"...to promote and participate in the development of a high quality international information and telecommunications infrastructure for the benefit of research and education." (TERENA Statutes).

• The List Owner's Survival Guide is now available from the Web in addition of the Postscript and the plain text formats available from ftp.earn.net in the /doc/listserv directory. This document contains the most important information which Listserv list owners need to know in order to create, manage and maintain a mailing list.

• A description of the Global Update and Monitoring Network Coordination Center (GUMNCC), the structure which took over the coordination of the NJE network services, and the first quarterly report (1Q95).

• Search the contents of this information server.

• 6th Joint European Networking Conference (JENC6) - May 15-18, Tel Aviv, Israel

• Europe and the global information society, Recommendations to the European Council (Bangemann Commission Document)

• UPTURN, TERENA's involvement in the EC Fourth Framework Programme. Call for Proposals - TELEMATICS Applications

• Networking activities in the "New Countries": Former Soviet Republics, Southeastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (selected countries).

User Documentation

The Guide to Network Resource Tools

The third edition of this guide is now available from the Web. The Guide to Network Resource Tools describes many of the key tools in use today among the academic networking community for accessing resources on the net. For each tool, the guide provides a general overview and details on availability, intended audience, basic usage, and examples.

The Guide to Network Resource Tools is also available electronically in Postscript and plain text formats from various sites. Translations are available from the EARN Information Service.

The LISTSERV User Guide

The second version of the LISTSERV Guide for GENERAL USERS is now available form the Web. This guide provides a detailed description of the LISTSERV functions which are available to general users. For each type of function, the guide provides a general overview and details on basic usage, command syntax, and examples.

The LISTSERV User Guide is also available electronically in Postscript and plain text formats.

Conferences

• NSC'94, London, UK: Papers and abstracts are available on-line, as well as the after conference World Wide Web tutorial.
• NSC'93, Warsaw, Poland.
• NSC'92, Pisa, Italy.

• JENC6 - May 15-18, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• JENC5/INET'94, Prague, Czech Republic.

User Services

Nethelp

The help desk service on networking issues is available via electronic mail (limited to the EARN countries). A list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) is maintained. To submit a question, send a mail message to:

nethelp@gumncc.earn.net (or nethelp@earncc.bitnet)

LISTSERV mailing lists

LISTSERV is a distribution list management package. It allows groups of computer users with a common interest to communicate among themselves. It makes it very easy for even a novice user to discover, join and participate in these interest group mailing lists. LISTSERV also provides facilities for logging and archiving of mail traffic, file server functions, and database seraches of archives and files.

To get started with LISTSERV, send the command HELP or INFO in a mail message to:

listserv@listserv.net (or listserv@listserv.bitnet)

LISTSERV documentation is available from the EARN Information Service and from listserv@gumncc.earn.net.

Information Service

Official EARN Documents, minutes of EARN meetings, EARN user documentation and other information of interest can be accessed by anonymous FTP and by Gopher to ftp.earn.net and gopher.earn.net.

GopherMail

Allows anyone who can send electronic mail to the Internet (and receive mail from it) to exploit much of the potential of the Gopherspace. This service is particularly useful for people with e-mail access only.

To get started with GopherMail, send the command HELP in a mail message to:

gopher@earn.net

BITFTP

Offers asynchronous (mail) delivery of files which are retrieved by FTP. In Europe, the service is provided by GMD, Germany and by the University of Warsaw, Poland.

To get started with BITFTP, send the command HELP in a mail message to:

bitftp@bitftp.earn.net (or bitftp@bitftp.bitnet)

VMS-STORE

Offers file server functions for VMS software. It is provided by Eric Thomas and SEARN (KTH, Sweden), and is managed in cooperation with the EARN Office.

To get started, send the command INDEX <000000> in a mail message to:

listserv@searn.sunet.se (or listserv@searn.bitnet)

TRICKLE

Offers file server functions and is used primarily for retrieval of PC software.

To get started with TRICKLE, send the command /HELP in a mail message to any TRICKLE server, eg:

trickle@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl (or trickle@hearn.bitnet)

EARNEST

The EARN news letter is produced 5 times a year. It is available electronically, free of charge.

Exploring the Internet

• TERENA
• RIPE NCC
• InterNIC Registration Services
• InterNIC Directory and Databases Services
• The Internet Society
• International Communication Union (ITU)
• Information Market - Europe: European Union, ECHO and CORDIS
• Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST)
• A searchable catalog of W3 resources from CUI
• The WWW Home
• Starting Point for Internet Exploration from NCSA
• Internet Resources Meta-Index at NSCA

TERENA Secretariat

Singel 466-468

NL-1017 AW Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Telephone: +31 20 639 1131

Fax: +31 20 639 3289

E-mail: secretariat@terena.org