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There's Gold in them thar Networks! or Searching for Treasure in all the Wrong Places
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Network Working Group J. Martin
Request for Comments: 1290 Ohio State University
FYI: 10 December 1991
There's Gold in them thar Networks!
or
Searching for Treasure in all the Wrong Places
Status of this Memo
This RFC provides information for the Internet community. It does not
specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
This document was presented at the 1991 ACM SIGUCCS User Services
Conference. It appears here in its updated form.
There is a wealth of information on the network. In fact, so much
information, that you could spend your entire life browsing. This
paper will present some of the "gold nuggets" of information and file
repositories on the network that could be of use to end users.
The ultimate goal is to make the route to these sources of
information invisible to the user. At present, this is not easy to
do. I will explain some of the techniques that can be used to make
these nuggets easier to pick up so that we can all be richer.
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction................................................ 2
2.0 Lists and Indexes of Network Resources/Bibliographies/
Information Available over the Network...................... 2
3.0 Libraries Available over the Network........................ 6
4.0 Anonymous FTP Sites......................................... 7
5.0 Network Information Centers - NICs.......................... 8
6.0 Network Statistics.......................................... 10
7.0 Campus Wide Information Systems - CWIS...................... 11
8.0 Internet Bulleting Board System/Interactive
Databases/Freenet........................................... 19
9.0 WHOIS - E-mail white pages.................................. 22
10.0 Books....................................................... 23
11.0 Free Periodicals/Tabloids/Magazines......................... 23
12.0 Glossary.................................................... 25
Security Considerations.......................................... 26
Author's Address................................................. 27
Martin
