The Internet for Dummies Quick Reference, 2nd edition

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By John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young and Arnold Reinhold. November 1995, 210 pages, US$12.99. C$17.99, £11.99, ISBN 1-56884-977-X. The new line of Quick References has a swell plastic ring binding so, at last, it'll lay flat on your desk. (The old quick refs had plenty of useful info, but you did have to learn to type with one hand while holding them open with the other.) So we figured we might as well improve the contents to keep up with the improved binding. The original Quick Ref was written as an adjuct to The Internet for Dummies and had (we admit it) far too many references to the big book for further info. We fixed that--the new edition stands alone, perhaps even more than our editors wanted. We also think this is the perfect book to take along in your Road Warrior Kit along with your Internet-equipped laptop. Take a few extras to give to friends and business contacts as well. What's new? A whole new introductory section on getting your computer on the Net. Detailed info on surfing the web from AOL, Compuserve, and Prodigy. More on electronic mail, featuring Eudora, Pine, and even Netscape. More step by step instructions. New sections on e-mail security, writing your own Web page, and more Table of Contents Part I: Getting to Know the Internet What Is the Internet? What's So Great about the Internet? What Services Does the Internet Provide? What Can I Do with the Internet? Will the Internet Take a Lot of My Time? Part II: Getting Started Hooking Up Buying a Computer for Internet Access Gearing Up the Computer You Already Own Getting Online Without Much Money Modems Selecting an Internet Provider Protocols Used on the Internet Part III: Electronic Mail Abbreviations Addresses America Online (AOL) Berkeley Mail (UNIX systems) Caveats CompuServe elm (UNIX systems) Etiquette Eudora (Windows and Mac) eWorld Finding E-Mail Addresses Headers Mailers Netscape Navigator 2.0 Notification of Arriving Mail Pine (UNIX Systems) Postmaster Prodigy Sending Mail to Folks with Accounts on Online Services Smileys and Emoticons X.400 X.500 Part IV: Usenet Newsgroups Frequently Asked Questions Newsgroup Names News Netiquette Posting Your First Article Reading News with America Online Reading News with CompuServe Reading News with trn (UNIX systems) Reading News with Trumpet Starting your Own Newsgroup Part V: Mailing Lists Addresses Used with Mailing Lists Finding a Mailing List Getting On and Off a Mailing List Open and Closed Mailing Lists Receiving Mailing List Messages Sending Messages to a Mailing List Sending Special Requests to Mailing Lists Starting your Own Mailing List Part VI: The World Wide Web Getting Started Navigating Around Uniform Reseource Locators (URLs) Using AOL to Browse the Web Using Lynx to Browse the Web Using Netscape to Browse the Web Part VII: Moving Files with FTP Connecting to an FTP Server for Anonymous FTP Downloading Retrieved Files to your PC Using FTP via E-Mail Using FTP form a WinSock or MacTCP Program Leaving FTP Listing the Files in Directories Moving to Other Directories Retrieving Files Retriving Groups of Files (UNIX only) Storing Files on FTP Servers Summary of UNIX FTP Commands Uncompressing and Decoding Retrieved Files Using FTP from a UNIX Shell Account Using FTP on America Online Using FTP on Compuserve Part VIII: Finding Resources on the Net Finding Files with Archie Using Gopher to Cruise Gopherspace Searching Text Databases with WAIS Searching for text Searching for text in documents Mailing yourself a copy of a document Selecting databases to search Server database Part IX: Online Communication Finding Public Systems to Telnet to Using finger Using talk Using telnet Using th3270 to Connect to IBM Mainframes Part X: Indispensable Internet Resources The CIA World Fact Book WWW Pages Infoseek WWW Page Library of Congress WWW Page and Telnet Site MagicURL Mystery Trip WWW Page Net-Happenings WWW Page and Mailing List NEW-LIST Mailing List news.announce.newusers Newsgroup A Reporter's Internet Survival Guide WWW Page The Virtual Tourist II WWW Page Yahoo! WWW Page Part XI: Advanced Topics E-Mail Security Web Home Pages Internet Relay Chat (IRC) MUDs Appendix A: Internet Connections by Country Appendix B: Usenet Newsgroups Glossary Index

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