"WHERE TO START" FOR NEW INTERNET USERS
                            Jim Milles
                             Ver. 1.2
                              2/10/93
 
 
1.  E-mail systems vary widely.  For help with most e-mail
    questions (signature files, quoting, and so on), contact your
    local computer support personnel or your Internet service
    provider.
 
 
2.  Some recommended books for new users of the Internet:
 
    LaQuey, Tracy.  _The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide
    to Global Networking_.  Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992.
    (Read this first; the best guide for the true beginner,
    useful even for the pre-beginner who has not yet signed on
    to the Internet.)
 
    Krol, Ed.  _The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog_.
    Sebastapol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1992.  (Read this
    after LaQuey; much more in-depth and comprehensive, at this
    writing Krol is *the* essential guide to the Internet.)
 
    Tennant, Roy, John Ober, & Anne G. Lipow.  _Crossing the
    Internet Threshold: An Instructional Handbook_. Berkeley, CA:
    Library Solutions Press, 1993.  (Includes helpful fact sheets
    on various Internet tools from ftp and telnet to archie,
    gopher, WAIS, and World-Wide Web.)
 
    Kehoe, Brendan.  _Zen and the Art of the Internet: A
    Beginner's Guide_.  2nd ed.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-
    Hall, 1993.  (One of the first and most popular guides to the
    Internet.  The first edition was distributed for free on the
    Internet, and is still available at many anonymous ftp sites,
    e.g. nic.merit.edu, directory /introducing.the.internet,
    filename zen.txt.)
 
    Quarterman, John S.  _The Matrix: Computer Networks and
    Conferencing Systems Worldwide_.  Bedford, MA: Digital Press,
    1990.  (A comprehensive guide to the history and present--
    as of 1990--state of the Internet and its component and
    related networks.  Recommended for those who want to learn
    the background and history of the Internet.)
 
 
3.  For those who know enough about using the Internet to be able
    to use "ftp," the following sources are very useful (note
    that they are regularly updated, so the version numbers and
    file names may change):
 
    Martin, Jerry.  "There's Gold in them thar Networks! or
    Searching for Treasure in all the Wrong Places."  RFC 1402,
    January 1993.  Available via anonymous ftp from nic.merit.edu,
    directory /introducing.the.internet, filename network.gold.
 
    "NYSERNet New User's Guide to Useful and Unique Resources on
    the Internet."  Version 2.2, April 1992.  Available via
    anonymous ftp from nysernet.org, directory /pub/guides,
    filename new.user.guide.V2.2.txt
 
    Polly, Jean Armour.  "Surfing the INTERNET: An Introduction."
    Version 2.0.2, December 16, 1992. Available via anonymous ftp
    from nysernet.org, directory /pub/guides, file
    surfing.2.0.2.txt.
 
    "SURAnet Guide to Selected Internet Resources."  January
    1993.  Available via anonymous ftp from ftp.sura.net,
    directory /pub/nic, file infoguide.1-93.txt.
 
    Yanoff, Scott.  "Special Internet Connections" (updated
    frequently).  A list of interesting and useful selection
    showing the broad range of Internet resources, including a
    few Online Public Access Catalogs, chat lines, weather
    servers, Campus Wide Information Systems, and other reference
    resources.  Available via anonymous ftp from
    csd4.csd.uwm.edu, directory /pub, filename inet.services.txt.
 
 
Jim Milles (listowner/moderator, NETTRAIN)    Fax: (314) 658-3966
Head of Computer Services                   Phone: (314) 658-2759
Saint Louis University Law Library        millesjg@sluvca.slu.edu