• Overview
• How This Book is Organized
• ©1995 by Sams.net Publishing
• Trademarks
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Section Editors
• Contributing Authors
• Introduction
• Audience
• Organization of this Book

Overview

If you have no NetWare experience, the first part will establish a sufficient level of understanding to comprehend the rest of the material.

If you are an experienced NetWare professional, take the time to scan the first part of this book. This book consistently uses certain terms as they are defined here—not necessarily as they are defined by Novell. You will find that the mechanics of the NetWare file server operating system, networking software and protocols, and LAN technology are presented in a simple, clear, and precise manner. Your ability to troubleshoot will be enhanced by your studying of what happens inside the system.

How This Book is Organized

This book is organized into the following parts:

Part I. Theory Behind the Practice: This chapters in this part cover the inner workings of NetWare, its protocols, and local area networks (LANs). This part goes into more detail (than Novell training) about how and why NetWare works the way it does.

Part II. Planning and Installation: This part is a guide for integrating NetWare 3.12 and 4.01 versions. It is full of helpful tips—gained from the authors' experiences.

Part III. System Administration: This part walks you through the basics of setting up NetWare administration and printing, including the latest additions: BasicMHS, ElectroText online documentation, and the new menu system.

Part IV. Network Management: This part is a survival guide for managing networks using available software tools. This is not a product review, such as those that you read in various periodicals, but a helpful analysis of available tools—and what they do for you.

Part V. Internetworks and WANs: This part provides simple and direct instructions for integrating NetWare in an campus-wide and/or enterprise-wide environment. It clarifies routing and bridging issues, and system design for internetworks and wide area networks (WANs).

Part VI. Performance Optimization: This part probes every aspect of NetWare, the underlying LANs, and the WANs that you can exploit for better performance.

Part VII. Preventing Downtime: This part explores the critical failure points, products, and available features to keep your system running nonstop.

Part VIII. Protocol Analysis: This part is a guide to analyzing NetWare and local area network protocols. It is a simple and direct beginning point for using a protocol analyzer with NetWare. This part and a protocol analyzer will help a network professional evolve into a true networking professional.

Part IX. Windows and NetWare: This part explores Windows integration and administration in a NetWare environment.

Part X. Troubleshooting: This part discusses the most likely problems that you'll encounter when something goes wrong. It also shows how to identify and resolve problems.

Appendixes: Support material (including a glossary of NetWare terminology) is offered in the appendixes.

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Acknowledgments

Over one hundred people contributed directly in some way to the production of The Internet Unleashed 1996. It was an enormous undertaking—one that truly couldn't have been done without each and every person in our extraordinary team of authors, editors, technical reviewers, editorial assistants and coordinators, design and production specialists, proofreaders, indexers, and others. Their expertise, talent, and dedication are evident on every page of this book.

Although most of those who had a direct hand in The Internet Unleashed 1996 are listed somewhere on the pages in the front of this book, those not named on any page are the many, many others—friends, coworkers, spouses, children, parents, and online acquaintances—who contributed indirectly to the book with their words of support and encouragement, with their willingness to look over a rough draft or explain some arcane technical detail one more time, and with their patience and endurance through all the long evenings and weekends spent without their loved ones. We all thank them all.

About the Authors

Section Editors

Billy Barron (billy@metronet.com, http://.utdallas.edu/acc/billy.html) is the network services manager for the University of Texas at Dallas. He has an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of North Texas and has contributed to such books as Tricks of the Internet Gurus and Accessing Online Bibliographic Databases, as well as writing for periodicals. (Section Editor: Part V, "Finding Information," and Part VI, "Sharing Information." Author: Chapter 18, "Live Conversations: Internet Relay Chat and Other Methods"; Chapter 20, "Finding Information: Introduction and Tips"; Chapter 21, "Finding People on the Internet"; Chapter 30, "New Tools: FSP, Harvest, and Hyper-G"; Chapter 31, "Sharing Information: An Introduction"; Chapter 50, "Colleges and Universities on the Internet"; and Chapter 58, "Crackers and Viruses.")

Jill H. Ellsworth, Ph.D. (je@world.std.com, http://www.oak-ridge.com/orr.html) is a university professor, an Internet consultant for Fortune 500 companies, and a frequent speaker about business, marketing, and education on the Internet. She is the author of Education on the Internet (Sams Publishing, 1994) and The Internet Business Book (Wiley, 1994), and co-author of Marketing on the Internet: Multimedia Strategies for the World Wide Web (Wiley, 1995). (Section Editor: Part I, "The Internet Explosion"; Part II, "How the Internet Works"; Part VIII, "Using the Internet: Libraries"; and Part IX: "Using the Internet: Education." Author: Chapter 1, "The Idea of the Internet"; Chapter 38, "Business Growth on the Internet"; Chapter 39, "Why Do Business on the Internet?"; Chapter 40, "Marketing Your Products and Services"; and Chapter 53, "Distance Education.")

Kevin M. Savetz (savetz@northcoast.com, http://www.northcoast.com/savetz/) is a computer journalist who writes for a variety of magazines, including Internet World, Byte, Internet Business Journal, CD-ROM World, Online Access, and Wired. He publishes the Internet Services FAQ list and is the author of Your Internet Consultant: The FAQs of Life (Sams Publishing, 1994). (Section Editor: Part III, "Plugging Into the Internet"; Part XI, "Internet Issues and Controversies"; and Part XII, "Internet Diversion and Fun." Author: Chapter 7, "Finding Access as a User"; Chapter 8; "Finding Access as an Organization"; Chapter 63, "Spamming and Cancelbots"; Chapter 66, "Games Online"; and Appendix E, "Favorite Internet Books.")

Contributing Authors

Philip Baczewski (baczewski@unt.edu) is the assistant director of academic computing at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. He holds a doctoral degree in music composition; in addition to his activities in computing support and instruction, he is active as a composer of classical music and as a researcher in the field of music cognition. (Chapter 24, "Archie: An Archive of Archives.")

Steve Bang (bang@rain.org) gives workshops on e-mail and trains University of California, Santa Barbara, faculty, staff, and students in the use of the Internet. Steve has written articles on the Internet and contributed to Sams Publishing's Navigating the Internet. (Chapter 51, "ERIC and Educational Resources," and Appendix E, "UNIX Basics and Tips.")

James Barnett (spingo@echonyc.com) is a New York City-based interactive and online media consultant whose Spingo World Media has provided services for Elektra Records, Marvel Comics, and American Photo magazine. He's also a graphic designer, cartoonist, and master of the one-note guitar solo. (Chapter 54, "Virtual Communities: ECHO and the WELL.")

Fred Barrie (barrie@unr.edu) is a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is also a co-developer of Veronica and is always experimenting on the network. (Chapter 26, "Searching Gopherspace with Veronica.")

Kevin D. Barron (kdb@itp.ucsb.edu) is the system manager for the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been roaming the Net for more than 11 years; for the past several years, he has taught "Beyond E-Mail," a seminar on navigating the Internet. (Chapter 22, "FTP: Fetching Files from Everywhere"; Chapter 34, "Setting Up an FTP Server"; and Chapter 35, "Creating a Gopher Server.")

Robert J. Berger (rberger@internex.net) is the founder and CEO of InterNex Information Services, Inc., an Internet service company headquartered in Silicon Valley. InterNex specializes in cost-effective high-bandwidth Internet connectivity such as ISDN. In addition, the InterNex Server Bureau offers services that facilitate using the Internet for commerce. (Chapter 10, "High-Speed Internet Connections.")

Tom Caldwell (tcaldwell@rns.com) is manager of information systems for Rockwell Network Systems, located in Santa Barbara, CA. He holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering and Computer Science from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and has over 7 years' experience supporting the Internet and computer networking. (Chapter 11, "Managing Internet Security.")

Andy Carvin (acarvin@k12.cnidr.org) is a technology consultant at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington, D.C. He is the coordinator of the EdWeb Project (http://k12.cnidr.org:90) and the Listserv WWWEDU. His articles have appeared in GNN, On the Horizon, and other education and technology journals. (Chapter 49, "K—12 Teachers on the Internet.")

John December (decemj@rpi.edu, http://www.rpi.edu/~decemj) publishes several World Wide Web-based documents and publications about the Internet and the Web. He is the author of Presenting Java, co-author of HTML and CGI Unleashed, The World Wide Web Unleashed (Sams Publishing) and a Ph.D. candidate in Communication and Rhetoric at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. (Chapter 62, "How the Web Is Changing the Internet.")

Ron Dippold (rdippold@qualcomm.com) is an engineer in the high-tech communications field. He is an author of much information related to computers and handles most new group voting for Usenet. He also possesses one pair of flameproof underwear for safe Usenet posting. (Chapter 12, "Internet E-Mail: An Overview"; Chapter 13, "Internet E-Mail: UNIX"; Chapter 14, "Internet E-Mail: DOS, Windows, and Macintosh"; Chapter 15, "Internet E-Mail: Gateways"; and Appendix D, "Tools Every Internetter Should Have.")

Tasmin Douglas (tasmin@ibl.bm) is co-author of Navigating the Internet with Your Macintosh (Sams.net, 1995). She works for Internet (Bermuda) Limited doing customer support, web authoring, and media relations. (Appendix C, "Getting Connected with a Macintosh.")

William Dutcher (dutcherb@nic.ddn.mil) teaches the Defense Data Network (DDN) course for Network Solutions, which manages the Internet Network Information Center (InterNIC) and the DDN NIC. Based in the Washington D.C. area, Dutcher also runs TeraByte Data Systems, a systems training and consulting company. (Chapter 9, "Connecting a LAN to the Internet.")

Matthew V. Ellsworth (oakridge@world.std.com) researches and writes books and articles about the Internet. His company, Oak Ridge Reasearch ( http://www.oak-ridge.com/orr.html) provides Web-page consulting and authoring services. He holds degrees from Michigan State and Syracuse Universities, and now lives in a Texas Hill Country house he designed. (Chapter 3, "Forces Shaping the Internet"; Chapter 4, "The Future of the Internet"; and Chapter 6, "Domain Names and Internet Addresses.")

Cliff Figallo (fig@well.sf.ca.us) was director of the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (the WELL) from 1986 to 1992. He then spent a year as the online liaison for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Today, he writes and consults in the areas of online community-building and commercial Internet applications. (Chapter 54, "Virtual Communities: ECHO and the WELL.")

Mark Gibbs (mgibbs@rain.org) has consulted, lectured, and written articles and books about the network market. He is the author of Sams Publishing's Do-It-Yourself Networking with LANtastic and The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Networking; he is co-author of Navigating the Internet. (Chapter 27, "WAIS: The Database of Databases.")

Angela Gunn (agunn@pipeline.com) is a journalist specializing in the Internet and online communications. She is a contributor to Home Office Computing, PC Magazine, Computer Shopper, and Internet World, and is the author of Plug-n-Play Mosaic for Windows (Sams Publishing, 1994). (Chapter 67, "Cool Web Worlds," and Chapter 68, "Online Art Galleries.")

Judy Hallman (judy_hallman@unc.edu) is Campus-Wide Information Systems Manager, Office of Information Technology (OIT), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). She is also WebMaster of the UNC-CH home page. She has worked for the university since 1967 and is Executive Director and Vice President of Triangle Free-Net. (Chapter 52, "Campus-Wide Information Systems.")

John Iliff (pp001654@interramp.com) is the Head Reference and Systems Librarian at Pinellas Park Public Library (FL). He's been using the Internet since 1991, and is co-moderator of the PUBLIB and PUBLIB-NET Listservs. He has been widely featured as a speaker on the Internet. (Chapter 44, "Net-Surfing Public Librarians," and Chapter 45, "Library of Congress: The Power of Information.")

Andrew Kantor (ak@panix.com) is senior editor at Internet World magazine. He gives seminars at trade shows and for local organizations; his weekly radio show, "The Internet Minute," debuted on certain National Public Radio stations in the Summer of 1995. (Chapter 59, "Information Overload.")

Susan Kinnell (susan.c@bkstr.ucsb.edu) works for the University of California, Santa Barbara, Bookstore as Custom Publishing Manager and for Santa Barbara City College in Continuing Education as a computer instructor. She has authored several technical manuals, edited bibliographies for a local publishing company, and recently published CD-ROM for Schools (Eight Bit Books, 1995). (Chapter 46, "Discussion List for School Libraries: A Case Study.")

Diane K. Kovacs (dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu) is an instructor and reference librarian at Kent State University libraries. She is the editor-in-chief of the Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences, which is published by the Association of Research Libraries. She has written and spoken frequently on the topic of scholarly resources on the academic networks and also has taught workshops on using the Internet resources for scholarly research. (Chapter 32, "Creating and Administering Mailing Lists.")

Elizabeth Lane Lawley (liz@itcs.com) is the founder and director of Internet Training & Consulting Services (ITCS), based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and the co-author of Internet Primer for Information Professionals (Meckler, 1992). She received her M.L.S. degree from the University of Michigan in 1987, and worked for the Library of Congress and Congressional Information Service, Inc. (Chapter 41, "Selecting an Internet Consultant or Trainer.")

Terrence J. Miller (terrynaples@delphi.com), a writer transplanted to Florida from Washington, D.C., is active with computer groups, was a founding member of the Free-Net organizing committee in Washington, and now is organizing a committee in Naples, FL. He likes to join and form groups. (Chapter 55, "Community Computing and Free-Nets.")

David H. Mitchell (diaspar@bix.com) is the founder of the Diaspar Virtual Reality Network, writer about tele-things, space activist, and reader of science fiction. (Chapter 65, "Virtual Reality on the Internet.")

Martin Moore has been wandering the Internet for nearly 10 years. The founder of MDP, Inc., Moore has written three books, numerous magazine articles, and is currently fascinated with the multimedia aspects of the Internet. (Chapter 2, "Introducing the Internet"; Chapter 5, "The Network of Networks"; and Chapter 6, "Domain Names and Internet Addresses.")

Kevin Mullet (KWM@compassnet.com) is the Internet services support manager at Compass Net, Inc. When he's not indulging his interests in Internet service provision, system security, community computing, and personal teleconferencing, he proselytizes about the global culture of the Internet while trying to brew a perfect cup of coffee. (Chapter 19, "Internet Teleconferencing: MBone, CU-SeeMe, and Maven," and Chapter 37, "Setting Up a World Wide Web Server.")

Janet Murray (jmurray@psg.com) is the librarian at a comprehensive public high school in Portland, Oregon, and a co-founder of K12Net. Her FidoNet bulletin board system, HI TECH TOOLS for Librarians, feeds K12Net conferences to more than 30 systems from Hawaii to New Brunswick as well as to the international and Usenet gateway systems. (Chapter 48, "Schoolkids and the Net.")

Lay Wah Ooi (ooi@metronet.com, http://www.test.com/nooi) is a UNIX system administrator at Titan Client/Server Technologies. She graduated from the University of North Texas with a Computer Science degree and has worked at Sprint, one of the principle Internet backbone providers, as a software engineer/UNIX system administrator. (Chapter 18, "Live Conversations: Internet Relay Chat and Other Methods," and Chapter 23, "Logging in to Other Computers with Telnet and Rlogin.")

Maggie Parhamovich (magoo@nevada.edu) is head of the Government Documents department at James R. Dickinson Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She conducted training and developed resources for the Internet while on an ALA/USIA Library Fellowship at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and the University of New Brunswick in Canada. (Chapter 57, "Federal Information on the Internet.")

Tim Parker (tparker@tpci.com) is a consultant and writer based in Ottawa, Ontario. He is a columnist and writer for several magazines, including UNIX World, Computer Language, and UNIX Review. He has published six books, the last two on UNIX. When not writing, Tim spends his time white-water kayaking, flying, and scuba diving. (Chapter 17, "Reading and Posting the News: Using Usenet.")

Phillip W. Paxton is a development editor at Sams Publishing, specializing in the Internet, programming languages, databases, operating systems, and emerging technologies. A former systems programmer and DBA, his spare time is spent juggling seven balls and playing cribbage. (Chapter 16, "Joining Discussions: Using Listservs and Mailing Lists.")

Brandon Plewe (plewe@acsu.buffalo.edu, http://wings.buffalo.edu/~plewe/) is Assistant Coordinator of Network Information Services at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has an M.A. degree in Geography from SUNY/Buffalo. Besides managing the University's CWIS, he has built several geography-related services on the WWW, including the Virtual Tourist. (Chapter 36, "Creating Web Pages with HTML.")

Joseph Poirier (snag@acca.nmsu.edu) is a software engineer for Network Design Technologies, Inc., where he designs and implements object-oriented telecommunications network optimization software. He graduated from Purdue University in 1990 with a B.S. degree in computer science. Known as Snag on several muds, he can frequently be found playing cards in the virtual poker halls. He is the one wearing the bunny slippers. (Chapter 64, "Interactive Multiuser Realities: MUDs, MOOs, MUCKs, and MUSHes.")

Rosalind Resnick (rosalind@harrison.win.net) is a freelance writer, author, and consultant specializing in business and technology. She is the co-author of The Internet Business Guide (Sams Publishing, 1995) and the author of Exploring the World of Online Services (Sybex, 1993). Her twice-monthly newsletter, Interactive Publishing Alert, tracks trends and developments in electronic newspaper and magazine publishing. (Chapter 42, "Digital Cash.")

Lance Rose (elrose@path.net) is an attorney and writer who works with high-tech and information companies. He is the author of NetLaw, the online legal guide, and writes for Boardwatch Magazine and Wired. He has spoken at Internet World; ONE BBS CON; Comdex; New Media Expo; Computers, Freedom and Privacy; and other network events. (Chapter 60, "Copyright on the Networks," and Chapter 61, "Freedom of Online Speech.")

Lou Rosenfeld (lou@argus-inc.com) is President of Argus Associates, Inc. (http://argus-inc.com), an Internet publishing and marketing company that specializes in information organization and evaluation. While working as a librarian at the University of Michigan, Lou founded and now manages the Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides (http://www.lib.umich.edu/chhome.html), a popular Internet reference resource. (Chapter 43, "The Internet in Academic Libraries.")

David H. Rothman (rothman@clark.net) is author of The Electronic Citizen, which Sams will publish in the Fall of 1995. An electronic activist as far back as the mid-1980s, Rothman's work has appeared in publications ranging from The Washington Post to Computerworld. His current cause is TeleRead, a proposal for an online national library affordable to all. (Chapter 56, "Net Activism.")

Peter Scott (scottp@herald.usask.ca) is the manager of small systems at the University of Saskatchewan Libraries. He is the author of Hytelnet and other hypertext software programs, a frequent speaker at Internet conferences, and a past president of the Saskatoon Free-Net Association. (Chapter 29, "Opening Doors with Hytelnet.")

Richard J. Smith (rjs@lis.pitt.edu) has taught the use of the Internet in graduate courses and workshops since 1991. He is the co-author of Sams Publishing's Navigating the Internet; tens of thousands have participated in his online Internet tutorials. (Chapter 27, "WAIS: The Database of Databases.")

Ned Snell (nsnell@carroll.com) is a computer journalist and author specializing in Windows and Internet topics. He is the author of Navigating the Internet with Windows 95 (Sams.net, 1995). (Appendix B, "Getting Connected with Windows 95.")

Dave Taylor (taylor@netcom.com) is a long-time Internet expert, having sent his first Internet e-mail message in 1980. Author of both the Elm mail system and Embot, he's a prolific UNIX programmer, interface designer, and writer. He is the author of Teach Yourself UNIX in a Week (Sams Publishing, 1994) and co-author of The Internet Business Guide (Sams Publishing, 1994). (Chapter 33, "Providing Information with E-Mail Robots.")

Glenn Vanderburg (glv@metronet.com) is a UNIX and network software developer at the University of Texas at Dallas. He's been active on the Internet since 1986, and has worked on e-mail systems, special-purpose languages, and network management. Currently, he's interested in practical applications of the World Wide Web, MIME-based e-mail, and autonomous network agents. (Chapter 28, "Navigating the World Wide Web.")

Laura Windsor (windsor@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu) is an instructional librarian at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. She has a B.A. degree from Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth and an A.M.L.S. degree from the University of Michigan. She has fun surfing the Net, as well as teaching the Internet to people of all ages and expertise. (Chapter 47, "The Virtual Library.")

Introduction

The book you're now holding in your hands is a very real, very weighty demonstration of the power of the Internet.

Without the Internet, it would have been impossible to gather together such a diverse and experienced collection of authors—even if we had somehow managed to track down all these people, staying in touch with them all and passing ideas and files back and forth would have been far more difficult without the Internet. To be sure, in producing this book, we all relied on the traditional tools of the business—paper and the telephone and the U.S. Mail—but not nearly as heavily as we relied on such Internet tools as e-mail, file transfer, newsgroups, FAQ lists, and some powerful search tools.

The Internet Unleashed 1996 will help you discover the potential that awaits you on the Internet. Other books are available that tell you how to get online and use the basic tools of the Internet, but The Internet Unleashed 1996 is unlike any of them.

We dig deeper into the Internet. We don't just tell you how to use the World Wide Web, for example, we tell you how to set up and develop content for your own Web server—or to start a mailing list, or to establish an FTP or Gopher site. And we also tell you how to put these Internet tools and resources to work—whether you're in business, education, libraries, government, or community networking.

Even more importantly, The Internet Unleashed 1996 is not the product of a single author, or even two or three authors. No single individual has the depth of knowledge or experience to do justice to the incredible richness and power of the Internet. We sought knowledgeable authors, all experts in their own fields, to contribute to this work. The names you see in this book are the names you'll inevitably come across in your explorations on the Net. Many of them are actively and prominently involved in contributing their work to the Internet: maintaining FAQ lists, publishing electronic books and journals, moderating newsgroups and mailing lists, building community networks and Free-Nets, teaching workshops and training seminars (online and otherwise), maintaining FTP, Gopher, and Web sites, and developing the new Internet tools we'll be using tomorrow.

Audience

The Internet Unleashed 1996 is designed to have something for everyone, whether you're an individual user, a user on a network, or a technical professional. And it shouldn't matter what profession you're in—this book has sections for business professionals, librarians and information professionals, teachers and students, and government or community workers.

Organization of this Book

We start out in Parts I and II, as so many Internet books do, with a history of the Internet. It's important to understand how the Internet developed, how it's structured, how things change and develop, and what kind of behavior is expected—for new users and even for those who are more experienced. The Internet did not appear overnight all full-grown, with structure and rules all predetermined. The Internet grew organically over time. And as a result, taking the time to read through these introductory chapters will help you better understand some of the Internet's peculiarities—and dangers.

In Part III, "Plugging Into the Internet," we take up the question would-be Internet users the world over ask: how do I get connected? Kevin Savetz discusses the various general options, both for individual dial-up users and for businesses or other organizations that may want to hook up an entire office or company. Bill Dutcher explains how to connect an existing local area network (LAN) to the Internet. Bob Berger discusses the options for high-speed Internet connections. Tom Caldwell tells you how to secure your site against Internet intruders.

In Part IV, "Communicating with Others," Ron Dippold, with some help from Billy Barron in this edition, has written four big chapters on the mother of all Internet functions: e-mail. And then Phil Paxton, Tim Parker, Lay Wah Ooi, and Kevin Mullet go on to tell you how to join and use mailing lists, how to read and post messages using Usenet newsgroups, how to join live conversations with Internet Relay Chat, and how to set up live teleconferencing over the Internet with MBone, CU-SeeMe, and Maven.

In Part V, "Finding Information," we show you the other major Internet function—finding and exploiting resources. Billy Barron kicks the section off with an overview of the tools we'll use, along with some general pointers and tips, and then we go into every major Internet tool or resource out there: Kevin Barron on FTP, Lay Wah Ooi on Telnet, Philip Baczewski on Archie, Paul Lindner and Danny Iacovou on Gopher, Fred Barrie on Veronica, Rich Smith and Mark Gibbs on WAIS, Glenn Vanderburg on the World Wide Web, Peter Scott on Hytelnet, and Billy Barron on new tools like FSP, Harvest, and Hyper-G.

In Part VI, "Sharing Information," Billy Barron opens with an overview chapter; then Diane Kovacs tells how to create and administer a mailing list, Dave Taylor describes how to provide information with e-mail robots, Kevin Barron details the procedures involved in setting up FTP and Gopher servers, Brandon Plewe tells how to create World Wide Web pages with HTML, and Kevin Mullet gives an overview of setting up a Web server.

In Part VII, "Using the Internet: Business," Jill Ellsworth debunks the myth that the Internet is hostile to business. She tells you what you can—and cannot—do, and provides you with numerous ideas and examples for putting the Internet and its resources to work. Rosalind Resnick contributes a chapter on digital cash, and Elizabeth Lane Lawley outlines what to look for when you're choosing an Internet trainer or consultant for your business.

In Part VIII, "Using the Internet: Libraries," Susan Kinnell, Lou Rosenfeld, John Iliff, and Laura Windsor demonstrate the immense utility that academic, K—12, and public libraries have found on the Internet.

In Part IX, "Using the Internet: Education," Jill Ellsworth, Andy Carvin, Janet Murray, Billy Barron, and Steve Bang show teachers, students, and parents how the Internet can break down the restrictions of classroom walls and open up an exciting world of possibilities to students of all ages.

In Part X, "Using the Internet: Community and Government," several authors approach the idea of building an online community with the tools that the Internet has to offer. James Barnett and Cliff Figallo combine their efforts in a chapter on virtual communities, with special emphasis on ECHO and the WELL. Terrence Miller profiles the community networking efforts of Tom Grundner. David Rothman gives us a look at activism on the Internet. And Maggie Parhamovich summarizes federal information that's available online.

In Part XI, "Internet Issues and Controversies," we bring you up to date on some current hot Internet topics for discussion: Billy Barron on crackers and viruses, Andrew Kantor on information overload, attorney Lance Rose on copyright on the networks and freedom of online speech, John December on how the Web is changing the Internet, and Kevin Savetz on spamming and cancelbots.

In Part XII, "Internet Diversion and Fun," we wrap up the chapters in the book with a quick look at some of the more interesting sides of the Internet: Joseph Poirier on MUDs, MOOs, MUCKs, and MUSHes; David Mitchell on virtual reality on the Internet; Kevin Savetz on online games, and Angela Gunn on cool Web worlds and online art galleries.

Finally, the appendixes provide you with lists for future reference of access providers, tools every Internetter should have, UNIX basics and tips, Internet domain names, and reviews of some of the best printed books about the Internet. (Other than this one, of course!)

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