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Black, African & Development Related Information

From: amcgee@netcom.com (Arthur R. McGee) Subject: Black/African/Development Info Date: 21 Feb 1994 10:21:58 -0600 Message-ID:

The latest versions of the following lists are now available:

* (1) Internet/BITnet mailing lists and news services that focus on African, African-American, African-Caribbean or African-Latin people, culture, and issues. (Up to date as of FEBRUARY 18, 1994)

* (2) Usenet newsgroups that focus on African, African-American, African-Caribbean or African-Latin people, culture, and issues. (Up to date as of FEBRUARY 18, 1994)

* (3) Black/African run or Black/African oriented Bulletin Board Systems/Services(BBS) in North America. (Up to date as of FEBRUARY 18, 1994)

* (4) Black/African oriented online information sites (Dialup/FTP/Gopher/Telnet/WWW). (Up to date as of FEBRUARY 18, 1994)

* (5) Conferences and news services available via the APC networks (PeaceNet, EcoNet, etc.), that focus on African, African-American, African-Caribbean, or African-Latin people, culture, and issues. (Up to date as of FEBRUARY 17, 1994)

* In addition to that mentioned above, each list contains (usually in other sections) resources that mainly deal with the following:

* (1) Ethnic/Intercultural Relations (2) International/Sustainable Development (includes Global Networking) (3) Social/Progressive Activism

* Please let me know of any updates, additions, corrections or suggestions that you might have.

* Thank you very much.

* Peace.

* The absolute latest versions of all my Black/African related lists and pointers are always available via anonymous FTP from ftp.netcom.com in directory:

* pub/amcgee/african/my_african_related_lists

* If you only have access to email, then you can use FTPmail to do essentially the same thing. Send a message to this address:

* ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com or ftpmail@pa.dec.com

* With these specifications:

* Subject: Body of Message: help quit

* Or to this address:

* bitftp@pucc.bitnet

* With these specifications:

* Body of Message: help

* In either case a help file will be returned to you explaining how to use the FTPmail or bitFTP facility.

* Mailservers that might be closer and provide the same service are:

* ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr ftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk

* bitftp@plearn.bitnet bitftp@dearn.bitnet

* The absolute latest versions of all my Black/African related lists are also always available by sending email to or fingering the following:

* AfriInfo: [mcgee@epsilon.eecs.nwu.edu]

* Warning: all of the lists will come back to you as one concatenated file (approximately 70K in size).

* Remember: the above address is NOT for correspondence. If you want anything other than a list sent back to you, use the email addresses in my signature.

* The absolute latest versions of all my Black/African related lists are also always available on the BDPA BAC BBS(1-707-552-3314) and on the Data Bits Online BBS(1-213-295-6094) in the following files:

* AFRIAPC.MSG = APC Conference List (not included in AfriInfo mail file) AFRIBBS.MSG = BBS List AFRIMAIL.MSG = Internet/BITnet Mailing Lists AFRINEWS.MSG = Usenet Newsgroups AFRISITE.MSG = Online Information Sites (Dialup/FTP/Gopher/Telnet/WWW)

* Note: These naming conventions also hold true for the FTP archive.

* Note: The lists may also be available as bulletin items, so check the bulletin menu on each system for descriptive listings.

*

* Art "NWICO" McGee

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* NETCOM:[amcgee@netcom.com] (ftp.netcom.com in pub/amcgee for my "stuff") CTP/CORE:[amcgee@ctp.org]or[amcgee@eis.calstate.edu](CA Ed/Tech project) PeaceNet:[igc:amcgee](Best place for Devel. & Activism related info) WELL:[amcgee] (What can I say about this system? It's definitely unique) AfriInfo:[mcgee@epsilon.eecs.nwu.edu](Email/Finger 4 Black/African Info) NativInfo:[amcgee@nyx.cs.du.edu] (Email/Finger 4 Indigenous/Native Info) BDPA BAC: [1-707-552-3314] to [Arthur McGee] (Co-Sysop. Lists here) DataBits: [1-213-295-6094] to [Arthur McGee] (Co-Sysop. Lists here too) Voice: [1-310-320-BYTE] (Cool, eh dude? :-D That's 1-310-320-2983)

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* "The revolution will not be televised, but the proceedings will be available online."

* (c)1993 Arthur R. McGee & Associates(AKA Africans Around the World)


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