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Special Internet Connections

Scott Yanoff yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

Last Update: 5/26/92

CSU FRESNO ATI-NET: Agriculture information. (Login: super)
Am. Philos. Assoc.: APA buletin board
Archie: Searches almost all anonymous ftp sites for any program you want by name. use direct WWW/WAIS Archie or chose a telnet site: Canada, Finland, Australia, UK, Israel, or in the United Staes: MD, NE, NY, NJ.
Automated Data Servce: Navigational/Time/Astonomical information. (Login: ads)
CARL: Online database, book reviews, magazine fax delivery service.
CHAT: Interactive AIDS document and simulated conversation (Login:chat)
Chess Server: Play/watch real-time chess with human opponents. Type 'help' for help Chess Server
CUFAN: Clemson U. Forestry & Agricultural Network. Must be on a real VT terminal or good VT100 emulator!
Dante Project: Divine Comedy and reviews. (At Login type: connect dante)
Distance Educat: (Hostname: uk.ac.open.acs.vax Username: icdl)
DUATS: Aviation weather, flight planning. (Login: last name) One service for certified pilots, one for uncertified.
Earthquake Info: Recent quake info (location, time, magnitude, etc.) (Finger server)
E Math: Am. Math. Society sponsored bbs with software and reviews. Password: e-math.
FEDIX: Info. on scholarships, minority assistance, etc. (login: fedix)
Freenet: USA Today Headline News, Sports, etc... Also from Youngstown (Login: visitor). Galt's Gulch Chat Server.; Small-scale chat server, talk to 30+ people at once.
GenBank: Gene sequence information. (Password: 4nigms)
Geographic Server: Info by city or area code (Population, Lat./Long., Elevation, etc).
Georgetown Med. Lib.: Medical Library(Login: medlib Password: dahlgren Last name: netguest)
GO Server: Play others in a game of go.
Gopher: Access to other services, gophers, documents, etc.
Guitar TAB/Chords: TAB/Chords for guitar in /pub/guitar.
Ham Radio Callbook: National ham radio call-sign callbook.
Handicap/Medical Site: offers anonymous FTP of software and medical info.
HP Calculator BBS: BBS for HP Calc. users, with chat mode. (Login: new)
Hytelnet Server: Access to many other services. Prefers vt100 emul. (Login: hytelnet)
INFO - Rutgers CWIS: Dictionary, thesaurus, CIA world fact book, quotations database.
Info/Software Server: journals, unix stuff, etc. Services: infoserv or softserv.
Internet Resource Guide: compressed/tar'd list of net resources.
IRC Telnet Client: Internet Relay Chat access, like a CB on the computer.
ISAAC: Info. System for Advanced Academic Computing, for IBM users.
Law Library: Law libraries and legal research. Also archive offering copies of laws for each state, and more!
Library of Congress: COPY of Library of Congress (Assumes terminal is emulating a vt100).
List of Lists: List of interest groups/email lists in . (or mail mlol-request@wariat.org for musical list of lists.)
Lunar/Planet: Resources on Geology, Geophys, Astron., Astrophys.
Lyric Server: Lyrics as text files.
Mac Software Archive: Ftp'able software for the Macintosh computers.
Melvyl: access to various libraries. Type 'other' at prompt to see others.
MOLIS: Minority Online Information Service.
NASA Headline News: Daily press releases from NASA. (Finger server)
NASA SpaceLink: Latest NASA news, including shuttle launches and satellite updates.
National Education BBS: Education BBS. (Login: bbs Password: computing)
NED: NASA Extragalactic Database. (Login: ned)
Netfind: Given a name and org./school, finds a user for you (login: netfind)
NICOL: Access to internet resources, Electronic. Publishing Service (Login: nicol)
NICOLAS: Network Info. Center On-Line Aid System (Login: dftnic)
NNDC: National Nuclear Data Center
NODIS: Menu-driven access to Nat'l Space Science Data Center (Login: nodis) nssdc or nssdca.
Oceanic Info. Center: (Login: info)
NNTP News Servers: Telnetable access to post to the Usenet news NNTP Server #1 or NNTP Server #2. NNTP Server #3.
PENpages: Agricultural info (livestock reports, etc.) (Login: PNOTPA)
Public-Access Unix: Free account, with access to various UNIX features. Available from: DU (login:new), Merit (login:newsuser), Ann Arbour (Which host: um-m-net Enter 'g' for guest. login: newuser).
Readers Guide: Readers Guide to periodical literature.
Recipe Archives: MANY food recipes. >From DEC or from Miami
SDDAS: SW Research Data Display & Analysis Center.
SERVICES: Access to nearly every listed service! (Login: services)
Software Server: Similar to Archie. Type help for a list of commands.
Spacemet: Science/space bbs.
SPAN: Space Physics Analysis Network (Login: SPAN_NIC)
STIS: Science & Technology Information System. (Login: public)
Supernet: Excellent menu-driven information searches (of what?). (Login: supernet)
Supreme Court Rulings: Archive of ASCII files of Supreme Court rulings
UMD Info Database: Info. docs on many subjects, including Supreme Court Decisions (Login: info)
UNC BBS: Access to Library of Congress and nationwide libraries (Login: bbs)
WAIStation: Wide Area Info. Service. (Login: wais). See archive for more info.
Weather Service: City/State forecasts, ski conditions, earthquake reports, etc.
World-Wide Web: A login access point to the entire web of WWW, WAIS, Gopher, Archie and FTP data.
ZIB Electronic Library: Library of software, links to other libraries. (Login: elib)

NOTE: NO LOGIN NAMES OR PASSWORDS ARE REQUIRED UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE. If it prompts you for a login name, you did something wrong, or are not running on a machine that the system you telnetted to supports.

Mail servers

C64 Archive Server: mail twtick@corral.uwyo.edu Subject: Mail-Archive-Request Body-of-letter: help (hit return) end
Archie Mail Servers: mail archie@ Subject: help Offers: alterative Archie access to those w/o ftp or telnet.
FTP Mail: mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com Subject:(hit return) Body-of-letter: help (return) quit Offers:ftp via email
FTP Mail: mail bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu Body-of-letter: help or ftplist for a list of anon. ftp sites
Genetics Bank: mail gene-server@bchs.uh.edu Subject: help Offers: genetic database accessable via email.
Graf-Bib: mail graf-bib@decwrl.dec.com Subject: help Body-of-letter: send index Offers: graphics bibliography.
Mail Srver/Usr Lookup: mail mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu in body of mail message: send usenet-addresses/[name searching for(1 word)]
Music Newsletter: mail listserv@vm.marist.edu (internet) or mail listserv@marist (bitnet). Body-of-letter: SUBSCRIBE UPNEWS Offers: Reviews, intviews.
NetLib: mail netlib@ornl.gov or mail netlib@uunet.uu.net Subject:(hit return) Body-of-letter: send index Offers: Software thru email
News Mail Server: mail [newsgroup]@cs.utexas.edu Offers: Post to Usenet News via email. (eg. [newsgroup] = alt-bbs)
Oracle: mail oracle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu The "Usenet Oracle" Mail with subject as "help" for more info.
OSS-IS: Archive. Also mail info@soaf1.ssa.gov with "send index" as your msg. Many FAQ's, ftp lists, library and service lists, gov't documents.
Sid's Music Server: mail sl291003@silver.ucs.indiana.edu Subject: BOOTHELP Offers: Lists of rare live recordings, cd's for sale.
StatLib Server: mail statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu Mail with line: send index. Offers: Prgms, Datasets, etc. for statisticians.

FTP Sites/Archives

ocf.berkeley.edu: Docs, 5 puritytests, the Bible, Dec. of Ind, lyrics..
wuarchive.wustl.edu: Gifs archive, software for pc's, etc.
ftp.uu.net: You name it, it's here!
archive.umich.edu: Software for MS-Dos computers, Mac, Amiga, Apple2, Apollo...
oak.oakland.edu: A huge software archive for PCs and UNIX.
ftp.sura.net: How-to's about internet (how to email, ftp, telnet, etc.) in /pub/nic

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