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Subject: Book Review: Free Electronic Networks
From: bill.shefski@pics.com (Bill Shefski)
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 93 22:20:00 -0500
Organization: Pics OnLine MultiUser System - 609-753-2540
Reply-To: bill.shefski@pics.com (Bill Shefski)
***Special to Telecom Digest***
November 28, 1993
The first ever paper-and-ink book on the subject of the relay
messaging networks that connect privately owned and operated
electronic bulletin board systems (BBS) hit the stores this week.
_Free Electronic Networks_ is written to help get a novice up and
started on their first tentative steps into the most accessable area
of cyberspace, but has hard information for the veteran, including a
history of telecommunication and a meaty directory of BBS phone
numbers all over the world.
Free Electronic Networks
by William J. Shefski
Prima Computer Books, Rocklin CA
496 pp.
Table of Contents
1. Webs in Cyberspace - geography, history and sociology of
computer-mediated communication.
2. Who Echoes - profiling several actual regular people one might
encounter on the echo nets.
3. Echo Tech - outlining the various relay-style networking technologies.
4. Tools for Echoing - survey of software from the user end, including
evaluations of communication and offline mail reader programs.
5. How to Echo - a basic, hand-holding walk-through from behind the
eyes of a hypothetical new user.
6. What Echoes - interesting phenomenon -- and nonsense -- one
encounters while cruising the nets.
Appendix - including a glossary; a listing of the names of mail reader
software for many computing platforms; a directory containing the
phone numbers of BBSs attached to 70 different echo networks; and an
index of their discussion area topics.
Wide distribution of this title in the English-speaking world is
anticipated, but if your bookstore does not stock it, and/or if you'd
like to have a reduced-price, author-inscribed copy, you can be part
in an ongoing "virtual booksigning party" by using the form below.
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Please send me one copy of _Free Electronic Networks_. I saw the
information in TELECOM Digest. Enclosed is my money order for $23
(U.S. funds only please).
My Name _____________________________
My Address _____________________________
_____________________________
_____________________________
Name for
Inscription -----------------------------
(if different than above)
Send to: Bill Shefski
P.O. Box 233
Clementon, New Jersey 08021
USA
North American postage included. Outside North America please include
suitable return postage estimated for 500-page soft-bound volume.
NJ residents include sales tax.
Thank you.
See you on the nets.........BS
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