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- It's HOT! The temperature, as I write this, is flirting with 115 degrees in
- the Arizona desert. Even so, we're effectively cooler here than other areas
- of the country but it's still time to stay inside by the air conditioning,
- the computer, and GEnie!
-
- August's Hot Summer Nights on GEnie are cool no matter what the thermometer
- reads. There are cool files to download. Cool places to explore. Cool ideas
- to consider. Cool events on hot topics.
-
- Every area on GEnie has surprises waiting for you to discover. After you've
- downloaded a file, spend a few minutes exploring the Bulletin Board. Or pop
- into a Real-Time Conference and talk about what's new, what's cool, and
- what's hot. In other words, come into the cool on GEnie!
-
- Here are a few suggested downloads -- all of which make excellent reading
- -- to get you started.
-
-
- Culture: Understanding GEnie ...................................... GENIEUS
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- GEnie is a community much like any community with friends, acquaintances,
- loved ones, favored hangouts, and occasional surprises. Because it is a
- community, GEnie has it's own sometimes peculiar customs, manners, mores,
- and ways of doing things. This file explains some Bulletin Board manners
- and etiquette, abbreviations, and emoticons that will help you understand
- the GEnie version of CyberSpeak.
-
- File 1155 CYBRSIGN.TXT Emoticons & Abbreviations 50,176 bytes Text
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- Current Affairs: The Issues of Privacy ................................. PF
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- The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) serves as a watchdog on an
- issue that should concern everyone who uses computers: Privacy. The Center
- frequently publishes extensive newsletters focusing on all aspects of
- privacy, and all issues (both current and back) can be downloaded from the
- Public Forum Library on GEnie. Other of the issues addressed recently
- include credit, computer security and caller ID. To locate all of EPIC's
- newsletters, search the PF Library using the terms EPIC and PRIVACY.
-
- File 5118 EPIC103.TXT Electronic Privacy 18816 bytes, Text.
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- Communication: Media Addresses .................................. WORKPLACE
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- Are you seeing red about something other than sunburn? Or maybe ABOUT
- sunburn? Would you like to express your opinion on a hot topic of the day?
- Then don't pick up a pen, pick up this file! It's a list of media with
- known Internet electronic mail addresses to which you can easily send GE
- Mail. You'll find daily, weekly and college newspapers, computer
- publications, magazines, news media services, press associations, radio and
- TV networks and stations, publishing houses and newsletters -- all in THIS
- file!
-
- File 5178 MEDIALST.TXT Press List: Internet Email 26,624 bytes, Text
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- History: Learning from the Past ................................... BRITISH
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- How do your rights today compare with those people had centuries ago? What
- rights have been retained, and how have they and others been changed? Here
- are two documents that help trace our rights. The first is the Magna Carta.
- We've all heard of it but when, if ever, was the last time you read it? The
- second is an English Bill of Rights from 1689. Both make fascinating summer
- reading!
-
- File 1275 MAGNA-C.TXT Magna Carta 29,568 bytes, Text
- File 1274 ENGBILL.TXT 1689 English Bill of Rights 17,280 bytes, Text
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- Languages: German by Mark Twain ................................... GERMANY
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- Is your high school German rusty? Are you planning a visit to Germany? Are
- you curious about the language? If you answered yes to any of these
- questions, then head to the Germany (Deutschland) RoundTable for a play in
- German written by one of the United States' best-known writers -- Mark
- Twain. Yes, you read that right. Mark Twain wrote a play in 1888 -- in
- German. He had a German study group and wrote it to help his children learn
- that language. This definitely gives a new twist on the phrase "never shall
- the twain meet..."
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- File 1577 TWAIN24A.TXT Meisterschaft Part I 13,952 bytes, Text
- File 1578 TWAIN24B.TXT Meisterschaft Part II 18,304 bytes, Text
- File 1579 TWAIN24C.TXT Meisterschaft Part III 13,440 bytes, Text
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- Communications: Getting AT It ..................................... GENIEUS
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- If you're reading this, you've used a modem. And chances are good that your
- that modem uses the Hayes Standard AT command set. But chances are you may
- NOT know what all those ATs do, especially if you've misplaced your modem
- manual or it's written in computerese. This file can help shed some light
- on those mysterious AT commands. It's the Technical Reference for Hayes
- Modem Users and is a valuable resource for every modem user, no matter what
- your modem brand might be.
-
- File 1011 HAYESAT.ZIP Hayes Technical Reference 101,504 bytes
- Text compressed with ZIP.
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- Government: Resources for Free ....................................... HOSB
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- Well, not quite free. If you're a United States citizen you can see your
- tax dollars at work by downloading this file. It contains a list of 150
- free subject catalogs that describe the more than 12,000 documents that you
- can get from the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of
- Documents. Some of the best information in the world is available from the
- government and this file shows you how to get it.
-
- File 5187 BIBLIOS.TXT Catalogs of Govt Publications 36,608 bytes, Text
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- Current Affairs: What About Drugs? ..................................... PF
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- How do you feel about ending drug prohibition? This is the June 1994 issue
- of "The Record," the official publication of the Association of the Bar of
- the City of New York. It includes a report by the Association's Special
- Committee on Drugs and the Law. Called "A Wiser Course: Ending Drug
- Prohibition," it includes footnotes of 203 sources and authorities. No
- matter what your feelings on ending drug prohibition, this is must reading!
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- File 5109 DRUGRPT.ZIP Ending Drug Prohibition 35,200 bytes
- Text compressed with ZIP
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