BKINTSLK.RVW 950411 "Internet Slick Tricks", Glossbrenner/Glossbrenner, 1994, 0-679-75611-6, U$16.00/C$21.95/UK#14.99 %A Alfred Glossbrenner alfred@delphi.com %A Emily Glossbrenner %C 201 E. 50th St., 31st Floor, New York, NY 10022 %D 1994 %G 0-679-75611-6 %I Random House Electronic Publishing %O U$16.00/C$21.95/UK#14.99 212-751-2600 800-733-3000 800-726-0600 %O abiggert@randomhouse.com 74261.2352@compuserve.com %P 271 %S Slick Tricks %T "Internet Slick Tricks" First of all, "Slick Tricks" is apparently a series. The intent of the series is to provide the "essence" of a given topic. In other words, this is supposed to be another beginner's guide based on "the least you need to know". Secondly, make note of chapter two, and, "The Best Tip in the Book: Get a Delphi Subscription!" Ostensibly, Delphi is being promoted because it was the first of the major commercial online services to offer a full Internet connection: i.e., ftp, telnet, email and Usenet news. (This explains why the World Wide Web only gets peripheral mention down around page 227--Delphi does not support dial-up IP.) Basically, there is a lot of good information here--buried in a mass of text, some jokes, and lots and lots and lots of opinions, all organized (or, in some cases, disorganized) to present the net to you in such a manner that certain viewpoints are displayed in the most favorable light. Even knowing the material and the key words to look for, I still found reading this book and extracting the answers to be very difficult. I think it improbable that the biases in the work would exactly match those of any given reader, nor that the book's agenda would correspond to the reader's needs. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995 BKINTSLK.RVW 950411 ============== Vancouver ROBERTS@decus.ca | My infected haiku Institute for Robert_Slade@sfu.ca | Jerusalem has added Research into Rob.Slade@f733.n153.z1/| more Jerusalem User .fidonet.org| Security Canada V7K 2G6 | - virus haiku