                      THE ONLINE WORLD MONITOR
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The Online World Monitor newsletter is a bi-monthly, ASCII online product.
Initially meant as a free, optional offering for supporters of The Online 
World resources handbook, it is also open for subscription by others. 

The newsletter and the book are companions. While the book describes the 
online world as it is, the newsletter tracks changes. It can more freely 
focus on selected offerings or phenomena than can be done within the strict 
framework of the book. 

The Online World Monitor newsletter contains tales about discoveries that 
never made it to the book . . . Glimpses of what the heck is going on . . . 
Trends . . . Spotlight on important new developments around the world. 

Volume 1 Number 1 had the following contents:

   1. The batch approach to networking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
      Odd de Presno's favorite findings since the last update of The Online 
      World resources handbook. 

   2. Worth your attention: Spotlight on important developments 
      Telnet to CompuServe. SimTel. Live voice conversations over the 
      Internet. 

   3. Pointers
      Interesting conferences, newsgroups, and resources

   4. Changes - sic transit gloria mundi
      Services come and go, change names, move to other "homes". 
      What the heck is going on?

Volume 1 Number 2 had the following contents:

   1. Tapping the World Wide Web resource 
      Tests of the Lycos WWW search engine.  Pointers to other 
      "find your way through the maze" of services. 

   2. Accessing the World Wide Web
      Some points that you may have missed. Tests of a service 
      that lets you access the Web by email. 

      (See the file TOW SAMPLE1 on LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU)

   3. Worth your attention: Spotlight on important developments 

   4. Pointers  
      Interesting conferences, newsgroups, and resources

   5. Changes - sic transit gloria mundi

Supporters of The Online World book will get one free copy of the newsletter. 
Those registering for six updates per year, will get a one year subscription 
to the newsletter. 

For information about the book, send email to LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU (or 
LISTSERV@NDSUVM1 on BITNET) with the following command in the text of your 
mail: 

    GET TOW MASTER
                                                                 
Information is also available via the World Wide Web on the following URL:

     Web: http://login.eunet.no/~presno/index.html

and on the  gopher at cosn.org. Select Networking Information/Reference/The 
Online World. It is also available through gopher wuecon.wustl.edu 671 . 
Selection: Online Book. This option includes the choices "The Online Book by 
Chapter/" and SEARCH Online Book <?>. 

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    Note: You should not send your credit card number by email, unless
          the data is sent in PGP encrypted form. For information about
          how to do this, read the instruction at the end of this 
          appendix. If PGP is not available, use fax, or ordinary mail. 


The Online World Monitor newsletter
Odd de Presno
4815 Saltrod, Norway.

Email: opresno@extern.uio.no
Fax  : +47-370-27111

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How to send your registration using PGP encryption 
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To use this method, you must have a copy of the freeware program PGP 
(Pretty Good Privacy) by Philip Zimmermann. It is available for MS-DOS, 
VAX/VMS, Unix, and other computers. 
 
Various versions of this program can be retrieved from online services all 
over the world. If you have access to the Internet, use Archie to locate a 
recent version. I am currently using version 2.3a.

Version 2.3a is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.eunet.no . The file name 
is pgp23a.zip . You will find it in the /pub/msdos/misc/ directory.

Follow these steps to encrypt your registration form (you may be able
to do this _without_ reading the documentation): 

Step 1
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Store your completed registration form on your disk using the file name
ORDER.FRM. 

Cut out the text below, and store it using the file name ONLINE.ASC.

*-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3a

mQBNAi0jCjcAAAECAKBK1u0JZHZSEh50P3TdgSApuZCEWQh2Nsxw1pYrC4bgy/md
bAN3UFrkgwShtnpPIjm+GcXFBiKpZ5kDuT9T9x0ABRG0FW9wcmVzbm9AZXh0ZXJu
LnVpby5ubw==
=AXgT
*-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Remove the asterisk ()* character at the beginning of the first and last 
lines of the PGP Public Key before adding it to your keyring. For example,
the line

   *-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

should be changed to

   -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Do the same with the last line to make it

   -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Step 2
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Add ONLINE.ASC to your public keyring using the command:

  pgp -ka online.asc

Step 3
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Encrypt ORDER.FRM using the command

  pgp -ea order.frm opresno@extern.uio.no

The resulting file will be called ORDER.ASC.

Step 4
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Send ORDER.ASC by email to opresno@extern.uio.no , or presno@grida.no .


