From hungary-online-owner Sun Mar 26 16:21:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-Hungary-Online Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id QAA24804 for hungary-online-out31415; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 16:21:40 -0800 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id QAA24792; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 16:21:26 -0800 Received: from tbeke@hix.mit.edu () via =-=-=-=-=-= for hol@hungary.yak.net (24790) Received: from hix.mit.edu (HIX.MIT.EDU [18.74.1.137]) (fnord) by nando (8.6.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id QAA24786 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 16:21:18 -0800 Received: (from tbeke@localhost) by hix.mit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id TAA15769 for hol@hungary.yak.net; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 19:22:36 -0500 From: Tibor Beke Message-Id: <199503270022.TAA15769@hix.mit.edu> Subject: (HOL) live wire, hungary, english To: hol@hungary.yak.net Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 19:22:36 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 3152 Sender: owner-Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net Steve & others, I was planning to add some ruminations regarding Magyar Narancs's place on the net, and also on the American net-hype (coming from the unholy alliance of "Internet", "global networking" and "video on demand" in the public mind [worse, in the typical business mind]; on the plethora of stupidity surrounding "multimedia", "interactive", "virtual" and "cyber" [presently all of these being _vacuous_ concepts, and I'm rather serious]); but then I thought, as a follow-up to Rick's note about "Hungary Around the Clock", the English-language daily news digest distributed by fax, that a list of English-language news abstracts about the region available on the _Internet_ would be nice. Now I don't claim at all that I have a comprehensive list, much less that I've checked all these and know the exact details. But I'm certain others will fill in the gaps, and compile a compact and friendly guide. (If one doesn't exist yet.) o Voice of America I believe one can obtain email versions of some of their broadcasts, or news. Try info@voa.gov. They have a gopher site, gopher.voa.gov . o NATO Their gopher is gopher.nato.int . There should be regional news and statements from governmental bodies hanging around. o Central European Times Headquartered in Prague, this excellent organization is an able and keen competitor to Hungary On-Line. ;-) On the World Wide Web, try http://www.eunet.cz . Their gopher is gopher.eunet.cz . Both of these babies are faster than _anything_ I've "seen" in Hungary, from here in the US. They seem to sit on an excellent EuNet connection. (EuNet, its presence -- or lack thereof -- in Hungary, and of course the future of funding for the Internet in Hungary would deserve another long bout of discussion.) I'm appending their help file in a separate message, 'cos it's longish. o OMRI Soros's Open Media Research Institute. The successor-of-sort to RFE/RL and their daily report. Surely someone on the list is affiliated with them? Also from Prague. And, unfortunately, I've forgotten the contact addresses, but will look them up under coercion. o Mozaik All but two services of HIX are in Hungarian: these two are mirroring the Hungary-related listserv discussion group at George Washington University, and Mozaik, which is a compilation of news articles from the abovementioned four sources (and sometimes from others) relating especially to Hungary. The compilation is done by hand, by Amy Buchwald (who I think is also on HOL). I think she does a simply amazing and invaluable job, since the aforegoing sources do not tend to separate Hungary from the rest of the region -- they just give you a thousand lines per week about the status of Central European politics. One can subscribe by sending an email-message to subs.mozaik@hix.com, and unsubscribe by sending one to unsubs.mozaik@hix.com . Warning: if you do, you have to put up with brief bursts of articles in Hungarian, like the reports of the Magyar Elektronikus Tozsde, what not. I'm appending a sample issue, though, one that's entirely Amy's, to give you a feel what it's like. Tibor ############# # This message to Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net # was from Tibor Beke # # To unsubscribe, # send "unsubscribe" to # An announcement-only subscription (less volume) is available # at # Send mail to for more information, # or to if you need human assistance. #############