ZX-News #29 22 апреля 1997

ZXNet

Internet - E-mail. Mailing lists. Teleconference UseNet.

                INTERNET



                          (C) Andrei Bukin

                              812/15.00


            E-mail.


  One of the main advantages of network connected to the 
Internet, an e-mail in Internete, which not only allows fast 
exchange private messages, but also provides access to vast 
information resources Internet'a. Almost all of the service 
available for direct inclusion in the Internet, can be obtained 
by e-mail. Live is more convenient and faster, but in terms of 
outcome e-mail not much inferior work neposredsvennoy work with 
information servers, Internet. 


             Mailing lists.


  Mailing lists (mailing list) - is
one of the following e-mail. Each
message is sent to multiple addresses listed in this list. 
References mailing on a particular topic is a

of the sites Internet. Special software
software, called listservs
(List server), duplicated to all subscribers
from the current mailing list came to
mail server address.


  Thousands of mailing lists on various topics are conducted on 
dozens of servers Internet'a lists. Mailing list can

be conducted on any computer connected
e-mail Internet.


         Teleconference UseNet.


  UseNet - one of the most striking examples
phenomenon called the Internet. Under terninom UseNet 
understood as a set of computers that communicate publicly 
reports, organized in conformance with their topic in the 
newsgroup. Messages several thousands of conferences involving

all possible subjects of human interest,
continuously distributed across all nodes
UseNet. Conference topics range from
up to scientific theories of humor and literary
creativity.


  The names of the conferences are formed following the example 
of domains. A small number of sections of higher

levels have short names, which from left to right through the 
point of joining the names of divisions and, indeed, 
conferences. 


  Constitute the basic hierarchy of UseNet
seven sections:

 comp - computers
 misc - Miscellaneous
 news - news
 rec - recreation and the arts
 sci - science
 soc - social issues
 talk - discussion and debate
 alt - informal topics
 biz - Commerce
 clar - Pay section of commercial Novosibirsk
        Tay


  Teleconference can be controlled
and open. In addition, there are conferences, all posts are 
placed in one source. Managed conferences have lead (also 
called a moderator) for the address of which come all placed in 
the conference reports and who decides which of them will see

light. Naturally, in the managed conferences messages 
correspond to the subject closer than in open meetings. 


  List of most rasprosranennyh teleconference:


  alt.homosexual

  alt.techno

  alt.beach-boys

  alt.sex

  comp.bbs.misc

  comp.editors

  comp.graphics

  comp.lang.basic

  comp.mail.elm

  comp.misc

  comp.music

  comp.os.cpm

  comp.sys.amiga

  comp.sys.amstrad.8bit

  comp.sys.atary.8bit

  comp.sys.sinclair

  fido.-/-.- /
  rec.arts.erotica

  rec.arts.tv

  rec.audio

  rec.autos

  rec.aviation

  rec.games

  rec.humor

  rec.music

  rec.radio

  rec.travel

  sci.bio

  sci.chem

  sci.electronics

  sci.lang

  sci.math

  sci.med

  soc.culture

  soc.history

  soc.politics

 All these conferences - just a drop compared to the total 
number of conferences in on the Internet. Each of these 
conferences has about 15-30 sub-sections.



  In the next issue I will talk about ZxNews
rules of writing letters to the conference and the
 WWW - "World Wide Web, thanks to which the Internet is so 
popular around the world. 


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