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"Ten Tips for Becoming a Happy Email List Subscriber"; very good advice from Al Bredenberg, publisher of NETResults online newsletter.

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Links to Related Off-Site Resources

INDEXES & SEARCH TOOLS/SERVICES

OTHER NET INFO, SERVICES & TOOLS

BUSINESS ONLINE

GENERAL REFERENCE

MISC.

INDEXES & SEARCH TOOLS/SERVICES

NCSA's Internet Resources Meta-Index

NCSA's Experimental Search Engine Meta-Index

for WAIS, etc. requires HTML forms support.

Virtual Listserv's Search Engine

Forum One is a guide to over 117,000 Web Forum Discussions. Web Forums" are areas on the web where you can post and respond to messages. Many other listservs may be found by typing "listserv" into altavista or its equivalent

The World Wide web Virtual Library:

Electronic journals, newspapers, magazines, newsletters and other resources.

Champaign, IL Public Library's

List of e-zines and other electronic media.

MIT's usenet faq archive.

EINet Galaxy Guide to World-Wide Information and Services.

NetCenter

Netscape's hub-and-spokes model reciprocal linking system of WWW indexing.

The Awesome List,

John Makulowich's index of "the glory and grandeur of the Internet, the sine qua non of Cyberspace"

NetBook/ScottList,

an extensive Internet site index, thirteen hundred+ entries.

Yahoo,

A portal with search engine, many services, information, free e-mail, chat rooms, etc.

Magellan

WWW Search Engine

CMU's Lycos

WWW Search Engine

InfoSeek

WWW Search Engine

WebCrawler

WWW Search Engine

DejaNews

Usenet Archive Search Engine

Excite

WWW & Usenet Search Engine, + Web Site Reviews

CUSI (CONFIGURABLE UNIFIED SEARCH INTERFACE)

one interface for multiple WWW search engines

WWW Search Engine Meta-Index

Search World-wide ftp Servers Using Archie Search Tool.

Search a massive index of SunSite

CD-ROM reasearch databases

SunSite Usenet Info Center

Launch Pad

Searchable index of the comp.infosystems.* newsgroups

Cool Site of the Day

Four11: The Internet White Pages

lists online people in a phonebook-like database

A "Yellow Pages"

index of professional media/news websites, email addresses & more.

The Internet Domain Survey

WWW Archive

Index of Academic Internet Servers

Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences

mailing lists

The Netizen's Cyberstop

info on net culture and history.

A large list of FTP sites.

OTHER NET INFO, SERVICES & TOOLS

WebChat demo & archive

(WebChat is a realtime chat utility for WWW browsers)

WebLint,

an HTML syntax checker (upload HTML to it, or point it at a URL. This is now a subscription service - $9.95 for 6 mos. $16.95 for a year.)

Alex,

an NSF-like method of treating FTP sites as part of one's own directory tree - neat tool!

The Internet Phone Company (tpc.int) Free Fax-via-Internet Service

Web Communications' Comprehensive Guide to Publishing on the Web

Internet/Usenet History

FTP Site

NIC-France (en Francais)

Japan Network Information Center

(JPNIC; in Japanese & English)

Internet/Usenet FAQs

(more tech. & non-tech. docs)

HEPROC:

Higher Education Resources and Assistance WWW Site

WWW Tips for Beginners

Brown & Mech's

Beginner's HTML Template for WWW Pages

Information About Gopher

GVU's NSFNet Backbone Statistics Page

The The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

shares many entries with HackDict, but has a lot more serious jargon terms.

Babel A Glossary of Computer-oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms.

Biography.Com

search 15,000+ biographies of notable personalities.

Info on New Internet Protocols

(IPng, SIPP, TUBA, etc.)

Info on the Knowledge Query & Manipulation Language (KQML)

for software agent communications.

Internet Resources Newsletter

A free newsletter for academics, students, engineers, scientists & social scientists. "Possibly the most useful round-up of new resources for academic users " - The Student's Guide to the Internet 1998/99

BUSINESS ONLINE

Index of Open Market Home Page:

"We are Internet commerce"

File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau

Central Web Server (IBBB)

List of Internet access providers (regularly updated.)

You can also

GENERAL REFERENCE

Babel:

A Glossary of Computer-oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms

Acronym Server

Anu Garg's Dictionary & Thesaurus Server

Merriam-Webster English Dictionary (hypertext edition)

Michael Moncur's Quotations Server -

search for quotes by keyword & author, get quotes of the day, get random quotes.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations WWW edition

Encyclopedia Britannica, online edition

Encyberpedia

index of online encyclopedias (from general, to very topic-specific).

indo.com Geographic Name Server

finds the latitude and longitude of two places, then calculates the distance between them.

Central Source Yellow Pages -

online phonebook of almost all businesses in the US (this is an online version of a phone book, not an index of online businesses).

The online Yellow Pages

lists US businesses (this is an online version of a phone book, not an index of online businesses).

Tiger's MapBrowse

generate custom US area maps on the fly and download them (free).

MISC.

Weather Reports

by National Weather Service.

Recent Earthquakes United States Geophysical Service