The Gopher Jewels categorized list of gopher sites has doubled in size. Categories include computer topics, employment, "fun stuff," grants, patents, products and services, and many others. Connect to USCgopher cwis.usc.edu port 70 (Other Gophers/ Gopher-Jewels) or FTP gopher-jewels-15dec93.tar.z (in .links format) from pub/gopher on usc.edu. You can also send a "get gj931215.txt" message to ftpmail@tpis.cactus.org for the text version. For current announcements, send a "SUBSCRIBE" message (with blank subject) to gopherjewelslist-request @tpis.cactus.org. A "get gj-index.txt" message to the LISTSERV will get you started on the archives. [David.Riggins @tpis.cactus.org, net-hap, 12/21/93.]

Elliott Parker has updated his introductory reading list for computer-mediated communication. Send a "get netstart infor f=mail" message to listserv@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu. [3zlufur@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu, CARR-L, 12/12/93.]

John December has picked out a subset of network guides and resources that he recommends for new people on the net. For orientation, FTP documents/fyi/fyi_20.txt and fyi_04.txt from nic.merit.edu, pub/resources/guides/surfing.2.0.3.txt from nysernet.org, and pub/nic/internet.literature/netiquette.txt from ftp.sura.net. Longer guides are pub/EFF/papers/big-dummys- guide.txt from ftp.eff.org, etext/etext93/email025.txt from mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu, pub/net/zen/zen-1.0.PS.Z from csn.org, and pub/text/online.txt from ftp.eunet.no. Good lists of lists and services are pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/faq from rtfm.mit.edu, pub/communications/internet-cmc.txt and internet-tools from ftp.rpi.edu, and pub/inet.services.txt from csd4.csd.uwm.edu. Additional guides for exploring the net are pub/net-guides/i-hunt/00README from ftp.cni.org, dirofdirs/0intro.dirofdirs and resource-guide/overview from ds.internic.net, and READ.ME from nic.merit.edu. [decemj@rpi.edu, NETTRAIN, 12/16/93. net-hap.]

INTERNET WORLD's "on INTERNET 94" (Mecklermedia, Westport, CT, ISBN 0-88736-929-4, $45, 203-226-6967) contains 230 pages of email list descriptions; 60 on e-texts, archives, FTP sites, and resource guides; and sections on freenets, campus-wide information services, commercial services, Usenet newsgroups, and WAIS- accessible databases. [Chaos Corner, 12/21/93.] (Tony Abbott is the editor. The Computists' Communique gets a nice listing on p. 241 -- a bit before Cult of the Dead Cow -- for which they sent me a free copy. It's an impressive book, with over 6,000 entries. Data collection took six months.)

Michael Fraase's "Mac Internet Tour Guide: Cruising the Internet the Easy Way" includes point-and-click software for Macs hooked to the Internet, including the Eudora POP3 email client and a demonstration copy of TCP/Connect II. Buyers get two electronic updates to the guide. Fraase also maintains an Electronic Visitors Center with software you can download. This is Fraase's 22nd book, "and the first one in a long time that has been a load of fun." 304 pp.; $27.95 from Diane Lennox (dilennox@aol.com), Ventana Press, (919) 942-0220, (919) 942-1140 Fax. ISBN 1-56604-062-0. DOS and Windows guides will be released soon. [Philip M. Howard (phoward@husky1.stmarys.ca), CARF, Fall/Winter 93/94. HUMANIST, 12/22/93.]

Another new Internet book is "Das Internet" by Peter Klau, IWT-Verlag GmbH, Vaterstetten, Germany, 1/94, 320 pp., DM 59.00. ISBN 3-88322-467-7. [Peter.Klau@zb.ub.uni-dortmund.de, net-hap, 12/20/93.]