NAA's home page (http:// www.infi.net/naa) is not alone in offering detailed data on newspaper technology. Other interesting sites follow.
Although there is much information on the 'Net regarding newspaper technology, most sites are devoted to products and product support. Probably the quickest and easiest way to get specific information is via Usenet discussion groups and E-mail lists.
Access to Usenet groups is essentially the same as clicking to a WWW site. When the link is followed, the user is sent to a directory showing the most recent postings. You can read the latest mail and respond or post your own message. (Typing an address isn't necessary, as your message will be automatically sent to and posted on that Usenet site.) If you're still boggled, most Usenet groups have a help document on line.
E-mail lists are usually requested by sending an E-mail to an Internet address, often with the words "Subscribe XXX" as the only text in the message, where XXX is the name of the E-mail newsletter. Example: a person wanting to subscribe to Windows News, a periodic E-newsletter, would send an E-mail to the specified address with the text, "Subscribe winnews." The newsletter would arrive regularly via E-mail, unless the user were to send another E-mail with the text "Unsubscribe winnews." It's not grammatically correct--but it works.
Steve Wasser is an NAA editorial-services assistant. E-mail, steve.wasser@wdn.com; phone, (703) 648-1246.
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