Pow Wow - "The Jungle Book" Cub Scouting on the Internet Pat Hamilton Committee Chairman, Pack 615 National Pike District Cub Training Staff National Pike District Cub Roundtable Staff

The number of scouting oriented WWW pages would fill several volumes. An exhaustive list would not be very productive, since links change regularly. Here are just a few that are of local interest or offer a lot of resources and links to other sites. All of these have been verified this month (11/97). All links re-verified 3/2000.

Scouting Pages:

• http://www.bsa.scouting.org/ -- Welcome to BSA (the official BSA Home Page)
• http://usscouts.org/ -- U.S. Scouting Service Project home page
• http://usscouts.org/safety/g2ss.html -- Guide to Safe Scouting
• http://members.aol.com/steveoncc/council.htm -- The Baltimore Area Council home page
• http://members.home.net/bakere/natpike.htm -- The National Pike District home page
• http://members.aol.com/steveoncc/4rivers.htm -- The Four Rivers District home page
• http://www.macscouter.com -- Gary Hendra's MacScouter home page. Gary's page is from a MacIntosh owner's perspective, but his pages are equally useful to Mac and PC owners. His pages are full of resources and links to other resources.
• http://www.melborponsti.com/scouts/ -- Jim Speirs' home page (songs, skits, stories, etc. from the Canadian Scouting program)
• http://www.creighton.edu/~bsteph/pack114/library/index.html -- Pack 114's Library (Goldenrod District, Mid-America Council) maintained by Barb Stephens
• http://www.scouter.com -- The Scouter's Journal
• http://www.mninter.net/~blkeagle/ -- Mike Walton's homepage (Settummanque, the blackeagle) one of the more knowledgeable members of the SCOUTS-L listserver
• http://inter.scoutnet.org/ -- The InterNETional Scouting Page
• http://www.emf.net/~troop24/scouting/patches.html -- The Virtual Patch Collection (best collection of patches I've found)
• http://www.isd.net/srtobin/ -- The NetWoods Virtual Campsite
• http://www.fcollins.com.au/Scouts/ -- Australian Scouting, especially their page of Scout Promises and Laws Around The World: http://www.fcollins.com.au/Scouts/resources/worldlaw.html also some funny stories: http://www.fcollins.com.au/Scouts/SA/funny/funny.html
• http://www.win.net/~gws/gaelwolf/home.htm -- The Gaelic Wolf Scouting Pages (what he calls, "The Serious Side of Scouting")
• http://www.scoutorama.com/ -- Scouting Online
• http://www.usscouts.org/cubscouts/csdis.html -- Training -- Cub Scout Desiderata
• http://www.gwd.org/ -- Gathering Waters District
• http://www.pacsky.org/scouting/scouter.html -- Links for grownup Scout Leaders
• http://www.boyscouts-ncac.org/ -- National Capital Area Council
• http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/B_Nay/main.htm -- Dagan Scouting Links
• http://www.yahoo.com/Recreation/Outdoors/Scouting/ -- Scouting on Yahoo
• http://pages.prodigy.net/hamilton_p/scoutlnk.htm -- My page of scouting links
• http://pages.prodigy.net/hamilton_p/pack615.htm -- My Pack's home page (Pack 615)

• http://www.korpegard.nu/jan/knots.html -- Knotting Dictionary of Kännet
• http://www.inch.com/~kdka/public_html/r~service.html -- Works of Robert W. Service (Canadian poet whse stories and poems have a "Klondike" flavor)
• http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/kipling/kim/index.html -- "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling (Chapter 9 is where "Kim's Game" comes from)
• http://www.auntannie.com/ -- Aunt Annie's Craft Page (Now a commercial site. The database of old crafts has moved to here. The new URL is: http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/)

Free E-mail http://www.juno.com http://www.hotmail.com http://www.excite.com	News Servers http://www.jammed.com/~newzbot provides a list of open news servers where you can get the "rec.scouting" newsgroups
Other free stuff http://www.filmworks.com 2 free rolls of film from Seattle Filmworks http://www.oriental.com request free catalog from Oriental Trading Company for yourself and a friend. Now offers online shopping.	Maps http://www.mapquest.com http://www.MapsOnUs.com http://www.delorme.com/cybermaps/
Free Web pages http://geocities.yahoo.com/home/ Geocities not only offers free web pages (and free E-mail), but you can choose an area to group your page with those of similar interests http://www.creighton.edu/~bsteph/pack114/library/freepgs.html Barb Stephens has a whole list of places that offer free web pages. Some require limited hits or placing their advertisement on your page.

FTP Site The US Scouting Service Project FTP site is at: ftp://ftp1.scouter.com/usscouts/ This site contains clip-art, skits, songs, crafts, and ceremonies. Much of it is mirrored on the MacScouter WWW page listed above. This FTP site can also be accessed with a WEB browser at: ftp://ftp1.scouter.com/usscouts/ftpindex.html If this site is slow or down, the clip are is available at: Due to slowdowns and overloads at their FTP site, USSSP has switched over to an entirely web-based access to their library at: http://clipart.usscouts.org

Usenet Newsgroup

Access to the usenet newsgroups requires access to a mail server. Your ISP can provide you with instructions for accessing newsgroups. The newsgroups are rec.scouting and its sub-group, rec.scouting.usa. There are some others under the rec.socuting area, but they contain more arguments than useful material. It is also possible to access rec.scouting and rec.scouting.usa through the Zippo Web site at:

http://drn.zippo.com/news-bin/wwwnews?rec.scouting.* Try http://www.deja.com/usenet/ instead.

One of the best sources for information of all types. It has been billed as "The Roundtable that never ends." Access requires having an e-mail address. To subscribe, send an e-mail to listserv@listserv.tcu.edu containing the one line message, subscribe scouts-l fname lname where "fname" and "lname" are your first and last name. You will receive a confirmation message that you must reply to with the word OK. You will then receive a welcome message and a list of commands and instructions. Make sure you read them carefully!
To post messages on the SCOUTS-L list, send them to scouts-l@listserv.tcu.edu.
The main thing to remember is:

Commands go to:	listserv@listserv.tcu.edu	(there is not a person at this address. All commands are read by the machine and either acted on, or rejected and returned if invalid)
Messages go to:	scouts-l@listserv.tcu.edu	(the "l" in "scouts-l" is the letter "L" and not the number "1." The list is limited to 50 messages per day, so people get upset if one of these messages is a mis-addressed command. Be careful!

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