Other Services There are many other information services available. These services must be run from your computer account and are not available to people without computer accounts or network connections. The Whois name server is used to obtain the name and telephone numbers of people on campus. You can enter this command from most campus computers. This is a worldwide network of thousands of discussion groups.
Topics range from scientific and business newsgroups, to hobbies, to the bizarre.
Gopher is a way of quickly accessing this information. It lets you easily traverse menus and do searches to quickly find the information you are interested in. There are thousands of anonymous ftp sites worldwide. They contain computer programs, databases, and many other types of information. The Archie program lets you search these FTP sites to find files.