From: anson@netcom.com (Anson Kennedy)
Subject: Skeptics Groups Newsletters via FTP
Date: 14 Jan 94 22:54:50 GMT


Monthly posting of the announcement. Association for Rational Thought
newsletters now available, details below.

Electronic versions of skeptics groups newsletters are available via
anonymous FTP from netcom.com.

To access this archive, FTP to netcom.com and change directory to
pub/anson. Archives of individual groups' newsletters are organised
into subdirectories as described in the read me file, included below.

If you do not have FTP access, you may access the archive via e-mail
as follows:

Send the following message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com:

        connect netcom.com anonymous
        cd pub/anson
        dir
        get README
        get files.lst
        quit

This will retrieve the README file (included at the end of this message)
and the list of all skeptics groups' newsletters available from this
site.

After you get the file list, you can then send additional messages to
ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com to request individual files (just replace the
"get" commands above with ones for the files you wish to retrieve).

Currently, the archive has over 4.2 megabytes of newsletters available.

README version 2.00, January 14, 1993

New this month: Ohio's Association for Rational Thought
newsletter and the latest _Georgia Skeptic_ and _REALL News_!
A complete list of additions is included at the end of this file.

Electronic versions of skeptics groups newsletters are provided
here for information only.  Opinions expressed in the newsletters
do not necessarily represent those of the owner of this FTP
archive or of any other group or individual except the authors
themselves.

Permission for reproducing articles in these newsletters varies
from group to group. Refer to individual newsletters for specific
conditions.

Currently, this archive includes the following directories:

      Arizona_Skeptic       -  _The Arizona Skeptic_, newsletter of
                               the Tucson Skeptical Society (TUSKS)
                               and the Phoenix Skeptics.
                               Volume 5, No. 1 through Volume 6, No. 5
NEW!->ART_News              -  _ART_, newsletter of the Association
                               for Rational Thought (Ohio Valley
                               Skeptics).
                               Volume 1, No. 2 through Volume 3, No. 4
      BASIS                 -  _Bay Area Skeptics Information Sheet_,
                               newsletter of the Bay Area Skeptics.
                               June, 1982, through April, 1993
      Georgia_Skeptic       -  _The Georgia Skeptic_, newsletter of
                               the Georgia Skeptics.
                               Volume 4, No. 1 through Volume 6, No. 4
      REALL_News            -  _The REALL News_, newsletter of the
                               Rational Examination Association
                               of Lincoln Land.
                               Volume 1, No. 1 through Volume 1, No. 11

More will be added as they become available.

A complete listing of all files available in this archive can be found
in the file "files.lst" in directory pub/anson.

Inquiries and suggestions should be addressed to Anson Kennedy,
anson@netcom.com.

New files added in the past month:

Directory ART_News:

      NAME        SIZE                     DESCRIPTION
---------------- ------ --------------------------------------------------
ART1-2.TXT      *  8912  _Ohio Valley Skeptics News_, October 1991
ART1-3.TXT      * 13164  _Ohio Valley Skeptics News_, November 1991
ART1-4.TXT      * 14853  _ART News_, December 1991
ART1-5.TXT      * 27784  _ART News_, February 1992
ART1-6.TXT      * 10978  _ART News_, March 1992
ART1-7.TXT      * 12631  _ART News_, April 1992
ART2-1.TXT      * 13754  _ART News_, October 1992
                         Cold-Springs Virgin Mary; Deception; mtg. summary.
ART2-2.TXT      * 19814  _ART News_, January 1993
                         Ghost investigation; Cinci. Nature Center goes
                         psuedo-science.
ART2-3.TXT      * 28451  _ART News_, April 1993
                         Stigmata; Statistics misuse by parapsychologists;
                         Demo of "psychic" powers.
ART2-4.TXT      * 39400  _ART News_, June 1993
                         "Laws" of Quack Science; Failed arguments with
                         non-skeptics; officer reports.
ART3-1.TXT      * 19668  _ART News_, October 1993
                         Book Review: book on how to survive "satanic ritual
                         abuse" (which has, of course, been "recovered" from
                         "hidden memories"); book review:  _Shadows of
                         Forgotten Ancestors_ by Sagan and Druyan; Quackery,
                         cont.
ART3-2.TXT      * 43304  _ART News_, December 1993
                         UFOs (lots of good background info); James Randi on
                         NOVA (in Russia); cold reading.

Directory Georgia_Skeptic:

      NAME        SIZE                     DESCRIPTION
---------------- ------ --------------------------------------------------
GS06-04.TXT     * 28073  _The Georgia Skeptic_, Fall 1993
                         "Pulling the Wool Over Their Eyes" -- Magic for
                         Skeptics II, "Spirit Writing" Photographs -- Exposed,
                         The Form of Angels, Ovulation vs. Cretinism, Is Gary
                         Larson Psychic?

Directory REALL_News:

      NAME        SIZE                     DESCRIPTION
---------------- ------ --------------------------------------------------
REALL111.TXT    * 27277  _The REALL News_, December 1993


-- 
Anson Kennedy                          Internet: anson@netcom.com
VP, Georgia Skeptics                 Compu$erve: 71167,2435  
(speaking only for myself, however)
                                  -=*=-
     Opinions expressed represent only one possible interpretation.
     The reader is invited to make a determination based upon *all*
                          available information.