From rifkin@cco.caltech.edu Sun Feb 13 02:55:56 1994 To: adam@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu Subject: Rec.travel FAQ >Path: nntp-server.caltech.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!lucas >From: lucas@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Brian Lucas) >Newsgroups: rec.travel,rec.answers,news.answers >Subject: Directory of travel information available via internet >Followup-To: poster >Date: 24 Dec 1993 10:00:03 GMT >Organization: The University of Manitoba >Lines: 211 >Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu >Message-ID: <2feej3$s8f@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> >Reply-To: lucas@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Brian Lucas) >NNTP-Posting-Host: ccu.umanitoba.ca >Summary: A list of internet information sources - mailing lists, > ftp sites, listservs, etc - of interest to travellers. >Originator: lucas@ccu.umanitoba.ca >Xref: nntp-server.caltech.edu rec.travel:67167 rec.answers:3413 news.answers:16035 Archive-name: travel/online-info ------------------------------------- SOURCES OF ON-LINE TRAVEL INFORMATION ------------------------------------- Last revision: 04 December 1993 This is a list of online travel information resources available via the internet. Mail additions or corrections to Brian_Lucas@umanitoba.ca. The instructions for obtaining copies of the documents listed here follow the URL (Universal Resource Locator) format, which is basically "method://site.name/filepath". For example, "ftp://ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca/rec-travel/online-info" means "do anonymous ftp to the site ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca, and get the file rec-travel/online-info". Gopher URLs do not always correspond to the menu tree you see, so gopher information is listed twice wherever possible. Airplane tickets, cheap ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/travel/air/cheap-tickets http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu:80/hypertext/faq/usenet/travel/air/ cheap-tickets/top.html Beaches, clothing-optional ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/rec/nude/ http://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/rec/nude/ Bookstores ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/rec/arts/books/* http://www.cis.ohio-state/hypertext/faq/usenet/books/stores.top.html Caribbean Travel Roundup ftp://ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca/rec-travel/caribbean/travel-roundup file://ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca/rec-travel/www/CTR-Index.html CTR is a monthly newsletter published by Paul Graveline <74004.3434@compuserve.com>. Back issues are available here. CIA World Factbook ftp://ftp.uu.net/doc/literary/obi/World.Factbook/ ftp://nz20.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/misc/cia_world_factbook_1992.Z ftp://relay.cs.toronto.edu/doc/geography/world-factbook.Z ftp://world.std.com/obi/World.Factbook/ gopher://info.umd.edu:901/11/info/Government/Factbook92 Gopher info.umd.edu...Desk Reference...1992 World... This includes such things as population stats, info about government (names of heads of state and so on), economy, U.S. embassies, and more. Disneyland / Walt Disney World ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/rec.arts.disney/Disneyland_FAQ ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/rec.arts.disney/rec.arts.disney_FAQ,_part_2 Geographic Server telnet martini.eecs.umich.edu 3000 You type in the name of a (USA) city and are rewarded with information such as population, latitude, longitude, elevation, zip code.... A few major cities outside the USA are included. Green Travel / Eco-tourism mailing list ftp://igc.apc.org/pub/green.travel gopher://ecosys.drdr.Virginia.EDU:70/1/1/communication/travelarc For subscriptions mail to Marcus Endicott Green Travel is a public conference dedicated to environmentally and culturally responsible tourism. Mailing-list echo, ftp and gopher archives of discussions. Omni-Cultural Academic Resource ftp://ftp.stolaf.edu/gopher/Internet Resources/St. Olaf Sponsored Mailing Lists/Omni-Cultural-Academic-Resource gopher://gopher.stolaf.edu:70/1/1/Internet Resources/St. Olaf Sponsored Mailing Lists/Omni-Cultural-Academic-Resource OCAR is an archive intended to concentrate on 'foreign' (i.e. non-USA) culture. Includes some general travel information in the directory 'Going-Places'. Maintained by Craig D. Rice . Poland travel archive ftp://poniecki.berkeley.edu/pub/polish gopher://poniecki.berkeley.edu/1/1/archives/polish.archives Gopher poniecki.berkeley.edu...Archives...Polish... rec.travel archives ftp://ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca/rec-travel/ Contains 10+ MB of travelogues, guides, and FAQs written by people on the net. Organized into directories by continent and country. rec.travel.air FAQ: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/rec/travel/air/ Restaurants, Vegetarian ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/guide soc.culture.* FAQs: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/soc/culture/ Many of the soc.culture newsgroups have a FAQ which includes some travel information, or contact people. Read the faq if you can, either by ftp, by reading the soc.culture newsgroup itself, or reading news.answers. Please restrain yourself from posting a request for information to the newsgroup before having read the FAQ and having spent a few days at least reading the traffic on the newsgroup to get a feel for appropriate topics. TRAVEL-L mailing list A BITNET mailing list similar in goals to rec.travel. To subscribe, send a mail message to listserv@trearn.bitnet consisting of the line: "subscribe travel-l firstname lastname", substituting your own first and last names. Mailing list traffic is archived. To get an index, send a mail message "index travel-l". To get a file mailed to you, send a mail message "send travel-l log9111", subsituting the name of the log file you want. Travelers' Tales Resource Center http://nearnet.gnn.com/mkt/travel/center.html A WWW index to travel information sources, inluding some of those mentioned in this list. Service provided by O'Reilly & Associates. U.S. State Department Travel Advisories ftp://ftp.stolaf.edu/pub/travel-advisories/ gopher://gopher.stolaf.edu:70/1/1/Internet Resources/St. Olaf Sponsored Mailing Lists/US-State-Department-Travel-Advisories http://www.stolaf.edu/ Send mail to travel-advisories-request@stolaf.edu for subscription requests Weather telnet://downwind.sprl.umich.edu 3000 No login name or password required but make sure you specify port 3000! U.S. and Canadian weather conditions, forecasts, skiing conditions, and marine forecasts. Also current conditions (sky and temperature) for major cities worldwide, as well as earthquake and hurricane reports. Thanks to the following people for helping compile this FAQ: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marcus Lucian Endicott Pierre Flener Craig D. Rice Scott Yanoff -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following is a quick description of how to use anonymous ftp. The site referred to is the travel archive at ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca, but the same principles apply to any other site. HOW TO USE ANONYMOUS FTP ------------------------ If you have ftp client software at your site, it's easy. Try typing "ftp ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca" and you should be told, after a short pause, that you are connected and you'll be asked to enter your login name. Type "anonymous". You'll be asked for a password; enter your email address. You're logged in! Type "cd rec-travel" to get to the rec.travel archive directory. Type "dir" or "ls" to list the files in the directory, and type "get filename" to get a file you want. Replace 'filename' with the name of the file, of course: "get 00index", "get tourism-offices", etc. There are several subdirectories; you can cd to them as well. Type "cd pacific" or any directory name, then "ls" the files and "get..." any files you want. When you're finished, type "quit". FTP BY MAIL ----------- If you can't ftp directly from your site (ask your local support staff first), use an ftp-by-mail server. ftpmail servers are located at: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com ftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk ftpmail@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au <- see below for this server Send an e-mail message to the closest address, with the lines: reply your_address@some.where <- replace with your real email address connect ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca ascii get rec-travel/00index quit You can "get" any file in the archive this way. You can also include the line "ls" to list the files in any directory and "cd" to change directory. For complete instructions, send a one-line message "help" to the server. BITNET users, send a one-line message "help" to bitftp@pucc.bitnet to find out your best option. FTP BY MAIL FROM AUSTRALIA -------------------------- The ftpmail server at ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au (University of Wollongong) uses different commands from those above. Your request should look like: HOST ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca GET rec-travel/00index rec-travel/north_america/canada/ontario/toronto You can have as many filenames as you want on the line, but you can have only one GET command per message. You can also list the available files by including a line "DIR directory-name-1 directory-name-2 ..."; again, you can have as many directory-names on the line as you want but only one DIR command per message. Files are returned as unix shell archives; if you want the plain uuencoded versions, include a line "PLAINMAIL" in your message. Files are always uuencoded and large files are sent in multiple parts. Send the message "HELP" for more information. -- Brian Lucas Just once, I'd like to meet someone on the net who *does* speak for their company....