EFF "Net info - Technical Topics" Archive

Files in this Archive

email.biblio

Erik Thelan's Jan 1989 bibliography of works on e mail and other forms of electronic messaging and networked communications.

gigabit_networking_paper.ps.gz

a PostScript format article on how and why the advancement of networking technology to the gigabit/per/second speed level actually presents fewer problems and challenges than supposed initially in the 80s. This file is gzip/compressed.

gnu_public.license

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public Licenses are intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software to make sure the software is free for all its users.

ip_backbones.article

a 1989 article. This is an overview of how the agency backbones route IP (Internet Protocol) packets at this time, with any generalizations that can be made and statements of their differences. Also included are recommendations from the agency backbones about how other networks that connect to them can best set up their inter administration routing. This paper has a single goal: to improve global engineering in the Internet.

ip_speed_limits_paper.ps.gz

a gzip compressed PostScript format speech transcript. Details the upper speed limits of TCP/IP networking, and where the bottle necks will be (not where you might think at first guess).

net_economic.faq

This paper was prepared for the Tenth Michigan Public Utility Conference at Western Michigan University March 25_27, 1993. It describes the history, technology and cost structure of the Internet. We also describe a possible smart/market mechanism for pricing traffic on the Internet. Updated 11/14/93.

net_economic.notes

1994 parer. This is a note about an important issue: the future pricing of Internet services. Please repost freely.

net_pricing_paper.ps.gz

This paper was prepared for the conference "Public Access to the Internet", JFK School of Government, May 26/27, 1993. It describes some of the technology and costs relevant to pricing access to the Internet and suggest a possible smart market mechanism for pricing traffic on the Internet. Updated 11/14/93. gzip compressed PostScript file.

nethosts_0295.stats

Reston VA, USA. 6 Feb 1995. The Internet's most important measurement data indicating its size and growth was released yesterday by Mark Lottor of Network Wizards.

sysopcis.manual

March 25, 1993 Instruction Manual for CompuServe Sysops

pc_nfs_tcp-ip.faq

Large FAQ covering personal computer Network File System and Internet Protocol applications and subjects (DOS and Mac.)

unix.faq

This article is a monthly attempt to remind potential posters to comp.unix about what is appropriate for this newsgroup.

usenet_site.faq

How to Become a Usenet Site.

usenet_0194.stats

Analysis of stored news articles, JAN 94.

usenet_moderator_handbook.draft

1994 article. The goal of this document is to explain the practices currently in use for the benefit of new and existing moderators.

vi_editor.tutor

VI is a very powerful unix editor that has many commands, too many to explain in a tutor such as this. This tutor is designed to describe enough of the commands that you will be able to easily use VI as an all purpose editor.

whatis_ddn_nic_old.faq

June 1990. The DDN Network Information Center (NIC) is located at SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, and is funded by the Defense Data Network (DDN) Defense Communications System (DCS) to provide general user services to DDN users via telephone, electronic mail, and U.S. postal mail.

x25.specs

Jan. 1985. This report specifies the attachment of an X.25 host to the Defense Data Network (DDN). In particular, this report describes specific options and features of CCITT Recommendation X.25 (1980) and Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 100/Federal Standard (Fed. Std.) 1041 (July 1983) required of a host X.25 implementation to enable that host to communicate with a DDN X.25 Interface Message Processor ("IMP", the DDN packet switching node).

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BITNET/

Historical information on BITNET (Batch Simple Mail Transfer Protocol).

Policy/

This archive contains information of the policies of a number of individual networks.

Registration/

This archive holds information on registry of domain names and so forth. Many of the files were be out of date in 1996. Check their headers for more information. (May 1999)

Related On-Site Resources

EFF Net Culture & Cyberanthropology Archive

EFF's Guide to the Internet

EFF Global Information Infrastructure Archive

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