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NameBase online
``` Date: 24 Jan 95 16:49:04 EST From: "Daniel L. Brandt" <75373.414@compuserve.com> Subject: NameBase online
Date: 24-Jan-95 at 09:02 From: NY Transfer News Collective, INTERNET:nyt@nyxfer.blythe.org Subject: NameBase Online: Free Access Available!
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 22:30:18 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: pir@nyxfer.blythe.org
NOTE: pir@nyxfer.blythe.org is an address for general inquiries regarding NameBase itself, as opposed to its specific data content. Inquiries are screened and forwarded to the NameBase publishers, Public Information Research, only if Blythe is unable to answer pertinent questions. PIR does not accept content inquiries from users of the online version unless they first register through Blythe, or arrange to purchase the more-powerful disk version of NameBase through Blythe. Further details online.
Blythe Systems Announces...
NAMEBASE ONLINE!
FREE PUBLIC ACCESS NOW AVAILABLE via telnet or rlogin to ursula.blythe.org (log in as: namebase)
NameBase: A unique microcomputer name and country index with over 176,000 citations.
NameBase is used by hundreds of serious journalists and researchers. For anyone with an IBM-compatible or Macintosh microcomputer, it offers fast access to a database of 80,000 names of groups and individuals, compiled from over 500 investigative books published since 1962, and thousands of pages from periodicals since 1973. Areas covered include the international intelligence community, political elites from the Right and Left, the U.S. foreign policy establishment, assassination theory, Latin America, big business, and organized crime.
SPECIAL ONLINE VERSION FOR INTERNET ACCESS!
NameBase Online can now be accessed via the Internet by logging into Blythe Systems. From your internet site, type the command:
telnet ursula.blythe.org
When you see the login prompt, log in as: namebase
Note: if you have trouble with your screen when you login via telnet, (like seeing double characters when you log type), try the "rlogin" command instead of telnet:
rlogin ursula.blythe.org
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ACCESS AND USE THE NAMEBASE ONLINE PROGRAM FOR FREE!
This is an experimental installation. We aren't sure what the user load will be, and unrestricted free access may not be available after our trial period. So login soon and explore this uniquely valuable information resource!
What some users say about NameBase:
"The sheer novelty and volume ... has won positive reviews from disparate sources." --Christian Science Monitor, July 31, 1989
"...[a] treasure trove of intelligence information." --Jeff Gerth, New York Times, October 6, 1987
"...a helpful and easily accessible resource for research into the world's diplomatic and intelligence communities." --Peter Grose, Executive Editor Foreign Affairs, Spring 1989
"...the closest popular equivalent to the CIA's own master computer." --Jonathan Marshall, Economics Editor San Francisco Chronicle
"[The references I received] would have been invalable during the early stages of my [research] project."
--Steve Weinberg, Executive Director Investigative Reporters & Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal, Winter 1989
"The absolutely indispensable database for anyone seriously interested in global intelligence and espionage." --David Wise, author of Molehunt (1992)
* NameBase is published by:
Public Information Research a nonprofit corporation based in San Antonio, Texas
e-mail: pir@nyxfer.blythe.org
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