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     @{" Usenet " link CHAP3/WHATUSENET} "newsgroups" can be something of a misnomer.  They may be
interesting, informative and educational, but they are often not news, at
least, not what you'd think of as news.  But there are several sources of
news, sports and weather on the Net.

   @{" Clarinet                        " link CLARINET              }
   @{" USA Today                       " link USATODAY              }
   @{" The World Today                 " link TWT                   }

     One of the largest is Clarinet, a company in Cupertino, Calf., that
distributes wire-service news and columns, along with a news service
devoted to computers, in Usenet form.
     USA Today also has a presence on the Net, through the Cleveland
Free-Net system, and we'll show you how to get news of eastern Europe and
Brazil as well.

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FYI:

     The clari.net.newusers newsgroup on Usenet provides a number of
articles about Clarinet and ways of finding news stories of interest to
you.

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Clarinet
     Distributed in @{" Usenet " link CHAP3/WHATUSENET} form, Clarinet stories and columns are
organized into more than 100 @{" newsgroups " link Chap3/NEWSGROUPS 0} (in this case, a truly
appropriate name), some of them with an extremely narrow focus, for
example, clari.news.gov.taxes.  The general news and sports come from
United Press International; the computer news from the NewsBytes service;
the features from several syndicates.
     Because Clarinet charges for its service, not all host systems carry
its dispatches.  Those that do carry them as Usenet groups starting with
"clari."  As with other Usenet hierarchies, these are named starting with
broad area and ending with more specific categories.  Some of these
include business news (clari.biz); general national and foreign news,
politics and the like (clari.news), sports (clari.sports); columns by
Mike Royko, Miss Manners, Dave Barry and others (clari.feature); and
NewsBytes computer and telecommunications reports (clari.nb).  Because
Clarinet started in Canada, there is a separate set of clari.canada
newsgroups.
     The clari.nb newsgroups are divided into specific computer types
(clari.nb.apple, for example).
     Clari news groups feature stories updated around the clock.  There
are even a couple of "bulletin" newsgroups for breaking stories:
clari.news.bulletin and clari.news.urgent.  Clarinet also sets up new
newsgroups for breaking stories that become ongoing ones (such as major
natural disasters, coups in large countries and the like).
     Occasionally, you will see stories in clari newsgroups that just
don't seem to belong there.  Stories about former Washington, D.C. mayor
Marion Barry, for example, often wind interspersed among columns by Dave
Barry.
     This happens because of the way wire services work.  UPI uses
three-letter codes to route its stories to the newspapers and radio
stations that make up most of its clientele, and harried editors on
deadline sometimes punch in the wrong code.


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USA TODAY

     If your host system doesn't carry the clari newsgroups, you might be
able to keep up with the news a different way over the Net.  USA Today
has been something of an online newspaper pioneer, selling its stories to
bulletin-board and online systems across the country. Cleveland Free-Net
provides the online version of USA Today (along with all its other
services) for free.  Currently, the paper only publishes five days a
week, so you'll have to get your weekend news fix elsewhere.

          @{" Telnet " link Chap6/TELNET 0}: freenet-in-a.cwru.edu or
                  freenet-in-b.cwru.edu

     After you connect and @{" log in " link BigDummy.Guide/LINGO 170}, look for this menu entry: NPTN/USA
TODAY HEADLINE NEWS.  Type the number next to it and hit enter.  You'll
then get a menu listing a series of broad categories, such as sports and
telecommunications.  Choose one, and you'll get a yet another menu,
listing the ten most recent dates of publication.  Each of these contains
one-paragraph summaries of the day's news in that particular subject.


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THE WORLD TODAY

     Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty are American radio stations that
broadcast to the former Communist countries of eastern Europe. Every day,
their news departments prepare a summary of news in those countries,
which is then disseminated via the Net.
     To subscribe, send an @{" e-mail " link BigDummy.Guide/LINGO 96} message to

          listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu

Leave the subject line blank, and as a message, write:

          subscribe rferl-l Your Name

     Daily Brazilian news updates are available (in Portuguese) from the
University of Sao Paulo.  Use anonymous @{" ftp " link Chap7/FTP 0} to connect to

          uspif.if.usp.br

Use cd to switch to the whois directory.  The news summaries are stored
in files with this form: NEWS.23OCT92;1.  But to get them, leave off the
semicolon and the one, and don't capitalize anything, for example:

          get news.23oct92

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