            The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog
                            By Ed Krol
                       O'Reilly and Associates

o 400 pages (approx); Will probably include a quickref 
o $24.95; quantity discounts available 
o ISBN 1-56592-025-2 
o Available September 10, 1992  
  (available overseas in late October) 
o Order from ORA directly (1-800-998-9938) 
  or your local bookstore

"The Whole Internet" is a complete and comprehensive introduction to the
Internet for new users.  In the Nutshell tradition, it contains "all you
need to know" about the Internet to get started and to make use of it. 
The author, Ed Krol, has been around the Internet for years, and is
well-known as the author of RFC 1118, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Internet."  However, this book is more than an update of the "Hitchhiker's
Guide": it's a complete new work, aimed at readers who are new to the Net;
users who have been poking around the Net, but haven't really figured out
how to use it well; and even users who have been around for a while, but
want to read up on some of the newer services that are available.

We started this project when we were asked to write a book that would
answer most of the questions that a new Internet user brings to a network
administrator.  The challenge was very frank: "If you've succeeded, I can
stick a note on my door telling users to buy this book before bugging me
with questions--and then only deal with real problems."  We think we've
succeeded.  If you're an administrator, you can recommend this book, and
watch your workload decline.  If you're a new user, you can read this book
and avoid dealing with your grumpy admin.

Another of our goals was evangelistic: to generate interest among people
who are only vaguely familiar with the Internet.  We did this by showing
what the Network offers--most specifically, in the form of a Resource
Catalog that lists a broad range of the resources that are out there,
ranging from the Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews to Project Hermes (law) to
Not Just Cows (agriculture) and the University of Stuttgart's wonderful
online cookbook.  We chose to make this list as broad and eclectic as
possible.  It's not a list of free software sources, for example; it's a
list that anyone from a high-school teacher to a theologian can pick up,
glance at, and say "yes, that's interesting; this Internet thing might be
worthwhile."

Of course, this book offers everything that you'd expect in a book about
the Internet--a little history, how the net works, addressing, and general
background on what you're allowed to do.  We cover the standard Internet
services--telnet, ftp, mail, news, white-pages, including "minor"
applications like talk and chat.  We give advice on what to do and what
not to do: how electronic mail differs from postal mail or a phone
message, how to avoid poorly thought-out news postings that can start
seemingly endless flame wars.

But basic knowledge of the tools and etiquetter is only half the problem.
To a new user--or even to an old user--the Internet is fairly confusing
and disorganized.  Finding what you want can be like searching for a
needle in a haystack.  Not long ago, the only way to find out about
Internet resources was to keep you ear to the ground, attend conferences,
and talk to gurus.  Our Resource Catalog only partly solves this problem:
we've had to be selective, and new resources are added daily.  Four new
Internet applications--Archie, the Gopher, WAIS, and the World-Wide Web
(WWW)--provide the real solution.  These four tools are like "reference
librarians" that let you find, with relatively little trouble, exactly
what you want:

Archie  points you at files in FTP archives.  It's particularly useful for
finding free software; Gopher is a general tool for accessing any Internet
resource, via subject-oriented menus; WAIS    is an extremely powerful
tool for searching large libraries and collections, based on keywords; WWW
organizes all of the Internet's resources in terms of a "hypertext" model.
 You can move between resources by following "links." To a new user, these
are the tools that make the Internet worthwhile. This is the only book we
know of that covers all of these tools.

At $24.95, this book is a bargain!

CONTENTS:

1:  What Is This Book About? 
2:  What is the Internet? 
3:  How the Internet Works 
4:  What's Allowed on the Internet 
5:  Remote Login: Telnet 
6:  Moving a File: FTP 
7:  Electronic Mail 
8:  Network News 
9:  Finding Software: Archie 
10: Finding Someone 
11: Finding Anything: Gopher 
12: Searching Libraries: WAIS 
13: The World as Hypertext: WWW 
14: Other Applications 
15: Dealing with Problems

    Resources of the Internet 
A:  Service Providers 
B:  International Network Connectivity 
C:  Acceptable Use

The Resource Catalog portion of the book will be available through the
Internet.  We haven't decided on actually how (anonymous FTP, WAIS
resource, hypertext?), so stay tuned for details.

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