[112] in Information Retrieval
Follow up from Friday's (Oct 30) elibdev meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Wade Neiterman)
Tue Nov 3 12:09:00 1992
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 92 12:12:07 EST
From: wade@MIT.EDU (Steven Wade Neiterman)
To: elibdev@MIT.EDU
I hope the overview on Gopher and other public information services
answered some questions and may have generated some interest in looking
further at these systems. There are well over 200 information services
on the Internet, it is interesting to see what other Universities are
doing in the area of information retrieval. Almost all of these
services have information on libraries, both local and remote.
The easiest way to look at Gopher services is to use the Telnet program,
which is available on any computer with access to MITnet. You can get
started by using the Telnet program to one of these sites.
consultant.micro.umn.edu ( University of Minnesota)
gopher.uiuc.edu ( University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign)
(In my opinion, this site has the best information of all the
services I have had the opportunity to look at).
If prompted for a login name, type "gopher" (no quotes).
If you have a Macintosh with access to MITnet, you can retrieve the
program via anonymous ftp from boombox.micro.umn.edu.
In addition, Network Services would be glad to make available some of
our Macintosh's and Athena Workstations at E40 for you to explore these
services. Please contact me if you would like to make use of this
facility.
If you have an interest in making information available in
TechInfo (MIT's network information retrieval service), please contact
myself or send mail to admin-techinfo@mit.edu.
Steven Neiterman
Network Services - Development
