Supplemental information for The Electronic Hornist

Volume XXXI, number 2

Mailing Lists

List	Subscribe	Post message	List admin
Elmhurst	Click here to subscribe (http://www.elmhurst.edu/mailman/listinfo/hornlist)	Click here to post (send to hornlist@elmhurst.edu)	Dr. Gary Greene (gagreene74@hotmail.com)
Yahoo Groups	Click here to subscribe (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/horn/join)	Click here to post (send to horn@yahoogroups.com)	David B. Thompson

Either list will send you a message with further information after you subscribe. You may not send messages to either list until you subscribe.

There are many other mailing lists that horn players might be interested in. Two of these are Orchestra-L, a list for unionized orchestral musicians, and community-music, for community (amateur) band and orchestral musicians.

Newsgroups

If your newsreader software is set up properly, clicking on the links below should bring up the appropriate newsgroup.

There are thousands of newsgroups. If you are running Internet Explorer, Microsoft's free Outlook Express offers basic newsreader functionality in addition to e-mail handling. Users of Netscape products can usually download versions that incorporate news functionality.

An excellent shareware newsreader is Microplanet's Gravity - US$40.

Browsing (search engines)

Recommended search engines/directories:

Altavista - huge database but a bit slow to update
Yahoo! - The first and probably still the best directory; directories depend on user submissions rather than scanning the net automatically. Yahoo! has many country specific versions, as well: Japan UK & Ireland France Germany Australia & New Zealand and so forth ...
Ask Jeeves - search engine with a difference; you ask this one questions, it presents a number of possible answers.
inFind - not sure which one to use? Try inFind, which submits your query to a whole bunch of other servers at once and returns the collected results.

This is not an exhaustive list. If you want to see more search engines, Yahoo's list of search engines is a good (if overwhelming) starting point.

In case you are wondering, http://www.hornsociety.org/ is the International Horn Society's home page. Bruce Hembd and Jeff Snedeker are doing a great job - and if you haven't checked it recently, you owe it to yourself to see all the new content that they continue to add!

For questions or comments regarding The Electronic Hornist, send an email to Ron Boerger, contributing editor.