jernigan, who was executed in Texas for murder, and who had willed his

 body to medical science.



 Using digitalized radiological data from the cadaver, researchers at the

 Heath Science Center of the University of Colorado, under a project funded

 by the NLM, compiled a virtual human body that can be viewed on a screen

 from any angle, dissected and reassembled by anatomy students, or used as

 a model to study the growth of cancer cells, for example.



 First, the real body was photographed with CT scans, magnetic resonance

 imaging, and conventional x-rays.  Then it was embedded in gelatin,

 frozen, and sliced with a laser knife into more than 1,800 cardboard-thin

 cross-sections.  One by one, the cross-sections were removed from the

 cadaver and digitally photographed.  Thousands of pictures were entered

 into the computer.



 The main users are expected to be medical schools and researchers at large

 medical centers.  There is no charge for the access but users must sign

 a licensing agreement with the NLM.  The library has already heard from

 about 300 applicants, including brain surgeons, clothing designers, and

 traffic safety crash testers.  According to NLM director Donald A. B.

 Lindburg, "People are awestruck by how detailed and good the images are."



 Don't expect to download "Visible Man" at home: the program is so complex

 it will require up to two weeks of Internet time to download and a

 capacity on the receiving computer of 15 gigabytes--or 15,000 megabytes.



 The project, costing $1.4 million, will continue next year with phase two:

 "Visible Woman."



 (compiled from news reports in The Richmond Times-Dispatch, The

 Washington Post, and The New York Times)



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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 06:55:18 -0600

From: JAUC <dfox@fc.net>

Subject: JAUC-File3



 

                 WINDOWS AND TCP/IP FOR INTERNET ACCESS



 By Harry M. Kriz (hmkriz@vt.edu)

 University Libraries

 Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

 Blacksburg, VA   24061-0434

 http://learning.lib.vt.edu/authors/hmkriz.html



 In response to popular demand, I am publishing a new release of my paper

 on using Microsoft Windows to access Internet resources. Thanks to

 everyone who has e-mailed me and called me over the past year. I am

 delighted that the paper has been useful. I have been even more delighted

 to give permission for distributing copies at Internet workshops, and for

 copies to be posted on Internet servers. Perhaps this new release will

 find it's way into the hands of all those folks who are getting their

 first computers this Christmas. I hope this paper can play some small

 part in getting them over the rough spots.



 A plain text version of this complete document is available by anonymous

 ftp from:  nebula.lib.vt.edu in directory /pub/windows/winsock

 under filename wtcpip06.asc



 A hypertext version is available at:

 http://learning.lib.vt.edu/wintcpip/wintcpip.html



 --------

 ABSTRACT



 Internet, the global network of computer networks, is arousing enormous

 popular interest. In part this interest is being driven by the

 availability of free or inexpensive shareware software for Microsoft

 Windows. It is now technically simple for a personal computer to become

 a host on the Internet. The casual user can find, retrieve, and view

 information gathered from around the world without having to learn

 complicated computer commands. In this paper I describe the principal

 functions and services available via the Internet. Then I outline the

 technical background and terminology needed by the beginner who wants to

 make his PC a host on the Internet. Finally, I describe several Windows

 software packages and programs that facilitate using Internet services.

 All the software is freely available over the Internet.



 -------------------

 PUBLICATION HISTORY



 The most recent plain text (ascii) version of this paper is always

 available by anonymous FTP from nebula.lib.vt.edu in directory

 /pub/windows/winsock under the name wtcpip**.asc. For example, this

 version is available as wtcpip06.asc. A hypertext version of this paper

 that is maintained on a more regular basis is available through the

 World Wide Web at:  http://learning.lib.vt.edu/wintcpip/wintcpip.html



 The first version of this paper was released via Internet news and BITNET

 listserv on November 15, 1993. Revised and expanded versions were released

 on January 16, February 9, and March 21, 1994. A version was published

 by O'Reilly Associates in the March 14, 1994 issue of the "Global Network

 Navigator Toolkit," which was then accessible at:

 http://nearnet.gnn.com/GNN-ORA.html.



 Release 05 (June 21, 1994) was a major revision that was published by the

 Virginia Tech College of Engineering on the CD-ROM "1994-95 VT Engineering

 Tools." A print copy of Release 05 was also published by the Computing and

 Systems Technology Division of the American Institute of Chemical

 Engineers in "CAST Communications," Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 6-14 (Summer 1994).



 ------------

 INTRODUCTION



 Internet, the world-wide network of computer networks, has captured the

 imagination of the general public. Eighteen months ago, the Internet was

 barely mentioned in the popular computing magazines. Now it is the topic

 of articles in national news magazines, local newspapers, and grocery-store

 tabloids.



 Awareness of the Internet has spread primarily by word of mouth.  Computer

 pundits were not discussing the Internet in Spring 1993 when I first began

 investigating the Internet in my work as a librarian. Indeed, most pundits

 seem to have acquired Internet access only in the Spring of 1994. Thus,

 computer magazines have not been helpful for those wishing to learn about

 the Internet.



 Now, in December 1994, there is something of a feeding frenzy of interest

 in the Internet. Bookstores are flooded with guides to the Internet.

 Software vendors are rushing to market with collections of software

 designed for navigating the resources on the Internet. It is almost as if

 the crest of the Internet wave has passed. Pundits who did not have access

 to the Internet last year are already writing negative opinions about the

 difficulties of navigating Internet resources, and about the uselessness

 of those resources.



 Complaints about the Internet are many. Certainly it can be difficult to

 find information and resources on the Internet. A great deal of

 information is unvalidated, non-authoritative, or otherwise questionable.

 Some resources should not be available to children. Some would argue that

 some of the information should not be distributed even to adults.



 It is important to remember that the Internet is not a service.  Rather,

 it is a means of gaining access to services and of retrieving information

 and other objects that can be represented electronically. In considering

 complaints about the Internet, one might draw an analogy between the

 Internet and New York City.



 New York is big, complicated, and disorganized. The city's myriad resources

 can be hard to find. Some of what happens or what is available in New York

 should not be seen by children. For those wishing to navigate the

 complexity of New York, there are guidebooks, phone directories, magazine

 articles, and individuals with expert knowledge about areas of particular

 interest. One can navigate the complexity of the city by subway, taxi,

 and bus. One can even hire a private guide to conduct a tour of the city.



 The Internet can be compared to the streets of New York City. The services

 available on the Internet have their analogies in the city's libraries,

 department stores, bookshops, art galleries, street vendors, and street-

 corner zealots passing out literature or lecturing the passing crowds. It

 is safe to assume that somewhere on the streets of the city there will be

 found information and services of interest to almost anyone. However,

 finding that information might take some time for someone who is new to

 the city and its resources. Similarly, somewhere on the Internet there

 also will be found information and services of interest to almost anyone.



 Traveling on the Internet requires only a few basic tools. First is a

 computer with a network connection to the Internet. A direct connection

 using a PC equipped with a network interface card that interfaces with a

 local area network linked to the Internet is common at universities, and

 becoming more common in businesses.  If a direct network connection is not

 available, an alternative is to connect to the Internet through the

 computer's serial port.  This involves a telephone connection to a terminal

 server that offers SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) or PPP (Point

 to Point Protocol) service. Any of these connections can be used with a

 variety of commercial or shareware software to make your personal computer

 a host on the Internet and to access services and information from the

 entire earth. This paper will emphasize the use of freeware and shareware

 versions of software running under Microsoft Windows.



 -----------------

 INTERNET SERVICES



 The Internet services of interest to most people consist of four basic

 functions. These are electronic mail (e-mail), Internet news, file

 transfer between computers (FTP), and remote login to another computer

 (telnet). Access systems like Gopher and World Wide Web now supplement

 these basic Internet functions by assisting the user in searching for

 and retrieving relevant information in a user-friendly manner.



 Until recently, Internet functions were accessible primarily through

 character-based interfaces using a variety of complex command sets. Thus,

 until recently, best-selling books on the Internet contained page after

 page of screen displays or command sequences captured from UNIX-based

 systems executing basic Internet functions.



 Affordable Internet software for Windows first became available in Spring

 1993. Prior to that time, Windows users were dependent for Internet access

 on expensive, proprietary, commercial products in which each vendor's

 offerings were mutually incompatible with every other vendor's offerings.

 Publication of the Winsock applications programming interface provided a

 way for individual client software (such as a telnet or FTP client) to be

 compatible with every vendor's networking products. As a result, beginning

 in 1993 there was a blossoming of freeware, shareware, and commercial

 Internet software for Windows.



 Of special interest has been the development of Windows interfaces to the

 World Wide Web. Mosaic is the best known Web browser. Other choices

 include Cello, Netscape, and WinWeb. The Web was developed by the high

 energy physics community to distribute technical papers and other forms

 of data. WWW is now widely viewed as a means for educators, businesses,

 and hobbyists to distribute multimedia information to a world-wide

 audience.  Graphical WWW clients enable publication of data over the

 Internet in a manner which allows the user to view text, color graphics,

 sound, and video in a manner that approaches the usability, and surpasses

 the functionality, of a printed magazine. Those interested in publishing

 WWW documents may find it useful to read my paper "Teaching and

 Publishing in the World Wide Web." A plain text version is available by

 anonymous FTP from:  nebula.lib.vt.edu in directory /pub/www under the

 name websrv01.asc.   A hypertext version is available through the Web at

 http:/learning.lib.vt.edu/webserv/webserv.html.



 ******

 E-MAIL

 Electronic mail is probably the most widely used Internet function. A

 commonly used configuration requires that a user have an account on a

 POP (Post Office Protocol) mail server. The e-mail client software

 accesses the server and downloads any incoming messages to the user's

 PC. Mail composed at the user's PC is transmitted to the Internet through

 the mail server.



 *************

 INTERNET NEWS

 Internet news, also referred to as USENET news, is a conferencing system

 made up of thousands of topical conferences known as news groups. Those

 familiar with electronic bulletin board systems will compare Internet

 news to echo conferences. Others will draw an analogy to mailing lists

 such as listserv on BITNET. The user reads the news by using client

 software to subscribe to a selection of news groups. When the client

 software accesses an NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) server, the

 server downloads to the client a list of subjects for all unread messages

 stored on the server for the selected news group. The user can then select

 any message for reading, post a response to the message to the group, or

 reply directly to the original poster of the message. The client software

 maintains on the user's PC a list of all available groups on the server,

 along with records of which messages have been read or skipped over.

 Only the messages selected for reading are actually downloaded to the

 user's PC.



 ***

 FTP

 FTP (File Transfer Protocol) allows the transfer of files between any two

 computers of any type. Files can be transferred from PC to PC, PC to

 mainframe, PC to Mac, PC to UNIX machine, and vice versa. Any kind of

 computer file, whether it be a text file or a binary file representing

 software, graphics images, or sounds, can be transferred. Of course,

 whether the file is usable on the receiving machine depends on the nature

 of the file and the availability of software to make use of the file.



 ******

 TELNET

 Telnet enables the user of a PC to login to a host computer at another

 site on the Internet. The user's PC then acts as a dumb terminal attached

 to the remote host. Such access usually requires that the user have an

 account on the remote host. For instance, a student or faculty member at

 one university might have an account on a computer located at another

 university. An increasing number of commercial services are becoming

 available via telnet, including services such as the Dow Jones News

 Service and the Lexis/Nexis service. In addition, some services are

 available without charge. For example, hundreds of libraries in all parts

 of the world allow free remote access to their computerized catalogs and

 to some specialized databases.



 ******

 GOPHER

 Gopher is a system that enables the user to find files and other Internet

 services by navigating a system of text menus and submenus. As a corollary,

 it provides a means for information providers to publish information on

 the Internet in a discoverable manner. Prior to the development of Gopher

 at the University of Minnesota, information on the Internet was located

 by asking friends and strangers where to look.



 The first step in using a Gopher client is to "point" the client at the

 address of a known Gopher server. The client then retrieves that Gopher's

 menu of topics. Typically, many of the topics on a Gopher menu are

 pointers to yet other menu items on other Gopher servers. The fact that

 items in the sequence of selections might come from different Gopher

 servers in widely scattered parts of the world is transparent to the user.

 The Gopher client software presents the many different Gopher servers

 as if they represented a single application on a single machine.

 Navigating such menus can lead the user to skip from one Gopher server to

 another, literally retrieving information from servers scattered around

 the world in just a few minutes.



 Items on Gopher menus can be of many different data types in addition to

 menus listing choices of topics. When an item such as a text, graphics,

 or sound file is selected, the Gopher client transfers the file to the

 user's PC. Then, as an option, it may load the file into an appropriate

 "viewer" selected by the user.  A simple text file could be loaded into

 Windows Notepad. A graphics file in GIF or JPEG format might be loaded

 into LVIEW, a popular freeware graphics viewer for Windows. A binary

 program file would simply be downloaded into a designated directory for

 use at some other time. Finding relevant Gopher menu items is facilitated

 through the use of Veronica, which is a database of the text of Gopher

 menus. Most Gopher servers will include Veronica access as a menu

 selection.



 **************

 WORLD WIDE WEB

 World Wide Web (WWW) is a system that enables users to find and retrieve

 information by navigating a system of hypertext documents. In a hypertext

 document, selecting a highlighted word or phrase causes a new document to

 be retrieved and displayed.  Thus, WWW leads the user to skip from one

 document to another, retrieving information from servers scattered around

 the world.



 Viewing a WWW document with a Windows graphical client such as Cello,

 Mosaic, Netscape, or WinWeb is similar to reading a magazine. Information

 is displayed with typographic fonts and color graphics. Unlike a magazine,

 the static display can be supplemented by sound and video clips that are

 played by clicking an icon embedded in the document. Clicking on a

 highlighted word or phrase in the document may cause the reader to skip to

 another part of the displayed document, or it may cause yet another

 document to be retrieved.





 -----------------

 TECHNICAL DETAILS



 It is helpful to know some Internet terminology when working with your

 local network specialist or Internet service provider to make your PC a

 host on the Internet. The two common modes of Internet access are through a

 direct network connection or through a serial connection to a SLIP or PPP

 server.



 A direct network connection involves installing a network interface card

 (NIC) in your PC. Most likely this will be an ethernet card. This card

 in turn is connected to your organization's local area network. Wiring

 usually consists of coaxial cable (as in thin-wire ethernet) or twisted

 pair telephone wiring (as in 10Base-T ethernet). The local network in

 turn must be connected to the Internet, and it must be capable of handling

 TCP/IP data packets.



 TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the method by

 which data on the Internet is divided into packets of bytes. Each packet

 is delimited with header information that includes the destination address

 where the packet is to be routed when it is transmitted over the Internet.

 The local network and your PC may also be using other network protocols

 simultaneously with TCP/IP. For instance, your PC may already be connected

 to a network using Novell, LANtastic, or Windows for Workgroups network

 protocols.



 ***************

 SOFTWARE LAYERS

 Several layers of software are involved in implementing a direct network

 connection. A commonly used method is to first install a piece of software

 called a packet driver that deals directly with the network interface

 card. This is loaded under DOS from the AUTOEXEC.BAT file as a TSR

 (terminate and stay resident) program.  A packet driver should be included

 with the software that comes with the card. If the manufacturer of the card

 does not supply a packet driver, free packet drivers are available in the

 Crynwr Packet Driver Collection as described at the end of this document.



 The next layer of software is the TCP/IP driver, which can be implemented

 in a variety of ways. Until recently, this was often another DOS TSR

 program loaded from the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.  Increasingly this layer of

 software is implemented as a Windows dynamic link library (DLL) or virtual

 device driver (VxD). The DLL and VxD implementations do not require any

 modification of the boot files on the PC.



 The TCP/IP driver that implements TCP/IP functionality for the system is

 referred to as the TCP/IP protocol stack. The driver may be written to work

 with a specific network card, or it may be written to interface with a

 packet driver. In the latter case, a single TCP/IP driver can be used with

 any network card for which an associated packet driver is available. Thus,

 the packet driver specification eliminates the need for software vendors

 to customize their TCP/IP protocol stack for every network card with which

 it is used. When using a packet driver with Windows applications, another

 DOS TSR referred to as a virtual packet driver may be required to

 interface between the Windows-based TCP/IP protocol stack and the

 DOS-based packet driver.



 When a direct network connection is not available, Internet TCP/IP software

 can be used over serial lines to connect to a SLIP (Serial Line Internet

 Protocol) or PPP (Point to Point Protocol) server that provides a

 connection to the Internet. SLIP and PPP do not require the software

 drivers that are necessary with a direct network connection. The Trumpet

 Winsock shareware package to be described later has all SLIP and PPP

 functions included in the TCP/IP driver, which is configured through a

 Windows dialog box.



 SLIP and PPP are less transparent to the user than a direct network

 connection. The user first obtains an account on a SLIP or PPP server.

 Connecting to the Internet involves dialing the server using normal

 serial communications software and establishing a SLIP or PPP session.

 Once the session is established, TCP/IP software running on the PC can be

 used just as if the PC was connected directly to the Internet through a

 network card. SLIP and PPP users are well advised to settle for nothing

 less than transmission at 14,400 bits per second. World Wide Web

 especially transmits a great deal of data when images or sound are

 involved. Slow modems and slow connections will discourage anyone but the

 most dedicated user from exploring the possibilities of the Internet.



 TCP/IP client applications work at the top of the layers of software so

 far described. Client software runs independently of the type of connection

 to the Internet. TCP/IP applications frequently are referred to as clients

 because they access a corresponding server (a daemon in UNIX terminology)

 on another machine. An FTP client, for instance, is the application on the

 user's machine that accesses the FTP server running on a host computer

 located elsewhere on the Internet.



 Until recently, each TCP/IP client had to be written to interface with a

 particular vendor's TCP/IP protocol stack. Clients that worked with one

 vendor's TCP/IP driver would not work with a driver from another vendor.

 This restriction was eliminated with the development of the Windows

 Sockets Application Programming Interface, otherwise known as the Winsock

 API, or more simply Winsock. Winsock works in the layer between the

 TCP/IP client and the TCP/IP protocol stack.



Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 06:38:14 -0600

From: Malik Al-Rashim <dfox@fc.net>

Subject: JAUC-File4



 

 -------

 WINSOCK



 "Winsock" is the buzzword that dominates discussion about TCP/IPand Windows.

 All of the software to be described here is based on Winsock. The

 implementation of Winsock is transparent to the user, but it is helpful

 for the end-user to know how it supports Windows applications.



 Winsock (short for Windows sockets) is a technical specification that

 defines a standard interface between a Windows TCP/IP client application

 (such as an FTP client or a Gopher client) and the underlying TCP/IP

 protocol stack. The nomenclature is based on the Sockets applications

 programming interface model used in Berkeley UNIX for communications

 between programs.



 When you launch a Winsock compliant client like WSGopher, it calls

 procedures from the WINSOCK.DLL dynamic link library. These procedures in

 turn invoke procedures in the drivers supplied with the TCP/IP protocol

 stack. As described earlier, the TCP/IP driver communicates with the

 computer's ethernet card through the packet driver.



 The WINSOCK.DLL file is not a generic file that can be used on any system.

 Each vendor of a TCP/IP protocol stack supplies a proprietary WINSOCK.DLL

 that works only with that vendor's TCP/IP stack.



 The advantage of Winsock to the developer of a client is that the

 application will work with any vendor's Winsock implementation.  Thus, the

 developer of an application such as a Gopher client has to understand the

 Winsock interface, but he does not have to know the details of each

 vendor's TCP/IP protocol stack in order to make his client application

 compatible with that stack. Winsock also eliminates the need for an

 application developer to include a custom TCP/IP protocol stack within the

 application program itself. This was a common means of implementing TCP/IP

 clients under DOS, and some early Windows TCP/IP clients also used this

 method. The use of protocol stacks internal to the client results in

 conflicts when two clients try to access the single packet driver that is

 communicating with the network card. The ability to create applications

 compatible with any vendor's Winsock compliant protocol stack resulted

 in a blossoming of Winsock compliant shareware applications beginning in

 Summer 1993.



 The Winsock standard also offers advantages to the end-user. One advantage

 is that several Winsock applications from different vendors can be used

 simultaneously. This is a marked improvement over earlier packet driver

 applications in which each application contained a built-in TCP/IP stack.

 Such applications cannot share the packet driver except through the added

 complexity of a packet multiplexer such as PKTMUX. A second advantage to

 the user is that any Winsock compliant application will run with any

 vendor's TCP/IP protocol stack and accompanying WINSOCK.DLL.



 Unfortunately, some commercial vendors of TCP/IP clients are not yet

 taking advantage of Winsock capabilities. There are still TCP/IP clients

 that require dedicated access to the packet driver, and there are clients

 that will run only with the TCP/IP protocol stack supplied by one

 particular vendor. Fortunately, the trend is for all commercial vendors

 to make their applications more usable and portable through the use of the

 Winsock standard.



 ---------------------

 SOFTWARE DESCRIPTIONS



 Once the required networking hardware is installed and an IP address is

 assigned, or once an account is obtained on a SLIP or PPP server, the user

 needs to install a TCP/IP protocol stack and a selection of TCP/IP clients.

 The remainder of this paper describes such software.



 For each application, I briefly outline the installation procedures. I do

 this primarily to illustrate the simplicity of using Windows for Internet

 access. Please be sure to read any text files included with each package

 in order to complete the configuration and to learn about all functions

 of the software.



 I have installed all the software described here for many of my colleagues

 in the Virginia Tech Libraries. With some practice I have found that I can

 install a complete suite of TCP/IP applications in about half an hour.

 Some individuals who read the previous versions of this document were up

 and running in less than an hour after obtaining the software. They

 expressed their delight at the ease of networking with Windows.



 **********************************

 DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITED WARRANTIES



 I am not an expert on anything. I am just an enthusiastic end-user of these

 products in my daily work. I have used all of the client software with a

 direct connection to an ethernet network using a Western Digital or SMC

 ethernet card with the Trumpet Winsock shareware TCP/IP protocol stack

 and WINSOCK.DLL.  In addition, I have used most of the clients with FTP

 Software's commercial package PC/TCP version 2.2. In the latter case I

 obtained the most recent version of FTP Software's WINSOCK.DLL file by

 anonymous FTP from ftp.ftp.com in directory /support/ftpsoft/winsock under

 the name winsock.exe (a self-extracting ZIP file)(November 16, 1994

 | 46,375 bytes). The Trumpet and FTP products both use a packet driver

 interface to the network card. I have also used most of the clients on a

 Windows for Workgroups network using Microsoft's add-on TCP/IP package.

 This package is available by anonymous FTP from ftp.microsoft.com in the

 directory /peropsys/windows/public/tcpip under the filename WFWT32.EXE

 (November 29, 1994 | 680,621 bytes), a self-extracting archive file.

 I also have used most of the client software through a SLIP server using

 the Trumpet Winsock. Both a dialup connection to the SLIP server and a

 modemless connection through an IBM/ROLM digital switch were used at

 various times.



 I have no experience with PPP connections.



 As discussed above, the client software described here should run with any

 TCP/IP protocol stack that offers Winsock support. If your PC is already

 using a network operating system that does not include Winsock support,

 you should check with your vendor to find out if Winsock support is

 available. If Winsock support is not available from your vendor, then it

 may be possible to install the Trumpet Winsock TCP/IP protocol stack over

 your existing network drivers using a small program known as a packet

 driver shim. Instructions for this configuration are included in the

 Trumpet Winsock documentation.



 In the following descriptions, information about version numbers, file

 sizes, and dates was verified on December 20, 1994.





 ***************

 TRUMPET WINSOCK  (TCP/IP protocol stack and basic clients, )

                  (including telnet, ping, and Archie       )



 Comment:  You need this package (or some other TCP/IP protocol stack that

 supports Winsock) before you can use any of the client software described

 later. Trumpet Winsock does not require any additional network software.

 Its TCP/IP functions can be installed over other network software such as

 Novell or Windows for Workgroups using a packet driver shim. Instructions

 for such installations are included in the ZIP file.



 Author:     Peter Tattam, Trumpet Software International

 Fee:        $25 shareware fee.

 Version:    2.0 Revision B

 File name:  twsk20b.zip    (November 3, 1994 | 179,015 bytes)

             (includes the TCP/IP protocol stack)

             winapps2.zip   (November 29, 1994 | 162,023 bytes)

             (includes basic clients)



 Available by anonymous FTP from:

 ftp.trumpet.com.au in directory /ftp/pub/winsock

 or by Gopher from

 gopher.trumpet.com.au under menu item winsock.



 The Australian hosts can be slow. An alternative gopher site is

 biochemistry.bioc.cwru.edu under the menu item CWRU Biochemistry FTP

 Archive/trumpwsk. You can also FTP to this address and access the

 directory /gopher/pub/trumpwsk.  However, only one anonymous FTP user is

 permitted weekdays during normal working hours from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

 local time. Note that this site may not contain the latest version of the

 files. For example, at this writing it did not contain the most recent

 winapps2.zip file.



 Installation:



   1.) Create directory C:\TRUMPWSK and unzip TWSK20B.ZIP and

       WINAPPS2.ZIP into this directory.



   2.) Install software drivers.



       Ethernet network:



       a.) Install packet driver for your ethernet card.

           The entry in my AUTOEXEC.BAT file is:

           C:\ETHERNET\8003PKDR.EXE /B:240 /R:D000 /I:10 /E:61

       b.) Install WINPKT.COM virtual packet driver included in

           TWSK20B.ZIP. The entry in my AUTOEXEC.BAT file is:

           C:\TRUMPWSK\WINPKT.COM 0x61



       SLIP or PPP:



       No special drivers are needed because SLIP and PPP support

       are built into the Trumpet Winsock TCPMAN.EXE program.



   3.) In Program Manager, create a program group named Network.

       Use File Manager to drag and drop the EXE files in

       C:\TRUMPWSK into the Network program group.



   4.) Edit the PATH statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT to include

       C:\TRUMPWSK. This enables Winsock applications to find

       WINSOCK.DLL when they are launched.



   5.) Reboot the computer and start Windows.



   6.) Launch TCPMAN from the Network program group.

       Select Setup on the menu bar. Enter your IP address,

       gateway address, and nameserver address as assigned by

       your local network administrator. (Some SLIP and PPP

       servers, as well as some direct network connections, do

       not use permanent IP addresses. Instead, the server

       assigns a temporary IP address at the start of each

       session. If the server provides a bootp service, then

       enter the text "bootp" (without the quotes) in place of

       the IP address. On some servers it may be necessary to

       enter the dummy IP address 0.0.0.0. Some servers report

       the assigned IP address during session startup, requiring

       the user to manually enter the assigned address in the

       Setup dialog box before proceeding into SLIP mode.) If you

       are using ethernet, enter the software interrupt used by

       the packet driver. If you are using SLIP or PPP, check the

       appropriate box and enter the appropriate COM port number

       in the SLIP port box. Exit from TCPMAN. The file

       TRUMPWSK.INI will be created in the C:\TRUMPWSK directory.



   7.) Launch any Winsock compliant application. TCPMAN.EXE will

       start automatically if it is not already running. (If you

       are using SLIP or PPP, you must first connect to the

       server and start a session. This can be done with the

       dialing function in TCPMAN.) Several clients are included

       with the Trumpet Winsock, including TRMPTEL.EXE version

       0.07 for telnet, WINARCH.EXE for searching Archie

       databases, and PINGW.EXE to ping another machine on the

       network. PINGW provides the simplest means of verifying

       that you have a network connection. Launch PINGW and enter

       the name of an Internet host at the prompt. For example,

       you might try to PING ftp.trumpet.com.au. If your

       connection is working, and if the host is operating, you

       will receive a response from the remote host.



 Note:  The WINSOCK.DLL file for the Trumpet Winsock remains in the

 C:\TRUMPWSK directory. Some vendors may require that their WINSOCK.DLL be

 copied to the C:\WINDOWS directory. If you have used Winsock software

 from another vendor, but now want to try the Trumpet Winsock, be sure to

 remove the other vendor's WINSOCK.DLL so that it will not interfere with

 the Trumpet Winsock implementation.



 Tip:  The WINARCH client for Archie searching that is supplied in

 WINAPPS2.ZIP defaults to searching the Archie server at archie.au. You can

 access a different Archie server by using a command line argument. For

 instance, to use the Archie server run by AT&T, use the command line

 winarch.exe -archie=ds.internic.net.



 SLIP or PPP usage:  Trumpet Winsock includes a simple dialing function.

 You can connect to your server by manually issuing the dialing commands.

 You can also write a script that will dial and start your session

 automatically.



 PITFALL:  After dialing with TCPMAN.EXE and establishing the SLIP or PPP

 session, you must press the <ESC> key to escape from dialing mode and to

 re-enable the TCP/IP mode in TCPMAN.EXE.



 You may want to dial your server automatically without writing a custom

 dialing script for TCPMAN.EXE. A utility named DIALER can be set up to

 automatically issue the commands and passwords needed to start a session

 on your server. DIALER version 2.0A is available by anonymous FTP from:



      ftp.demon.co.uk

      /pub/ibmpc/windows/utilities/dialexe.zip

      (May 27, 1994 | 31,072 bytes)





 *******

 WSGOPHER (Gopher client)



 Comment:  A fast client with a useful system for saving bookmarks

 in a subject classified arrangement and a good help system.



 Author:     Dave Brooks

 License:    Free

 Version:    1.2

 File name:  wsg-12.exe  (December 13, 1994 | 367,860 bytes)

 Available by anonymous FTP from:

    dewey.tis.inel.gov in directory /pub/wsgopher



 Installation:



   1.) Create the directory C:\WSGOPHER and copy the file

       WSG-12.EXE to this directory. This file is a self-

       extracting ZIP file.

   2.) Execute WSG-12.EXE. The files will be extracted to the

       directory.

   3.) Create a new program item in the Network program group for

       the program C:\WSGOPHER\WSGOPHER.EXE.

   4.) Launch WSGopher and read the Help file.

   5.) Select the Configuration menu and set the various

       parameters and options as desired. The WSGOPHER.INI file

       and bookmark files are kept in the C:\WSGOPHER directory.



 *******************

 TRUMPET FOR WINDOWS  (Internet news reader and POP mail client)



 Comment:  To read Internet news, you need access to an NNTP(Network News

 Transfer Protocol) server. To use the mail functions, you need an account

 on a POP (Post Office Protocol) mail server. (I have not tested the mail

 functions in this application because I prefer to use PC Eudora for mail.)



 Author:     Peter Tattam, Trumpet Software International

 Fee:        $40.00 shareware fee. TSI has extended the free

             trial period until the final release of version

             1.0B, which is in beta testing at this time.

 Version:    1.0 Revision A

 File name:  wtwsk10a.zip   (August 28, 1993 | 167,601 bytes)



 Available by anonymous FTP from:

 ftp.trumpet.com.au in directory /ftp/pub/wintrump

 or by Gopher from gopher.trumpet.com.au under menu item wintrump.



 Installation:

   1.) Create the directory C:\WINTRUMP and unzip WTWSK10A.ZIP

       into this directory.

   2.) Create a new program item in the Network program group for

       the program C:\WINTRUMP\WT_WSK.EXE.

   3.) Launch the program.

   4.) Supply the address and other information in the dialog

       boxes for the menu selections File Setup and File Network

       Setup. NEWS.PRM and other configuration files will be

       created and stored in C:\WINTRUMP.



 PITFALL:  The list of available news groups on your news server is stored

 by Trumpet in the file NEWS.GRP. At times, Trumpet fails to fully update

 this file as new groups become available from the news server. You can

 force Trumpet to create a new and complete list of available groups by

 erasing NEWS.GRP before starting Trumpet.





 ******************

 EUDORA FOR WINDOWS (full featured mail client)



 Comment:  You will need an account on a POP mail server to send and receive

 mail at your PC. QUALCOMM sells a commercial version of Eudora for both

 Windows and the Macintosh.



 Author:     Jeff Beckley, Jeff Gehlhaar, and Mark Erikson,

             QUALCOMM, Inc.

 License:    Shareware version is free. The author, Jeff Beckley,

             requests that you send him a postcard at QUALCOMM,

             Inc., 6455 Lusk Blvd., San Diego, CA  92121-2779 USA

             if you find the program useful. Information about

             the commercial version is available through

             QUALCOMM's QUEST group World Wide Web page at

             http://www.qualcomm.com/quest/QuestMain.html or from

             QUALCOMM's FTP server at ftp.qualcomm.com in

             directory /quest/eudora/windows. Questions about

             Eudora can be sent by e-mail to

             eudora-sales@qualcomm.com

 Version:    Shareware: 1.4.4

 File name:  eudor144.exe   (December 7, 1994 | 292,942 bytes)

             (self extracting archive file)



 Available by anonymous FTP from:

 ftp.qualcomm.com in directory /quest/windows/eudora/1.4



 Installation:

   1.) Copy the file EUDOR144.EXE to the directory C:\EUDORA.

   2.) Execute EUDOR144.EXE to unarchive the program files.

   3.) Create a new program item in the Network program group for

       the program C:\EUDORA\WEUDORA.EXE.

   4.) Launch the program.

   5.) Select Special Configuration from the menu bar and supply

       the required information.

   6.) Select Special Switches and set characteristics as

       desired.

   7.) Create mailboxes and nicknames to taste.

   8.) The file EUDORA.INI and other configuration files will be

       created in the C:\EDUORA directory.



 *******

 WS_FTP    (FTP client)

 WS_PING   (ping client)



 Author:     John Junod



 License:    Free to individuals for any non-commercial use and

             for any U. S. Government Organization. Others should

             contact Ipswitch, Inc., 669 Main Street, Wakefield,

             MA, 01880, (617)246-1150, info@ipswitch.com.



 Version:    94.10.18  (WS_FTP)

             94.10.20  (WS_PING)



 File names: ws_ftp.zip     (October 20, 1994 | 113,252 bytes)

             ws_ping.zip    (October 21, 1994 |  60,496 bytes)



 Available by anonymous FTP from:

   ftp.usma.edu in directory /pub/msdos/winsock.files



 Installation:

   1.) Create the directory C:\WS_.

   2.) Unzip WS_FTP.ZIP into this directory.

   3.) Unzip the file WS_PING.EXE from its ZIP file into this

       directory also. (Full source code for WS_PING is included

       in the ZIP file with the name WSPI_SRC.ZIP. Source code

       for the current version of WS_FTP is not distributed.

       However, source code for the 93-12-05 version of WS_FTP

       can be downloaded from directory /pub/msdos/winsock.files

       under the name ws_ftp_s.zip.)

   4.) Create new program items in the Network program group for

       the programs C:\WS_\WS_FTP.EXE and C:\WS_\WS_PING.EXE.

   5.) Launch the programs.

   6.) The WS_FTP.INI file remains in the C:\WS_ directory. A

       file named WINSOCK.INI is created by WS_PING in the

       C:\WINDOWS directory.





 *****

 CELLO  (World Wide Web browser)



 Comment:  Despite its age, Cello version 1.01a performs well. It continues

 to be more stable than Mosaic, and it is the best client for printing.

 It includes a useful Help system.  Configuration is done from within the

 application, not by directly editing the CELLO.INI file. Unfortunately,

 Cello does not understand forms. Users of Diamond Stealth video cards

 report problems with the mouse cursor, which virtually disappears while

 the mouse is moving. The listserv CELLO-L is busy with messages about

 CELLO development and about shareware for creating HTML documents for use

 on Web servers. Instructions for subscribing to CELLO-L are included in

 the Cello Help file. Version 2.0 is now in the hands of alpha testers.



 Author:     Thomas R. Bruce

 License:    Free

 Version:    1.01a

 File name:  cello.zip      (March 17, 1994 | 328,429 bytes)

 Available by anonymous FTP from:

   ftp.law.cornell.edu in directory /pub/LII/Cello



 Installation:

   1.) Create the directory C:\CELLO and unzip CELLO.ZIP into

       this directory.

   2.) Create a new program item in the Network program group for

       the program C:\CELLO\CELLO.EXE.

   3.) Launch the program.





 ***********

 NCSA MOSAIC for Microsoft Windows  (World Wide Web browser)



 Comment:  Users should note the alpha version designation and use caution

 about saving work in any other running applications before launching

 Mosaic. As in previous versions over the past year, simply launching and

 then exiting from Mosaic permanently reduces by some 3 percentage points

 the Windows user.exe resources on my machine. Launching Mosaic and exiting

 several times can lead to conditions that require you to restart Windows.

 However, Mosaic's previous problem of overwriting text when displaying

 large files seems to be fixed in this version.



 Mosaic is a 32-bit application that will run under Windows NT, Microsoft's

 advanced workstation operating system. Most users will be using Windows 3.1

 or Windows for Workgroups, which are 16-bit applications. To use Mosaic

 with these systems, you must first install Win32s version 1.20 with OLE or

 later. This addition to the Windows operating system enables current

 versions of Windows to run 32-bit code that is not Windows NT specific.



 NCSA recommends a 33MHz 486 with 8MB of RAM for running this version.



 Authors:    NCSA (National Center for SuperComputing

             Applications)

 License:    Free

 Version:    2.0.0a8

 File name:  mos20a8.exe (December 20, 1994 |   955,546 bytes)

             w32sole.exe (December 20, 1994 | 2,240,650 bytes)



 Available by anonymous FTP from:

 ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in directory /Web/Mosaic/Windows



 Installation:

   1.) Copy W32SOLE.EXE to a temporary directory and execute the

       program. This will extract the two component files

       INSTALL.BAT and WIN32DSK.EXE. The latter is another self

       extracting archive file.

   2.) Execute INSTALL.BAT.

       (This batch file issues the command

       WIN32DSK.EXE -d

       to extract the component files into the subdirectories

       DISK1, DISK2, and DISK3. These subdirectories will be

       created below the temporary directory containing

       INSTALL.BAT.)

   3.) Change to the DISK1 subdirectory and execute SETUP.EXE.

       This will install Win32s version 1.20 with OLE. Many of

       the files will be installed in the directory

       C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WIN32S. If you have an older version of

       WIN32S already installed, it will be removed. You should

       allow installation of the game FreeCell in order to test

       that Win32s is properly installed on your machine. Once

       this is verified, you can erase the files and directories

       in the temporary installation directory.

   4.) Copy MOS20A8.EXE to the temporary installation directory.

       Remember to erase any files and subdirectories left in the

       temporary directory from the installation of Win32s.

   5.) Execute MOS20A8.EXE to extract the component files,

       including SETUP.EXE.

   6.) Execute SETUP.EXE to install Mosaic version 2.0 alpha 8 in

       the directory of your choice. MOSAIC.INI will be copied to

       the C:\WINDOWS directory.

   7.) Launch the program. Read the files README.WRI and

       RELNOTES.HTM to learn how to fully configure Mosaic to

       your needs.

   8.) When installation is complete, you can remove the

       temporary installation directory.



 NOTE: You can avoid the added complexity of installing Win32s and

 the substantial demands it places on your PC by using the older

 Mosaic version 2.0 alpha 2 (June 27, 1994 | 243,749 bytes).





 ********

 NETSCAPE  (World Wide Web browser)



 Comment:  Netscape Navigator is generating enormous interest at this

 writing as the logical successor to Mosaic. FTP sites designated as

 sources for Netscape frequently are inaccessible.



 Author:     Netscape Communications Corporation

 License:    Free for academic or not-for-profit use. Others,

             including government users, should contact Netscape

             Communications Corporation.

 Version:    1.0N

 File name:  ns16-100.exe   (December 17, 1994 | 706,929 bytes)



 Available by anonymous FTP from:

 ftp.mcom.com in directory /netscape/windows or

 ftp2.mcom.com in directory /netscape/windows.

 Frequently it is impossible to connect by anonymous FTP to

 servers distributing Netscape. The best mode of access is to

 use a World Wide Web browser and load the URL

 http://home.mcom.com/info/how-to-get-it.html.



 Installation:

   1.) Copy the file NW16-100.EXE to a temporary directory and

       run it. This will extract the component files, including

       SETUP.EXE.

   2.) Run the program SETUP.EXE by selecting the file in File

       Manager or by using the menu selection File Run in Program

       Manager. SETUP will install Netscape in a directory of

       your choice, and it will create a program icon in the

       group you designate.

   3.) Launch the program. Configure Options and Preferences to

       taste. The file NETSCAPE.INI is kept in the Netscape

       program directory.





 ******

 WINWEB  (World Wide Web browser)

 Comment:    A fast and easy browser from EINet.

 Author:     MCC-EINet (Microelectronics and Computer Technology

             Corporation)

 License:    Free

 Version:    1.0 Alpha 2.2

 File name:  winweb.zip     (December 19, 1994 |  598,873 bytes)



 Available by anonymous FTP from:

 ftp.einet.net in directory /einet/pc



 Installation:

   1.) Create the directory C:\WINWEB and unzip WINWEB.ZIP into

       this directory.

   2.) Move the included file VBRUN300.DLL to the windows system

       directory, usually C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM. (This file is a

       runtime library for Microsoft Visual Basic. If you already

       have a copy installed from some other application, you can

       simply delete it from the \WINWEB directory.

   2.) Create a new program item in the Network program group for

       the program C:\WINWEB\WINWEB.EXE.

   3.) Launch the program and configure to taste. The file

       WINWEB.INI will be created in the C:\WINDOWS directory.



 *****

 WFTPD  (FTP server)



 Comment:  I had not imagined I would want or need to use my PC as an FTP

 server. However, I have found this product useful on a couple of occasions

 to transfer files from an IBM mainframe to my PC. This is far easier than

 trying to FTP to the mainframe from my PC. Note that WinQVT/Net, which is

 described later, has an FTP server function also. However, the server in

 WinQVT/Net would not work when I tried to use Fetch on my PowerMac to

 retrieve a file from my Windows machine. WFTPD had no problems serving

 files to Fetch.



 Author:     Alun Jones

 License:    $15.00. The unregistered shareware version displays

             a message to anyone accessing the server that the

             owner is unable or unwilling to pay the shareware

             fee. The shareware version is limited to five file

             transfers per session.

 Version:    1.95

 File name:  wftpd195.zip   (October 20, 1994 | 147,612 bytes)



 Available by anonymous FTP from:

 ftp.cica.indiana.edu in /pub/pc/win3/winsock

 or by gopher from:

 ftp.cica.indiana.edu under menu item PC and CICA Windows Files/

 CICA Windows Files/Winsock Compliant Apps



 Installation:

   1.) Create the directory C:\WFTPD and unzip WFTPD195.ZIP into

       this directory.

   2.) Create a new program item in the Network program group for

       the program C:\WFTPD\WFTPD.EXE.

   3.) Launch the program.

   4.) Complete the information in the Security dialog box to

       establish security control using access passwords and

       restricted home directories for those you authorize to

       access your PC. The file WFTPD.INI will be created in the

       C:\WINDOWS directory.



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 TELNET



 The glaring deficiency in the Winsock pantheon of Internet clients is the

 absence of a good stand-alone telnet client. Here is a brief description

 of some alternatives I have tried.



 **********

 WinQVT/Net



 Comment:  WinQVT/Net is an integrated package that includes telnet, FTP,

 FTP server, mail, and news reader functions. These separate client and

 server functions are normally launched from a console window. The telnet

 client is probably the best shareware Winsock telnet client available.

 You can select terminal emulations and customize the keyboard. The

 resizable telnet window includes scrollback and session logging. A

 deficiency is that telnet cannot be launched independently of the console

 window. However, if WinQVT/Net is already running, then an instance of the

 telnet client can be launched from another application by invoking the

 TNSTART.EXE program that comes with WinQVT/Net. This makes it possible to

 use this telnet client as the telnet viewer or helper with Gopher or

 World wide Web clients.



 Author:     QPC Software

 License:    Shareware registration is $40 ($20 for students).

             There has been discussion in alt.winsock and other

             news groups about the difficulty of getting any

             response to e-mail and fax messages from the author

             of WinQVT/Net. Paying the license fee may be

             difficult as a result.

 Version:    3.98

 File name:  qvtws398.zip   (December 16, 1994 | 390,960 bytes)



 Available by anonymous FTP from:

 biochemistry.bioc.cwru.edu in directory /gopher/pub/qvtnet

 or by Gopher from

 biochemistry.cwru.edu under the menu selection

 CWRU Biochemistry FTP Archive/qvtnet.

 Gopher access is preferable as only one anonymous user is

 permitted weekdays during normal working hours from 9:00 AM to

 5:00 PM local time.





 **************

 TRUMPET TELNET



 Comment:  This simple client is my favorite for use as a telnet viewer or

 helper with Gopher or World Wide Web clients.  Unfortunately, it lacks

 sophisticated features needed by heavy users of telnet.



 Author:     Peter Tattam

 License:    Free beta version

 Version:    0.07

 File name:  trmptel.exe    (October 13, 1994 | 71,168 bytes)



 This file is included in the WINAPPS2.ZIP file distributed as part of the

 Trumpet Winsock package.



 ****

 EWAN



 Comment:  EWAN (Emulator Without a Good Name) is a more complete Winsock

 telnet client than Trumpet Telnet. It allows printing the screen, printing

 the scrollback buffer, and logging a session to a file. It can be used as

 a telnet viewer with Gopher or World Wide Web clients.



 Author:     Peter Zander

 License:    Free

 Version:    1.04

 File name:  ewan104.zip    (November 23, 1994 | 221,051 bytes)



 Available by anonymous FTP from:

    ftp.lysator.liu.se in directory /pub/msdos/windows



 *******

 QWS3270



 Comment:  Telnet clients usually emulate a VT100 terminal or one of its

 variations, the standard for connecting to a UNIX host.  However,

 telneting to an IBM mainframe requires emulation of an IBM 3270 terminal.

 QWS3270 provides this functionality. I was especially pleased with the

 easily-configured, four-color capability that makes it easier to

 distinguish protected, unprotected, and highlighted text on a VM screen.



 Author:     Jim Rymerson

 License:    Free

 Version:    3.2e

 File name:  qws3270.zip    (November 14, 1994 | 73,365 bytes)



 Available by anonymous FTP from:

 ftp.ccs.queensu.ca in directory /pub/msdos/tcpip





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 OTHER SOURCES FOR WINSOCK INFORMATION



 It remains true that the best guide to the Internet is the Internet itself.

 The best software for navigating the Internet is freely available on the

 Internet.



 Considerable information about the Winsock API, along with some application

 programs, is available by anonymous FTP at sunsite.unc.edu in directory

 /pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock.



 The anonymous FTP sites that I list throughout this paper as sources for

 programs are the sites designated by the software authors as their home

 sites. These sites will always have the latest version of the software.



 In addition, copies of the software may usually be obtained by anonymous

 FTP from CICA (Center for Innovative Computer Applications) at

 ftp.cica.indiana.edu in directory /pub/pc/win3/winsock. Files are also

 available from this same address using a Gopher client. Gopher access is

 preferable because the CICA FTP server is the main Internet site for

 Windows applications. It is usually busy, and you may have difficulty

 establishing an FTP connection.



 It is the case that the collection at CICA will NOT always contain the

 latest version of software, even if a newer version has been uploaded to

 CICA by the author. CICA does not allow anonymous users to view or

 download program files from the uploads directory, where the newest

 version might still be in the holding pattern. Also, the versions at

 CICA may not have the same file