NOTE: This message was originally in conference "INTERNET - E-MAIL AREA"
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From: Ernie Wollering 
To: Multiple recipients of list POLIO 
Date:         Sat, 15 Jun 1996 00:33:50 -0500
Subject:      Welcome! - PPS Internet Resources
Organization: Exec-PC
 
>                                              Last update 6/01/96
 
  Welcome!  This is a periodic post about how the Post-Polio
 Internet resources are organized, and about how to access the
 information that's available.
 
    There is an excellent reference area maintained by Tom Dempsey that
 can be accessed via WWW at:
 
                http://www.eskimo.com/~dempt/polio.html
 
 Information can be retrieved via ftp from:
 
                ftp.eskimo.com  /u/d/dempt/polio
 or             ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/d/dempt/polio
 
  There is a newsgroup named alt.support.post-polio. You can subscribe
 to this like any other newsgroup. The charter for the newsgroup is
 available at the above WWW site.
 
  There is an active mailing list listserv that can be joined by
 sending an e-mail to  listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu  with a blank subject
 line and
                sub Polio yourfirstname yourlastname
 in the body of the message. Or use the St. John's Subscription Genie
 at:    http://foghorn.stjohns.edu/listmenu.qry?function=form
 To get to the Polio List, select "Medical" then "Polio."
 
  The mailing list and newsgroup are linked so that much of the same
 information is available on either. Specifically, all of the posts
 from the mailing list appear on the newsgroup. Some of the posts to
 the newsgroup may not appear on the mailing list, depending on how
 parameters on the mailing list are set. There is currently a limit
 of 250 lines on posts sent to the mailing list. If you have access
 to both the mailing list and newsgroup, one scenario is to set your
 list access to nomail, post to the mailing list, and read the posts
 from the newsgroup.
 
  The mailing list has an archive facility if you'd like to look at
 previous postings. There is also an online archive of previous postings
 to the mailinglist/newsgroup maintained by Ron Stone:
 
      For web browsers wanting to lock on to the Polio folder:
          gopher://otpt-gopher.ups.edu:70/1D-2%3A3220%3APolio
 
      For Gopher burrowers wanting to lock on to the Polio folder:
           otpt-gopher.ups.edu   port 70  Selector  D-2:3220:Polio
 
  There is an IRC chat session on Wednesday nights from 6-8pm PST. To
 connect, you use an IRC program and type:  /join #polio
 
  There is a list of recent medical articles on post-polio syndrome at:
                http://execpc.com/~epwoll/medindx.html
 
  Check out Dick Spears new  Rollin' Rat  Web Page at
                http://www.indirect.com/www/rspear/rollin.html
 
  Walter Berk has created the Polio Connections page at:
                http://village.ios.com/~w1066
   or           http://www5.ios.comm:80/~w1066
 
  Interested in technology to help make your life a little easier?
   Look over Paul Cones' Adaptive Technology Notebook at:
                http://www.crl.com/~pcone/notebook.htm
 
  Rusty Huntington maintains a Location List of PPS'ers at:
                http://www.eskimo.com/~dempt/location.htm
  or forms at   http://www.eskimo.com/~dempt/locform.htm
 
  According to their monthly newsletter, the Polio Epic Support Group
    of Tucson AZ has posted a home page on the Internet at:
                http://www.azstarnet.com/~polio/
 
  The Home Page for "Polio Outreach of Spokane" is at:
                http://jump.poweramp.net:8000/PEN/
 
  Tom McKeever's Spacecon - Braveheart BBS site is now at:
                http://spacecon.ids.net
  (mirrored at) http://www.ids.net/~spacecon
 
  Bob Mauro maintains The PeopleNet Disability DateNet at:
                http://chelsea.ios.com/~mauro
 
  Bob Lantrip has some nice graphics at:
                http://www.brightok.net/~blantrip/
 
   Don't be hesitant to post questions or comments. If you need
 information, would like to share an experience, or would just
 like to say Hi, that's what this is all about. There're a lot
 of knowledgeable and friendly folks around here.
 
 Ernie - epwoll@execpc.com                                   06/15/96
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