[230] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: Subject Guides to Internet Resources
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Vielmetti)
Tue May 12 11:40:13 1992
Date: Tue, 12 May 1992 10:33:48 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
From: Edward Vielmetti <emv%msen.com@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
In-Reply-To: "Lee Jaffe, McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz,
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
There are a number of other files - D. Kovac's
ACADLIST comes quickly to mind - that would make good databases
attached to library catalogs. Then local systems could set up
the Telnet access from the catalog menu. I could see a menu of
Internet tools that would like you to the needed database.
The ACADLIST list of mailing lists is indexed along with several
other network-wide compendia of mailing lists and newsgroup in
the "mailing-lists" WAIS server running at CICnet. I enclose
a source information file for those who use WAIS.
The WAIS presentation loses some of the structure that the ACADLIST
file provides (a breakdown by subject matter is completely lost);
however I hope that it makes up for it a little by being searchable.
Certainly I wouldn't consider this effort a complete, final, be-all
and end-all of mailing lists indexes.
source
version 3
database-name "lists"
tcp-port 210
ip-name "wais.cic.net"
cost 0.00
cost-unit :free
maintainer "emv@cic.net"
subjects "general newsgroups electronic journals conferences"
description
Server created with WAIS release 8 b3.1 on Nov 13 15:52:43 1991 by
emv@cedar.cic.net
This source has several long lists of Usenet newsgroups, internet and bitnet
mailing lists, and electronic serials and journals. There is a fair
amount of overlap between the various components used to build this
list.
Included here are
- the SRI 'list of lists' from ftp.nisc.sri.com
- the Kent State 'academic mailing lists' from Diane Kovacs
- Gene Spafford's lists of Usenet newsgroups
- David Avery's bitnet listserv and internet list collection
from dartmouth.edu
and other documents as they are discovered.
Many of these collections overlap somewhat so you are likely to
get back multiple, perhaps confusing, results for any search.
(Sorry.)
--Ed
Edward Vielmetti
emv@cic.net
