We knead to bake!
We knead to bake!
(Revised August 2, 2004)
It's a vast store of knowledge, it gives access to help and expertise, it is a communications medium, and it's a superstore.
In summary: Use the Internet if you have a need to know.
The kind of info you get depends on the programs you use and the kind of access you have.
Everyone has access, even if it's only through the public libraries. (At least I know that's the case for residents of Ramsey and Hennepin counties.)
With a web browser.
Go to Google.
You can use web interfaces to net news through Google groups. (With a program that can read net news directly you can access groups directly.)
News groups are older than the World Wide Web (but not as old a electronic mail). Groups are organized into a forest of eight main trees. Some groups are specialized, some are more general.
If you are a bread baker, then the ones of most interest to you are probably these.
These are interactive (maybe too much), but harder to use for reference. However, the sourdough group has a FAQ that is very good.
A web log (also know as "blog" for short) are on-line journals hosted by such sites
You can keep a publicly access log of what you do for people to read.A forum (or message board or Yahoo Group) is a web-accessible public message board where someone creates a place (group or message board) where people can come and post messages that everybody in the group (or everybody with access to the web) can read and reply to.
If enough people in the SPBC with Internet Access wanted to, a group or message board could be created for us to communicate with each other.
Access to the internet also gives you access to some other functions, some of which still have not yet been widely adopted, but are available.
With access to e-mail you can use mailing lists. Mailing Lists deliver information directly to your electronic mail box. The best example is probably Bread-Bakers Mailing List
You can access net news directly with the right software. If you are using Microsoft Windows, Outlook and Outlook Express can read net news. If you want to read net news without exposing yourself to viruses, then Forte Internet Software Free Agent and Agent programs are excellent.
Net news is almost like e-mail except that instead of being sent from one user to another, news articles are sent to news servers that you connect to with your net news reader (instead of an e-mail reader). Once you connect to the news server, you can subscribe to different news groups and then fetch and read articles in those news groups.
Dedicated net news readers have many advantages over using the web access to news groups. The main one is being able to filter out messages of no interest (spam) that sometimes seems to take over news groups. (The groups mentioned above do not seem to be prone to this problem.)
These are sites that allow public announcement of meetings. Some of these do not yet have critical mass, and there are as yet no bread club kinds of events.
There is nothing set up for these with any bread clubs, but it would be possible to do so.
Two main purposes, publicity and communication.
If you have any additions or corrections to the information shown here, please contact David S. Cargo (651-699-7676), the Vice President for Communications, and he can make corrections.
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