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Vegetarianism Frequently Asked Questions
(VEG FAQ)


Subject 3: Other sources of Information on the Net


3.1 FTP Sites

An ftp site where you can get some vegetarian information is: cadadmin.cadlab.vt.edu

An ftp site where you can get some vegetarian recipes: bitnic.educom.edu the recipes are in the nicbbs.391 subdirectory and have a filename of VEG_RECI and a filetype of either DIGEST, INDEX, or VOLxxxxx.

Note that this is a VM system so you MUST do the cd nicbbs.391 before you do anything after logging in as anonymous, otherwise you will have no working directory.

The World Guide to Vegetarianism is available via anonymous ftp: rtfm.mit.edu in /pub/usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/guide

An ftp site for a list of Indian restaurants (in the U.S.): csseq.cs.tamu.edu under ~/pub/indian


3.2 Listservers

The network address for another vegetarian list: VEGLIFE@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu (internet) or VEGLIFE@VTVM1 (BitNet).

It is a LISTSERV type list.

To subscribe, send mail to listserv@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu with the command "sub veglife Your_Full_Name" in the body.

Also try the commands "help" and "index veglife".


3.3 rec.food.veg World Guide to Vegetarianism

The rec.food.veg World Guide to Vegetarianism lists restaurants, stores, organizations, and travel info of interest to vegetarians.
It is posted more or less monthly on rec.food.veg but can also be obtained via e-mail. Send an e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with any combination of the following lines in your message body:

send usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/guide/canada1 send usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/guide/canada2 send usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/guide/california1 send usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/guide/california2 send usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/guide/usa1 send usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/guide/usa2 send usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/guide/usa3 send usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/guide/europe send usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/guide/other send usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/faq (that's what you're reading)

The Guide is also available via anonymous ftp (see above).


3.4 Newsgroups and Their Archives

Vegetarian recipes can be found in the newsgroup rec.food.veg.cooking. This newsgroup breaks down all recipes into VEGAN, OVO, LACTO and OVO-LACTO categories.

This newsgroup and rec.food.veg.cooking are being archived at sunSITE.unc.edu in the directory:

pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/discussion-groups/newsgroups/ rec.food.veg

AND

pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/discussion-groups/newsgroups/ rec.food.veg.cooking

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