InterNIC News, July 96,Vol. 1 Issue 4

[Tom Newell]

The July issue of the InterNIC News newsletter is now available
at the URL:

   http://rs.internic.net/nic-support

In this issue:

CyberStacks
by Robin Murphy, InterNIC
   a prototype demonstration project at Iowa State University, 
   under the direction of Gerry McKiernan, Coordinator of the Science 
   and Technology Section of the Reference and Instructional Services 
   Department, is one approach to applying the traditional touchstones 
   of librarianship - selection, organization, presentation and 
   access - to networked information. Using the Library of Congress 
   Classification scheme and selection criteria identified by the 
   American Library Association's Reference Collection Development 
   and Evaluation Committee, CyberStackssm is tackling the Internet.

The InterNIC's Referral Whois:
Bringing Questions Closer to the Answers
by Rich Landers, InterNIC

   The RWhois client/server program currently being developed by 
   Network Solutions, Inc. and implemented at InterNIC will provide 
   tools that bring the answer closer to the question when performing 
   a Whois query. RWhois will take advantage of the existing 
   technologies of X.500, Whois, Whois++, and DNS. It is hierarchical 
   by design, allowing for the reduction of a query, and providing a 
   distributed system for the display of hierarchical information

End User's Corner
Basic Considerations for Publishing on the Internet
by Jack Solock

  The Internet has given computer users access to amazing amounts of 
  information. Perhaps more significantly, it has offered publication 
  capabilities to almost anyone. If you are about to develop Web pages, 
  there are two basic considerations that should influence how you 
  design those pages. 

    1.Who are your users?
    2.What is your content?

InterNIC Support for Higher Education Institutions:
A Report on the InterNIC Outreach Efforts to the Research and
Education (R&E) Community
by Tom Newell, InterNIC

  A look at the outreach efforts of the InterNIC to determine what
  service would be of value to the Research and Education community.

Responding to Mail Spam
Keeping Your Mailbox Junk-Free
By Julie Robichaux, InterNIC 

  You may already be a winner!

  An advertising circular. Coupons from the local pizza place. 
  Mail-order catalogs. A postcard. Contest entries.  Special 
  offers: act now!

  Does this sound like the mail you find in your mailbox at home? 
  Most of us are used to the junk mail we receive every day, and 
  hardly blink at mail addressed to "Occupant," "Resident," or even 
  "Our friend at..." But deliver the same kind of commercially-oriented 
  mail to our electronic mailboxes and we sit up and take notice.

Performance Measures
InterNIC Statistics for May 1996


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