*************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** NN N tt M MM MMM tt h N N N tt MM MMM M tt h N N N tt M M M tt h N N N eeeeee ttttt M M M oooooo n nnnn ttttt h hhhh N N N ee eee tt M M M oo oo nn n tt hh h N NN ee ee tt M M M oo oo n n tt h h N N eee e tt M M M oo oo n n tt h h N UNT eeeeee tt M M M oooooo n n tt h h NetMonth / An Independent Guide to BITNET *************************************************************************** * September 1992 / Issue 41 Edited by Philip Baczewski / NMONTHED@UNTVM1 * * Chris Condon, Editor Emeritus * *************************************************************************** * * CONTENTS: * * 1.0 Bitnotes * 2.0 Headlines * 2.1 CREN INTRODUCES NEW STAFF * 2.2 E-SERIALS DIRECTORY REVISED * 2.3 BITNET NODE ANLNESC IS GONE * 2.4 CREN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTIONS * 3.0 Articles and Information * 3.1 Project IDEALS * 3.2 CREN White Pages Project * 4.0 New Mailing Lists * 4.1 BUSH@MARIST George Bush's Presidential Campaign * 4.2 CFS-L@NIHLIST Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Discussion * 4.3 CLAYART@UKCC Ceramic Arts Discussion List * 4.4 CLINTON@MARIST Bill Clinton's Presidential Campaign * 4.5 ELECT-L@PCCVM Campaign Managers Discussion * 4.6 KLARINET@VCCSCENT Clarinettist's Network * 4.7 PRISON-L@DARTCMS1 Teaching in Prisons * 4.8 QUAKER-L@UIUCVMD Quakerism * 4.9 RES-COMP@NKI Research Computing Forum * 5.0 Administrivia * *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** ***************************** * 1.0 Bitnotes * * * * By Philip Baczewski * * University of North Texas * * NMONTHED@UNTVM1 * ***************************** pol i tics 1. The art or science of political government. 2. The policies or affairs of a government. 3. Intrigue or maneuvering within a group. 4. One's general position or attitude on political subjects. - American Heritage Dictionary Yes, the Labor Day holiday is past here in the U.S. and that can only mean one thing -- well, OK, it can actually mean a lot of things: end of summer, kids back in school, Autumn not far away, new shows on TV, football season -- but the big thing that's hard for most of us to ignore is the quadrennial ritual that we call the Presidential election. Politics has once again invaded the American psyche, and as we see in other aspects of society, this is reflected in some of the new discussion lists that have been created on the BITNET network, several examples of which you'll find in this issue. In compiling this month's NetMonth, it inadvertently became the "politics" issue, with one or more items reflecting one or more of the definition numbers listed above. I guess when you get a group of humans together, whatever the forum, politics inevitably follows. As we can see, however, politics doesn't have to be a dirty word. It's more a fact of life. In classifying this month's NetMonth by the above definition numbers we see a bit of 1, 2 and 4 represented in this month's New Lists (BUSH, CLINTON, ELECT), a bit of 2 in the Headlines (CREN board elections), and, as some of you may already have seen, a bit of 3 was stirred up by the announcement of the CREN White Pages Project (Articles). Another article in the definition 3 category may be the one on Project IDEALS. This is not only an inventive use of computing and telecommunications technology, but also perhaps a way to teach some positive politics. Fostering international communication and understanding is a worthwhile goal that computer networks are enabling just by their existence. Project IDEALS attempts to take this idea a step further by creating an actual curriculum in this regard. So, on we go into this political season. In spite of all this political activity we can still concentrate on the other aspects of this time of year such as the change in seasons (on BIOSPH-L?), or what's new in school (on ERL-L?), or what's on TV (on MIT-TV-L?), or how the football bounces (on SPORTPSY?)... well, you get the idea. And if we can make it past the election in November, then we can get down to the real business of definition number 1 and start debating whether U.S. government is an art or a science. ************************ * 2.0 Headlines *** * From various sources ****************** * Send your Headlines to NMONTHED@UNTVM1 *** ********************************************** *2.1* CREN INTRODUCES NEW STAFF (Jim Conklin, from BITNEWS@BITNIC) I would like to introduce two new technical members of the CREN staff and one administrative staff member: Yingying Zhou has been working at BITNIC since last October but has not previously been introduced to the BITNET community. Yingying graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of the District of Columbia with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. She is responsible for a variety of BITNET-related support software, handling mail to the INFO, LISTMGR, and POSTMASTER accounts at BITNIC, and the system backups of the IBM 9370. She is also the list owner for many of the LISTSERV lists at BITNIC. Yingying can be reached over the network as ZHOU@BITNIC. Marco Hernandez joined the CREN technical staff in July and has experience with both VM and Unix, and as a user of both BITNET and the Internet. He recently completed a Master of Science in Computer Methodologies at Baruch College in New York City (part of the CUNY system). Marco has worked in various capacities for the New York City government for the past 5 years. He will be dividing his time between general BITNET support and work on new CREN services. He can be reached as MARCO@BITNIC or HERNANDEZ@BITNIC. Ann O'Leary also joined the CREN staff in July. She replaces Gigi Jones as the CREN Financial Coordinator, with responsibility for tracking CREN's receivables and payables, reconciling to the bank statements, collecting dues, and related activities. Ann has several years' experience handling financial responsibilities in retail business and will soon graduate with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. Ann's network address is OLEARY@BITNIC. We are pleased to have Yingying, Marco, and Ann with us and hope that you will enjoy working with them over the network and perhaps over the phone and in person as well. *2.2* E-SERIALS DIRECTORY REVISED (Michael Strangelove, from HUMANIST@BROWNVM) Announcing the Revised Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters EDITION 2.1 - July 1992 The revised edition of the Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters is now available on the Net. The Directory has been split into two files, EJOURNL1 DIRECTRY (2824 lines long) and EJOURNL2 DIRECTRY (4077 lines long). This revision documents over thirty new electronic serials that have appeared since the first edition, released one year ago. Presently, the Directory is available only in low ascii text via LISTSERV. Special thanks belong to Ann Okerson and the Association of Research Libraries for making this project (along with Diane Kovacs' Directory of Academic Discussion Lists and Interest Groups) the first copyrighted serial publication that is available both in hard copy as well as being freely available on the Net in electronic text. And thanks all to the many individuals around the globe such as Peter Scott, Carl Briggs and Tony Barry who take the time to inform me of the appearance of new electronic serials. Michael Strangelove (441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA) University of Ottawa >>> How To Retrieve This Directory From Networked Sources <<< The Directory is currently available in low ascii text from the following location: CONTENTS PROJECT Listserv Fileserver Send the following commands as an e-mail message to listserv@uottawa or listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca GET EJOURNL1 DIRECTRY GET EJOURNL2 DIRECTRY Please note the spelling carefully; - there is no "A" in "EJOURNL" and no "O" in "DIRECTRY" NB - The Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters is not yet available via FTP. This project was made possible through funding from the Research Centre for the Study of Religion, Department of Religious Studies, University of Ottawa. For a hard copy version of this Directory, contact: Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing Association of Research Libraries 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 USA ARLHQ@UMDC.Bitnet (202) 232-2466 (voice) (202) 462-7849 (fax) *2.3* BITNET NODE ANLNESC IS GONE (Barry Finkel B19141@ANLVM.CTD.ANL.GOV) BITNET node ANLNESC, the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Software Center, was shut down last December 31. All of the NESC functions were transferred to the Energy Science and Technology Software Center (ESTSC) located at the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in Oak Ridge, TN. The complete NESC software collection is now available through ESTSC; a software catalog is available. Mail that was addressed to NESCINFO@ANLNESC should now be addressed to ESTSC%A1.ADONIS.MROUTER@ZEUS.OSTI.GOV This is where I have been manually forwarding mail addressed to ANLNESC since January. Information about ESTSC services may also be obtained by Mail: P.O. Box 1020, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 Telephone: (615) 576-2606 Facsimile: (615) 576-2865 We will delete node ANLNESC in the next BITNET routing table update. Barry S. Finkel Computing and Telecommunications Division Argonne National Laboratory BITNET: B19141@ANLVM 9700 South Cass Avenue Internet: B19141@ANLVM.CTD.ANL.GOV Building 221, Room B223 Phone: (708) 252-7277 Argonne, IL 60439-4844 Facsimile:(708) 252-5983 *2.4* CREN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTIONS (Amanda Rushing, from BITNEWS@BITNIC) It's election time again for the CREN Board of Trustees! We know that it seems pretty early, but we expect to avoid the delays we encountered in 1992. There are four positions open on the 12-member board, and the three-year terms will begin January 1993. Anyone from a Member Institution may nominate candidates for a Trustee position. Please send your suggestions to the 1993 Nominating Committee, NOMINATE@BITNIC (via BITNET) or Nominate@BITNIC.EDUCOM.edu (via Internet). The committee members are: Geraldine MacDonald, Chair SUNY Binghamton Martin Solomon U of South Carolina Cliff Woodruff, Non-trustee Tulane University Candidates must be employed by a Member Institution of CREN. A listing of Member institutions, sorted by state, may be obtained from LISTSERV. Send your request to LISTSERV (via BITNET) LISTSERV@BITNIC or (via Internet) LISTSERV@BITNIC.EDUCOM.edu and request the document: STATE SITELIST Your nominations and ideas are critical in providing insightful leadership to guide CREN in its networking future. Forward all suggestions to NOMINATE by October 1, 1992. Please follow the suggested guidelines when nominating a candidate: 1. Give the individual's name, title, department and institution. 2. Include individual's e-mail address and telephone number. 3. Specify in a short paragraph why you believe this person would be an asset to CREN and its membership. Include any relative experience you may know of, if possible. Announcements and updates on the election process will be forwarded via electronic mail to the Member Representative list and BITNEWS The membership vote will be conducted via a postal mailing to the Member Representatives sometime in November 1992. In order for a Member Institution to have a vote in the election, there must be an official appointment form on file naming the Member Representative. If the representative has changed, please note that changes to the Nodes File "dir" tag are not recognized without written notice from the CEO or other high ranking official of your institution. The current listing of CREN Member Representatives may be obtain from LISTSERV entitled MEMREP LISTINGS. An official appointment form is also available from LISTSERV entitled MEMREP FORM. If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Amanda Rushing at RUSHING@BITNIC or Rushing@BITNIC.EDUCOM.edu. The CREN Board consists of 12 members, listed below. The terms of the four Board Members with asterisks by their names will expire in January 1993. These individuals may be nominated to serve another term. Term Expires Member Institution -------------------------------------------------------------- * 1993 Douglas Bigelow Wesleyan University 1995 Ronald Briggs U of Texas at Dallas 1994 Miriam Drake Georgia Institute of Tech. 1995 Ira Fuchs Princeton University 1994 Ben Klein CUNY System Office 1995 Matthew Korn IBM * 1993 Suzanne Johnson Intel Corporation * 1993 Philip Long Yale University 1994 Geraldine MacDonald SUNY Binghamton * 1993 Dennis Ritchie AT & T Bell Laboratories 1994 Martin Solomon U of South Carolina 1995 Mark Strawcutter Indiana U of Pennsylvania We look forward to your participation and suggestions. ******************************** * 3.0 Articles and Information * ******************************** *3.1* Project IDEALS by David Crookall (CROOKALL@UA1VM) Promoting an International Dimension in Education via Active Learning and Simulation Project IDEALS is a computer-assisted learning environment based on multi-site, semester-long, socially-interactive simulations. Computer technologies allow distant teams to communicate, hold real-time teleconferences, and to obtain feedback on their performance and progress. Project IDEALS is firmly based on the principles of experiential learning; it encourages students to become fully involved, motivates them to work hard, and helps them take responsibility for their own learning. Objectives * To develop competence and confidence in communicating with people from other cultures, and so help create international friendships. * To give students greater knowledge and understanding of international events and issues (e.g., global environmental problems) and to provide a context for interdisciplinary studies. * To enhance professional skills in such areas as team work, decision making, problem solving, leadership and negotiation, and to develop computer literacy, clear writing and critical thinking. Structure The central component of Project IDEALS is a large-scale simulation assisted by computers and telecommunications. Students take on the roles of high-level negotiators representing various countries at an international conference. The country teams are situated at different campuses (usually one team per campus) and communicate using computer networks and specialized simulation management software. The ultimate goal of each simulation is for teams to negotiate an agreement related to some international situation -- for example, to hammer out the text of a treaty governing the emissions of CFCs, the use of the ocean's resources, or the future of Antarctica. Scenarios may involve real or hypothetical countries. In Project IDEALS, the experiential learning cycle is paramount, emphasizing the importance of regular and structured reflection on experience to convert it into learning, which in turn becomes the basis for further practical experience. Computers and telecommunications In order to participate, each site needs a minimum of one microcomputer (e.g., BBC, IBM compatible, Macintosh), a modem, a printer, a telecommunications package, and a simple word processor. Faculty and students do not need any special computer skills in order to participate. Each site will also need access to the Internet (NSFnet) telecommunications network. The main simulation management software, called Polnet II, is situated at the University of Alabama. It allows messages to be sent to any number of other teams at other sites and for those teams to sign on at any time to retrieve those messages and to send their own. It also enables teams to participate in real-time teleconferences, in which several teams communicate in a synchronous, conversational mode. Finally, it collects feedback and research data. Further information For further information, please contact Francine Goubet or Chet Farmer, Assistant Directors, or David Crookall, Director: E-mail: crookall @ ua1vm.bitnet or ua1vm.ua.edu fgoubet3 @ ua1vm.bitnet or ua1vm.ua.edu cfarmer1 @ ua1vm.bitnet or ua1vm.ua.edu Project IDEALS English/Morgan, Box 870244 Telephone: 205-348-9494 University of Alabama Facsimile: 205-348-5298 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA *3.2* CREN White Pages Project by Jim Conklin (CONKLIN@BITNIC) SUMMARY CREN is embarking on a "white pages" directory services project, to provide its participating members with production (i.e., essentially complete) white-pages information on faculty, staff, and students at participating CREN member organizations. The time line for the project includes agreement on a policy for acceptable use of this data in six months. Within a year, full participation in production directory services by a limited number of organizations is planned, after which all CREN members who are willing to abide by the "Directory Services Acceptable Use Policy" and install the necessary software will be invited to participate. Mail-server software will then be developed in the 1993-4 time frame, to simplify the end-user e-mail name-space to the form of user@organization, for participating CREN members. This software will use the directory data within the participating organization to provide distribution of mail sent to a central organizational host, to the appropriate hosts and usernames for the designated recipients. The electronically available data will include, for each staff and faculty member, and hopefully each student, a minimum of the individual's electronic address plus, optionally and eventually, additional data such as office telephone number, postal address, interests, department, etc., with modifiers to indicate the individual's willingness to allow this data to be used for various purposes. All who wish to participate in the formulation of a usage policy for white pages data should immediately subscribe to a discussion list, WHITE-PG@BITNIC, which has been created for this discussion. This policy must: * make it accessible to those who need it, and * protect the individuals listed from unwanted uses of the data. Representatives of CREN member organizations which have experience in providing White-Pages services and might be willing to contribute some staff time to the development of software to be made available to CREN members for the common good are urged to contact Jim Conklin at JBC@BITNIC or jbc@bitnic.educom.edu.. WHY White pages directory services are desired by both end users and support staff, because it's now frequently difficult and time consuming to determine the electronic address of someone they wish to contact. The Internet White Pages Pilot Project is not a very useful production service, despite its technical success, because of the voluntary nature of individual participation and the resulting low percentage of faculty, staff, and students listed in the database for most of the participating institutions. Widespread institutional willingness to include all faculty, staff, and students in an electronically accessible directory will require policies which will ensure that inclusion does not result in unwanted electronic mail or phone calls. Insofar as possible, directory software should help to enforce such policies. WHAT CREN will develop policies, in cooperation with its membership, for the use of directory information which will make it acceptable to US higher education institutions (and hopefully a much broader community as well) to provide electronic access to the electronic addresses of their faculty, staff, and students. CREN is in a unique position to accomplish this, with essentially all major US colleges and universities included in its membership. An electronic mailing list for development of such policies has been created (WHITE-PG@BITNIC), and an initial draft policy will be prepared and distributed to the list subscribers to facilitate discussion. Based on such policies, CREN will encourage the participation of its members in a production white pages service to be coordinated by CREN and available only to organizations which agree to abide by (internally enforce) the CREN white-pages policies. CREN will attempt to establish a CREN White Pages Working Group, consisting of a few of its member universities which are already participating in the Internet White Pages Pilot Project or otherwise providing directory services, to develop improved Directory User Agent and Directory Service Agent software based on ISODE QUIPU software and tools, and software interfaces to whois, finger, and possibly other alternative servers being used at these universities to provide White- Pages information. The goal of this Working Group and the BITNIC staff will be to set up an initial production CREN White Pages directory service, with data including essentially all faculty, staff, and optionally students, for the institutions participating in the CREN White Pages Working Group. This service should be operational by July 1993, with participation to be broadened immediately thereafter to include other CREN members which agree to the CREN White Pages policies and to the installation of the white-pages software developed by the Working Group. The participating organizations will have substantial say in the design of the system, because of their experience in providing such services to their own campuses and meeting their own needs. The initial implementation will probably be based on a central CREN server which will accept information requests from campus servers and solicit the requisite directory information from other campus servers. This central server will need to maintain information on the details of the campus servers it queries in order to compose a proper query to them. The campus servers will presumably maintain a list of the participating campuses, which will be used in formulating the requests they send to the central server. FINANCIAL It will be necessary for CREN to join the ISODE Consortium in order to have access to the improved software it will be developing and to distribute to CREN members the ISODE-based software developed by the CREN White Pages Working Group. In view of the start-up nature of this project, the ISODE Consortium is willing to accept CREN as a member with dues based initially on the number of organizations participating in the CREN White Pages Working Group. As additional CREN members decide to participate in CREN's White Pages Services, CREN's ISODE Consortium dues will increase, based on the number of participating members. (Annual dues are $10,000 for fewer than 10 participating institutions, then $20,000 for fewer than 25, and $30,000 for 25 or more.) In order to expedite the progress of this project, it may also be necessary to pay for some consulting to help bootstrap staff and overcome whatever difficulties the Working Group may encounter. Some travel for the Working Group representatives may also be necessary. AND, THEN, CAMPUS MAIL SERVERS AND SIMPLE MAIL ADDRESSING Following completion of the initial production CREN White Pages software, CREN plans to proceed immediately to develop mail-server software to allow each participating organization to accept mail for all of its faculty, staff, and students at a single organizational host address and route it to the proper username and host, using the organizational White Pages Information for that purpose. The goal is to have operational server software ready for distribution to CREN members by July 1994. This software should be developed through the cooperative efforts of CREN staff and the CREN White Pages Working Group if feasible, or through other consulting or cooperative arrangements. The software should be written to run on multiple platforms and should be designed to handle Internet and BITNET mail with proper headers (but not NJE Class M files without BSMTP headers and envelope). APPENDIX: SAMPLE WHITE-PAGES INFORMATION The following provides an initial cut at the information which the white pages directory in an organization might include, perhaps starting out with only the minimal name and electronic address, and eventually expanding to include additional information useful professionally outside the organization as well as within, and possibly the information useful within the organization but unlikely to be made available outside it. White-Pages Information: People in Organizations * Minimal (Initial) * Organization Identification * Individual's Name * Individual's Electronic Address * Additional -- Organizational-Professional * Office Phone, Postal Address * Professional Duties, Organizations, Interests * . . . * Additional -- Supplemental, Limited-Distribution * Home Phone, Postal Address, E-Address * Family Members' Names, . . . * . . . Availability and Usage Modifiers for Each Information Element * Availability * Organizational Sub-Unit Only * Organization Only * Named Entities Only * Combinations of the Above * General (Everyone) * Individual Only -- "No" List Generation * Usage * List Generation * By Named Entities Only * For Meeting Announcements Only * For Professional Announcements Only * For Any Non-Commercial Use * For Commercial Advertisements * Combinations of the Above White Pages Example Data Element Availability Use Org: US; NJ; CREN; BITNIC General Name: Jim Conklin General E-Addr: CONKLIN@BITNIC General No-List E-Addr2: JBC@BITNIC N-List-1 List . . . Off Ph: +1 202 872-4200 General No-List Off Ph2: +1 202 331-5367 N-List-1 No-List Prof Int1: BITNET General No-List Prof Int1: BITNET N-List-2 List Prof Int2: Net. Services General Meeting Prof Int3: POP Software General Prof,Adv . . . N-List-1: CREN Staff, CREN Board, EDUCOM, Wife, Son N-List-2: BITNIC, EARN-NIC, CAREN-NIC, . . . *************************** *************************** ** 4.0 New Mailing Lists ** *************************** *************************** Mailing lists are being created on a daily basis. What follows are selected offerings posted to the mailing list NEW-LIST@NDSUVM1.BITNET, moderated by Marty Hoag at North Dakota State University. If you want to keep up with new lists on a daily basis you can subscribe to this mailing list by sending the command SUBSCRIBE NEW-LIST as an interactive message or as the first line of a mail message to LISTSERV@NDSUVM1. Archives of this list are also available as part of the NEW-LIST FILELIST on LISTSERV@NDSUVM1. You can unsubscribe by sending the command UNSUB NEW-LIST. One way to find out what lists are maintained on BITNET LISTSERVs is to send the command LIST GLOBAL to the nearest LISTSERV installation. One word of warning, however: this command will generate and send to you a file which is over 3000 lines long. The command: LIST GLOBAL /, where is any word or part of a word that you specify, will send you a shorter list with only those entries that contain an occurrence of the string you specify. A directory of electronic mailing lists and news groups can be acquired from LISTSERV@KENTVM and via anonymous FTP from KSUVXA.KENT.EDU (in the Library directory). For more information get the file ACADLIST README. A directory of electronic journals, ia available from LISTSERV@UOTTAWA as well as LISTSERV@BROWNVM. It consists of two files, EJOURNL1 DIRECTRY and EJOURNL2 DIRECTRY. *4.1* BUSH on LISTSERV@MARIST George Bush's Presidential Campaign or LISTSERV@VM.MARIST.EDU This list is intended for the discussion of George Bush's 1992 campaign for President. It will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information on his candidacy and campaign. Topics may include but are not limited to; issues, policy, organization, strategy, and appearances. The list can serve as a collection point for the opinions and views which we would like to make known to the candidates, and it can serve to coordinate volunteer efforts during the campaign. Since politics is a very volatile topic, where positions are closely linked to emotions, there are some rules for anyone who wishes to join this list. There may be no personal attacks. Discussion will be limited to topics that are pertinent to the intention of the list stated above. When expressing your opinions and positions please express them in a manner that respects the rights and dignity of your fellow citizens in the electronic community Please keep your entries free of all racial, ethnic, sexual, and religious slurs. Archives of BUSH Log files can be listed by sending the command INDEX BUSH to LISTSERV@MARIST. To subscribe, send the following command to LISTSERV@MARIST.BITNET or LISTSERV@VM.MARIST.EDU in the BODY of mail or BITNET interactive message: SUB BUSH your full name where "your full name" is your name. For example: SUB BUSH Joan Doe Owner: Martha McConaghy (URMM@VM.MARIST.EDU). *4.2* CFS-L on LISTSERV@NIHLIST Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Discussion or LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV This list seeks to serve the needs of persons with chronic fatigue syndrome by enabling a broad discussion of CFS-related topics. Subscription is open and the list is unmoderated. Please note that any advice which may be given on this list regarding diagnoses or treatments, etc., reflects only the opinion of the individual posting the message; people with CFS ought to consult with a licensed health care practitioner who is familiar with the syndrome. CFS is an illness characterized by debilitating fatigue and a variety of flu-like symptoms. The condition is also known as chronic fatigue immune deficiency syndrome (CFIDS), myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and by other names, and in the past has been known as chronic Epstein-Barr virus (CEBV). To subscribe, send the following command to LISTSERV@NIHLIST or to LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV: SUB CFS-L your full name where "your full name" is your name. For example: SUB CFS-L John Doze Please remember that CFS-L is a LISTSERV list, so that administrative commands (such as SUBSCRIBE, etc.) must be sent to LISTSERV@nodename, whereas messages for posting to the list must be sent to CFS-L@nodename. CFS patients are also advised to retrieve and read the file named RESOURCE at the NIH server. Note that the server is at a different node address than is the LISTSERV. To get the file, put the command GET FTP CFS.RESOURCE in the Subject heading of an e-mail message (the text is ignored) and send it to SERVER@NIHCU.BITNET or SERVER@CU.NIH.GOV. It is also available via anonymous FTP at cu.nih.gov or 128.231.64.7, password=guest, directory=CFS, filename=RESOURCE. Owner: Roger Burns or Editor's Note: There is also a CFS Newsletter published as the CFS-NEWS list on LISTSERV@NIHLIST. *4.3* CLAYART on LISTSERV@UKCC Ceramic Arts Discussion List or LISTSERV@UKCC.uky.edu The focus of CLAYART is to provide a forum for discussion of issues of interest to those in the fields of ceramic arts/pottery. Appropriate postings include: * aesthetic issues/concerns * grant information * exhibition opportunities * technical information * conference information * workshops/seminars * book reviews * job listings This is a LISTSERV managed list, so normal subscription requests apply. To subscribe send mail to LISTSERV@UKCC (or on the Internet to LISTSERV@UKCC.uky.edu) with the body of the mail containing the command: SUB CLAYART Yourfirstname Yourlastname Owner: Joe Molinaro id: ARTMOLIN@EKU.BITNET Assistant Professor/Art phone: (606) 622-1634 Eastern Kentucky University Richmond, Kentucky 40475 *4.4* CLINTON on LISTSERV@MARIST Bill Clinton's Presidential Campaign or LISTSERV@VM.MARIST.EDU This list is intended for the discussion of Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign for President. It will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information on his candidacy and campaign. Topics may include but are not limited to; issues, policy, organization, strategy, and appearances. The list can serve as a collection point for the opinions and views which we would like to make known to the candidates, and it can serve to coordinate volunteer efforts during the campaign. Since politics is a very volatile topic, where positions are closely linked to emotions, there are some rules for anyone who wishes to join this list. There may be no personal attacks. Discussion will be limited to topics that are pertinent to the intention of the list stated above. When expressing your opinions and positions please express them in a manner that respects the rights and dignity of your fellow citizens in the electronic community Please keep your entries free of all racial, ethnic, sexual, and religious slurs. Archives of CLINTON Log files can be listed by sending the command INDEX CLINTON to LISTSERV@MARIST on BITNET. To subscribe, send the following command to LISTSERV@MARIST.BITNET or LISTSERV@VM.MARIST.EDU in the BODY of mail or BITNET interactive message: SUB CLINTON your full name where "your full name" is your name. For example: SUB CLINTON Joan Doe Owner: Lee Sakkas (URLS@MARISTC.BITNET). *4.5* ELECT-L on LISTSERV@PCCVM Campaign Managers Discussion I'm pleased to announce the start of a new discussion group called ELECT-L. ELECT-L is a discussion group aimed at campaign managers, workers, and candidates at all levels of government and from all ideologies. This is a place to bounce around campaign strategy ideas and talk shop. It is NOT the place to discuss ideology or current events. Topics for discussion might include: 1) Direct mail techniques 2) Voter Identification 3) Developing Name Recognition 4) Canvassing 5) Polling 6) Fundraising 7) Campaign Finance Law 8) Election strategy 9) Media relations 10) Your idea here. To subscribe to ELECT-L, please send the message SUB ELECT-L firstname lastname in the BODY of e-mail to LISTSERV@PCCVM on BITNET. Owner: Brett A. Feinstein BITNET: bafei@conncoll.BITNET internet: bafei@mvax.cc.conncoll.edu Voice phone: 203-439-4021 snail mail: Box 3337 Connecticut College 270 Mohegan Avenue New London, CT, USA 06320 *4.6* KLARINET on LISTSERV@VCCSCENT Clarinettist's Network KLARINET is an online network featuring news, information, research and teaching items of interest, and other related information concerning clarinet players, teachers, students, and enthusiasts. This network will provide a place to share such information with dialogues amongst participants, research papers, lists of performances, old and new repertoire, makers, etc. Archives of KLARINET can be listed by sending the command INDEX KLARINET to LISTSERV@VCCSCENT via mail or interactive message. To subscribe to KLARINET send the following command in the BODY of e-mail or a message to LISTSERV@VCCSCENT on BITNET: SUB KLARINET your full name where "your full name" is your name. For example: SUB KLARINET John Doe Owner: Jim Fay Cap Bromley *4.7* PRISON-L on LISTSERV@DARTCMS1 Teaching in Prisons or LISTSERV@DARTCMS1.DARTMOUTH.EDU Prison-l is a moderated list designed to promote exchanges between and among those who have taught or presently teach in prisons. Oftentimes those who teach in prisons find themselves isolated from their peers and others who may have suggestions for the unique problems one encounters in prison teaching. Prison teaching is one of the most challenging and rewarding work a teacher may experience and the increased numbers of prisoners only add to the challenge. Prison-l is also a place where administrators of prison education programs can join in discussions with prison educators. Eventually it is hoped that Prison-l will be accessible to prison inmates. 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