Gatenews News Email Service will send you Usenet newsgroups by email for $5/month plus $.05 per article. (800) 736-5984. (Jiro Nakamura has pointed out that this service can't legally pass through NSFNET.) [biz.comp.services, 3/20.]

NetNews/CD is an archive of nearly 3K Usenet newsgroups, from Sterling Software (Bellevue, NE). You get a monthly ISO 9660- format CD ROM holding up to 600 Mb, plus an annual NetGems issue with major source code releases. The current NetGems, from 12/29/91, contains the X Window System V11 R5 sources, the Free Software Foundation's GNU software, USENET comp.sources.*, alt.sources, vmsnet.sources archives, and the NIC RFCs. The service is $39.95 per issue, $49.95 for NetGems, or $349.95 per year (plus shipping). cdnews@sterling.com or uunet!sparky!cdnews, (800) 643-6397. [Sterling IMD (root@imd.sterling.com), comp.newprod, 3/16.]

Bob Baker (bbaker@cbmvax.commodore.com) publishes condensed PC-related press releases on America Online and PC-Link or as mailed disks. The NetWorld'92 press kit, for instance, has been reduced from 50 lbs. of paper to 800K of text in 125 files (indexed). 20 Ferro Dr., Sewell, NJ 08080. [online@uunet.ca, 4/2.]

Computer Daily News is a new Australian publication for decision makers in the computer industry. Four fax pages per day at A$750/year (US$560), with an extra charge for expanded stories (e.g., from Newsbytes). 177a Sailors Bay Road, Northbridge NSW Australia 2063; +61-2-9580210. [Paul Zucker, Newsbytes, 3/30.]

You can tap 15,000 business news items with NewsNet, a service offering online copies of newsletters, corporate profiles, credit reports, etc. You pay for what you read, but NewsFlash macros help sift for the good stuff. The $79.95 starter kit (through 10/30) includes a guide, 3-month membership, 2 hours of free use, and one month of NewsFlash. (800) 952-0122, Operator #26. [Inc., 4/92.]

Bill Park (park@netcom.com) tells me that customized Commerce Business Daily (CBD) weekly reports are available on-line for $217/year from United Communications Group, 11300 Rockville Pike, Suite 1100, Rockville, MD 20852-3030; (301)816-8950. You might find that someone in your organization is already subscribing. This would be the place to look for DARPA solicitations.

Jim Carroll (jcarroll@jacc.com) says you can get Dialog "current awareness" search results by email. Set up a Dialog Strategic Dissemination of Information (SDI) filter and specify that you want the results sent to your internet address. Dialog will check your search criteria every time they update their database. You get up to 10 or 25 articles per week for $4.75 to $25, then pay regular Dialog charges for more. For more information, contact Barbara Denton (barbara_denton@sematech.org). [online@uunet.ca, 3/30.]

For the Boston weather forecast, try the Unix/VMS command "finger weather@synoptic.mit.edu". For the weather elsewhere in the U.S., use "telnet madlab.sprl.umich.edu 3000". [Scott Stansbury. Chaos Corner, 11/23.]

You can also get a GIF-format weather map from vmd.cso.uiuc.edu. The file name will be something like SA111323.GIF, where SA is followed by the month, day, and GMT hour. Infrared scan files start with CI. Files are available within 15 minutes of data collection. [Bob Cowles (rdc@cornella.cit.cornell.edu), Chaos Corner, 11/23.]

You can find interesting software on NETLIB servers by posting a "send index" command. Try netlib@research.att.com for math software, or netlib@peregrine.com for rec.puzzles information. [Steve Sullivan (sullivan@teal.csn.org), news.newusers.questions, 11/25.]