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************************************************************* * * * THE INTERNET HUNT * * * * RESULTS * * * * FOR DECEMBER, 1993 * * * ************************************************************* The results are in, and the individual winner is: Dave Dubin dh Molde College Molde, Norway ...who scored a perfect 48 points in an entry dated Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 01:15:57 +0100 And our team winners are: Insomniacs Desperately Inventing Odd Teamnames Spontaneously Willamette University Salem, Oregon, U.S.A. Congratulations to all the winners! PRIZES ====== Each winning entry will receive: * A one year subscription to: "3W: World Wide Web Newsletter" (for more info: contact 3W@ukartnet.demon.co.uk) (thanks to Ivan Pope) * A signed copy of "The Internet Guide for New Users" McGraw-Hill, 1993 609 pgs. (for more info: Gopher (enews.com) path=1/specialmcgraw-hill/dern (thanks to Daniel Dern) * A signed copy of: "The Cuckoo's Egg" Pocket Books, 1989, 356 pgs. (thanks to Cliff Stoll) * A one year subscription to: "The Internet Business Journal" (for more info: contact Mstrange@Fonorola.Net) (thanks to Michael Strangelove) The winners will be contacted in the next few days for mailing addresses. GET WELL BRENDAN !!! ==================== I suspect that there are many who haven't heard, so I thought I'd post the following message. Brendan Kehoe, author of "Zen and the Art of the Internet", and noted Net.personality was involved in a serious automobile accident in Pennsylvania on New Years Eve. He suffered severe head injuries and at last report was at Pennsylvania University's Trauma Center. Information has been available on the Usenet newsgroup comp.org.eff.talk. Details on sending cards, phone info, etc. can be found there. Please join me and many others in wishing Brendan as speedy and complete a recovery as possible. ABOUT THIS HUNT =============== Seems that we have some good electronic journalists out there! Particularly on a general question (like number 8), there seems to be a lot of material available. It would seem to me that finding experts (question number 3) would also be a good use of the Nets. Another trend that I'm beginning to see is that more Hunters are beginning to use local clients on the Nets. Thus I'm beginning to see answers from Mosaic and WWW users. The terse, machine readable URL (Universal Resource Locater) style answers that you may see can usually be used by those of us not running local clients. For those not used to this style, here is an example, given to us by Dave Shield in the answer to question 4: URL: gopher://nutmeg.ukc.ac.uk/archive/uunet/archive/doc/obi /USG/Health.Care.Security.Plan/report/forward.txt The URL tells us: the tool: gopher the host: nutmeg.ukc.ac.uk the path: archive/uunet/archive/doc/obi/USG /Health.Care.Security.Plan/report the file: forward.txt ...and Dave also gives us the actual gopher choices you'd make if you connected to the host and traveled down through the menu... >From my home gopher (gopher.csc.liv.ac.uk): Other Gopher servers UK Gopher servers HENSA/unix archive (at Kent) The UNIX HENSA Archive at the University of Kent at Canterbury The UUNET Archive archive doc obi USG Health.Care.Security.Plan report <text of the report> The point about formats like URLs is not just that they are shorter, but that they are standardized, and therefore machine readable by local client software like WWW and Mosaic. Well, enough of this. Now it's time for... THE RESULTS =========== The sleepless nights you've spent over the last six months learning the Internet are beginning to pay off in the newsroom. Now, you can't get any work done during the day; colleagues deluge you with questions about every subject imaginable and expect answers instantly. The last straw comes when Rick Gates and John Makulowich create an Internet Hunt for Journalists. An anxious hush descends over the newsroom. Your colleagues expect you to finish in the top five. The deadline looms. The pressure builds. You unwrap the questions... 1. (5) There's been a lot of discussion in the newsroom lately about the move to the Internet by corporate America. Someone challenges you for data to substantiate your claims. What does he consider good evidence? He'll take the number of firms with a top level domain of .com, even though they might not be on the Net. However, he wants to see the entire list. [Rick: This is a tough question as it may be difficult to define firms, and some folks confused hosts with domains. Basically I accepted anything found that indicated around 7-10 thousand records in the .com domain. The number 8,193 appeared most often... usually through the whois database at the Internic. Francois Nguyen demonstrates...] I used the whois command, my system has an old version, and whois told me to contact NIC.DDN.MIL instead of SRI-NIC.ARPA I tried that one using telnet and was told that >Please be advised that all INTERNET Domain, IP Network Number, and ASN >records are now kept in the new Internet Registry, >RS.INTERNIC.NET . It tried that last one and queryied it as follows: 1 [xterm] InterNIC > whois dom com 2 Connecting to the rs Database . . . . . . 3 Connected to the rs Database 4 Commercial top-level domain (COM-DOM) 5 Network Solutions, Inc. 6 505 Huntmar park Dr. 7 Herndon, VA 22070 8 9 Domain Name: COM 10 11 Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: 12 Network Solutions, Inc. (HOSTMASTER) 13 HOSTMASTER@INTERNIC.NET 14 (703) 742-4777 (FAX) (703) 742-4811 15 16 Record last updated on 06-Jul-93. 17 18 Domain servers in listed order: 19 20 NS.INTERNIC.NET 198.41.0.4 21 AOS.ARL.ARMY.MIL 128.63.4.82, 192.5.25.82 22 KAVA.NISC.SRI.COM 192.33.33.24 23 C.NYSER.NET 192.33.4.12 24 TERP.UMD.EDU 128.8.10.90 25 NS.NASA.GOV 128.102.16.10, 192.52.195.10 26 NIC.NORDU.NET 192.36.148.17 27 NS.NIC.DDN.MIL 192.112.36.4 28 29 Would you like to see the known domains under this top-level 30 domain? y 31 32 33 Y 34 Aborting search 8193 records found ..... 35 WARNING -> There are too many matches 36 Press return to continue... There are at least 8193 known 37 sub-domains: 38 39 0.COM Reserved Domain 40 1.COM Reserved Domain 41 10A.COM 10A Inc. 42 1776.COM 1776 Enterprises 43 2.COM Reserved Domain 44 There are 8188 more matches. Show them? 45 typing y will print the 8000 other companies. if you used ftp rs.internic.net > file you will then get the data into a file that contains not all the firms with the .com top domain, because they were too many and also because the data is too old (last record: 6th of July 93) However, it coes from 24STEX.COM Midtown Computer Services 3.COM Reserved Domain 6SIGMA.COM Six Sigma Case Inc. 7.COM Reserved Domain down to ZORTECH.COM Zortech Inc. ZST.COM ZST ZUKEN.COM Zuken, Inc. ZULTNER.COM Zultner & Company ZUNIQ.COM ZUNIQ Corporation ZYCAD.COM Zycad Corporation ZYDACRON.COM Zydacron, Inc. ZYGAENA.COM Zygaena Software ZYMAX.COM Zymax Software Systems Ltd ZYN.COM Zyn Systems ZYXEL.COM Zyxel it would be possible to get all of them using a limited select (for example all the a*) but I think a 8000 list would be sufficient as a good evidence about the move of the corporate america to the net. [From Francois Nguyen, Lyon, France] ============================================================== 2. (7) Another challenge erupts in the wake of the first. This one covers the number of electronic publications on the Net, but boils down to the challenge to get the table of contents of the most recent issues of the Economist and the New Age Journal The TOC for the latest issue of The Economist and New Age Journal can be accessed via gopher through "The Electronic Newsstand" on gopher.internet.com. Here are the relevant bookmarks: Type=0 Name=November 27, 1993 -- Table of Contents Path=0/collected/economist/Current Issue/112793.toc Host=gopher.internet.com Port=2100 Type=0 Name=November/December 1993 -- Table of Contents Path=0/collected/new_age/Current Issue/110193.toc Host=gopher.internet.com Port=2100 [From Dave Dubin, dh Molde College, Molde, Norway] ============================================================= 3. (4) The health section editor needs immediately some basic background information on lyme disease, the names of at least two experts as well as the names of five scientists on the East Coast who are researching the disease and who are funded by any agency of the federal government. [Rick: The most popular place to find the experts was the LymeNet Newsletter. Federally funded researchers were easily found at the National Institute of Health gopher. Our team winners, the, ahem, I.D.I.O.T.S. show us how it's done...] Two experts in the field of Lyme disease: 1. David W. Dorward, Ph. D. dwd@rml.niaid.nih.gov Senior Staff Fellow Laboratory of Vectors and Pathogens NIH/Rocky Mountain Laboratories Hamilton, MT 59840 his address can be found by the following path, starting with the Willamette University root gopher server at gopher.willamette.edu: /Other Gopher and Information Servers (menu item #9) /Search titles in gopherspace using Veronica (menu item #2) /Search gopherspace at NYSERNet (menu item #10) keyword: lyme /Lyme disease (menu item #43) /Lyme disease: LymeNet Newsletter (menu item #1) /LymeNet.v1n05 (menu item #6) Dorward's name and address appear in this issue at the head of the article titled: "Laboratory Diagnostic Tests for Lyme Disease" 2. Kenneth B. Liegner, M.D. Internal & Critical Care Medicine Lyme Borreliosis & Related Disorders 8 Barnard Road Armonk, N.Y. 10504 his address can be found by the following path, starting with the Willamette University root gopher server at gopher.willamette.edu: /Other Gopher and Information Servers (menu item #9) /Search titles in gopherspace using Veronica (menu item #2) /Search gopherspace at NYSERNet (menu item #10) keyword: lyme /Lyme disease (menu item #43) /Lyme disease: LymeNet Newsletter (menu item #1) /(fwd)LymeNet Newsletter vol#1#14. Leigner's name and address appear in this issue at the head of the article titled "CHRONIC PERSISTENT INFECTION IN LYME DISEASE" Here are the names of five scientists on the East coast who are researching the disease and are funded by National Institute for Health. They were found by gophering to: gopher.nih.gov /grants and research information (menu item #4) /searching for biologists (menu item #4) /search for all researchers funded by NIH (menu item #2) search on keyword "lyme" NOTE: the menu item each scientist is under is written after his/her name.. Researcher #1. BARTHOLD, STEPHEN W (menu item #11) YALE UNIVERSITY 333 CEDAR STREET NEW HAVEN, CT 06510 PERFORMING ORGANIZATION: YALE UNIVERSITY TITLE Lyme disease--Pathogenesis and protection Researcher #2. KANTOR, FRED (menu item #12) YALE UNIVERSITY 333 CEDAR STREET NEW HAVEN, CT 06510 PERFORMING ORGANIZATION: YALE UNIVERSITY TITLE Lyme disease--Pathogenesis and protection SUB TITLE Protective epitopes important in Lyme borreliosis Researcher #3. MALAWISTA, STEPHEN (menu item #13) YALE UNIVERSITY 333 CEDAR STREET NEW HAVEN, CT 06510 PERFORMING ORGANIZATION: YALE UNIVERSITY TITLE Lyme disease--Pathogenesis and protection SUB TITLE Probes for Borrelia burgdorferi DNA in ticks, mice and men Researcher #4. FLAVELL, RICHARD (menu item #15) YALE UNIVERSITY 333 CEDAR STREET NEW HAVEN, CT 06510 PERFORMING ORGANIZATION: YALE UNIVERSITY TITLE Lyme disease--Pathogenesis and protection SUB TITLE A recombinant vaccine for Lyme borreliosis Researcher #5. ANDERSON, JOHN (menu item #17) YALE UNIVERSITY 333 CEDAR STREET NEW HAVEN, CT 06510 PERFORMING ORGANIZATION: YALE UNIVERSITY TITLE Lyme disease--Pathogenesis and protection SUB TITLE Core--Entomology and bacteriology [From: Insomniacs Desperately Inventing Odd Teamnames Spontaneously, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, U.S.A.] ============================================================ 4. (5) U.S.President Bill Clinton's Health Care plan has been in the news lately. Your magazine has not kept up on the discussion, but suddenly realizes the competition is planning a major spread. You need to get the basic Health Care documents put out by the Administration. Where can you find them, and who wrote the forward for the plan? >From my home gopher (gopher.csc.liv.ac.uk): Other Gopher servers UK Gopher servers HENSA/unix archive (at Kent) The UNIX HENSA Archive at the University of Kent at Canterbury The UUNET Archive archive doc obi USG Health.Care.Security.Plan report <text of the report> e.g. forward.txt URL: gopher://nutmeg.ukc.ac.uk/archive/uunet/archive/doc/obi /USG/Health.Care.Security.Plan/report/forward.txt [I'm sure there are more authoritative places, but it's convenient for me :-)] This starts: Foreword -- Hillary Rodham Clinton Together, we stand at a unique moment in history. In the coming months, we have an opportunity to accomplish what our nation has never done before: provide health security to every American - health care that can never be taken away. <etc, etc, etc> Even *I* guessed that Hillary wrote the forward! [From Dave Shield, Liverpool University, Liverpool, England] ----- [Rick: You can also get the docs direct from, yup, the White House. Joseph Gebis demonstrates...] You can get the basic Health Care documents at ftp.whitehouse.gov in the directory /pub/political-science/Health-Security-Act/ report. There is also info in /pub/political-science/ Health-Security-Act/legislation. The forward was written by Hillary Rodham Clinton. This can be seen by reading forward.txt in the directory /pub/political/science/Health-Security-Act/report. This site is talked about widely on alt.politics.clinton. [From Joseph Gebis, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A.] =============================================================== 5. (6) I have some students that need some training, and I seem to recall a mention of DOS-based reporting simulations on one of the journalism email lists. Could you find me prices on a couple of these simulations? [Rick: Questions that need listserv searches are not among the most popular, but they can certainly be useful. Eric Thomas has written some good software for searching listservs, but the request needs to be nested within some arcane commands. Steve Krans leads us through the whole process...] [METHOD: Nice one Rick :-) This one definetly took more time. Not knowing too much about the world of journalism, I turned to USENET and poked around the FAQ Archive (same as Question #6). In alt.journalism I found a FAQ on 'Journalism Resources on the Internet'. In the file I found mention of an listserv mailing list called CARR-L (Computer-assisted Reporting & Research), but no information on whether there was archive for it. It looked like a busy mailing list with 373 subscribers, so I thought that would be a good place to start. I didn't know much about listserv mailing lists, so I sent off commands like 'HELP' and 'INDEX' to see what was available. I found CARR-L, but didn't quite understand why it wasn't listed as a database that I could search. I read over the text a second time, learned that you had to be a member of that mailing list to access the archive, and then joined up. Then it was just a matter of searching the CARR-L database for the word 'simulation', and print out what came back. Whew... Only 6 points!?] ftp to rtfm.mit.edu, login anonymous ftp>get /pub/usenet-by-group/alt.journalism/Journalism_Resources_on_the_Internet [In the file I found:] [...] 1. Discussion groups/mailing lists 1.1 carr-l@ulkyvm.bitnet or carr-l@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU Computer-assisted Reporting & Research Owner =3D 3ZLUFUR@CMUVM (Elliott Parker) 373 subscribers in 18 countries Subscribe: listserv@ulkyvm.bitnet or @ulkyvm.louisville.edu [...] [I mailed off a subscription request to listserv@ulkyvm.bitnet, then used the following database search mail command to get the information:] mail listserv@ulkyvm.bitnet Subject: Database Search DD=3DRules //Rules DD * Search simulations in carr-l Index Print /* [Which sent back:] [...] You could check out SuperScoop, an excellent simulation by Peter Owens of University of Massachusetts-Darmouth. It won an EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL Distinguished Software award in 1987. It's available from both QUEUE 1-800-232-2224 and from WmCBrown 1-800-351-7671 Single copy price is $45 ... and I believe site licensing is available. Fire and Fatal, which were written by John Pavlik, who's now with the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in New York, are distributed by Wayne Danielson Software. Single copy price is $37.50. Danielson, who's on the faculty at U. Texas-Austin, can be reached at 512-471-1996 or 512-476-0289. I don't know for sure, but I believe he would be agreeable to some multiple-copy discount or site licensing arrangement. [...] [ANSWER: $45 and $37.50] [From Steve Krans, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.] ----- [Rick: David Fuller found a couple of other packages. Since my German isn't up to snuff I couldn't verify, but here it is for the adventurous...] Yanoff's list telnet askhp.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de login/password : ask select 1 Search the database search "journalism" Two of the software packages listed are: Bayshore Blast: A Reporting Simulation $49.95 City Council $20 [From David Fuller] =============================================================== 6. (3) A colleague says he's heard that there's a place where a lot of the frequently asked questions for newsgroups can be found, but he can't remember it for the life of him. [Rick the most popular spot by far is the archives at rtfm.mit.edu. In fact most hunters didn't need to look for this site, they already knew about it. The newsgroup news.answers also has a lot of FAQs.] - FROM: your unix prompt - TYPE: gopher gopher.tc.umn.edu - SELECT: 8. Other Gopher and Information Servers/ - SELECT: 2. Search titles in Gopherspace using veronica/ - SELECT: 6. Search Gopher Directory Titles at NYSERNet <?> - TYPE: FAQ (at the prompt asking words to search for) - SELECT: 1. Usenet FAQ archives (rtfm.mit.edu)/ (how convenient) - SELECT: 11. pub/ - SELECT: 39. usenet-by-group/ - THE ANSWER IS: rtfm.mit.edu (this used to be called pit-manager.mit.edu) [From The University of Central Florida Computer Users' Group, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.] ----- I don't know if this counts, as I had some idea of the answer. I remembered that there was some newsgroup where different newsgroups posted there FAQs. I went into news. I used GNUS, as then I could be in my editor and search the list. Assuming someone has GNUS set up, here is what I did: emacs M-x gnus L (this brings up the full group list - not just the current subscriptions) M-x isearch-forward faq I didn't find anything with faq in the name. But then I remembered that the meta-newsgroups were usually in the 'news.' hierarchy, so I did: M-x isearch-forward news (and a number of repeat searches) until I found: news.answers I entered the newsgroup and saw a whole bunch of FAQs listed. [From Michele Marques, York University, North York, Ontario, Canada] 7. (8) For a Sunday supplement, the paper is running a special on Williamsburg, Virginia. No one seems to have any photos of the site. The photo editor turns to you. While you're at it, can you get a photo of a piece of quartz for a sidebar they're doing on gems? [Rick: The solution here was to either know that there's a large photo collection at the Smithsonian Institute, (also at sunsite.unc.edu) or to do an archie search on 'quartz', and find Williamsburg at the same site.] Once again, The SunSITE archives is the place to go. Images are stored here on numerous topics, including natural science, computing, people and places. Anonymous FTP to sunsite.unc.edu For Williamsburg, Va.: cd pub/multimedia/pictures/smithsonian/gif89a/people-places binary get wberg.gif For the quartz image: cd pub/multimedia/pictures/smithsonian/gif89a/science-nature binary get ameths.gif get cassit.gif get quartz.gif I vaguely remember seeing the quartz file before but the Williamsburg image alluded me so I looked in the Smithsonian's index: cd pub/multimedia/pictures/smithsonian/catalogs/others get PHOTO1.ASC Search this file for "Williamsburg" and get: WBERG People-Places Williamsburg's Bruton Parish Church The Bruton Parish Church in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. This Episcopal church has been in use since 1715. (This file was made from a Kodak Photo CD. The CD file was imported into Adobe Photoshop, cropped, and saved as a GIF. Original photo taken during the National Press Photographers Association Electronic Picture Workshop held in Williamsburg). ==Smithsonian Photo by Jim Wallace. Copyright 1992 Smithsonian Institution. Do not reproduce without written permission. "wberg" is the filename minus the file type (.gif in my case) and "People-Places" refers to the directory people-places. Search the same file for "quartz" and several hits will appear describing images of a Purple Quartz Amethyst Crystal, Black Cassitorite Crystals with White Quartz, and a 7,000-Carat Quartz Egg. [From Jonathan Bell, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.A.] 8. (2) The Home and Gardening Editor is getting tired of running the same old stories and wonders if there's some new angles for a feature on gardening. Can you help him out? gopher wealaka.okgeosurvey1.gov 15. VERONICA: BOOLEAN SEARCHES OF ALL GOPHERSPACE/ 2. Search gopherspace at University of Cologne <?> search for "garden" ("fall AND garden" led to an apparent hangup in the "searching" phase) 44. Fall garden/ Some of the following files will probably have new angles: 1. 9-24 Leaves useful as mulch or compost. 2. 9-24 Perennial vegetables need some care. 3. 9-24 Prune chemical stores for safety and effectiveness. 4. 10-1 Dig those dahlias. 5. 10-1 Geranium pampering made easy. 6. 10-1 It's a good time to plant perennials. 7. 10-8 Cold brings insects. 8. 10-8 Feed your lawn now. 9. 10-8 Fall houseplant care. 10. Nov. 05 Living Christmas tree. 11. Nov. 05 Storing seeds. 12. Nov. 05 Indoor plants. 13. 11 12 Berries and shrubs for home. 14. 11 12 Fresh Christmas trees. 15. 11 12 Herb gardening. [From The Leonard Ladies Hunt Team, Grades 7 & 8, Leonard School, Leonard, Oklahoma, U.S.A.] ----- Well, seeing as how this is the December Hunt, I thought a little Holiday spin might be in order. Delphi has set up the Internet Holiday Gopher, and if you gopher to delphi.com you'll see; Root gopher server: delphi.com --> 1. A DELPHI INTERNET SERVICES HOLIDAY GOPHER WELCOME!. 2. A DELPHI ONLINE SIGNUP/ 3. A FREE HOLIDAY FAX/ 4. BOOKS AND STORIES FOR THE HOLIDAYS/ 5. GRAPHICS/ 6. HORTICULTURAL CARE AND IDEAS AROUND THE HOME/ 7. MUSIC AND SONGS FOR THE HOLIDAYS/ 8. RECIPES FOR THE HOLIDAYS FROM AROUND THE WORLD/ 9. SPECIAL MISC. HOLIDAY ITEMS/ 10. THE ROAD CONDITIONS DURING THE HOLIDAYS/ 11. WEATHER REPORTS AND FORECASTS DURING THE HOLIDAYS/ Selecting #6 will give you; HORTICULTURAL CARE AND IDEAS AROUND THE HOME --> 1. Search for Horticultural Information <?> 2. Care for Mums, Poinsettia & others. 3. Care for Amaryllis & others. 4. Care for other holiday plants. 5. Info on Amaryllis #1. 6. Info on Amaryllis #2. 7. Lilies. 8. Holly. 9. Mistletoe. 10. Oranges as Houseplants. 11. Passion Flower. 12. Cut Flowers Care. 13. Plants Can Survive Your Holiday. 14. Selecting Flowering Plants for Christmas Gifts. 15. Wreath for that Special Holiday Greeting. If that's still too conventional for him, he should check out the following; this time I used Ed Krohl's "The Whole Internet Catalog" on GNN's webserver, URL: http://nearnet.gnn.com/GNN-ORA.html. [Even though GNN requires users to "subscribe" to the service, the subscription is free and now that GNN supports forms new users can get access right away (subscription info is for their use in determining demographics for setting up rates for the companies that advertise there, not to used as a mailing list, etc.)] Select "The Whole Internet Catalog" on Main menu Select Gardening in the recreation heading One angle that the average reader would probably find unusual would be computers and gardening (Gee, where'd I get that idea? :-) He could do stories on The Gardener's Assistant, a shareware gardening program; how a gopher run by the Texas Agricultural Extension Service can help with diagnosing symptoms, causes, and controls for diseases in fruits, nuts, trees, grasses, etc.; or all the helpful information to be had in the Horticulture Guides at the University of Missouri. [From Jonathan Neuenschwander, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A.] ----- for this question I did the following: got into gopher used Veronica to search gopherspace search gopherspace at NYSERnet words to search for : gardening 42. Archive of e-conference about gardening <?> words to search for: new unusual (you get 40 entries) 1. djb@cbnews Re: Re: DID I JUST DISCOVER A NEW VEGETABLE? [From The University of Central Florida Computer Users' Group, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.] =========================================================== 9. (3) The Hawks and the Rockets are hot. When is the next time these two National Basketball Association teams are scheduled to play each other? 2. Search gopherspace at University of Cologne <?> search for "sports AND schedule*" 17. Sports Schedules/ 2. NBA Schedules <TEL> Connecting to culine.colorado.edu, port 859 using telnet. No user name or password was given for this telnet. Teams can specified with or without leading -t, from the following list: atl-Atlanta Hawks bos-Boston Celtics cha-Charlotte Hornets chi-Chicago Bulls cle-Cleveland Cavaliers dal-Dallas Mavericks den-Denver Nuggets det-Detroit Pistons g.s-GoldenState Warriors hou-Houston Rockets ind-Indiana Pacers lac-L.A. Clippers lal-L.A. Lakers mia-Miami Heat mil-Milwaukee Bucks min-Minn. Timberwolves nj -New Jersey Nets ny -New York Knicks orl-Orlando Magic phi-Phil. 76ers pho-Phoenix Suns por-Portland Trailblazers sac-Sacramento Kings san-SanAntonio Spurs sea-Seattle Supersonics uta-Utah Jazz was-Washington Bullets Divisions can specified with or without a leading -d, from the following list: pac - Pacific mdw - Mid West ctl - Central atc - Atlantic Welcome to the National Basketball Association Schedule Service. <nba> entered "atl hou" ("atl" or "hou" alone did not produce useful schedules of future games.) <nba> Upcoming games between the Hawks and the Rockets... Tuesday, 2/15: Atlanta Hawks at Houston Rockets [From The Leonard Ladies Hunt Team, Grades 7 & 8, Leonard School, Leonard, Oklahoma, U.S.A.] ========================================================== 10. (4) The music critic prepares a nostalgia piece on Bob Dylan, but she can't remember the date of his performance at the Royal Albert Hall in 1966. Can you help her? Search gopherspace at Nysernet using Veronica for "bob dylan" <a href="gopher://empire.nysernet.org:2347/7-t1%20%20>here</a> gopher gopher.uwp.edu 4. Music Archives/ 2. Artists- Archives by Artist name/ 20. d/ 182. dylan.bob/ 2. discog. In this file you can find: Bob Dylan & The Band, Royal Albert Hall 1966 Swinging Pig TSP-CD-009 The famous electric set, which may or may not really be from Albert Hall, 27-May 1966. Tell Me Mama I Don't Believe You Baby Let Me Follow You Down Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat One Too Many Mornings Ballad of a Thin Man Like a Rolling Stone Like A Rolling Stone Bob Dylan & The Band, Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London May 27, 1966 Vulture Records VT 006 Total Time: 44:54 </pre> Looks like answer is May 27th 1966. [From The COGS Team, University of Sussex, Brighton, England] ----- Well, I did another VERONICA search for DYLAN, and after wading through the Dylan Thomas and DyLanguage items, I found an FTP site with complete information on Bob dylan for the last 100 years or so. :> Its at URL file://potemkin.cs.pdx.edu/pub/dylan Here's an excerpt from 1966.Z : ---------------------------- May 27 Royal Albert Hall, London. This turns out to be the last show of the 1966 World Tour. [From Eric Lippert, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada] Extra Credit: (1) During the (ongoing/recent) U.S. Shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, which astronauts were on the EVA crew for the COSTAR installation? The info can be found by using the following gopher path, starting at gopher.willamette.edu. From the Willamette root gopher menu, here is the path: /other gopher and information servers (item #9) /search titles in gopherspace using Veronica (item #2) /search gopherspace titles at NYSERNET (#10) use search keyword "hubble" from the resulting menu called "Search gopherspace at NYSERNET:hubble" select: /hubble (menu item #16) and go to.... /786 (menu item #25) The astronauts on the EVA crew for the COSTAR installation were: Tom Akers and Kathy Thornton [From: Insomniacs Desperately Inventing Odd Teamnames Spontaneously Willamette University Salem, Oregon, U.S.A.] ----- By searching in the newsgroup sci.astro.hubble on the keyword 'COSTAR', I was able to find the following progress report, indicating that the astronauts in question were Tom Akers and Kathy Thornton: >Astronauts Kathy Thornton and Tom Akers begain the mission's >fourth spacewalk at 9:13 p.m. CST Tuesday. Once in the Space >Shuttle Endeavour's payload bay, the duo removed the blurred >High Speed Photometer from the telescope and installed the >COSTAR in its place, completing the task about 11:35 p.m. CST >Tuesday. [From Dave Dubin, dh Molde College, Molde, Norway] ============================================================ Mystery Question: What organization did the grinding of the main mirror for the Hubble Space Telescope? (using gopher search from "Planet Earth Home Page" (XMosaic)) Open URL: http://white.nosc.mil/info.html Select choice: GOPHER Search term: Hubble Chose gopher menu choice "sci.astro.hubble archive" Perused log of articles posted to the newsgroup. In article #008, I found this: "The aberration was caused by the incorrect assembly of a testing device (the reflective null corrector, to be precise), leading the manufacturer (Perkin-Elmer Corporation, now known as Hughes-Danbury) to believe that the mirror was correct when it was not. Another testing device indicated that there was a problem, but it was disbelieved because it was a less precise test. Oops. The backup primary mirror, fabricated by Kodak, is essentially perfect." --- written by: mark@cyclone.mmm.ucar.edu (Mark Bradford) So, the mirror manufacturer (grinder) was Perkin-Elmer Corp., now known as Hughes-Danbury. Final document Mosaic URL: gopher://stsci.edu/0ftp%3awfpc3.la.asu.edu%40/pub/ \ sci.astro.hubble/archive/008 [From Greg Larkin, Viewlogic Systems, Marlboro, Massachusetts, U.S.A.] That's all folks! --------------------------------------------------- Rick Gates rgates@nic.cic.net Student & Lecturer Univ. of Arizona (602) 621-3958 1515 E. 1st St. Tucson, AZ 85719