Appendix F: Updates, bulletins, and tutorial articles

"The Joy of Telecomputing" will be updated on a regular basis. If you order the book, you'll receive future updates automatically and free of charge as long as you have an e-mail address that can be reached from the Internet. Note that you don't need to have an account on an Internet host. If you are using an online service that have an Internet gateway (e.g. CompuServe, MCI Mail, America Online), you can receive e-mail from the Internet.

In addition to the quarterly update, you'll also receive bulletins from time to time. To receive the updates and bulletins, please send your e-mail address to joy-tel@world.std.com with a subject line of "subscribe" (please include your name and/or company name in the body of the message).

Besides updates and bulletins, there will be tutorial articles available. If you are new to the Internet, for example, you may need some hand-holding in learning to use the UNIX mail, elm, rn, etc. These articles should be available by the end of June. Unlike the updates and bulletins, these articles won't be sent automatically. To get a list of the articles, please send e-mail to joy-tel@world.std.com with a subject line of "tutorials". You'll recive the list and the instruction for requesting the articles you want (if there is a topic that you'll like to have an article written, please send e-mail to pchen@world.std.com).

For those of you that don't have an e-mail address reachable from the Internet, I'm planning to set up a BBS in the future (hopefully before the end of 1992). You'll be notified when the BBS is available.


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