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A newshound's guide to newsy periodicals available through the Internet.

information at bottom.

IMPORTANT NEWS! The Net-Letter guide is changing listservers. I've been

handling it manually so far. Wouldn't you say that 800 subscribers is a

bit much to handle manually? It's not clear whether or not I can simply

transport my subscriber list to Netcom, so you may receive a notice

asking you to resubscribe. Hopefully, I can get it going in a week or so.

+Additions (usually stuff that's been around a while, but only recently

discovered because I'm an idiot): +ATP Tour Weekly; +Arab Press Research;

+Nano-Connect!; +The New South Polar Times; +One Small Step For A Space

Activist

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-THE BEST NET-LETTERS-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Late Show News (TV); Fitz's ShopTalk (TV); Edupage (Infotech)

This Just In (Weird News); Computer Underground Digest

AIDS Daily Summary; RFE/RL Daily Report (E. Europe); Patent News Service

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My favorite things on the Internet are informative, high-quality

newsletters. The quality of info contributed to what Mitch Kapor describes

as the Net's "gift economy" is amazing. Good NEWSY letters get lost in the

flood of zines and very technical pubs.

So this list focuses on news-oriented net-letters with fairly broad

appeal. The list is tremendously biased toward e-mail delivery and ONLY

includes free newsletters. Very technical and fanzine pubs are not

included because they are well covered by other guides. New pubs generally

added only after demonstrating a regular publishing schedule.

GIMME FEEDBACK!! Send me your favorite net-letters, particularly if

you're the editor. Include any subscription and archive information.

----------------------------------Media----------------------------------

FITZ'S SHOPTALK: Daily dispatches on the TV business, both networks and

local stations by media headhunter Don FitzPatrick. Primarily summaries

of wire-service and major newspapers, but also includes some full-text

reprints. Fairly short.

To: shoptalk-request@gremlin.clark.net

Subject: Ignored

Body: SUBSCRIBE YOUR@ADDRESS

LATE SHOW NEWS: A guy in Chicago who obviously stays up way too late

puts out a weekly newsletter on the late-night talk show wars. It's biased

toward Letterman but contains surprisingly good industry dirt on Leno,

Conan, etc. (even for those of us writing about television for a living).

Short.

E-MAIL - To: listserv@mcs.net

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe Late-Show-News

USENET - alt.fan.letterman and rec.arts.tv

FTP - ftp.mcs.net:/mcsnet.users/barnhart/letterman

WWW - http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/jl8287/late.news.html

BONG: The official newsletter of the Burned-Out Newspapercreatures

Guild which appears to consist of a single witty and bitterly cynical

Dayton Daily News reporter. Sample commentary on journalism: "So

how come Nicole Simpson's dog and the renter of her ex-husband O.J.

Simpson's guest house were both named Cato?" Short.

E-MAIL: To: listserv@netcom.com

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe BONG-L

CABLE REGULATION DIGEST: Weekly summary of news on cable regulation

published by Multichannel News. Moderate length.

E-MAIL - Distributed to the TELECOMREG mailing list.

To: listserver@relay.adp.wisc.edu

Subject: None

Body: Subscribe TELECOMREG YOUR NAME

FTP - ftp.vortex.com:pub/tv-film-video/cable-reg

GOPHER - gopher.vortex.com

CYBER-SLEAZE: Overhyped and a bit tedious, Cyber-Sleaze is composed of

low-grade gossip and put out by former MTV VJ Adam Curry. Short,

thankfully.

E-MAIL - To: sleaze@metaverse.com

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe Cyber-Sleaze Your Name

---------------------------------Infotech---------------------------------

EDUPAGE: Tasty tip sheet on information technology and media issued

three times weekly. Quickie summaries primarily of newspaper articles,

primarily from the majors. Moderate length.

E-MAIL - To: listproc@educom.edu

Subject: Ignored

Body: Sub Edupage Your Name

CYBERWIRE DISPATCH: Very high quality coverage of the Internet and

cyberspace. Editor Brock Meeks a real reporter for magazine Interactive

Week in civilian life became famous by getting sued for libel by a

"make.money.fast"-type. (He settled for $64). Short.

E-MAIL - To: majordomo@cyberwerks.com

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe CWD-L Your@Address

USENET - comp.society.privacy

GOPHER - cyberwerks.com

WWW - http://cyberwerks.com:70/1/cyberwire

+NANO-CONNECT! - An abridged, free version of Connect!, a strong $$$

newsletter covering the computer industry.

E-MAIL: To: jwsmith@io.org

WWW - http://www.io.org/~jwsmith

NSF NETWORK NEWS: Bi-monthly news on the real nuts and bolts of the net.

Mucho techie, but one issue had a good overview to telecom legislation in

Congress.

E-MAIL - To: newsletter-request@is.internic.net;

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe NSF Network News

GOPHER - is.internic.net: About InterNIC Information Services/NSF Network..

WWW - http://www.internic.net/newsletter

BITS AND BYTES: Good computer miscellanea. But why do so many

publications grab bits from Edupage? On the long side.

E-MAIL - To: listserv@acad1.dana.edu

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe Bits-n-Bytes

FTP - ftp.dana.edu: /periodic

GOPHER - gopher.dana.edu: Electronic Journals

THE NETWORK OBSERVER: Monthly commentary and bits about the net.

Lengthy.

E-MAIL - To: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu

Subject: Subscribe Your Name

NETWORKS & COMMUNITY: The emphasis here is on "community" in

Internet-land. Short and less techie than you might expect. Too much

excerpting from other net sources.

E-MAIL - To: cvington@netcom.com

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe Your Name

GOPHER - gopher.well.sf.ca.us: /Community/Civic Nets

COM NET NEWS: A pub on community networking -- as in public access on the

highway -- by a technology market research guy. Not very newsy, but

thoughtful. Fairly short.

E-MAIL - To: rbryant@hydra.unm.edu.

Subject Subscribe Com Net

Body: Ask nicely

GOPHER - gopher.well.sf.ca.us /Community/Civic Nets

PRIVACY FORUM: Tidbits about threats to privacy from government snoops

to credit agencies. Good commentary. Moderate length.

E-MAIL - To: privacy-request@vortex.com

Subject: Ignored

Body: subscribe

FTP - ftp.vortex.com

GOPHER - gopher.vortex.com

COMPUTER PRIVACY DIGEST: More about privacy, but concentrating on

computers. Weekly.

E-MAIL - To: comp-privacy-request@uwm.edu

USENET - comp.society.privacy

FTP - ftp.cs.uwm.edu

GOPHER - gopher.cs.uwm.edu.

COMPUTER UNDERGROUND DIGEST: The latest news on cyberspace issues. CUD's

best when screaming about the latest hacker or BBS raid, good when picking

apart government policy issues. Then they'll reprint the entire agenda for

some upcoming computer conference (YAWN!!!). Moderate length.

E-MAIL - To:listserv@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu

Subject: Ignored

Body: SUB CUDIGEST YOUR NAME

USENET -- comp.society.cu-digest

FTP - ftp.eff.org: pub/Publications/CuD

GOPHER - gopher.eff.org: /pub/Publications/CuD

EFFECTOR: The Electronic Frontier Foundation's membership newsletter,

great for telecom policy updates. Short

E-MAIL - To: listserv@eff.org

Subject: Subcribe Effector

Body: Ask nice.

Usenet: {preferred!} comp.org.eff

GOPHER - gopher.eff.org

FTP - ftp.eff.org

RISKS FORUM: Tidbits about the risks computers present in society. One

edition touched on industrial espionage, data escape from prison, and a

strange tale of e-mail stalking. Moderate length.

E-MAIL - To: risks-request@csl.sri.com

USENET {preferred!} comp.risks

FTP - crvax.sri.com

CURRENT CITES: A monthly letter for library technology, composed of

pointers to magazine articles. On the dry side, partly because

of its format.

E-MAIL - To: listserv@library.berkeley.edu

Subject: Ignored

Body: Sub Cites Your Name

FTP: ftp.lib.berkeley.edu:/pub/Current.Cites.

HOTT: Hot Off The Tree re-emerged with a lot of self-congratulations

that promised articles on latest advances in computer, communications, and

electronics technologies. Its first, HUGE issue obviously proved too

ambitious and the publication has stalled for months. Try a SMALL weekly

or something, guys.

E-MAIL - To: listserv@ucsd.edu

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe HOTT-LIST Your@Address

----------------------------------Policy----------------------------------

+ONE SMALL STEP FOR A SPACE ACTIVIST - Get past the corny name to find is

great, in-depth reporting on legislation affecting the space program. One

of the authors is a congressional staffer who works on space issues. Bad

news: Usenet-only for now. The listserver might come back later.

USENET - sci.space.policy

HUMAN CONTACT - sherzer@dsg59.nad.ford.com

LEGAL BYTES: A strong review of computer law issues by Austin law

firm George, Donaldson & Ford. The big snag is it only comes out

quarterly, so don't expect the latest news. Long.

E-MAIL - To: gdf@well.sf.ca.us

RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY: Good but lengthy weekly letter from

the Environmental Research Foundation. Smurfs report that RACHEL stands for

Random Access Chemical Hazards Electronic Library, a database.

E-MAIL - To: erf@igc.apc.org

Subject: None

Body: include name, phone # plus e-mail AND postal addresses. Fund-

raising pitch to follow, no doubt.

FTP - ftp.std.com: /periodicals/rachel

GOPHER - gopher.std.com

DAILY REPORT CARD: A great summary of news in K-12 education. Very

newsy. Recently cut back to thrice-weekly and comes out of the National

Education Goals Panel.

E-MAIL - To: listserv@gwuvm.gwu.edu

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe Rptcrd Your Name

EDUCATION POLICY DIGEST: Put out by educational publisher Scholastic

Inc., EDPOL addressing edu-politics, aimed primarily at teachers. Not bad.

E-MAIL - To: listproc@scholastic.com

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe Edpol-D Your Name

CHOICE-NET REPORT: This sort-of-weekly comes of the California Abortion

and Reproductive Rights Action League-North, culled from clips and

announcements. Short and pretty good stuff. Very newsy, not preachy.

E-MAIL - To: dtv@well.com

Subject: Subscribe

Body: Subscribe Choice-Net

GOPHER - gopher.well.sf.ca.us

USENET - alt.activism, talk.abortion, soc.women.

INFORMATION POLICY ONLINE: Counterprogramming privacy advocates,

Information Industry Association covers legislation regarding government

restriction on information. Too little real news, too many items about

the direct mail industry's lobbying. Moderate length.

E-MAIL - To: iiaipo-request@his.com

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe Your Name

NAVNEWS: The Navy News Service is an internal newsletter published by

the U.S. Navy. News-lite, properly sanitized for the troops. Moderate

length.

E-MAIL - To: navnews@opnav-emh.navy.mil

Subject: Ignored

Body: SUBSCRIBE YOUR@ADDRESS

GOPHER - marvel.loc.gov; Gov. Info/Fed Info.../Info by Agency/Military...

-----------------------------Business/finance-----------------------------

WEEKLY FUTURES MARKET: Good weekly letter on currency and commodities

futures. News, rather than touts, from a financial consultant in Taipei.

E-MAIL - To: pcyhuang@tpts1.seed.net.tw

GOPHER - wuecon.wustl.edu:/holt/weekfut

TRADE NEWS: Digest of newspaper and magazine stories on international

trade by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Strong, brief

overview. Also publishes severla companion letters.

E-MAIL - To: Majordomo@igc.apc.org

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe Trade-News Your@Address

HUMAN CONTACT - kmander@igc.apc.org

-----------------------------Science/medicine-----------------------------

BLIND NEWS DIGEST: A pretty good discussion of blindness with an

emphasis on talking computers and other technical aids.

E-MAIL - To: listserv@vm1.nodak.edu

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe Blindnws

HUMAN CONTACT wtm@bunker.afd.olivetti.com

PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE: Digest of physics news items.

E-MAIL - To: listserv@aip.org

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe Physnews

WHAT'S NEW: News, mostly tracking government research funding,

compiled by The American Physical Society. Sample headline: "DEFENSE

APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE BEGINS SHOOTING HOSTAGES!" Short and good

material.

E-MAIL - To: listserv@aps.org

Subject: Ignored

Body: SUBSCRIBE WHATSNEW

PATENT NEWS SERVICE: More newswire than newsletter, this is an

excellent service on patents, both regular news bulletins and lists of

new patents.

E-MAIL - To: patents@world.std.com

Subject: Ignored

Body: Help

AIDS DAILY SUMMARY: A great clipping service from the Center For

Disease Control, the kind of stuff Internet cheerleaders can brag about

because it's about the real world, not just insular cyberspace. High

volume.

E-MAIL - To: ben@maggadu.queernet.org

Subject: Subscribe Daily

Body: Subscribe Daily Summary Your@Address

USENET sci.med.aids

AIDS INFORMATION NEWSLETTER: A lengthy, technical bi-weekly put out by

the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs AIDS Information Center in San

Fransisco. Known on usenet as the VAMC Newsletter. Good quality, but

needs a listserver.

GOPHER - gopher.niaid.nih.gov: /VA AIDS Information Newsletter

USENET - sci.med.aids

HICNet MEDICAL NEWS DIGEST: Something painless from a dentist. Broad

bi-weekly newsletter on medicine by Health Info-Com Network, put together

by D.D.S. David Dodell. One week featured sleep apnea and snoring plus

hemlock ! The downside is conference announcements. OK, on things like

techniques for identifying corpses, but they're still conference

announcements.

E-MAIL - To: mednews@stat.com

FTP - vm1.nodak.edu

RSI NETWORK NEWSLETTER: For and by victims of repetitive stress injury

e.g. carpal tunnel syndrome.

E-MAIL - To: majordomo@world.std.com

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe RSI

FTP - world.std.com:/pub/rsi

GOPHER - world.std.com:/pub/rsi

CFS-NEWS: Chronic fatigue syndrome sufferers. Moderate length.

E-MAIL - To: listserv@list.nih.gov

Subject: Ignored

Body: Sub CFS-News Your Name

LYMENET: Launched to rise above Usenet flame wars, LymeNet Newsletter

explores research and treatment of Lyme disease, a mysterious and fairly

disabling disease prevelant in the Northeast. Moderate length.

E-MAIL - To: listserv@Lehigh.edu

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe Lymenet-L Your Name

USENET sci.med

FTP - ftp.Lehigh.edu: /pub/listserv/lymenet-l/Newsletters.

NASA DAILY: NASA and other space news.

E-MAIL - To: pds-listserver@space.mit.edu

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe Your Name

GOPHER - world.std.com:News

WWW - http://delcano.mit.edu/

-------------------------------Foreign News-------------------------------

YESHA NEWS SERVICE - Twice-weekly digest of news from the Israeli press

focusing on West Bank settlement communities. Put out by The Yesha Council,

an Israeli lobbying group, it's obviously not the place to find a balanced

treatments of Arafat. But given the biases, it's pretty good

E-MAIL - To: listserv@israel.nysernet.org

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe Yesha Your Name

Human contact: elbaum@jerusalem1.datasrv.co.il

+ARAB PRESS RESEARCH - A strong digest of articles appearing in Arab,

Turkish, Iranian, etc. publications. Compiled something called The

Jerusalem Institute for Western Defence. Again, biased but interesting.

E-MAIL - To: listserv@jerusalem1.datasrv.co.il

Subject: Ignored

Body: subscribe arab-press Your Name

A@G NEWS FROM RUSSIA -- Business-oriented weekly offering 30-40

headlines from Russian newspapers. It's a tease for a cluster of different

full newsletters including Financial News, Privatization, Politics, etc.

Weak as a stand-alone pub, though the paid version looks great.

E-MAIL - To: ag@world.std.com

Subject: Ignored

Body: Sub Headline Your Name

HUMAN CONTACT - spbeac@sovam.com

INDIA NEWS NETWORK: Well-edited news of issues related to India and the

Indian expat community.

E-MAIL - To: listserv@utarlvm1.uta.edu

Subject: Igrnored

Body: Subscribe India-L

NEPAL DIGEST: 'Nuff said.

E-MAIL - To: nepal-request@cs.niu.edu

Subject: Ignored

Body: sub nepal lastname firstname Your@address

ASIAINFO HEADLINE DAILY NEWS: Daily offering 30-40 headlines from

Asian markets plus 3-5 brief articles. More bait for a full $$$ report. A

good sampler, but only so-so as a stand-alone pub.

E-MAIL - To: listserv@asiainfo.com

Body: Sub Headline Your Name

RFE/RL DAILY REPORT: News on Eastern Europe popped out by Radio Free

Europe/Radio Liberty. Very cool, but heavy volume.

E-MAIL - To: listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe RFERL-L YOUR NAME.

CHINA NEWS DIGEST: Very active news service on China and various

ex-pat communities in several flavors: Global daily, US, Canada, Europe

& Pacific, and a magazine in some Chinese dialect. High volume.

E-MAIL - To: cnd-info@cnd.org

Subject: Info

Body: Info

SOMALIA NEWS UPDATE: Irregularly published but good; comes out of Sweden.

E-MAIL - To: bernhard.helander@antro.uu.se

Subject: Somalia request

Body: Ask nicely

-------------------------------Satellite TV-------------------------------

SKYGUIDE: This monthly's from a Brit who doubtless watches too much TV.

The Euro cable and satellite television scene. Concentrates on BSkyB but

also romps off onto the continent. Frequently misses deadline

E-MAIL - To: bignoise@cix.compulink.co.uk

Subject: Subscribe skyguide

Body: SUBSCRIBE SKYGUIDE YOUR@ADDRESS

Usenet {preferred!} alt.satellite.tv.europe.

SATNEWS: Bi-weekly on satellite television broadcasting worldwide.

E-MAIL - To: satnews-request@mrrl.lut.ac.uk

Subjec: Ignored

Body: SUBSCRIBE YOUR-NAME

USENET rec.video.satellite.

SATELLITE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL: One issue featured usual sat news plus

an Iranian cleric's "fatwah" banning home dishes and how Pakistanis evade

government censoring of Miss Universe pagent broadcasts. Fairly short.

USENET - rec.video.satellite

FTP - itre.uncecs.edu:/pub/satellite/sj

WWW http://itre.uncecs.edu/misc/sj/sj.html

TELE SATELLIT: English-translation excerpts from the German satellite

magazine. Usenet-only, "fur die freunde", although available on several $$$

services. Moderate length.

USENET alt.satellite.tv.europe

FTP - ftp.funet.fi/pub/dx/text/satellite/telesatellit

WWW - http://xan.esrin.esa.it:2602/satellite.html

SATELLITE NEWS DESK: Yet another satellite TV letter. The surprising

thing is that they're all pretty high quality. Headline news from British

satellite newsletter Transponder. Moderate length.

E-MAIL - To: editor@trponder.win-uk.net

--------------------------------Randomness--------------------------------

THIS JUST IN: A really strong weekly collection of strange news from a

California tech publisher. One issue told of a N.J. man fined for

"needlessly" killing an animal -- a rat! Also a Venezuela teen needing a

spot to relieve himself somehow went into a lion's pen. "Perez struggled

both to live and to get his pants up; a friend helped by hitting the lion

with a brick. And that brick came from ...where?" Short.

E-MAIL - listserv@netcom.com

Subject: Ignored

Body: Subscribe This-Just-In

HUMAN CONTACT - arcie@netcom.com

+THE NEW SOUTH POLAR TIMES - The coolest net-letter, in a manner of

speaking. An ongoing, first-hand account of life at the South Pole from

Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Web-only and tough to find.

WWW - http://www.deakin.edu.au/edu/MSEE/GENII/NSPT/NSPThomePage.html

+ATP TOUR WEEKLY - For tennis-fanatics only. It's the official newletter

of the governing body for men's professional tennis.

E-MAIL - To: rvach@jax.jaxnet.com

Subject: Subscribe ATP

Body: Ask nicely.

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HOW TO GET THE NET-LETTER GUIDE: E-MAIL - To: higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org;

SUBSCRIBE NET-LETTER; Usenet alt.zines, alt.etext, misc.writing,

rec.mag, alt.internet.services, and the *.answers groups.

Far more exhaustive lists of electronic publications include:

* The E-Zine-List by John Labovitz:

FTP - FTP etext.archive.umich.edu:pub/Zines/e-zine-list.gz

GOPHER - etext.archive.umich.edu: Zines/e-zine-list.gz

WWW - http://www.ora.com:8080/johnl/e-zine-list/

* The giant e-pub archive.

FTP - ftp.etext.org

GOPHER - gopher.etext.org

WWW - http://www.etext.org

* Factsheet Five-E

GOPHER - gopher.well.sf.ca.us.

* The Association of Research Libraries' Directory of Electronic Journals

and Newsletters

GOPHER - arl.cni.org: /11/scomm/edir

Ways to keep up on the latest pubs include:

* Net-Happenings:

E-MAIL - majordomo@is.internic.net

Body: Subscribe Your@Address

USENET - Comp.internet.net-happenings

New Journals:

E-MAIL - To: listserv@e-math.ams.org

Subject: Ignored

Body: SUBSCRIBE NEWJOUR-L Your Name

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