In order tostart a list one must have a site on the Internet that runs list managementsoftware and someone at that site to be the list administrator. This personhandles basic list maintenance such as new subscribers, responding to errormessages, etc. All of the commercial services, AmericanOnline, Compuserve, etc. allow email exchange with the Internet. On commercialservices there may be fees associated with receiving Internet messages. Gopher Gopher is one of the fastest growing resources on the Internet.
Gopher uses a layered menu structure to allowyou to access documents.
As you can see, some items in the listare documents, others lead to a deeper, more specific menu, and others allowyou to search using keywords. Using Gopher, you can work your way down throughmenus to get to the documents you are interested in. If yourserver is set up to allow users from outside the campus access the Gopherserver, then other groups can read the same files. So if you know of a placethat has useful information, you can connect with their Gopher system andbrowse down through. You can also use Gopher to do searches from across the Internet througha program called Veronica .