From: kent@sparky.imd.sterling.com (Kent Landfield)
Subject: Re: usenet on a CD?
Organization: Sterling Software
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:44:29 GMT
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In article <2SEP199206441035@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:
>In article <CKD.92Sep2012143@loiosh.eff.org>, ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes...
>>ftp.uu.net:/vendor/sterling/NetNews-CD:
>>	Yearly subscription + NetGems  -  $349.95 US plus shipping.
>>	Individual issues              -   $39.95 US plus shipping.
>>        NetGems, Best of '91           -   $49.95 US plus shipping.
>
>Just curious: Who or what determines what is a "NetGem?

I did... :-)  And no, it is not the selected words of net.people. :-)
NetGems is a name of an archive on CDROM which contains the X Window System 
Version 11 Release 5 sources, the Free Software Foundation's GNU software as 
well as the USENET comp.sources.* archives.  It also contains alt.sources and 
VMSnet source archives.  Besides those archives, NetGems also contains an 
archive of the Request For Comments (RFCs) available from the NIC which are 
the basis for most of the existing Internet protocols.  The software and RFCs 
on this CD were gathered on December 29, 1991.  

	bin	-	 Scripts to help wade through all this.
	X11R5 	-	 X Window System Release 5, Patchlevel 8
	gnu 	-	 GNU software
	rfcs 	-	 Request For Comments
	usenet	-	 USENET News source archives

The following USENET newsgroups are available in the usenet directory.
 
alt.sources           -  alternative sources newsgroup archive
alt.sources.amiga     -  amiga alternative sources newsgroup archive
alt.sources.patches   -  patches for alternative sources newsgroup archive
comp.archives         -  internet accessible archive software indexes 
comp.archives.admin   -  Computer archive administration issues archive
comp.sources.3b1      -  AT&T 3B1 newsgroup source archive
comp.sources.amiga    -  Amiga newsgroup source archive
comp.sources.apple2   -  Apple2 newsgroup source archive
comp.sources.atari.st -  Atari ST newsgroup source archive
comp.sources.bugs     -  Bug reports, fixes, discussion for posted sources.
comp.sources.games    -  Recreational software source archive
comp.sources.hp48     -  Programs for the HP48 and HP28 calculators. 
comp.sources.mac      -  Software for the Apple Macintosh.
comp.sources.misc     -  Official c.s.misc newsgroup source archive
comp.sources.reviewed -  Source code evaluated by peer review. 
comp.sources.sun      -  Software for Sun workstations. 
comp.sources.unix     -  UNIX related source archive
comp.sources.x        -  X windows newsgroup source archive
news.answers          -  Archive of periodic postings and FAQs
unix-pc               -  unix-pc hierarchy source archive
u3b.sources           -  u3b hierarchy source archive
vmsnet.sources        -  VMSnet sources newsgroup archive

			-Kent+
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