Tricks of the Internet Gurus

Contents at a Glance

Foreword xxvi
Introduction xxxiv
Part I First Things First 1
1 Getting Connected: The Guru's Options 3
2 Access at All Costs 21
3 Tricks of the Trade: Tools 47
4 Where's the Complaint Department? 103
Part II Everyday Guru Facilities 131
5 E-Mail 133
6 Faxing from the Internet 165
7 FTP 175
8 Telnet 197
9 Usenet 219
10 World Wide Web 245
Part III A Guru's Diversions 271
11 Online Entertainment 273
12 Listservs and Mailing Lists 433
13 MBone: The Internet Multimedia Backbone 463
14 Community Computing 481
Part IV Finding Stuff: You Name It, a Guru Can Find it (and So Can You) 503
15 Life with Archie 505
16 Veronica 519
17 Discussion Forums 539
18 Gopher 569
Part V Tricks of the Professional Internet Gurus 591
19 Internet in the Classroom 593
20 Business and Commerce 669
21 Research on the Internet 701
22 Art on the Internet 717
Appendix A Uniform Resource Locators 747
Appendix B Signature Files 771
Appendix C Standards and Where to Find Them 785
Index 791

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