Contents (in alphabetical order): ========------------------------- o Bosnet 31 o Croatian-News / Hrvatski-Vjesnik 97 o Cro-News / SCYU-Digest 137 o CRO-VIEWS 184 o Kuharske Bukve 209 o MAK-NEWS 227 o Novice MZT 316 o Oglasna Deska 346 o Pisma Bralcev 370 o RokPress 392 o SAGE-net 415 o SII 437 o ST-L (Srpska terminologija/Serbian Terminology) 453 o Vreme 471 o YU-QWest Mejling Lista 491 -------------------------------------------------------------------- < Bosnet > Subscription requests: ListProc@doc.IC.AC.UK with the text: SUBSCRIBE BOSNEWS Your_name Your_last_name Current list owners and moderators: ZelB@dwe.CSIRO.AU (Zeljko Bodulovic) DWagner@MailBox.Syr.Edu (Davor Wagner) BosNet is a group/forum run by volunteers. Its goals are to present and distribute information relevant to the events in/about Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina (RB&H); and to initiate and coordinate various initiatives, etc. The group is moderated, which means that only selected contributions are published. The contributions/opinions presented on BosNet do not necessarily reflect personal opinions of the moderator or the member(s) of the Editorial Board. To participate in a discussion on a specific topic related to RB&H, please consider Usenet group soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna. Typical daily posting consists of newsbriefs compiled from reports by UPI, RFE/RL, NYT, Reuter, as well as numerous other sources, such as: LA, SF, Chicago dailies; WP, WSJ, The Economist, White House, New Republic, Boston Globe, various Ministry Reports, FPB, etc.). These postings are in English language. Bosnet-B: --------- For articles in Bosnian (or Croatian/Serbian) language(s), a separate list of subscribers is maintained at -- Bosnet-B. To be placed on that separate list, please contact the list owner. Digest: ------- If you want to receive postings in bigger batches, send set bosnews mail digest to listproc@doc.ic.ac.uk. This will force listproc to send you at most one message per day, concatenating everything, and truncating after 1000 lines. FTP-sites: ---------- There are two FTP-sites with Bosnet for the last month, as well as some other interesting documents at: triples.math.mcgill.ca theory.doc.ic.ac.uk login with: Anonymous Password: Your e-mail address directory: pub/bosnia/BOSNET The files are uuencoded and compressed via the UNIX compress command. -------------------------------------------------------------------- < Croatian-News / Hrvatski-Vjesnik > Subscription requests: ListServer@CarNet.HR for the list Croatian-News with text: subscribe CROATIAN-NEWS for the list Hrvatski-Vjesnik with text: subscribe HRVATSKI-VJESNIK Central place to direct all your comments and/or contributions for publication is: human-croatian-news@smile.srce.hr or human-hrvatski-vjesnik@smile.srce.hr Please note that these distributions are MODERATED, and for news ONLY. In any case, do not use Reply-to-All option from an item you receive, but use a specific address given above. News from and related to Croatia. The service is run by volunteers. There are two MODERATED news distributions: one in Croatian (occasionally an article can be in some other South Slavic language) and one in English. Each distribution brings 20-200K of mail weekly. Sample offering: Croatian News (in English): - Foreign Press Bureau (Zagreb) reports - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc. reports related to Croatia - some translations from Croatian and other papers - some scholarly articles about Croatia - sports, cultural and other news related to Croatia Hrvatski Vjesnik (in Croatian): - occasional transcripts from Croatian papers (e.g. Globus, Vecernji list, Vjesnik, Slobodna Dalmacija, Feral Tribune) -------------------------------------------------------------------- < Cro-News/SCCro-Digest/SCYU-Digest > Subscription requests: ListServ@well.ox.ac.uk for the list Cro-News with the text: SUBSCRIBE cro-news Your_name Your_last_name for the list SCCro-Digest with the text: SUBSCRIBE sccro-digest Your_name Your_last_name and for the list SCYU-Digest with the text: SUBSCRIBE scyu-digest Your_name Your_last_name Current editor: Nino Margetic Cro-News: This non-moderated list is the distribution point for the news comming from Croatia. At the time of writing (Aug '92) list carries articles from Vjesnik, Vecernji List, Globus, Slobodna Dalmacija, Radio Free Europe/Radio Luxemburg bulletins, OMRI reports, UPI reports, etc. The volume of news is relatively high. The languages are Croatian, English and occasionally Slovene. Please send requests for subscription to the aforementioned address. SCCro-Digest/SCYU-Digest: These two moderated mailing lists enable people without access to the USENET newsgroups soc.culture.croatia and soc.culture.yugoslavia to receive messages published on those forums in a digested form. The volume of the material depends on the traffic on the respective newsgroup, but usually there is at least 700-800 lines of text daily (on each list). The topics cover wide ranging subjects and on occasions one can witness *very* heated discussions between the participants. Language is mostly English. The interaction is possible thru the gateway at Berkeley. NOTE: ListServ software which is being used for list distribution, has a whole host of commands and features (message digests and on-line archives among them). If you want to learn how to use any of them, send a message to the listserv@well.ox.ac.uk containg word HELP in the message body. Finally, these three lists are *completely* separate, and one san subscribe to one, two, or all of them. -------------------------------------------------------------------- < CRO-VIEWS > Subscription requests : Joe@Mullara.Met.UniMelb.Edu.AU (Joe Stojsic) Contributions: CV@Mullara.Met.UniMelb.Edu.AU (Croatian Views Distribution) Cro-Views is an opinion service which consists of discussions relating to Croatia and other former-Yugoslav republics. The main objective is to give people who cannot access the news network (eg via "rn" command in Unix) a chance to read and voice their own opinion about these issues. Once subscription is completed, a letter of confirmation is sent out to the subscriber. From that point on, the subscriber receives all opinions sent in by other subscribers and has access to send his own opinions. Cro-Views is a non-moderated service but abusive language and name-calling is no longer tolerated and an academic level of discussion is encouraged. -------------------------------------------------------------------- < Kuharske bukve > -- Cook Book -- Subscription requests and contributions: Kuharske-Bukve@KRPAN.ARNES.Si Kuharske.Bukve@Uni-Lj.SI Editorial board: Polona Novak (Polona.Novak@IJS.Si) Andrej Brodnik (ABrodnik@UWaterloo.CA) "Kuharskve bukve" is a moderated mailing list published weekly. Each issue brings one recipe previously tested by a member of editorial board. The recipes are formated. Language used is Slovene only. The editors are happy to receive readers' opinions. -------------------------------------------------------------------- < MAK-NEWS > Subscription requests: LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.Buffalo.Edu for the list MAKEDON with the text: subscribe MAKEDON Your Name and for the list MAKNWS-L with the text: subscribe MAKNWS-L Your Name (To unsubscribe: signoff ) Contributions: MAKNWS-L@UBVM.CC.Buffalo.Edu Administrative: for MAKNWS-L: MAKNWS-L-Request@UBVM.CC.Buffalo.Edu for MAKEDON: MAKEDON-Request@UBVM.CC.Buffalo.Edu Current Editors: Sasha.Konechni@West.NL (Sasha Konechni) SShopov@Extro.UCC.SU.OZ.AU (Sacha Shopov) Tiho@E5.IJS.SI (Tihomir Stojcevski) 90saragi@Wave.Scar.Utoronto.Ca (Steve Saragil) Trajkovs@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu (Igor Trajkovski) Miscellaneous: CanMac@IO.Org (Canadian Macedonian News BBS) MNDS@CC.Flinders.Edu.Au (Dimitar Sajkov) MAK-NEWS caters for events regarding the Republic of Macedonia which today is made up of two listserv mailgroups, MAKNWS-L and MAKEDON: 1. MAKNWS-L is for News reports on the Macedonian Republic, and arrive both in English and Macedonian languages. 2. MAKEDON is for Discussions regarding the Macedonian Republic. Contributors are free to use either English or Macedonian, whichever they feel more fluent and/or appropriate at the time. Rapid up-to-date News reports from independent news services direct from Macedonia arrive regularly onto MAK-NEWS, ensuring the latest on events concerning the Republic. Other Special Interest reports are also distributed through MAK-NEWS as they occur. Subscribers receive both the English and Macedonian versions of the news which arrive. Sources on MAK-NEWS include the Macedonian Information Liason Service (M.I.L.S.), the Macedonian Information Centre (M.I.C.), Macedonian Tribune (M.T.), Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Voice of America (VOA), N.A.T.O. Press Releases, Mainstream Media reports, Human Rights Media Releases and reports - as well as many miscellaneous others. MAK-NEWS operates from MAKNWS-L@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu on the InterNet, with an average weekly traffic throughput of about 400 Kilobytes. Subscribers can also receive MAK-NEWS in DIGEST mode. This setting accumulates all the submissions to MAK-NEWS during the day and mails the result out as a batch file. This can be a convenient method to receive MAK-NEWS due to the quantity of material at times. Send: "set MAKNWS-L digest" to listserv@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu to enable. To reset to normal mode use "set MAKNWS-L mail". MAK-NEWS is also happy to accept subscriber contributons. If you wish to have international distribution for your work - relating Macedonia which would interest the large MAK-NEWS readerbase, dont hesitate to submit your work. Contact one of the editors for more information. MAK-NEWS articles are also available on the World Wide Web (WWW) Plamen's WWW: http://ASUdesign.eas.asu.edu/places/Macedonia/republic Vladimir's WWW: http://volans.unm.edu/~vuksan/home.html Included on the WWW sites currently are the Republic of Macedonia Constitution (CONSTITUTION), the Macedonian Flag, complete archives of MAK-NEWS, and various other miscellaneous material regarding the Macedonian Republic. MAK-NEWS (MAKNWS-L) regular reports are also archived on the FTP site at UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU under the MAKNWS_L home directory. If you're absent for a long time and don't wish your mailbox to be full of mail you can send: "set MAKNWS-L nomail". When you return just send: "set MAKNWS-L mail" to listserv@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu Finally, MAK-NEWS (MAKNWS-L) can be received in many different ways. Material from MAK-NEWS is often exported to other discussion forums, other networks, and even external sites off the network. Our aim is to consistantly propagate material concering the Republic of Macedonia, now largely recognised internationally. -------------------------------------------------------------------- < Novice MZT > -- News of MZT -- Subscription requests and contributions: Novice-MZT@KRPAN.ARNES.Si Novice.MZT@Uni-Lj.SI Current editor: Polona Novak (Polona.Novak@MZT.SI) ``News of Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia'' for the first time appeared in October 1990 as an information bulletin. The intended role of ``News'' is to provide easy accessible news from science, development, universities, innovative activities to indviduals and institutions in research and development area. At the end of May 1994 the Ministry changed the form of information which reflected in a change of ``News'' into ``Scientia''. That is, ``Scientia'' is now published as a separate page of column ``Znanje za razvoj'' (``Knowledge for development'') in a Slovenian newspaper ``Delo''. The reason for the change was Ministry's intention to make its information available to a broader public and to make the information more up-to-date. ``Scientia'' contains announcements and advertisements of the Ministry, and articles about research policy. It is published twice a month except in July and August. -------------------------------------------------------------------- < Oglasna Deska > -- Bulletin Board -- Subscription requests and contributions: Oglasna-Deska@KRPAN.ARNES.Si Oglasna.Deska@Uni-LJ.SI Current editors: Dean Mozetic (dean@eta.pha.jhu.edu) Marjeta Cedilnik (marjeta@midget.towson.edu) "Oglasna Deska" (= bulletin board) are transcripts taken from SLON, which is a nickname for Decnet connecting several computers in Slovenia. There is a conference similar to Usenet running under SLON and the articles and replies are occasionally saved and sent to the world. The topics cover wide area, the language used is usually Slovene, Croatian or Serbian, some articles are in English. At the moment, interaction is limited to some "newsgroups" (others can only be read), but in the near future it should be possible to send articles using the mail "reply" command. The topics covered are equivalent to Usenet groups talk.politics.misc, rec.cars, rec.humor, comp.networks.*, rec.climbing, and misc.invest. ----------------------------------------------------------------- < Pisma Bralcev > -- Letters of Readers -- Subscription requests and contributions: Pisma-Bralcev@KRPAN.ARNES.Si Pisma.Bralcev@Uni-Lj.SI Current editors: Andrej Brodnik (ABrodnik@UWaterloo.CA) Srecko Vidmar (Lucky@Refuge.Colorado.Edu) ``Pisma bralcev'' is edited (not moderated) mailing list which provides the possibility of publishing readers' opinions, questions, inquiries for help, answers etc. There are also published travel tips and book reviews. Anybody can send the letter to the editor and it will be published on the list under his name. The author can request the anonymity and it will be respected entirely. The frequency of publishing is about one issue per day or less. The language is originally Slovene, but other languages appear as well. -------------------------------------------------------------------- < RokPress > Subscription requests and contributions send to: RokPress@KRPAN.ARNES.Si RokPress@Uni-LJ.SI Access through WWW: http://maveric.uwaterloo.ca/RP Current editors: IBenko@UWaterloo.CA (Igor Benko) Branko.Drevensek@Uni-Mb.SI (Branko Drevensek) Klabjan@math.gatech.edu (Mojca Klabjan) Koren@Alpha.EE.UFl.Edu (Iztok Koren) MTrutsch@CS.Uml.Edu (Marjan Trutschl) RokPress is a moderated mailing list, intended primarily for news from Slovenia. Slovene is the principal language, although the articles in other languages are often included. It also covers news from international press and important announcements, related to Slovenia and Slovenes. The volume is kept as low as possible. -------------------------------------------------------------------- < SAGE-net > Subscription requests: mailserv@lyman.Stanford.EDU with message body: "subscribe SAGE Firstname Lastname" Send mail for the list to: sage@lyman.Stanford.EDU Send questions or problems to: rjg@lyman.Stanford.EDU (Rich Green) SAGE-net is a moderated group/forum run by student volunteers from the group Students Against GEnocide (SAGE)--Project Bosnia. Its goals are to initiate and coordinate activities among groups active on Bosnia, particularly those on university and college campuses. It is also for the sharing of information on action initiatives and events taking place on campuses around the world. Finally, opinions on the events in Bosnia and world response are occasionally shared over SAGE-net. -------------------------------------------------------------------- < SII > Information and Subscription requests: Owner@moumee.calstatela.edu (Stanislav Markovic) SII [Serbian Information Initiative] is unmoderated network for distribution of news and discussions about the current events in ex-Yu, centered around those involving or affecting Serbs. SII also originates public actions related to these events, both at home and abroad, and regularly maintains private e-mail connection between Internet and nodes in Serbia and Montenegro. Both English and Serbo-Croatian language are used. Civility in discussions is enforced. -------------------------------------------------------------------- < ST-L (Srpska terminologija/Serbian Terminology) > Subscription requests: listserv@math.amu.edu.pl with the text: SUBSCRIBE ST-l Your_Name Your_Surname Inquiries about the list: SipkaDan@plpuam11.amu.edu.pl (Danko Sipka) The main idea of this list is to discuss Serbian terminology for different activities, from terms in Internet to those for culture-bound concepts, such as plum brandy (sljivovica) and its drinking. The list is neither moderated nor restricted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- < Vreme > Subscription requests: p00981@psilink.com VREME carries "Vreme News Digest" (selected articles from "Vreme" translated to English). Since Fall of 1989, "Vreme" is the major independent newspaper in Yugoslavia and "neighbouring countries". It is published weekly, every Monday, and usually the electronic mail edition of VND is available on the same day. Please keep in mind that due to situation in the country the distribution of VND may not always be smooth. Further, VND is published by a professional news agency which made this material available to us by a special agreement. The proper credit to VND should be given whenever is this material cited or used in any way. -------------------------------------------------------------------- < YU-QWest Mejling Lista > Subscription and further information: jm69stu@semovm.semo.edu (Nikola Stankovic) cc@mv.mv.com (Nebojsa Jovicic) telnet to: betz.biostr.washington.edu port 9999 When you register and enter QWest type "tel YU". Purpose of this List is to connect all the people that meet on YU-QWest. There are people from all over the former SFRJ, now around the world. Anybody interested is welcome to visit us or join the List. The List is a medium for exchange of information about YU-QWest, and is unmoderated. The language of the List and on YU-QWest is one of the languages spoken in the former SFRJ. On YU-QWest: - visit traditional restaurants and cities of the former SFRJ - play the (text-only) juke-box of favorite music - exchange literature, video and audio tapes - meet and socialize with people from countries of the former SFRJ - participate in topical Teleconferences, some of which may have guests from Croatia, Serbia or Slovenia Also, YU-QWest now has an allied FTP-by-email server (compliments of YUROPE BBS, California, USA) which serves as an archive, but also has files of general interest in the countries of the former SFRJ. Write for more information. -------------------------------------------------------------------- < Zamir Transnational Network -- ZTN > Defunct as of Feb 1999. 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