From: seeta@eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju UdayaBhaskar Sarma)
Subject: Re: book orders by e-mail
Reply-To: seeta@eng.wayne.edu
Organization: College of Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan, USA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:21:11 GMT

(Paolo Ciancarini) writes:
-+>Is there any way of querying IEEE Comp Society
-+>for buying proceedings or books by e-mail?

		From IEEE Institute Dated Jan/Feb 1993.  Vol 17, No. 1

IEEE starts Ask*IEEE document delivery service.
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IEEE has joined forces with Dynamic Information Corp., Burlingame, Calif.
The IEEE dept in charge is the IEEE Dept of Publishing Services.

The toll-free tel No. is 1.80..949.ieee (or 415.259.5040 for callers outside USA
and Canada.  FAX : 415.259.5045
Internet address is : askieee@ieee.org

At the core of the offering is the immense collection of IEEE publications,
dating back to the days of the institute's predecessors, the American Institute
of Elec.Enggs, and the Institute of Radio Enggs.

It is a one stop place for shopping, which is covered by one invoice that includes all publishers copyright fees.  Rates as about US $10 for the IEEE collection

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IEEE Email service...
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all personal people can be contacted by <i.name>@ieee.org.  example : the 1993
president martha sloan can be emailed by m.sloan@ieee.org.  Even U can request
a personal alias account, by getting appropriate information from info.forward@
ieee.org;  Likewise, a list of names already in such a form, i.e., the directory
can be obtained from directory.vols@ieee.org;  All staff are listed in
directory.staff@ieee.org

all sections and departments can be contacted by <sec.name>@ieee.org;  The
section names can be obtained from any IEEE publication. For eg: the toronto
section of IEEE can be contacted by sec.toronto@ieee.org;  As of Nov 1991, 101
such sections have been registered.  To register Ur section, send a message to
info.startup@ieee.org;   directory listing is available from directory.sec@ieee

society aliases are of the form soc.<socname>@ieee.org;  eg : computer society
can be reached at soc.comp@ieee.org;  directory listing: directory.soc@ieee.org

student branch are avaliable as sb.name@ieee.org;  to register by email email
to info.startup@ieee.org;  directory listings at directory.sb@ieee.org

There are 71 automated response at accounts named info.<topic>@ieee.org;  ALl
the response is in text files.  info.directory is also part of this 71.
get more information about this by emailing info.info@ieee.org;  Whatever U
send to this account is discarded, and only Ur return address is used to reply
the automated response to U.  So dont type in Ur sorrows and difficulties...!

service aliases are of the form <service>@ieee.org;  for eg: membership.inquiry
@ieee.org if U have a question about Ur membership (maybe to find out why U got a dues bill even after paying up, etc...)  All the services available are listed
in the automated response from info.services@ieee.org;  all field services
are listed andavailable at info.fs.ieee.org;

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