Number 13, May 1993
Not only are we saving a tremendous amount of time and money, but people are communicating more.
--Tom Bennett
An idea you placed up on a list enters the culture in a way that probably
hasn't been available since the 18th century.
--Mr.Joyce
The librarian is in a potentially powerful position to introduce various groups to the possibilities of Internet access.
--Neil Rambo
Fortunately, there is readily available email software that will enable you to collaborate easily.
PC-Pine has the same look and feel as Unix-based Pine.
Mailstrom is an email program for Macintosh computers connected to the UW campus network.
IMAP lets you read your incoming email messages from anywhere on the Internet, including from your computer at home.
There are many different methods for delivering electronic mail.
When you are finished reading the messages in your inbox, delete or save them. Doing this keeps your inbox manageable and conserves system resources.
You can use both versioons of Pine to include word processing documents, spreadsheets, foreign language texts, images, audio and visual files, and executable binary files in your email messages.
With Fetch, an FTP session looks like any other Macintosh application.
Over 14,000 people now have accounts on Carson.
There is a bug....
Electronic messages facilitate communication, as well as intrusions into your provacy.
Whenever you send an email message, you place a certain amount of confidence in your correspondent.
Do not put something in an email message that you would not want to see on the office bulletin board.
C&C and the University Libraries are improving UWIN by exploring new interfaces and adding new information services. We welcome your comments and suggestions.
Mike Coghlan, leader of the UWIN team, believed deeply in making the rich world of networked information resources available to the University community. He died suddenly this year; we miss him very much....
To the newcomer, the Internet is vast, teeming, complex, and bewildering.
With little experience on the network, you can pick up the The Internet Passport and start using the Internet immediately.
You will find some common resources in an Internet guide.
FTP is a powerful tool for collecting information from around the world.
Unlimited software licenses were rare in the past and are almost non-existent today.
Need a place to print your PostScript files? Send them to the Xerox printer in the ACC Building.
