About Connecting to the Internet

This section of the WELLgopher is largely inspired by Susan Estrada's
*Connecting to the Internet*, a "buyer's guide" published by O'Reilly &
Associates.  Half of her guide is dedicated to assessing one's
networking needs, choosing a network provider, and deciding between
dial-up and dedicated line access.  The other half of her book reprints
Peter Kaminski's PDIAL list and her own DLIST, two extensive sources of
connectivity providers.

We point to the current version of the PDIAL list.  The version of the
DLIST in *Connecting to the Internet* remains the most current, and we
carry an electronic copy here.  You can see if a more current version
has become available by sending any e-mail message to dlist@ora.com.
For DLIST providers that offer information via ftp, gopher, or telnet,
we provide a link to that repository.  And we've also put links in to
both versions of the nixpub list, a compilation of public access unix
sites around the world; most of these are not true Internet sites, but
if all you're looking for is e-mail and access to USENET, these are
worth taking a look at.


                                         Eric Theise/verve@well.sf.ca.us 
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