Charting the Internet Landscape

New Quick Tours from Ventana interpret E-Mail, Internet Relay Chat and
Virtual Worlds

Chapel Hill, NC; February 22, 1995 -- On the heels of its bestselling
Mosaic Quick Tour, Ventana Press introduces three new titles in the
popular Quick Tour series: Internet E-Mail Quick Tour, Internet Chat Quick
Tour and Internet Virtual Worlds Quick Tour.

Created for new Internet users and the merely curious, the Ventana Quick
Tours give a nontechnical, readable and graphically enhanced overview,
highlighted by a discussion of the history and culture of the social
customs growing up around developments in technology.

Each book is integrated with an Internet-based Online Companion. This
continually maintained site on Ventana Online's server provides access to
free utilities and links to current resources on the Internet. The Online
Companions also feature hyperlinked versions of listings chapters from the
Chat and Virtual Worlds titles. Future plans for Ventana Online also
include Ventana's own chat forums and MUDs (Multi-User Dimensions). For
more up-to-date information, check Ventana's Home Page at
http://www.vmedia.com/.

Internet E-Mail Quick Tour: Sending, Receiving & Managing Your Messages
Online provides readers with tips on setting up an e-mail account,
locating an e-mail address, protecting the confidentiality of messages and
communicating with proper e-mail etiquette, as well as accessing mailing
lists, newsgroups and message boards. Additional resources include a list
of service providers, pertinent Internet sites and a glossary. Among
author Ted Alspach's other writing credits are The Macworld Illustrator
5.0/5.5 Bible (IDG Books) and The Complete Idiot's Guide to QuarkXPress
(Alpha Books IN). He also owns Bezier, a Macintosh training company in
Scottsdale, Ariz.

Internet Chat Quick Tour: Real-Time Conversations & Communications Online
explores the "ancestors" of Internet Relay Chat (IRC); the steps to
retrieving, installing and using IRC clients; IRC culture and channel
highlights; and cyberchat etiquette. Rounding out the guide are FAQ
(Frequently Asked Questions), a troubleshooting guide, directories of
additional IRC resources on the Net, lists and descriptions of IRC clients
and servers, an IRC Yellow Pages; and a list of IRC commands. Internet
Chat Quick Tour turns novices into able users of this unique way of
communicating with people all over the world. Author Donald Rose has been
chatting on the Internet for 12 years. A consultant and lecturer on
artificial intelligence, he contributed to Internet Roadside Attractions
(Ventana Press) and wrote Minding Your Cybermanners (Alpha Books).

Internet Virtual Worlds Quick Tour: MUDs, MOOs and MUSHes: Interactive
Games, Conferences & Forums delivers the keys to the virtual universe with
a history and walking tour of virtual worlds; commands for connecting;
do's and don'ts for successful interaction; definitions of jargon and
terms; a list of clients; and a massive directory of MUDs (Multi-User
Dimensions), MOOs (MUD Object-Oriented) and MUSHes (Multi-User Shared
Hallucinations). Readers of Internet Virtual Worlds Quick Tour will
quickly find themselves able to explore all types of new and exotic
places. Author Sean Carton contributed to Internet Roadside Attractions
and was coauthor of Mosaic Quick Tour (both from Ventana Press). He also
contributes to bOING bOING and Link magazines and designs World Wide Web
pages.

Ordering information: All titles are available in bookstores and computer
stores; by writing Ventana Press, PO Box 2468, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27515; by
calling Ventana's toll-free order line, 800/743-5369; by faxing Ventana at
919/942-1140; by sending e-mail to orders@vmedia.com; or via the World
Wide Web at http://www.vmedia.com/index.html.

Ventana Press and Ventana Online are divisions of Ventana Communications
Group, a diversified publisher of computer-related information tools.
Ventana Online supports Ventana products with Internet-based content and
context.

Internet E-Mail Quick Tour
Alspach
Online Companion URL: http://www.vmedia.com/ieqt.html
ISBN: 1-56604-220-8
152 pages; $14.00

Internet Chat Quick Tour
Rose
Online Companion URL: http://www.vmedia.com/icqt.html
ISGN: 1-56605-223-2
200 pages; $14.00

Internet Virtual Worlds Quick Tour
Carton
Online Companion URL:  http://www.vmedia.com/ivwqt.html
ISBN: 1-56604-222-4
224 pages; $14.00

Ventana Press, PO Box 2468, Chapel Hill, NC 27515
919-942-0220;  800-743-5369,  Fax: 919-942-1140

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