Note 54: Digest Frutter

Rubric: Our networks

Digest of the fifter

Anton Nosik

The Handwheel Electronic Edition, called Netsurfer Digest, has long and firmly entrenched in the network landscape. When I first signed on him (last fall), Digest had one and a half thousand readers. How many of them today are scary to even think.

The skepticism of many researchers of network commerce about the business on WWW seems to be not devoid of their grounds. It is enough to recall in this regard the monthly webreview, which was universally closed at the beginning of summer, who declared a 20-dollar paid “subscription to save the publication”, and never got out of the minus. It is interesting where the subscriber money went. However, as regards the Netsurfer Digest, it seems that the adverse trends in the network business do not have any influence: the digest expands the editorial board, increases the server, and recently suggested everyone who wants to create their own myrrhors, for which he even prepared a special logo. It is unnecessary to say that the proposal of overseas publishers was enthusiastically perceived by the administration of the server www.sharat.co.il, where the Netsurfer Digest hem will soon appear.

In the meantime, we look at the last number of this publication - in the hope that the reader will find in it something useful or curious for himself.

With some delay, Netsurfer Digest informs us of the latter on July 27 - the second - Beta of the Third Explorer and invites all interested parties to visit the Microsoft site at the address familiar to our regular readers:

http://www.microsoft.com/ie/e3/newbeta.htm

The Windows 95 user, who still has not visited there, despite our recommendations, lost quite a lot: the third explorer is much more attention (and praise) than the third Netskaype. Although the latter, of course, is cooler, and the market is still holding.

Next, Digest urges us to join in the struggle for the legalization of marijuana (or against its delegitimization, depending on the place of residence of the reader). For this we are invited to familiarize themselves with the following document:

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/senet/drugs/hemp-marijuana/faq.html

A separate note, without links, is dedicated to a small scandal in the last issue of the digest, which happened during the Atlanta Olympics with the world's largest Internet provider - American Online. As you know, this company, which, according to various sources from three to six million subscribers, modrates (read: censors) messages of its public conferences. During the Olympiad, censorship was subjected to messages sent in Spanish. It is not difficult to understand the reasons for censorship: the moderator simply could not read messages and felt the best to erase them, in case they contain something reprehensible. Spanish-language citizens of the United States raised such a hip on this occasion that the president of the network had to apologize and urgently accepted into the service of moderators-polyplotes. However, this news would not cost those five hundred bytes that she occupies if her anonymous author did not plunge the scasteness on her behalf. “Since American Online is reviewing its censorship policy,” the notes said, “maybe it will correct the filter, thanks to which all the letters with the mention of the beautiful city of Scunthorpe in the UK are exhausted from its conferences.” The reader, unfamiliar with the English mother, may not appreciate the subtle humor, so just in case we explain: in the name of the British city there is a combination of four letters, which serves in the US state language the rude designation of the female genital organ. Therefore, any automatic filter, configured for obscene abuse, comes into effect from the mention of this city - about the same as Soviet censorship at one time Maral critical articles dedicated to the book of Dr. Raimond Mudie "Life after Life". The poor doctor was called both Moody and Mouldies, but it was necessary to cancel the sixth article of the Constitution of the USSR so that the Soviet reader recognize its true name.

Further, Digest talks about the new Internet service - the archive of pictures and photographs, the resources of which any publishing house, publication or graphic studio can use at the price of an annual subscription of $ 99. The address of this diva is http://www.arttode.com/. By the end of the year, about a million graphic files should gather there. From ourselves, we add that a very cool photo archive contains a Canadian company - the manufacturer of Corel Draw on the server http://commerce.corel.ca/. Here, however, $ 7 are asked for one picture, but reduced (120 at 80 points) images in JPG format can be carried by buckets, not embarrassed by anyone.

The full statistics of commercial and other Internet domains can be viewed at http://www.webcom.com/walsh/stats.html. There, in particular, with reference to this source in the last digest, it is reported that today 468,000 commercial domains in the name of various legal entities have been registered around the world. In certain states of the United States, the domain of the population reaches a record indicator of 3235 domains for 100,000 inhabitants. Appendicitis - and he is less common.

Finally, Digest tells us that the legendary creator of Wais Bruster Cale set off to new adventures. Now he is going to archive all the network documents in order to save them for future generations (WWW materials are on average updated every 40 days, so today there is no huge number of useful and interesting resources that could be seen just 2 months ago). The address of the bold experiment on the stopping of a moment on the web is http://www.archive.org/. The creators of the server suggest that they have to merge about 20 terabytes (megabytes in a square) of information in their archive. So far, only 200 gigs are in their modest reserve. But the dashing trouble has begun.

In this review, we did not manage to cover the tenth of the news from the last release of the digest. You can familiarize yourself with the current and previous issues at: http://www.netsurf.com/. You can subscribe by sending at nsdigest-request@netsurf.com a letter with the following words in the body:

Subscribe NSDIGEST-HTML or Subscribe NSDIGEST-Text.

Digest is available in two versions: HTML and a simple ASCII text. According to my assessment, the HTML version will gradually become obsolete, because today almost all postal customers are associated with DDE with www customers. It is enough to click the mouse button on some link in a simple ASCII text to go to the address indicated in it. Today there is no longer any special need to receive a digest in HTML format, save it to a separate file with the HTM extension and open it in a peep. And Netscape Mail, and Microsoft Internet Mail, and Eudora support the possibility of launching peeping from links contained in simple text mail.

In the next issue, a new summary from the fields of Geocities, another conversation about Internet freebies and a return to relevant topics will follow.