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Date:         Wed, 21 Jul 1993 09:14:46 EDT
Reply-To: Joe Ryan <JORYAN@suvm.acs.syr.EDU>
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From: Joe Ryan <JORYAN@suvm.acs.syr.EDU>
Subject:      E-Mail Best Current Books
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In-Reply-To:  Your MAIL dated Tue, 20 Jul 1993 19:09:06 EDT

BJ and others,

I would recommend two good current sources on using the Internet in
general and including e-mail specifically.  LaQuey's book is the type
of book Internet mavens give to their spouses or Office Assistants read
on their way to work via train ot bus {in order to meet the demand: "Find
out what this Internet stuff is anyway?!"}  LaQuey is clear, readable, even
entertaining.  Krol's book while clear has a somewhat different target in
mind.  This work is a resource guide patterned after the Whole Earth
Catalog's of the 60s and 70s {A new one is in the offering by the way}.
I would use Krol after I had absorbed LaQuey and I was beginning to feel
comfortable with the idea of a global net.

No bucks.  Need a free/decent introduction?  You still can't beat Kehoe's
first edition available for "free" on the Internet.

Sources


Kehoe, Brendan P. <brendan@cs.widener.edu>. (1992). Zen and the art
of the Internet: A beginner's guide. The first edition is available:
FTP: ftp.cs.widener.edu <147.31.254.132> DIRECTORY: pub/zen FILE:
zen-1.0.tar.Z or zen-1.0.dvi or zen-1.0.PS  For an ASCII version,
FTP: quake.think.com  DIRECTORY: pub/etext/1992 FILE: zen10.txt

Krol, Ed.  <krol@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> (1992).  The whole Internet:
User's guide & catalog.  Sebastopol, CA:  O'Reilly & Associates. 376
pps. ISBN:  1-56592-025-2.  Available: O'Reilly & Associates
<nuts@ora.com>, 103 Morris Street, Suite A, Sebastopol, CA 95472 -
9902. Phone:  (800) 998-9938 (707) 829-0515.  $24.95.

LaQuey, Tracy <tracy@mojo.ots.utexas.edu> with Ryer, Jeanne C.
(1992).  The Internet companion: A beginner's guide to global
networking.  Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.  208 pps. ISBN: 0-201-62228-
9.  Available: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1 Jacob Way, Reading,
MA 01867. Phone:  (800) 447-2226 (617) 944-3700 x 2262 E-MAIL:
74230.3622@Compuserve.com  Price: $ 10.95.

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