From mlbarrow@MIT.EDU Tue Oct 26 14:58:55 1993
Sender: mlbarrow@po6.mit.edu
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 12:31:00 -0500
To: ij@MIT.EDU, isig@POSSE.MIT.EDU, jon-dist@MIT.EDU, sipb@MIT.EDU,
        trios@MIT.EDU
From: mlbarrow@MIT.EDU
Subject: I _told_ you it was getting out of hand!

This has been _really_ forwarded.....

>> [Forwarded many steps From Gene Spafford's Yucks mailing list.]
>>
>> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 14:12:49 PDT
>> From: obrien@aero.org
>> Subject: Forwarding: Possible user guide guide titles
>> To: eniac
>>
>>         The "Mailing List of People Who Write About the Rest Of Us
>> Writing To and About Each Other" (aka 'netscribes') has noted the
>> glut of Internet User Guides now hitting the racks (many of them written
>> by members of that self-same list but never mind about that).  The notion
>> of a guide to writing user guides was a natural follow-on, hence this
>> list of titles.
>>
>> ----- Begin Included Message -----
>>
>> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 09:03:01 -0400
>> From: ddern@world.std.com (Daniel P Dern)
>> To: netscribes@tic.com
>> Subject: Possible user guide guide titles
>>
>>
>> The Hitchhiker's Guide to Internet User Guides
>> The Whole Internet User's Guide User Guide
>> The Internet Companion Chaperon
>> Internet: Getting Coffee
>> Zen and the Art of Picking an Internet User Guide
>> There's Gold in Them Thar User Guides!
>> Too many *#!@?$#%!! Internet User Guides!
>> The User's Directory of Internet User Guides
>> Internet Users Under Attack: User Guides, Resource Guides and Whatnot
>> Sunday the authors slept late
>>
>> ----- End Included Message -----
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 20:11:04 PDT
>> From: Lisa Chabot <Lisa.Chabot@Eng.Sun.COM>
>> Subject: Forwarding: Possible user guide guide titles
>> To: eniac
>>
>> Principles of Internet User Guides
>> Internet Guides for Beginners (with cartoons!)
>> The Best of the Internet User Guides #42
>> A Treasury of America's Best-Loved Internet Guides
>> A Traveller's Guide to the Internet Guide Shelves at your Bookstore
>> A Handbook of Domestic Internet Guides
>> Favorite Internet Guides from Around the World
>> Internet Guide Writing: Tutorial and Cookbook
>> Critical Mass: The Compleat Internet Guide Bibliography
>> Why Internet Guides are Bad for You
>> The Lost Guides of the Internet
>> Confessions of an Internet Guide Reader
>> Old Possum's Book of Practical Internet Guides
>> How much for just the Pocket Guide?
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 11:35:27 -0400
>> From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
>> Subject: Forwarding: Possible user guide guide titles
>>
>> >Internet User Guides Considered Harmful
>>
>> Listening to Internet
>> Listening to Usenet
>> Listening to IRC
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1993 11:55:08 -0500 (CDT)
>> From: Elissa Keeler <EKeeler@UH.EDU>
>> Subject: Forwarding: Possible user guide guide titles
>> To: eniac
>>
>> Don't forget these from other sections of the bookstore...
>>
>>         Smart People, Foolish Internet Guide Choices
>>         Backlash: The War Against Internet Guides
>>         Everything I Know About the Internet, I Learned in Kindergarten
>> and,    Why Do I Think I'm Nothing Without an Internet Guide?
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1993 14:27:51 -0400
>> From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
>> Subject: Forwarding: Possible user guide guide titles
>>
>> And the ever favorite...Steal This Internet!
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 09:59:49 EDT
>> From: johnm (John Martin)
>>
>> And then there are the children's books:
>>
>>         The Way Nets Work                               David Macauley
>>         Busy Hackers                                    Richard Scarry
>>         Fifteen Minutes to Hack                         Matt Christopher
>>         Flaming Fudge                                   Judy Blume
>>         Internet: Winter Yet?                           Dr. Seuss
>>         Telnetted Over There                            Maurice Sendak
>>         The Berenstain Bears Learn Netiquette           Stan & Jan
>>
>>
>>         --John
>>
>>- - - End forwarded message - - -
>>


