NOTE: Our statistics programs haven't been active for some time,
but we're still maintaining this gopherspace.

	      Welcome to The WELL's
	      on-line magazine.

	      The WELL is a commercial conferencing system located in
	      Sausalito, California.  For more information look in "The WELL
	      Itself" menu item.

	      This "gopher-space" is an experimental attempt by the WELL to
	      provide a _pro bono_ service to the public in general and users
	      of the Internet in particular.

	      This Well Magazine is intended to be separate from the
              WELL's conferencing environment.  The content
	      you find here will probably evolve along a different path
	      than the intensely conversational WELL conferences.

	      This is something new.  Let's find out what.

	      The contents of this on-line magazine will be evolving as time
	      goes by and we are very interested in suggestions you may have.

	      If you would like to contact the "curators" of this project you
	      can send electronic mail to:

	                   gopher@well.sf.ca.us

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Some quick notes on how to use gopher:

You use your arrow keys o move up and down, or just type the number of the
item you want to see.  You can go forwards or backwards a whole menu page with
> and <

Once you move to an item, using the arrow keys, you can see it by typing
<return> or <enter>, or you can save or download the file.  If you type "s" to
save the item it will be saved in your directory on the machine where you are
logged in.  If you type "D"  to download you will get a menu of ways to
download the item - it will end up on your own PC if you are dialed into an
Internet site and using gopher from there.

You can e-mail an item to yourself or someone else by typing:   "m"  at the
pager prompt while reading an item, or at the end of reading an item.

Type:   "?"   (a question mark) for a list of other commands.