From: greeny@eff.org (J S Greenfield)
Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
Subject: Recent Changes to the CAF archive (12/20/92)
Date: 20 Dec 92 21:32:35 GMT
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Originator: greeny@eff.org

Recent Changes to the
* Computers and Academic Freedom (CAF) Archive

The CAF Archive is an electronic library of information about
computers and academic freedom.

If you have gopher, the archive is browsable with the command:
  gopher -p academic/law gopher.eff.org

It is available via anonymous ftp to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4) in
directory "pub/academic". It is also available via email. For
information on email access send email to archive-server@eff.org. In
the body of your note include the lines "help" and "index".

For more information, to make contributions, or to report typos
contact J.S. Greenfield (greeny@eff.org).
 
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/admin/gopher2mbox
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A Perl program for putting the items on a gopher menu into a mailbox
file.

(Before using, remove the first line of the Perl file.)

USAGE: gopher2mbox -pGOPHER-PATH -lLINE-LIMIT HOST PORT > MBOX

    HOST is required
    PORT defaults to 70
    GOPHER-PATH defaults to ""
    LINE-LIMIT defaults to 200

 MBOX can be read with a text editor, or with
     nn MBOX
 or with
     mail -f MBOX


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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/admin/index2mbox
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A Perl program for turning a list of Netnews message-id's into a
mailbox file.

Usage: index2mbox [-nNNTPSERVER -h -s] < INDEXFILE > MBOXFILE
-h	help
-s	skip header

MBOXFILE can be read with "nn MBOXFILE", "mail -f MBOXFILE", or with
an editor or browser program.

If a message-id is preceded by a newsgroup, for example:
	  clari.news.demonstration: <ny-kkkU2NT340pe@clarinet.com>
and if the message-id cannot be found, then the program will look for
the first article in the newsgroup that references the message-id. In
the case of Clarinet articles this is usually an updated version of
the same article.

Before using, remove the first line of the file.

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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/admin/index2news
=================
A Perl program for posting the articles referenced by a list of
Netnews message-id's.

Usage: index2news [-nNNTPSERVER -gREPOSTGROUP -h -s] < INDEXFILE
-h	help
-s	skip header

 If -g is empty, output will go to STDOUT

If a message-id is preceded by a newsgroup, for example:
	  clari.news.demonstration: <ny-kkkU2NT340pe@clarinet.com>
and if the message-id cannot be found, then the program will look for
the first article in the newsgroup that references the message-id. In
the case of ClariNet articles this is usually an updated version of
the same article.

REMEMBER: ClariNet articles are copyrighted. The newsgroup you repost
to, must have distribution no wider than the ClariNet newsgroups.

Before using, remove the first line of the file.

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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/admin/whatsnewd
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* Code for and description of "whatsnewd" (v. 0.3)

(Connect your Gopher to "gopher.eff.org", port "5070" to play with it.)

It is a gopher-protocol server.

What it does:

When a user gives a date (e.g. "1 day ago") or enters a dated bookmark
(generated by a previous query), he or she gets a gopher menu of the
gopher items that are new or changed since that date.


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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/banned.1991
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* Computer material that was banned/challenged in academia in 1991

A list of computer material that was banned at universities during (or
before) 1991. It summarizes incidents and policies at Ohio State U.,
the U. of Illinois (two campuses), Case Western U., Boston U., U. of
Waterloo, U.  of Toledo, Western Washington U., Iowa State U.,
Pennsylvania State U., U. of Texas, U. of Newcastle, James Madison U.,
U. of Wisconsin, and others.

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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/books/book-reviews.nwu.pointer
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* Law and Politics Book Review -- Pointer

A pointer on how to use gopher to access the Law and Politics Book review
at Northwestern University.

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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/civics/clinton.contact-info
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* Clinton Transition-Team Contact Information

Phone and fax numbers and address information for the Clinton/Gore transition
team.


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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/civics/columnist.contact-info
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* Columnist Contact Information

Phone and fax numbersfor a number of well-known journalists and columnists.


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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/civics/congress.info.pointer
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* Pointer to comprehensive Congressional information

How to access current and comprehensive Congressional information via
gopher.

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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/civil-liberty/civil-liberty-index
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* About the Civil Liberty Index mailing list

A description of the civil-liberty-index mailing list. It is a
moderated list for the distribution of indexes of "newsy" civil
liberties articles. All the articles are from Netnews, most are from
ClariNet's commerical UPI service. To read the UPI articles, you need
access to ClariNet.

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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/policies/policies.acad.pointer
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* Pointer to NSF archive of academic policies and procedures

Information on how to get information via anonymous ftp from an NSF
archive of policies and procedures at academic institutions.

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-- 
J. S. Greenfield                                         greeny@top.cis.syr.edu
(I like to put 'greeny' here,                            greeny@eff.org 
but my d*mn system wants a 
*real* name!)                        "What's the difference between an orange?"
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