The SEC's EDGAR database of corporate filings is available by FTP from town.hall.org. Read general.txt in the edgar directory. For email retrieval, send a HELP message (or "send edgar/general.txt") to mail@town.hall.org. Other interfaces and user support will be available soon. [carl@radio.com, net-hap, 1/17/94.]

MCC (Austin) is developing Internet directories, billing and payment services, security features, and other "middleware" to help companies transact business on the net. MCC's Enterprise Integration Network (EINet) employs 15 CS researchers in 3 federally funded for-profit pilot projects, and has alliances with Sprint, EPRI, and others. Cynthia Williams, (512) 338-3512. [Kirk Ladendorf, Austin-American Statesman, 1/10/94. Trudy Lamb.]

Compuserve is reducing its add-on charges by 40%. 50 basic services are $8.95/month; premium services are an additional $4.60/hour (2,400 bps) or $9.60/hour (up to 14,400 bps). [SJM, 1/14/94.]

America On-Line has added 150K customers in the past few months (to 500K), and the system is seriously overloaded. It can take 30 minutes to log in and 5 minutes to post a chat message. [Matt Kreps (mkreps@pipeline.com), CARR-L, 1/13/94.]

Veronica use is estimated at 1M searches/month now. [Steven Foster (foster@scs.unr.edu), gopher-announce, 1/12/94. net-hap.]

NBC's Nightly News has connected to the net as nightly@nbc.com. [Stan Horowitz (stan@vm.temple.edu), HELP-NET, 12/27/94. net-hap.] The address was announced on the air. 3,000 messages arrived before the next evening's broadcast. [Bill Boyle (billboyle1@aol.com), PACS-L, 1/6/94.]

The NEXTSTEP program on The Discovery Channel can be reached as 74106.1001@compuserve.com. Only one email message per week, please. [Marc (md0003@acad.drake.edu), alt.toys.hi-tech, 12/2/93. Bill Park.] (I can supply additional media addresses if you need them.)

Network Marketing Solutions, Inc. (Great Falls, VA) is offering a free NETMARK online buying service listing products, prices, warranties, and order information for GSA contracts, Indefinite Delivery contracts, and the open market. Updated continuously. Additional product information may be requested by email or phone. Companies are given your name and address every time you access their data. Telnet to netmark.com (login netmark) or dial in to (703) 759-6555. Questions to bob@netmark.com. [gryphon@openage.com, biz.comp.services, 1/1/94. Bill Park.]

UDortmund (Germany) has a new information server covering information retrieval (IR) topics, announcements, and resources. Use WWW to access http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/. With FTP, connect to ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de. [Norbert Fuhr (fuhr@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de), IRLIST, 1/6/94.]

BUBL is an information service for library and information scientists. (Many of the articles mentioned in the Communique are captured on BUBL.) For gopher browsing, connect to bubl.bath.ac.uk port 7070. An experimental WWW server is http://bubl.bath.ac.uk/BUBLHOME.html. You can also telnet to niss.ac.uk or to nsf.sun.ac.uk (login janet, no password, host uk.ac.bath.bubl). A WAIS-style index is available via the NISSWAIS service. [Dennis Nicholson (cijs19@vaxa.strath.ac.uk), soc.libraries.talk, 1/11/94.]

"The Online World" book, distributed as shareware, has been updated with at least 20 new Internet services. FTP online13.zip (270KB) from /pub/msdos/info on oak.oakland.edu, or online.txt (270KB) or online.txt.Z from /pub/text on ftp.eunet.no. For hardcopy sources, send a "get TOW where" message to listserv@vm1.nodak.edu. [Odd de Presno (presno@gaia.grida.no), RITIM, 1/11/94.]

"Directory of Internet Trainers and Consultants" by Lindsay Fraser-Fazakas is a free list from Strangelove Press. Gopher to gopher.fonorola.net or request the "Trainers Directory" from mstrange@fonorola.net. Write to the same address to submit a short entry. [net-hap, 1/9/94.]

"Go-Pher-It: Your Passport To the Internet" is an email workshop, 2/1/94-2/19/94, for $20. For particulars, send a "subscribe go_pher_it" message to listserv@netcom.com. Dr. Thomas P. Copley (ror@netcom.com), The Electronic University in San Francisco. [net-hap, 1/7/94.]