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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:58:24 EST
- Sender: Southeast Asia Discussion List <SEASIA-L@MSU.BITNET>
- From: mulliner@OUVAXA.UCLS.OHIOU.EDU
- Subject: Re: Soc.Culture.Thai query
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- Ohio University Electronic Communication
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- Date: 21-Dec-1992 10:28am EST
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- To: Southeast Asia Netters ( _MX%"SEASIA-L@MSU.EDU" )
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- From: Kent Mulliner Dept: Library
- MULLINER Tel No: 614-593-2707
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- Subject: Re: Soc.Culture.Thai query
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- On Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:06:35 CST,
- Cliff Sloane, Metro State University, Minneapolis, MN
- (cesloane@staff.tc.umn.edu, Subject: Re: TH: usenet group
- inquiry) asked:
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- >How can I get Thai newsgroup releases? I cannot find anything
- >for soc.culture.thai in LISTSERV, but found VIETNET and others.
- >Is there a sourc other than LISTSERV? Thanks.
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- I earlier sent the list owner, Elliott Parker, a copy
- of a forthcoming article in CORMOSEA Bulletin entitled
- Southeast Asia Collections and Resources on the Internet
- which includes the following Directory & Glossary entries:
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- Directory:
- >Usenet. Described in Glossary, usenet news groups of relevance
- >to Southeast Asia include alt.culture.indonesia,
- >soc.culture.asean, soc.culture.filipino, and soc.culture.thai.
- >Access to usenet news groups should be arranged at your local
- >institution or may be available through a Freenet.
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- Glossary:
- >Usenet. An electronic network news bulletin board system,
- >similar to listserves on BITNET, in which persons interested in
- >a topic exchange information, views, and "flames" (attacks).
- >Unlike listserves, communication is maintained on a shared
- >machine and no mail is sent to a personal account. This is
- >a distributed system which is passed, usually among UNIX
- >machines, although some institutions load news readers on other
- >machines. See Ed Krol [The Whole Internet User's Guide &
- >Catalog (Sebastopol, CA: Oreilly & Associates, 1992)] for more
- >information.
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- Simply put, Usenet is different from listserves.
- Krol notes that it is available through the World Wide Web
- as well as the information above. So you have really
- two options: 1) local access by having your computer
- people providing a news reader to which you have access
- on a local machine or 2) national access, possibly by
- dial access but preferably through telnet to a freenet
- or World Wide Web.
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- Krol's book and discussions with your local
- computer people should be your next steps.
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- K. Mulliner, Ohio University Libraries
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- Received: 21-Dec-1992 10:58am
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