X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 118 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!news.cs.indiana.edu!rutgers!gatech!purdue!spaf Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers Subject: Introduction to news.announce Message-ID: <13115@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:00 GMT Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:14:59 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <12393@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Lines: 63 Original-from: mark@stargate.com (Mark Horton) [Most recent change: 20 Jan 1991 by msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)] "news.announce.important" is a newsgroup for just what it says it is -- important announcements. It is intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to subscribe. To post to news.announce.important, send mail to the moderator at "announce@stargate.com". Some netnews implementations will automatically mail to the moderator anything posted instead of attempting to post it directly. If the message is appropriate, it will be posted by the moderator; if not, the moderator will suggest a more appropriate place to post it or a better way to go about the same goal. Discussions in news.announce.important are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point of reading news.announce.important. The current policy is that news.announce.important submissions must be: (a) short - preferably they should fit on one crt screen, including headers. (b) important enough to at least have their header shown to everyone on the net. The posting should be more of benefit to the net than to the poster. (c) not posted to any other newsgroup - news.announce.important by itself is supposed to be sufficient to reach everybody, and nobody should have to read an announcement more than once. (d) signed - the author should be clearly evident. (e) not commercial, political, or religious in nature. news.announce.newgroups exists for announcements of either the creation or the consideration of a new newsgroup. All calls for votes, calls for discussions, vote results, and creation notices of all hierarchies should be posted to news.announce.newgroups. Submissions should be directed to news-announce-newgroups@turbo.bio.net (or to your nearest backbone site). Followups will be redirected to news.groups. Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all newcomers. These messages will be placed in news.announce.newusers, which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who have already read these messages to unsubscribe to news.announce.newusers without missing anything new in news.announce.important. If you aren't familiar with the netnews guidelines in news.announce.newusers, please read them carefully. Your understanding of these rules will assure that you don't annoy the more than 1 million members of the net community (estimated) by unintentionally abusing the net, and will help you get more value from the net. Mark Horton Gene Spafford news.announce.important moderator news.announce.newusers moderator mark@stargate.com spaf@purdue.edu Eliot Lear news.announce.newgroups moderator lear@turbo.bio.net -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 119 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!think.com!hsdndev!husc6!purdue!spaf Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers Subject: Rules for posting to Usenet Message-ID: <13116@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:02 GMT Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:15:02 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <12394@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Lines: 190 Original-from: mark@stargate.com (Mark Horton) [Most recent change: 7 Nov 1990 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] This message describes some of the rules of conduct on Usenet. The rules vary depending on the newsgroup. Some newsgroups are intended for discussions and some for announcements or queries. It is not usually a good idea to carry on discussions in newsgroups that are designated otherwise. It is never a good idea to carry on "meta-discussions" about whether a given discussion is appropriate -- such traffic mushrooms until nobody can find articles that belong. If you are unhappy with what some user said, send him/her mail, don't post it. Before posting, think about where your article is going. If it's posted to a "comp", "news", "misc", "soc", "sci", "rec" or "talk" newsgroup, it will probably go to the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, and many countries in Asia. Certain articles are only of local interest (e.g. used car ads) and it is inappropriate to post them to the whole world. Use the "Distribution" feature to restrict distribution to your local area. If you don't know how to use this feature, read "Frequently Submitted Items" in another article in news.announce.newusers. (Note, however, that some sites have broken software or improperly configured news systems, so sometimes use of a "Distribution" header may not work.) Don't post announcements regarding major news events (e.g. the space shuttle has just exploded!) to news groups. By the time most people receive such items, they will long since have been informed by conventional media. If you wish to discuss such an event on the net, use the "misc.headlines" newsgroup. Announcement of professional products or services on Usenet is allowed; however, since someone else is paying the phone bills for this, it is important that it be of overall benefit to Usenet. Post to the appropriate newsgroup -- comp.newprod -- never to a general purpose newsgroup such as "misc.misc". Clearly mark your article as a product announcement in the subject. Never repeat these -- one article per product at the most; preferably group everything into one article. Advertising hype is especially frowned upon -- stick to technical facts. Obnoxious or inappropriate announcements or articles violating this policy will generally be rejected. This policy is, of course, subject to change if it becomes a problem. Some newsgroups are moderated. In these groups, you cannot post directly, either by convention or because the software prevents it. To post to these newsgroups, send mail to the moderator. Examples: Newsgroup Moderator Purpose --------- --------- ------- news.announce.important stargate!announce Important announcements for everyone comp.std.unix uunet!std-unix Unix standards discussion comp.std.mumps plus5!std-mumps ANSI Mumps standards discussion comp.unix zorba!modunix Discussion of Unix* features and bugs Some newsgroups have special purpose rules: Newsgroup Rules --------- ----- news.announce.important Moderated, no direct postings, important things only. misc.wanted Queries, "I want an x", "Anyone want my x?". No discussions. Don't post to more than one xxx.wanted. Use the smallest appropriate wanted (e.g. used car ads to nj.wanted.) Requests for sources, termcaps, etc. should go to the "comp.sources.wanted" newsgroup. rec.humor Clean humor only; anything offensive must be rotated; no discussions -- humor only. Discussions go in rec.humor.d rec.arts.movies Don't post anything revealing part of a movie without marking it (spoiler) in the subject. rec.arts.* Same as movies -- mark spoilers in the subject line. news.groups Discussions about new groups: whether to create them and what to call them. Don't post yes/no votes, mail them to the author misc.test Use the smallest test group possible, e.g. "test" or "ucb.test". Say in the body of the message what you are testing. It is perfectly legal to reproduce short extracts of a copyrighted work for critical purposes, but reproduction in whole is strictly and explicitly forbidden by US and international copyright law. (Otherwise, there would be no way for the artist to make money, and there would thus be less motive for people to go to the trouble of making their art available at all. The crime of theft is as serious in this context as any other, even though you may not have to pick locks, mask your face, or conceal merchandise.) All opinions or statements made in messages posted to Usenet should be taken as the opinions of the person who wrote the message. They do not necessarily represent the opinions of the employer of that person, the owner of the computer from which the message was posted, or anyone involved with Usenet or the underlying networks of which Usenet is made up. All responsibility for statements made in Usenet messages rests with the individual posting the message. Posting of information on Usenet is to be viewed as similar to publication. Because of this, do not post instructions for how to do some illegal act (such as jamming radar or obtaining cable TV service illegally); also do not ask how to do illegal acts by posting to the net. If you have a standard signature you like to append to your articles, put it in a file called .signature in your home directory. "postnews" and "inews" will automatically append it to your article. Please keep your signatures concise, as people do not appreciate seeing lengthy signatures, nor paying the phone bills to repeatedly transmit them. 2 or 3 lines are usually plenty. Sometimes it is also appropriate to add another line or two for addresses on other major networks where you can be reached (e.g., Internet, CSnet, Bitnet). Long signatures are definitely frowned upon. DO NOT include drawings, pictures, maps, or other graphics in your signature -- it is not the appropriate place for such material and is viewed as rude by other readers. If you post an article and remember something you've left out or realize you've made a factual error, you can cancel the article and (if canceled quickly enough) prevent its distribution. Then you can correct whatever was wrong and post a new copy. In "rn" and "readnews", an article that you posted can be canceled with the "C" command. Be aware, however, that some people may have already read the incorrect version so the sooner you cancel something, the better. If the news system rejects a followup due to "more quoted lines than new text," please do not use "filler" lines to make up for this. Instead, if after careful editing, you have more to quote than to write, change the citation character. For example, in the display editor vi, you could use the incantation: :%s/^>//'s that are not being used as the citation character. (In particular, it will damage the "References" line in the article header.) In preparing an article, be aware that other people's machines are not the same as yours. The following is a list of things to keep in mind: * Except for source, keep your lines under 80 characters, and under 72 if possible. (most editors have a fill or format mode that will do this for you automatically) * Right justified text may look "prettier" in some sense, but it is almost always harder to read than leaving ragged right margins; don't justify your articles. * Most special control characters will not work for most readers. In fact, the space character is about the only one you can be sure will work consistently. Even tabs aren't always the same from machine to machine, and should be avoided. Many mail agents will strip or remap control characters. * Pictures and diagrams should not use embedded tabs. * Refer to articles by Message-ID, and never by article number. * What you think is the previous article is unlikely to be so elsewhere. * Submissions in a single case (all upper or all lower) are difficult to read. In general, when a mailing to somebody fails, DON'T post a message about it! Think for a moment: you are trying to send something to someone on ONE system. Your message might go through (at most) TEN systems on the way there. Posting a message in the news sends it to over 7800 systems throughout the world! There is no way to justify adding to the news load of nearly 8000 machines simply because you cannot determine how to get your mail through. If your message is important, contact someone who knows more about the mail system and who might be able to help you get your message through. Your local system administrator, for instance, or the admin of the next site "upstream," might be able to help. You can also send mail to "postmaster" at one of the major Usenet sites. Almost all of these people would rather see an occasional plea for help in their mailbox than read another broadcast in the news system. If your message is *really* important, pick up the phone and try to call the other person. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 120 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!gatech!purdue!looking.on.ca!brad Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.groups,news.admin Subject: How to Create a New Trial Newsgroup Message-ID: <13118@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: brad@looking.on.ca Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:06 GMT Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca Sender: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Followup-To: news.announce.newusers Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:15:05 GMT Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <12396@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Lines: 398 Xref: simpact news.announce.newusers:120 news.groups:14268 news.admin:4780 Original-from: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) [Most recent change: 04 Oct 1990 by brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)] GUIDELINES FOR USENET GROUP CREATION (Trial Method) (Note: This note describes a way of creating newsgroups that is somewhat different from the generally-accepted proposal/vote method. This method has not been universally accepted as a valid means of creating a group, nor do all sites carry the "trial" hierarchy. Groups created under this procedure may or may not be honored by all site administrators, and may not be listed in the monthly newsgroup list postings despite "approval" by this method. --spaf) To create a group on USENET, you must objectively demonstrate to most USENET admins that the group under consideration is worth carrying on their machines, and thus by default to all of USENET. One common method of performing this demonstration is to conduct a survey/vote. Another regular posting in this group describes that method. Another method is to give the group a trial run in a smaller section of the to see how it does. This is described below. (These are just guidelines. Other methods exist, and these guidelines have been written to be flexible. The real goal is that sentence above -- an objective demonstation that it's worth feeding the group, by default, to all of the many thousands of machines on USENET. What you see below is just one way that many people think is a good way of doing that.) The trial.* hierarchy exists for new newsgroups that are being tried out. A new group can be created there, and read by readers of that subnet. The readership and other forms of response are then measured. At the end of the trial (up to 5 months) the readership of the group is evaluated, and it is calculated where it would fit into the whole of USENET. If it meets the criterion, it is moved into the USENET mainstream. If it doesn't it is simply deleted with a few weeks notice. Readers of the group may elect to form a mailing list or find another method of distribution. JUDGING THE SUITABILITY OF THE TOPIC If you wish to create a group, you should ensure that you have a topic that is likely to experience varied discussion for a long and indefinite period of time. The purpose of the group should be clear -- not too general (like, "the IBM PC") and not too specific (like, "squid recipes"). The topic should not be short lived, unless all you want is a 5 month run in the trial hierarchy. A general topic should be broken down until you have something that is important and likely to generate a moderate volume of discussion. There are exceptions to this which you can only learn fully through experience with USENET. Next check to see if there isn't already a group on USENET that covers your topic. If you find a close match, read that group for a while to see if your topic gets discussed there. Bring it up yourself it you don't see it discussed for a while. (This is a strong requirement. You should not propose a new group if you have no familiarity with groups that might well already contain discussion of your topic.) If it turns out your topic is an offshoot of an existing group, and it is in fact already heavily discussed in that group, you may wish to split that group. The trial group system has no mechanism for splitting regular USENET groups. You must arrange another means to do that. If you have a truly new topic and: a) It is either different enough from all the other group topics that it needs its own newsgroup, or b) There is a group related to your topic, but the relationship is marginal, and the volume of discussion your topic would engender is too high for that group; then you may indeed have a suitable topic for a new newsgroup. Make sure as well that the topic is appropriate for world wide distribution. You're going to be sending this discussion over more than 15,000 machines. (In part, this is what the trial will decide if you aren't sure yourself.) STARTING THE TRIAL Write up a proposal, listing: o) The proposed topic for the newsgroup. If it's an obscure topic, provide a bit of information about the nature of it. o) What sort of discussion you expect to see there. o) What hierarchy on USENET you think it might belong in. o) A suggestion as to possible names. o) Reasons why this topic really doesn't belong in other groups. o) Whether or not you plan to moderate a group. (You can't suggest a moderated group unless you have a moderator ready.) (See other postings to trial.newgroups for a model proposal.) The name and USENET hierarchy won't be chosen by you, but you can make suggestions. A good suggestion that is consistent with other existing names is more likely to be chosen. Note that a good name must be meaningful to outsiders who are unfamiliar with the topic, so stay away from acronyms or terms known only to insiders. Unless you want to be ultra-specific about what takes place in the group, a well understood name is better than an extremely precise one. E-mail the proposal to trialgroup@uunet.uu.net. This will send it to all of the volunteer trial group moderators, or "judges." In addition, the software will randomly pick one of these people to be the judge for your trial group. The judge will be a person with long experience with USENET, and he or she will offer you help if there is room for improvement in your proposal. Some further names may also be suggested. Joke proposals will not be accepted -- a trial newsgroup involves a fair bit of effort and expense by a lot of people, and no matter how funny a joke is, it won't be as long lived as the effort in running a trial group. [ Don't use the 'trialgroup' address other than to get a judge assigned to your group. That judge will reply to you -- correspond with him or her directly thereafter. If you really *have* to mail to all the trial judges, and not the one(s) involved in your group, you can mail to trial-judges@uunet.uu.net. ] Once a trial name has been decided upon and the proposal finalized, the trial group will be created by the trial hierarchy judges. You should then post the finalized proposal to news.announce.newgroups (or mail it to the moderator at announce-newgroups@ncar.ucar.edu) and trial.newgroups. (Due to the nature of moderated groups, you can't crosspost; you must post twice, once to each group.) If there is a group with a related topic, you should also post the announcement of the new group there. Now start using your group. Write a more detailed description of the group, and post it there. Welcome new users and start discussion. While (unless you're moderator) you won't own or control the group after creating it, you might see fit to act as a sort of custodian for the group, helping new users, preparing lists of frequently asked questions or an introduction to the group that gets posted every month or two. If you stop reading your group sometime in the future, you should find another volunteer for that position. Many sites in the trial hierarchy will send in readership reports. If your site does not do this, look for the "arbitron" program and instructions posted at the start of every month in news.admin, and get your site involved. The arbitron results will be posted on the 1st of every month. For the first 1-2 months, the results for your group will be artificially low, since it takes time for results to come in from a wide enough range of sites. Don't be concerned about those early figures. After the 5th readership report to include your group, the day of judgement is at hand. All USENET groups, and your group, will be ranked according to the number of readers per site which gets the group. (Your group will only go to the trial subnet, so both numbers will be reduced, keeping the ratio valid.) "USENET groups" means all the accepted groups in the 7 main hierarchies of USENET, less those that have been truly dormant for several months, in the judge's opinion. If your group ranks among the top 3/4 of USENET groups in readers per site, it gets promoted to a USENET group. Right now (May/90) this means a readership value of about 1 reader for every 3 sites getting the group, but that may change as USENET grows. If your group can't find a reader on 2/3 of the sites it goes to, it's probably not an appropriate topic for full-net distribution. Either way, pass or fail, mail a reminder of the results to your judge. FAILURE: An announcement will be made (by you, or failing that, a trial hierarchy judge) indicating that the group failed the test. This gives you time to wrap up affairs, or consider the creation of a mailing list devoted to the topic. After 2-3 weeks the group will be deleted (rmgrouped). Any attempts to post to it will result in mail to the poster and the USENET admin at the poster's site. SUCCESS: If the group passes the test, it gets renamed. That means that a USENET group with an appropriate name will be created. Many sites will alias the old name to the new name. You should tell all readers of the trial group about the new name, and get them to switch over. You may crosspost between the two groups for the first week, but after that, you should actively discourage any crossposting between the groups. After a few more weeks, the trial group will be deleted, with a few days notice. Post once again to news.announce.newgroups, indicating that the group passed and has now been created within USENET proper. Do the same thing in the USENET group that you did in the trial group. Tell people about the group, and post any standard introductory postings that you may have written. Welcome the new readers. Then participate in the group. FAST PROMOTION: If a group ever ranks in the top 50% of USENET groups in readers/site, it can, at your discretion, move over to USENET immediately. Mail to your judge and request the immediate move. This can happen at any time, but the group must get this ranking in the top 50% with results from at least half the trial hierarchy. (ie. if you only get 6 sites reporting in the first month, and they all have 10 readers, it doesn't qualify.) REFUSAL OF A TRIAL In rather unusual cases, the judges can refuse a serious trial. For example, an illegal group might cause this to happen. If the judges can't convince the proponent of the group that it's not a good idea, they may decide to register opposition to the trial. At the start of the trial -- prior to the group's creation, a vote from 2/3 of the judges (5 of the 7) can refuse the trial. At the end of the trial, a vote from 3/4 of the judges (6 of the 7) can stop the group's promotion. Is this a horrible autocratic power? Not at all. If a trial or promotion is refused by the above veto, the proponent of the group is still free to use the old discussion/survey method of group creation -- ie. things fall back to the method we had before the trial hierarchy was created. Refusing a trial is a very serious move that judges will do only very rarely -- not simply because they don't like a group, but rather because they feel it could cause serious damage to the net. To get 5 or 6 judges to agree to a refusal will mean there's a real problem, indeed. NAMING As described above, a trial name will be decided by the trial judges in conjunction with you, the group's "champion." They get the final say. If there is real feeling that the name is inappropriate, you can discuss this in your trial group. Proposals for a new name can then be put to the trial judges. This may result in a new name if the group is promoted to full distribution. The final decision, however, remains up to the trial judges. If they really miss the boat on a couple of names, they won't be trusted as trial judges for much longer. HIERARCHY You can suggest a hierarchy to the trial judges, but the decision is up to them. Here are the existing hierarchies: COMP Computer related technical discussion. In general, groups in COMP are expected to have direct value to a site's commercial or academic goals. SCI Groups about scientific topics, again expected to have direct value to a site's commercial or academic goals. REC Groups about recreation, hobbies, sports, entertainment, leisure, the arts, etc. NEWS Groups pertaining to USENET and USENET related networking. SOC Groups about social issues and social interaction. The humanities, etc. (excluding the recreational arts.) TALK Groups about topics that often engender heated or emotional debate. Politics, religion, abortion, philosophy, text editors, discrimination etc. Note that even if a topic seems a perfect fit for another hierarchy, if it's going to experience a lot of heated debate and "flaming," then it belongs here. "Social club" groups, which exist more to talk to friends than to address a specific topic, also belong here. MISC The rest, including most business related topics. ALT You don't need a trial to start a group in ALT. Go ahead. But the more people "go ahead" without following the guidelines suggested above (or in the other group creation guidelines) the more sites that will ignore ALT groups. BIZ The "biz" hierarchy is not part of USENET. The trial.biz hierarchy, however, exists for the creation of commerce related groups. Some people love these groups (misc.jobs.offered is one of the most popular on USENET) and some people think they have no place here. "trial.biz" is a place to try out such groups. We're not talking about groups with nothing but hype, but useful groups (like misc.jobs.offered and misc.forsale) that benefit both the posters and the readers. When moved into USENET they will be put into another hierarchy (usually MISC or COMP) depending on what's appropriate. If you want to use the top level BIZ hierarchy, there are no hard and fast rules. Post to biz.config. GNU,VMSNET,UNIX-PC,BIONET,CLARI,etc. These hierarchies are not part of mainstream USENET. They have their own rules for group creation which you must investigate. NOTES: Risky business: As noted, any serious group proposal will be created as a trial. You may get some advice not to do so from the trial group judges, but if you insist, it will be done. Some sites, however, will refuse to carry quasi-illegal material, such as groups relating to sex, drugs, porn and other activities that are illegal or discouraged in some parts of the net. Their machines are theirs to command, so it is considered polite to warn everybody about a group with potential danger so that they can make their own decisions. Appeals: If your group fails, it is advised that you not suggest it again for at least a year, unless something really unusual comes up. It would take very rare circumstances for the trial judges to restart a trial in less than six months. You can, after a trial fails, go through another group creation process, such as a discussion/survey. Nobody knows what will happen the first time somebody tries this. I predict that people won't take kindly to this, but who knows. (Some people may hate the trial system and support you only for that reason.) Autonomous admins: Even after your group has a good trial, news administrators on their own machines are not bound to create, carry or propagate your group. The fact that it does well makes it pretty likely, but not assured, particularly at the leafs. This is true in any group creation system. Cheating: Deliberate attempts to bias the arbitron statistics are likely to get discovered. If you're caught and exposed, it's likely to do you more harm than good. If there's proof, the judges will cancel your trial, and even if there isn't it is likely that you will anger site admins enough that they ignore the group even if it appears to pass the test. A suspect passing result can be worse than a failed one -- so don't even risk it. Running around making sure reader sites send in their honest readership reports will bias the results somewhat. This is accounted for, and in the long run, it's good, because those reports will keep coming, and they report on all trial groups, not just yours. The Judges: The rules above are deliberately vague to give the judges room to breathe, and to stop control freaks from pointing out nitpicking technical violations. A technical violation of this procedure is tough, because things are left open. If you don't like the judges and how they rule, you can always use the discussion/survey group creation method. The only rules the judges must follow are: o) The current success/fail criteria must be announced in advance. o) If there's a conflict of interest, a judge dealing with a particular group should pass the decision on to another judge. o) Decisions can be appealed to a tribunal, where each of the 3 judges will write a public decision, majority winning. o) All serious proposals that haven't been done recently should be accepted if the group's champion insists, but judges are free to put a dissenting comment on any such proposal. o) A tribunal is selected randomly from the pool of judges, excepting the judge being appealed. No appeal on a tribunal's decision. Other "good ideas" are: o) Decisions about the final name should be done by a tribunal, where possible, based on input from the trial group and e-mailed comments from the net at large. o) No simultaneous creation by both methods. Users who do both may get their trial group summarily deleted for annoying the judges and giving them extra work to make the user's life easier. Who are the judges? There are 7. I, Brad Templeton, am the first "chief justice." The chief justice has no special powers, other than having written this document, but hey, the title sounds neat. The other 6 volunteers are all system admins, from a variety of areas on USENET, who have had several years experience with USENET and USENET groups. All judges will pass on any decision to other volunteer judges if they have a conflict of interest. (ie. plan to read the group, or participate actively in a similar group.) The judges really aren't all that powerful. The *real* decision as to whether a group gets created belongs with the readers. If they like the group, it stays, if they don't, it goes. The judges only get final say on the name, and they get to interpret the minor guidelines. Their primary goal is to give advice, as experienced netters, on how to make a group creation go smoothly. They aren't there to hinder the process, or fight against it. They get the title "judge" because it sounds important, and it means that people will avoid arguing with them over silly nitpicky points. X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 121 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!spool2.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!purdue!hazel.circ.upenn.edu!rsk Newsgroups: news.lists,news.announce.newusers Subject: List of Periodic Informational Postings Message-ID: <13130@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: rsk@hazel.circ.upenn.edu Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:30 GMT Reply-To: rsk@hazel.circ.upenn.edu Sender: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Followup-To: news.lists Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:15:29 GMT Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <12409@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Lines: 891 Xref: simpact news.lists:440 news.announce.newusers:121 Original-from: rsk@hazel.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec) [Most recent change: 28 Nov 1990 by rsk@hazel.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)] Many newsgroups contain articles which are posted on a periodic basis. These articles tend to be useful for both novice and experienced users, as they usually fall into one of these categories: 1. How-to articles explaining some of the basics and fine points of network usage, etiquette, standards, etc. 2. Introductory notes about one or more newsgroups, covering policies (if any) for submissions to that group, usage, etc. Common questions and answers pertinent to a newsgroup(s). 3. Indexes of archives, or pointers to archives for various groups. Periodic newsletters, calendars, pointers to publications. 4. Statistical information and reports about Usenet; tables of Usenet hosts, links, etc. 5. Miscellany, including small useful sources, "fun" lists, and so on. This is a list of the periodic postings known at this time; each posting is listed in an entry that includes who posts the article, which newsgroup(s) it appears in, what "Subject" line is used, and how often the article is posted. The list is sorted by the "Newsgroups" line. The character 'X' is used as a wildcard, e.g. "vXXINF1" matches "v01INF1", "v02INF1", etc. Corrections and additions (via MAIL) are most welcome. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mdchaney@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Monthly Posting Frequency: monthly From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: ca.earthquakes,misc.emerg-services Subject: [lm XX/XX] Frequently asked earthquake references (where to find) Frequency: biweekly From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: ca.general,ba.general Subject: [l/m XX/XX] How to cancel news articles Frequency: biweekly From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: ca.general,ba.general Subject: [l/m XX/XX] Reminders for old hands and new readers ([b|c]a.general) Frequency: biweekly From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: ca.general,ba.general Subject: [l/m XX/XX] A short note on Distribution: Frequency: biweekly From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: ca.general,ba.general Subject: [l/m XX/XX] Kill files . . . with extreme prejudice Frequency: biweekly From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: ca.general,ba.general Subject: [l/m XX/XX] A short note on posting, cross-posting Frequency: biweekly From: odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jon Granrose) Newsgroups: comp.archives,comp.misc Subject: Anonymous FTP list Frequency: monthly From: koreth@panarthea.EBay.Sun.COM (Steven Grimm) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.atari.st Subject: vXXINF3: How to use comp.binaries.atari.st Frequency: every few months From: boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (Brian O'Neill) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc Subject: vXXINF1: bin.man, Beginner's Guide to Binaries Frequency: monthly From: boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (Brian O'Neill) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc Subject: vXXINF2: ftp.man, Beginner's Guide to FTP Frequency: monthly From: boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (Brian O'Neill) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc Subject: vXXINF3: starter.kit, CBIP Starter's Kit Frequency: monthly From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc Subject: vXXINF4: format.inf, description of format of postings Frequency: monthly From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc Subject: vXXiINF5: clarkson.inf, Clarkson comp.binaries.ibm.pc archives Frequency: monthly From: chip@vector.dallas.tx.us (Chip Rosenthal) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: "Welcome to comp.dcom.telecom!" Frequency: monthly From: jef@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Frequently asked questions - weekly automated posting. Frequency: weekly From: scs@adam.mit.edu (Steve Summit) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on comp.lang.c Frequency: monthly From: scs@adam.mit.edu (Steve Summit) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on comp.lang.c (Abridged) Frequency: biweekly From: scs@adam.mit.edu (Steve Summit) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Changes to Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on comp.lang.c Frequency: monthly From: jcc@adesign.uucp (Collet Jean-Christophe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: C++ products & books list Frequency: monthly From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Elm Group monthly posting - October 1989 Frequency: monthly From: uucpmap@rutgers.rutgers.edu (UUCP Mapping Project) Newsgroups: comp.mail.maps Subject: UUCP map for XXXXXX Frequency: monthly From: john@trigraph.uucp (John Chew) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,news.newusers.questions Subject: Inter-Network Mail Guide Frequency: monthly From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.i386,news.newusers.questions,news.software.b Subject: Monthly posting on USENET manual set Frequency: monthly From: usenet@chg.mcd.mot.com (Newprod Moderator) Newsgroups: comp.newprod Subject: comp.newprod Guidelines Frequency: four times a year From: ctp@cs.utexas.edu (Clyde T. Poole) Newsgroups: comp.org.decus,comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec Subject: DECUS Questions Answered Frequency: monthly From: pozar@toad.com (Tim Pozar) Newsgroup: comp.org.fidonet Subject: FidoNews Frequency: weekly From: Glen Overby Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: the Minix Information Sheet Frequency: monthly From: tp@mccall.com Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,vmsnet.misc Subject: Info-VAX Monthly Posting, Part 1 of 3 Frequency: monthly From: tp@mccall.com Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,vmsnet.misc Subject: Info-VAX Monthly Posting, Part 2 of 3 Frequency: monthly From: tp@mccall.com Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,vmsnet.misc Subject: Info-VAX Monthly Posting, Part 3 of 3 Frequency: monthly From: koreth@panarthea.EBay.Sun.COM (Steven Grimm) Newsgroups: comp.sources.atari.st Subject: ???? Frequency: every few months From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,news.admin Subject: arbitron program (vX.X.X--last updated X XXX XXXX) Frequency: monthly From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,news.admin Subject: notesfile arbitron (vX--last updated X XXX XXXX) Frequency: monthly From: billr@saab.cna.tek.com (Bill Randle) Newsgroups: comp.sources.games Subject: vXXINF1 Frequency: start of every volume, which is 3-6 months... From: allbery@uunet.UU.NET (Brandon S. Allbery - comp.sources.misc) Newsgroups: comp.sources.misc Subject: vXXINFX: Administrivia: Index to comp.sources.misc Frequency: monthly From: allbery@uunet.UU.NET (Brandon S. Allbery - comp.sources.misc) Newsgroups: comp.sources.misc Subject: vXXINFX: Welcome to comp.sources.misc! Frequency: monthly From: mcgrew@dartagnan.rutgers.edu (Charles Mcgrew) Newsgroups: comp.sources.sun Subject: vXXINF3: Location and format of ftp archive site Frequency: start of every volume, which is 3-6 months... From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) Newsgroup: comp.sources.unix Subject: VxxINF1: Introduction to comp.sources.unix Frequency: start of every volume, which is 3-6 months... From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) Newsgroup: comp.sources.unix Subject: VxxINF2: List of sources in the archive Frequency: start of every volume, which is 3-6 months... From: argv%island@uunet.uu.net (Dan Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sources.x Subject: vXXINF1: README Frequency: start of every volume, which is 3-6 months... From: argv%island@uunet.uu.net (Dan Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sources.x Subject: vXXINF2: Archive Listings Frequency: start of every volume, which is 3-6 months... From: argv%island@uunet.uu.net (Dan Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sources.x Subject: vXXINF3: patchlogs Frequency: start of every volume, which is 3-6 months... From: std-unix@uunet.uu.net (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Access to UNIX-Related Standards Frequency: bi-monthly From: std-unix@uunet.uu.net (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Calendar of UNIX-related Events Frequency: monthly From: std-unix@uunet.UU.NET (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix,comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.questions Subject: Access to UNIX User Groups Frequency: bi-monthly From: std-unix@uunet.UU.NET (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix,comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.questions Subject: Access to UNIX-Related Publications Frequency: bi-monthly From: ehoogerbeets@rose.waterloo.edu (Edwin Hoogerbeets) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Extended topics from the intro to comp.sys.amiga[.tech] Frequency: monthly From: ehoogerbeets@rose.waterloo.edu (Edwin Hoogerbeets) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Introduction to comp.sys.amiga Frequency: monthly From: ehoogerbeets@rose.waterloo.edu (Edwin Hoogerbeets) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Introduction to comp.sys.amiga.tech Frequency: monthly From: unix-pc@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Monthly posting about Unix-PC network Frequency: monthly From: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Frequently Asked Questions: READ THIS BEFORE YOU POST Frequency: monthly From: geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.announce Subject: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions Frequency: monthly From: geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.announce Subject: About Macintosh Usenet Groups Frequency: monthly From: rgreene@ricecsvm.rice.edu (Bob Greene) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Monthly Intro Message Frequency: monthly From: bobby@hot.caltech.edu (Bobby Bodenheimer) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Frequently Asked Questions about TeX, etc. - with Answers [Monthly] Frequency: monthly From: sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Frequently Asked Questions about Unix - with Answers Frequency: monthly From: sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Welcome to comp.unix.questions Frequency: monthly From: virtech!cpcahil@uunet.uu.net (Conor P. Cahill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Welcome to comp.unix.sysv386 (AKA Frequently Asked Questions) Frequency: monthly From: xug@ICS.COM (X User's Group) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Frequently Asked Questions about X with Answers [long monthly posting] Frequency: monthly From: jhf@rpp386.dallas.tx.us (John Haugh) Newsgroups: misc.jobs.misc, misc.jobs.offered, misc.jobs.resumes Subject: Welcome to misc.jobs! Frequency: monthly From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered Subject: [l/m XX/XX] Read BEFORE posting: offered stylistic consensus Frequency: biweekly From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: misc.jobs.resumes Subject: [l/m XX/XX] Read BEFORE posting: Stylistic consensus on resumes Frequency: biweekly From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Checkgroups message (with INET groups) Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Checkgroups message (without INET groups) Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers Subject: How to Get Information about Networks Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers Subject: USENET Software: History and Sources Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers Subject: A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers Subject: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers Subject: Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers Subject: Hints on writing style for Usenet Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers Subject: Introduction to news.announce Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.announce.newusers Subject: Regional Newsgroup Hierarchies (Updated: 31 July 1990) Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers Subject: Rules for posting to Usenet Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.groups,news.admin Subject: How to Create a New Newsgroup Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.lists Subject: List of Periodic Informational Postings Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.misc Subject: Changes to Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.misc Subject: Changes to List of Active Newsgroups Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.admin Subject: Changes to How to Construct the Mailpaths File Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.misc Subject: Changes to List of Moderators Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.misc Subject: Changes to Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.misc Subject: Changes to List of Periodic Informational Postings Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.misc,news.groups,news.admin Subject: Changes to How to Create a New Newsgroup Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Changes to A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Changes to Answers to Frequently Asked Questions Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.lists,news.admin Subject: USENET FLOW ANALYSIS REPORT FOR XXX XX Frequency: monthly From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.lists,news.admin Subject: USENET READERSHIP SUMMARY REPORT FOR XXX XX Frequency: monthly From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.lists,news.admin Subject: arbitron data from these sites has expired Frequency: monthly From: newsstats@uunet.UU.NET Newsgroups: news.lists Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks Frequency: bi-weekly From: newsstats@uunet.UU.NET Newsgroups: news.lists Subject: Top 25 News Submitters by Site by Kbytes for the last 2 weeks Frequency: bi-weekly From: newsstats@uunet.UU.NET Newsgroups: news.lists Subject: Top 25 News Submitters by Site by number of articles for the last 2 weeks Frequency: bi-weekly From: newsstats@uunet.UU.NET Newsgroups: news.lists Subject: Top 25 News Submitters by User by Kbytes for the last 2 weeks Frequency: bi-weekly From: newsstats@uunet.UU.NET Newsgroups: news.lists Subject: Top 25 News Submitters by User by number of articles for the last 2 weeks Frequency: bi-weekly From: newsstats@uunet.UU.NET Newsgroups: news.lists Subject: Total traffic through uunet for the last 2 weeks Frequency: bi-weekly From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists Subject: USENET FLOW ANALYSIS for XXX XX: Top 1000 sites Frequency: monthly From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists Subject: USENET Readership report for XXX XX Frequency: monthly From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.admin Subject: How to Construct the Mailpaths File Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.announce.newusers Subject: Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (XXX XX) Frequency: monthly From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (XXX XX) Frequency: monthly From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (XXX XX) Frequency: monthly From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST (XXX XX) Frequency: monthly From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (XXX XX) Frequency: monthly From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME (XXX XX) Frequency: monthly From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.announce.newusers Subject: Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.announce.newusers Subject: List of Active Newsgroups Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.announce.newusers Subject: List of Moderators Frequency: every 4-6 weeks From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists.ps-maps,comp.sources.d,news.admin Subject: "inpaths.c" (last updated XXXXX) Frequency: monthly From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: USENET PostScript map XXXXX Frequency: monthly From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.misc,news.admin,misc.misc,news.groups Subject: USENET Readership summary for XXX XX posted Frequency: monthly From: nixpub@lgnp1.LS.COM (NIXPUB Coordinator) Newsgroups: pubnet.nixpub,comp.misc,alt.bbs Subject: Nixpub Posting Frequency: monthly From: ecl@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Evelyn C. Leeper) Newsgroups: rec.arts.books Subject: Holmes Booklist X.X Frequency: semi-annually From: ecl@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Evelyn C. Leeper) Newsgroups: rec.arts.cinema Subject: Academy Award nominees Frequency: annually From: ecl@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Evelyn C. Leeper) Newsgroups: rec.arts.cinema Subject: Academy Award winners Frequency: annually From: esti@tank.uchicago.edu (Paul A. Estin) Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics Subject: Welcome to Rec.arts.comics Frequency: monthly From: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (James C. Armstrong, Jr.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Answers to frequently asked questions Frequency: monthly From: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (James C. Armstrong, Jr.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Best Companion poll Frequency: monthly From: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (James C. Armstrong, Jr.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Best Story poll Frequency: monthly From: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (James C. Armstrong, Jr.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Companion Analysis Frequency: monthly From: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (James C. Armstrong, Jr.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Companion and Story Lists Frequency: monthly From: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (James C. Armstrong, Jr.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Explanation of next postings Frequency: monthly From: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (James C. Armstrong, Jr.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: The current status of Doctor Who Frequency: monthly From: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (James C. Armstrong, Jr.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Timelords on Doctor Who Frequency: monthly From: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (James C. Armstrong, Jr.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Tom Baker Scarf Pattern Frequency: monthly From: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (James C. Armstrong, Jr.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Worst Companion poll Frequency: monthly From: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (James C. Armstrong, Jr.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Worst Story poll Frequency: monthly From: hackman@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Otto "Hack-Man" Heuer) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek Subject: Frequently Asked Questions List Frequency: monthly From: hackman@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Otto "Hack-Man" Heuer) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek Subject: Star Trek Actors' Other Roles Frequency: monthly From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty) Newsgroups: rec.autos,rec.autos.tech,rec.autos.sport Subject: Welcome to Rec.Autos.* Frequency: monthly From: sean@stout.ism.isc.com Newsgroups: rec.guns Subject: Posting guidelines for rec.guns Frequency: monthly From: funny-request@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Editorial Policy on Offensive Jokes -- Monthly Posting Frequency: monthly From: funny-request@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Guidelines for Submissions -- Monthly Posting Frequency: monthly From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: rec.backcountry Subject: [l/m XX/XX] Distilled wisdom (1/6) disclaimer to remember and ethic Frequency: monthly From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: rec.backcountry Subject: [l/m XX/XX] Distilled wisdom (2/6) sources Frequency: monthly From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: rec.backcountry Subject: [l/m XX/XX] Distilled wisdom (3/6) learning Frequency: monthly From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: rec.backcountry Subject: [l/m XX/XX] Distilled wisdom (4/6) learning (2) Frequency: monthly From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: rec.backcountry Subject: [l/m XX/XX] Distilled non-wisdom (5/6) summary of past topics Frequency: monthly From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: rec.backcountry Subject: [l/m XX/XX] {under construction} (6/6) Frequency: monthly From: rsk@oldfield.cs.colostate.edu (Rich Kulawiec) Newsgroups: rec.boats.paddle Subject: Frequently asked questions and answers [last updated X/XX/XX] Frequency: monthly From: rsk@oldfield.cs.colostate.edu (Rich Kulawiec) Newsgroups: rec.boats.paddle Subject: Whitewater outfitter/dealer address list (X/XX/XX) Frequency: monthly From: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes Subject: MONTHLY: General Information [last updated XXX] Frequency: monthly From: muir@postgres.berkeley.edu (David Muir Sharnoff) Newsgroups: rec.games.empire Subject: empire versions -- monthly posting Frequency: monthly From: funny-request@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Introduction to REC.HUMOR.FUNNY -- Monthly Posting Frequency: monthly From: Chuq Von Rospach Newsgroups: rec.mag.otherrealms Subject: Introduction to rec.mag.otherrealms Frequency: tri-weekly From: rsk@oldfield.cs.colostate.edu (Rich Kulawiec) Newsgroups: rec.music.makers,rec.music.bluenote Subject: Listing of open club jam sessions as of X/X/X Frequency: monthly From: rsk@oldfield.cs.colostate.edu (Rich Kulawiec) Newsgroups: rec.music.makers,rec.music.synth Subject: Music Equipment Mail/Phone List Frequency: monthly From: prince@pawl.rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire) Newsgroups: rec.music.misc Subject: Billboard Top 10 Frequency: weekly From: eerke@cs.kun.nl (Eerke Boiten) Newsgroups: rec.music.misc Subject: Dutch Top 10 (singles) Frequency: weekly From: eerke@cs.kun.nl (Eerke Boiten) Newsgroups: rec.music.misc Subject: Dutch Top 10 (albums) Frequency: weekly From: owen@euclid.enet.dec.com (Steve Owen) Newsgroups: rec.music.misc,alt.rock-n-roll Subject: List of Musical Mailing Lists Frequency: monthly, or as heavy changes require From: rsk@cs.colostate.edu (Rich Kulawiec) Newsgroups: rec.music.misc,rec.arts.sf-lovers Subject: SF-references-in-music List Frequency: semi-annually From: ralph@mtunq.att.com (Ralph Brandi) Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave Subject: Welcome to rec.radio.shortwave (Introduction) Frequency: monthly From: ralph@mtunq.att.com (Ralph Brandi) Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave Subject: Welcome to rec.radio.shortwave (Scanners) Frequency: monthly From: ralph@mtunq.att.com (Ralph Brandi) Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave Subject: Welcome to rec.radio.shortwave (Shortwave) Frequency: monthly From: hooppoll@terminus.UUCP (Basketball Poll) Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball Subject: Basketball poll Frequency: weekly during college basketball season From: hooppoll@terminus.UUCP (Basketball Poll) Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball Subject: NCAA Division I-A Team list Frequency: weekly during college basketball season From: footpoll@terminus.UUCP (Football Poll) Newsgroups: rec.sport.football Subject: Football poll Frequency: weekly during college football season From: footpoll@terminus.UUCP (Football Poll) Newsgroups: rec.sport.football Subject: NCAA Division I-A Team list Frequency: weekly during college football season From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: rec.travel Subject: Simple suggestions for travel (net reminders really) Frequency: three times a year From: roche@cs.rochester.edu (Jim Roche) Newsgroups: rec.woodworking Subject: List of Frequently asked rec.woodworking questions Frequency: monthly From: roche@cs.rochester.edu (Jim Roche) Newsgroups: rec.woodworking Subject: Changes to List of Frequently asked rec.woodworking questions Frequency: monthly From: roche@cs.rochester.edu (Jim Roche) Newsgroups: rec.woodworking Subject: List of Frequently Requested rec.woodworking addresses Frequency: monthly From: roche@cs.rochester.edu (Jim Roche) Newsgroups: rec.woodworking Subject: Changes to List of Frequently Requested rec.woodworking addresses Frequency: monthly From: military@cbnews.att.com (Bill Thacker) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: How to Post to the sci.military Newsgroup Frequency: monthly From: military@cbnews.att.com (Bill Thacker) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: sci.military guidelines and etiquette Frequency: monthly From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: [l/m XX/XX] Reminders for Old Farts Frequency: monthly From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan Subject: [l/m XX/XX] A point of reference for s.c.j. Frequency: monthly From: tp@mccall.com Newsgroups: vmsnet.admin Subject: Monthly checkgroups posting Frequency: monthly From: tp@mccall.com Newsgroups: vmsnet.announce.newusers,comp.os.vms Subject: Monthly info posting: What is VMSnet? Frequency: monthly From: tp@mccall.com Newsgroups: vmsnet.announce.newusers,comp.os.vms Subject: Monthly info posting: VMSnet on Bitnet Frequency: monthly From: tp@mccall.com Newsgroups: vmsnet.sources.d,comp.os.vms Subject: Monthly info posting: vmsnet.sources archive sites Frequency: monthly X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 122 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!purdue!spaf Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers Subject: How to Get Information about Networks Message-ID: <13131@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:31 GMT Followup-To: news.admin Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:15:31 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <12410@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Lines: 69 Xref: simpact news.admin:4781 news.announce.newusers:122 Original-from: Randall Atkinson [Most recent change: 16 Oct 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] This is a periodic posting on how to get information about the National Science Foundation (NSF) Internet. The NSFNET Network Service Center (NNSC) makes current documentation on the NSFNET available via a mail server and by anonymous ftp. Because the contents of the documents are constantly being updated, this posting only describes how to obtain a current copy rather than providing the data directly. 1) Using anonymous FTP: host: SH.CS.NET username: anonymous password: guest directory: nsfnet (i.e. type: cd nsfnet ) The files "help-ftp", "help.1" and "nsfnet-help" will provide you with information to get started. 2) Using the mail server: Send mail to the address shown below (either nnsc.nsf.net or sh.cs.net) and leave the "Subject;" line blank. The first line of the message body should contain a "Request:" line, followed by a "Topic:" line, as described below. You do not need a "Subject:" line, but be sure your mailer puts out a valid "From:" line that the server can respond to! To obtain general information on the CSNET INFO SERVER send the following message to the mail-server "info-server@nnsc.nsf.net" or "info-server@sh.cs.net": Request: Info Topic: Help To obtain current contact information on the NSFNET and its affiliated regional networks, send the following mail message to the mail-server: "info-server@nnsc.nsf.net": Request: NSFNET Topic: NNSC To obtain information on how to connect to the Internet through the NSFNET or an NSF-affiliated network, send the following mail message to the mail-server "info-server@nnsc.nsf.net": Request: NSFNET Topic: CONNECTING To obtain information on the documents currently available on the NSFNET from the info-server, send the following mail message to the mail server "info-server@nnsc.nsf.net": Request: NSFNET Topic: NSFNET-HELP If you need to contact the people at the NNSC directly, you can either send mail or call them. It would be a good idea to read the NSFNET documents first though. Electronic Mail: Telephone: +1 (617) 873-3400. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 123 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!purdue!intuitive.com!taylor Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.groups Subject: A Guide to Social Newsgroups and Mailing Lists Message-ID: <13132@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: taylor@intuitive.com Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:33 GMT Reply-To: taylor@intuitive.com Sender: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Followup-To: news.announce.newusers Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:15:33 GMT Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Lines: 241 Xref: simpact news.announce.newusers:123 news.groups:14269 Original-from: taylor@intuitive.com (Dave Taylor) [Most recent change: 9 Nov 1990 by taylor@intuitive.com (Dave Taylor)] A Brief Guide to Social Newsgroups and Mailing Lists on the Usenet INTRODUCTION The Usenet distributed conferencing system is a terrific way to meet new friends and engage in many interesting topics of conversation, but people just joining our on-line community often have a difficult time figuring out which group is which and what groups they could join to find like-minded individuals. To try to help this situation, this article is intended to be one of a group of regularly posted articles that are given to new users to aid you in deciding where you might have the best luck finding new electronic friends that share your interests both socially and sexually. Disclaimer: some of what is said on Usenet might be offensive to you as some of the groups discuss topics that are, well, a bit unusual. Fortunately it's easy to avoid this problem; don't read that group. Also please keep in mind that the more controversial the subject, the more likely the group is awash in inane, unrelated discussion, partially due to the nature of the Usenet community and partially perhaps due to how uncomfortable most people are with these subjects. To reiterate this point, please do NOT join a group to find a forum for arguing or demonstrating righteous indignation over a particular belief, behavior, or desire. Those discussions are almost always completely inappropriate and the more controversial the subject, the more likely the participants in a group are going to dislike judgemental postings. Also, there is a good chance that you have misunderstood either the offending article or the responses of other readers. In other words, you may well be alone in your indignation. Finally, as with all groups on the Usenet, once you find one that seems of interest, please try to spend a week or two just reading the group and learning how conversations proceeed in that particular forum before you jump in. It'll save you, and others, a lot of grief and unpleasantness. THE GROUPS alt.romance One of the nicest things about any relationship, be it the beginning of a courtship or years into a more serious committment, are the little things that you do for each other, the romance. If you're interested in chatting with people about what is considered romantic, talking about a particular romantic thing that you've done, or even just reading stories about what other couples have done to 'be romantic' or 'have a romantic liason', then this is the group. alt.sex What's a relationship without sex? For that matter, how many of us would be around without our parents having had sex? This group is one of the most controversial on the net, not surprisingly, and while the actual number of articles that discuss sex or sexuality is distressingly low, the group is still an interesting place to find the occasional horror story of a sexual rendezvous gone bad, to read debates about what type of birth control (or condom) is best, or even to read some surprisingly revealing details about the sex lives of people on the net. alt.sex.bestiality While bestiality refers to engaging in sexual activity with an animal, the articles in this group seem to talk about everything but that. alt.sex.bondage The best spin-off discussion from alt.sex, this group has a higher level of interesting articles, which talk about bondage and related topics, ranging from the psychology of being confined by another during sexual play to the mechanics of different bondage devices. It also occasionally delves into sadism and masochism, so as with any other group, if you don't like what you're reading, be prepared to unsubscribe. rec.arts.erotica A moderated group with long, but infrequent articles, rec.arts.erotica is the main focus for erotica and pornography, depending on your standards. Most are explicit, and some demonstrate a surprising writing ability, but many also seem rather sleazy and variously demeaning. Just like reading the Letters to Penthouse, it's a mixed bag as to whether any of it will be exciting or erotic to you. soc.couples Being in a short or long term relationship offers much in the way of joy, pleasure, and emotional satisfaction, but it also offers the chance for major arguments and other problems. This group is where you can talk about the relationship you're in with others that are also in relationships of their own. soc.feminism Soc.feminism is a moderated newsgroup for the discussion of feminist issues. Both men and women are encouraged to post to it and discussion is not limited to the pro-feminist viewpoint. This group differs from soc.women in that moderation keeps out the flames and inappropriate cross-posts. In addition, there are several subjects appropriate for soc.women but not soc.feminism (e.g. the sporadic "where do I find comfortable shoes?" discussion that turns up in soc.women or discussions of women's health, other than policy issues related to it). soc.men This group discusses similar issues to soc.women, but from the male perspective. Topics include equal rights, child support, custody of children, relationships and so on. In addition, there are often topics specific to men including shaving in the shower, post-workout skin care, and similar. Both men and women are active participants in this group. soc.motss While the Usenet community is pretty open minded, many of the aforementioned social groups tend to be populated primarily by the heterosexual community. Soc.motss (Members of the Same Sex) is where people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or just interested and sympathetic can share conversation about relationships, dating, travel, and the like. Discussion of the validity or appropriateness of homosexuality is inappropriate, however, and will not be appreciated. soc.singles Of all the things that people seem to have in common, perhaps the most common thread of all is the bouts of being single, and the hunting and searching for relationships that this implies. This group is a forum for all discussions even vaguely related to either being single or the quest for a relationship. Indeed, it has been likened to an electronic cocktail party, where people have known each other (electronically, usually) for years. There are also a number of people in relationships that share their thoughts, as well as a high level of aggression between some of the contributors. soc.women Soc.women is an unmoderated group that discusses similar issues to soc.men, but from the female perspective. Topics include equal rights, child support, custody of children, relationships and so on. In addition, there are often topics specific to women including shaving legs, finding comfortable shoes, and so on. Both men and women are active participants in this group. OTHER PLACES TO LOOK In addition to these Usenet groups, there are many other forums on Usenet where you can make new friends and share conversations about topics of interest to yourself. Among them are the many "soc.culture" groups for specific ethnic/geographic cultures, the "soc.religion" and "talk.religion" groups for those interested in meeting friends of a specific religious background, the "rec.*" groups oriented about a specific recreational activity and many more. Also, there are a number of different private mailing lists for specific sexual and social orientations, including: alternates Contact: alternates-request@binbi.vanc.wa.us Purpose: Mail.alternates is a mail list for people who advocate, and/or practice an open sexual lifestyle. Its members are primarily bisexual men and women, and their SO's. Mail.alternates is intended as a forum, and support group for adult men and women who espouse their freedom of choice and imagination in human sexual relations, no matter what their orientaion. Those who are offended by frank, and uninhibited discussions relating to sexual issues should not subscribe. Moderator/Editor: Hank Buurman bears Contact: bears-request@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer & Brian Gollum) ...!{harvard,ima,linus,mirror}!spdcc!bears-request Purpose: Mail.bears is a mailing list in digest format for gay and bisexual men who are bears themselves and for those who enjoy the company of bears. The exact definition of a "bear" seems to be a personal one, but it encompasses men who are variously cuddly, furry, perhaps stocky, or bearded. Mail.bears is designed to be a forum to bring together folks with similar interests for conversation, friendship and sharing of experiences. The tone of mail.bears will be determined by its members, but people uncomfortable with discussing sexually explicit topics via electronic mail should not subscribe. cdforum Contact: uunet!samsung!wizvax!cdforum-request (Stephanie Gilgut) Purpose: To provide support/discuss/share experiences about gender related issues; Crossdressing, Transvestism, Transsexualism, etc. This list is in Digest Format. feminists Contact: femail@hpldlh.hpl.hp.com (Patricia Collins) Purpose: The feminist mailing list is intended to provide a forum for discussion of issues of interest to women, in a friendly atmosphere. The basic tenets of feminism and the day-to-day experiences of women do not have to be explained or defended. Men and women can join, but everyone requesting to be added to the mailing list MUST provide the moderator with: 1) a full name; 2) a complete uucp path to a well-known host or a fully specified Internet address; 3) the correspondent's gender (for records and statistics only). NO exceptions. men Contact: attunix!mail-men-request mail-men-request@attunix.att.com (Marcel Franck Simon) Purpose: This digested mailing list discusses "men's issues." Both women and men may join. Mail-men is a place where men and women can discuss men's issues in an atmosphere of openness and support. Men's issues are those problems and experiences that affect male humans. sappho Contact: sappho-request@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz) {mit-eddie,bu-cs}!bloom-beacon!sappho-request Purpose: A forum and support group for gay and bisexual women. The list is not moderated, but may become so if the volume and/or content begins to warrant it. A digest version is available; if you want it, be sure to mention it in your addition request. Men who want to "listen in," for whatever reason, are requested to use the feminist and alternates mailing lists instead; sappho membership is limited to women. SUMMARY Please use this list of Usenet groups and mailing lists as one of the many signposts to help you find the groups that you'll be interested in. One other terrific place to find more information is by asking your friends on the net what groups they read too! X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 124 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!gatech!purdue!uunet.uu.net Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.announce.newusers Subject: Regional Newsgroup Hierarchies Message-ID: <13127@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan) Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:23 GMT Sender: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Followup-To: asp@uunet.uu.net Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:15:22 GMT Summary: Describes 99 regional hierarchies Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <12405@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Lines: 1630 Xref: simpact news.lists:446 news.groups:14273 news.announce.newusers:124 Original-from: asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan) [Most recent change: 23 Oct 1990 by asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)] Introduction ------------ There are a large number of regional hierarchies of newsgroups. Most are very low volume. The only high volume hierarchy is fj.*. Where known, I have tried to list someone who *may* know more about the hierarchy than I do. Note that the "uunet" service carries most of these hierarchies. Contact uunet!uunet-request for subscription details. Also note -- the lists in this article are totally unofficial and possibly incomplete or inaccurate. I try to keep the lists up-to-date, but make no guarantee that any of the information contained corresponds with the named groups in any significant way. Corrections and comments should be mailed directly to me (asp@uunet.uu.net, uunet!asp). This list is not for internal newsgroups that should not been seen outside of your organization or university. If any newsgroups are listed here that should not be, please let me know & they will be removed from the next posting of this list. The following newsgroups have either changed or been added since the last posting: atl dnet gbg nz swnet capdist dtek math pnw tor chi essug mtl rpi triangle cth eunet nordunet scruz utc dk fl ny sdnet york The following newsgroups have been deleted since the last posting: This list contains the following hierarchies: ab dfw ls oc swnet al dk math oh tba athena dnet mcnc ok tn atl dtek melb ont tor aus duke mhk or triangle austin edm mi ott tx ba essug milw pa uc boulder eunet mit pdx uchi bu fj mn pgh udel ca fl mtl pnw uk can fnet ncsc princeton ut capdist ga ne purdue utc chi gbg nj rpi utcs chv houston nmsu sac uw cle hsv no sat uwisc co kc nordunet scruz va csu ks nwu sdnet wi cth kw ny seattle yale cu la nz stl york dc lou oau sub Ab -- Newsgroups in Alberta, Canada. ab.general Items of general interest in Alberta, Canada. ab.jobs Jobs in Alberta, Canada. Al -- Newsgroups in Alabama, USA. Athena ------ Newsgroups at Project Athena, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. For more information, you can try contacting S. Tucker or ambar@athena.mit.edu. athena.forsale Items for sale at MIT's Project Athena. athena.housing Housing at MIT's Project Athena. athena.misc Misc. at MIT's Project Athena. athena.test Testing at MIT's Project Athena. Atl --- Newsgroups in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. atl.general Items of General interest in Atlanta, GA. atl.jobs Jobs in Atlanta, GA. atl.olympics The Olympics in Atlanta, GA. atl.resumes Resumes in Atlanta, GA. atl.test Testing in Atlanta, GA. Aus --- Newsgroups in Australia. For more information, you can try contacting Robert Elz . aus.aarnet [Australian] aus.acsnet Discussions of ACSnet (incl bug reports) [Australian] aus.ai AI discussions [Australian] aus.archives Descriptions of public access archives in Australia. aus.auug AUUG Inc - Australian Unix User Group [Australian] aus.aviation Planes, gliders, flying, etc. [Australian] aus.bicycle Push bikes [Australian] aus.comms Discussion about Academic Network Proposal [Australian] aus.computers Misc computer types [Australian] aus.computers.amiga Discussions about Commodore Amiga computers [Australian] aus.computers.ibm-pc Discussions about the IBM pc & clones [Australian] aus.conserve Conservation issues. [Australian] aus.culture.china China discussions. [Australian] aus.films Movies, Cinema, TV [Australian] aus.flame Abusive noise, posted by morons. [Australian] aus.followup Followups to aus.general & aus.wanted articles [Australian] aus.footy ? [Australian] aus.forsale Announcements of items for sale. [Australian] aus.fps Fast Packet Switching [Australian] aus.games Discussions of games. [Australian] aus.games.roleplay Discussions of role playing games. [Australian] aus.general General information, announcements, etc [Australian] aus.genstat Genstat Stats Package [Australian] aus.hi-fi Hi-Fi/Stereo stuff [Australian] aus.jobs Jobs available & wanted [Australian] aus.jokes Jokes, humour, and boring trivia [Australian] aus.jokes.d Discussions of why that joke was no good [Australian] aus.kermit The KERMIT file transfer protocol [Australian] aus.lp Logic Programming [Australian] aus.mac The Apple Macintosh computer [Australian] aus.mail Mail systems, addressinc, &c [Australian] aus.map ACSnet maps (Moderated) [Australian] aus.mbio Molecular biology [Australian] aus.music Music and related issues. [Australian] aus.netstatus Status of local & international net links [Australian] aus.news The news system [Australian] aus.parallel Parallel processing [Australian] aus.photo [Australian] aus.politics Politics, debates, rational(?) arguments. [Australian] aus.pyramid Pyramid computers [Australian] aus.radio Amateur Radio [Australian] aus.radio.amsat Amateur satellite radio [Australian] aus.religion Discussions of, or related to, religions [Australian] aus.scheme Scheme [Australian] aus.sf Discussion of SF&F literature,media,fandom [Australian] aus.sources Sources [Australian] aus.spearnet South Pacific Educational & Research Net [Australian] aus.sport Sports. [Australian] aus.stats.s The S data analysis and graphics software [Australian] aus.sun-works Sun Workstations [Australian] aus.tex The TeX typesetting system [Australian] aus.wanted Requests for sources, information, ... [Australian] Austin ------ Newsgroups in Austin, Texas, USA. For more information, you can try contacting Fletcher Mattox . austin.followup Followups for Austin, TX. austin.forsale Items for sale in Austin, TX. austin.general Items of general interest in Austin, TX. austin.important Important issues in Austin, TX. austin.news News in Austin, TX. austin.talk Talk in Austin, TX. Ba -- Newsgroups in the Bay Area of California, USA. For more information, you can try contacting Carl S. Gutekunst . ba.announce Announcements of general interest to all readers. (Moderated) ba.food Bay Area restaurants and eating places. ba.general Announcements of general interest to all readers. ba.market.computers For Sale/Wanted: Computers and software. ba.market.housing For Sale/Rent/Wanted: Housing, land, roommates. ba.market.misc For Sale/Wanted: Miscellaneous. ba.market.vehicles For Sale/Wanted: Autos, cycles, trucks, etc. ba.motss Newsgroup for Bay Area motss'ers. ba.mountain-folk Living in the hills and mountains around the Bay Area. ba.music Musical events in the Bay Area. ba.news Bay Area USENET statistical and information postings. ba.news.config Announcments and discussion of Bay Area connectivity. ba.news.group Meta-discussions about newsgroups in 'ba' distribution. ba.news.stats USENET statistics in the Bay Area. ba.politics Political topics of interest to Bay Area readers. ba.seminars Announcements of Bay Area seminars. ba.singles Local newsgroup for single people. ba.sports Discussion of sports in the Bay Area. ba.test Tests of 'ba' distribution. (Some sites autorespond.) ba.transportation Discussion of Bay Area transit/commute/driving issues. ba.windows.x X windows discussion/help. Boulder ------ Newsgroups in Boulder, Colorado, USA. boulder.general Items of general interest to Boulder, CO. Bu ------ Newsgroups at Boston University, Boston, MA. For more information, you can try contacting Leonard (Len) H. Tower Jr. . Ca -- Newsgroups in California, USA. ca.driving California freeways and backroads. ca.earthquakes What's shakin' in California. ca.environment Environmental concerns in California. ca.general Of general interest to readers in Calfornia only. ca.news USENET status and usage in California. ca.news.group Existing or proposed newsgroups for 'ca' distribution. ca.politics Political topics of interest to California readers only. ca.test Tests of 'ca' distribution articles. ca.unix Unix discussion/help. ca.wanted For Sale/Wanted postings throughout California. Can --- Newsgroups in Canada. can.ai Artificial intelligence in Canada. can.francais About the Francophone population (in French). can.general Items of general interest to Canadians. can.jobs Jobs in Canada. can.politics Canadian politics. can.sun-stroke Sun Microsystems Users in Canada. can.usrgroup Unix user group information in Canada. can.uucp Canadian uucp problems. Capdist ------- Newsgroups in the Capital District (Albany area) of New York, in New York, USA. capdist.admin Administrative topics of capdist USENET. capdist.announce Announcements for the capdist area. capdist.general General topic postings for the NY capital district. capdist.misc Redundant with capdist.general. capdist.seminars Conferences and seminars in the local area. capdist.test For testing the capdist distribution. Chi --- Newsgroups in Chicago, Illinois, USA. For more information, you can try contacting Ron Heiby . chi.ai AI in Chicago. chi.eats Group for discussion of Chicagoland restaurants. chi.general General discussions, Chicago area, not forsale/wanted. chi.mail Discussion of Chicago area email issues. chi.places Group for announcements of Chicago area events. chi.test USENET testing in Chicago. chi.wanted Chicago area wanted and for-sale notices. chi.weather Chicago area weather. Chv --- Newsgroups in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. chv.general For folks in Charlottesville, Virginia. Cle --- Newsgroups in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. For more information, you can try contacting Brandon Allbery. cle.general Items of general interest to Cleveland. Co -- Newsgroups in Colorado, USA. co.general Items of general interest to Colorado. co.test Testing in Colorado. Csu --- Newsgroups at Colorado State in Colorado, USA. For more information, you can try contacting news@ccncsu.colostate.edu. csu.acm For student/local chapter of the ACM. csu.cs General CS department announcements. csu.cs.grads For computer science department grad students. csu.cs.jobs Jobs available in the CS department. csu.cs.labops Announcements for CS department lab operators. csu.cs.systems Announcements about CS systems/networks. csu.cs.undergrad For computer science department undergrads. csu.general General topics. csu.lance Engineering computer network topics. csu.lance.ace Department of agricultural/chemical engineering topics. csu.lance.atmos Department of atmospheric science topics. csu.lance.ce Department of civil engineering topics. csu.lance.ee Department of electrical engineering topics. csu.lance.es Department of engineering science topics. csu.lance.graphics Graphics topics within engineering. csu.lance.ieee For student/local chapter on the IEEE. csu.lance.me Department of mechanical engineering topics. csu.lance.news General engineering news. csu.lance.talk Extended discussions. csu.lance.text Text processing topics within engineering. csu.test Local testing. Cth --- Newsgroups at the Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden. For more information, you can try contacting d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se. cth.general general cth.test test messages Cu -- Newsgroups at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in Boulder, Colorado, USA. For more information, you can try contacting news@boulder.colorado.edu. cu.acm Local/student chapter of the ACM cu.applmath Applied math announcements/discussion cu.cs.clim ?? cu.cs.commonloops CommonLoops users discussion cu.cs.contest CS department programming contest announcements cu.cs.general General CS department announcements/discussion cu.cs.grads CS department announcements for grad students cu.cs.macl MacLisp users discussion cu.cs.ugrads CS department announcements for undergrads cu.diversity ?? cu.ece.grads Engineering/Computer Engineering grad students cu.general General announcements and discussion cu.hpai ?? cu.ics ?? cu.math Math department announcements cu.mcdb ?? cu.motif-talk Discussion about the Motif environment cu.netstat Statistics from CU campus network cu.nih.newsltr ?? cu.ocs Optical Computing? cu.slug Sun Local User's Group cu.test Local testing cu.users.dec Local DEC hardware users discussion cu.users.tex Local TeX hardware users discussion cu.users.ultrix Local Ultrix software users discussion cu.users.xwindows Local X-windows software users discussion Dc -- Newsgroups in Washington DC, USA (and the general metro area around Washington DC in Maryland and Virgina). dc.dining Dining in the Washington, DC area. dc.forsale Items for sale in the Washington, DC area. dc.general Items of general interest to the Washington, DC area. dc.smithsonian Smithsonian related events in the Washington, DC area. dc.test Testing in the Washington, DC area. Dfw --- Newsgroups in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, USA. For more information, you can try contacting Greg Hackney or Mark Linimon . dfw.eats Dining in Dallas/Fort Worth. dfw.flame Flaming in Dallas/Fort Worth. dfw.forsale Items for sale in Dallas/Fort Worth. dfw.general Items of general interest in Dallas/Fort Worth. dfw.news USENET in Dallas/Fort Worth. dfw.test Testing in Dallas/Fort Worth. Dk --- Newsgroups in Denmark. dk.foredrag 'foredrag' means lecture or presentation. dk.general gereral dk.kurser.dcomp courses in compurter communications?? dk.test test messages Dnet ---- Newsgroups in Germany, all in German. dnet.and.sub.general General information for dnet and subnet dnet.atari Atari computers dnet.comp.pcs PC computers dnet.general General information for dnet dnet.graphik Graphics (Moderated) dnet.ham Group for D.A.R.C. = "Deutscher Amateur Radio Club" dnet.inet Networking/Internet dnet.mod-ki Artificial intelligence (Moderated) dnet.news News/mail dnet.test USENET testing in dnet. dnet.witze Jokes Dtek --- Newsgroups at the Chalmers University of Technology, Computer Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden. For more information, you can try contacting d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se. dtek.buggar about found bugs dtek.general general dtek.info information dtek.newsoft new software dtek.test test messages Duke ---- Newsgroups at Duke University, North Carolina, USA. For more information, you can try contacting Gregory G. Woodbury . duke.csdept Computer Science Department duke.general Duke University General duke.hacker programming and hardware topics duke.systems system admin notices duke.vlsi VLSI topics Edm --- Newsgroups in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. edm.general Items of general interest in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. edm.usrgrp Unix Users Group in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Essug ----- Newsgroups for the ESS User Group. essug.copt ESS User Group essug.misc ESS User Group essug.telco ESS User Group Eunet ----- Newsgroups in Europe. For more information, you can try contacting Piet Beertema or Daniel Karrenberg . eunet.bugs.4bsd Bug reports on 4.*bsd, limited (EUnet) "audience". eunet.bugs.uucp Bug reports on uucp, specifically EUUG uucp. eunet.checkgroups Only for central posting of checkgroups messages. (Moderated) eunet.esprit Discussion/info about Esprit projects. eunet.esprit.eurochip Esprit VLSI Design - Eurochip. eunet.euug EUUG-related topics, announcements, etc. eunet.followup Followup group for eunet.general. eunet.general General discussions. eunet.jokes Jokes only Europeans can (do?) understand... :-) eunet.micro.acorn Discussion about Acorn micros. eunet.misc For other discussions. eunet.newprod Announcements of new products of European interest. eunet.news Group for news topics, limited to EUnet. eunet.news.group Discussion on and proposals for new eunet newsgroups. eunet.politics (European) political discussions (and flames!). eunet.sources EUnet-wide (only!) group for posting sources. eunet.test EUnet-wide test group. eunet.works Workstations (specifically European) topics. Fj -- Newsgroups in Japan. Most of the discussion in these newsgroups in carried on in Kanji and you need a Kanji newsreader to be able to read them. For more information, you can try contacting news@icsts1.osaka-u.ac.jp. fj.ai Artificial intelligence discussions. fj.announce General announcements of interest to all. (Moderated) fj.binaries.mac Encoded Macintosh programs in binary. fj.binaries.misc Encoded programs in binary not covered elsewhere. fj.binaries.msdos Encoded MS-DOS programs in binary. (Moderated) fj.binaries.msdos.d Topics on softwares posted to fj.binary.msdos. fj.books Books of all genres, shapes, and sizes. fj.comp.arch Computer architecture. fj.comp.comm Discussion about software & hardware for communications. fj.comp.image Computer graphics, art, animation, image processing. fj.comp.misc General topics about computers not covered elsewhere. fj.comp.music Topics about computers and music. fj.comp.oops Object Oriented Programming, System, etc. fj.comp.parallel Discussion about parallel computing. fj.comp.printers Printers, hardware & software. fj.comp.texhax Discussion about TeXhax and delivery of mailing list. fj.comp.text Text processing issues and methods. fj.editor.emacs EMACS editors of different flavors. fj.editor.misc Talk about editors. fj.editor.sse Discussion about SSE (Simple Screen Editor). fj.followup Followups to articles in fj.general. fj.forsale Short, tasteful postings about items for sale. fj.general *Important* and timely announcements of interest to all. fj.guide.admin Junet guide for administrators. (Moderated) fj.guide.general Junet guide. Rules, Convention, etc. (Moderated) fj.guide.newusers Explanatory postings for new users. (Moderated) fj.info-terms All sorts of terminals. fj.jokes Joke and humor. fj.junet General discussion about JUNET itself. fj.jus Information about JUS. fj.kanakan.misc Discussion about kana-kanji henkan. fj.kanakan.wnn Discussion about Wnn kana-kanji henkan system. fj.kanji Discussion about Kanji. fj.kermit Discussion about kermit package. fj.lan Local area network hardware and software. fj.lang.ada Discussion about Ada*. fj.lang.c Discussion about C. fj.lang.forth Discussion about Forth. fj.lang.lisp Discussion about LISP. fj.lang.misc Different computer languages not specifically listed. fj.lang.mod2 Discussion about Modula-2. fj.lang.prolog Discussion about PROLOG. fj.lang.st80 Discussion about Smalltalk 80. fj.lectures Informative talks given to the news readers. fj.mail Proposed new mail/network standards. fj.mail-lists.apollo Apollo workstation mailing list. (Moderated) fj.mail-lists.common-lisp Common lisp mailing list from ARPA. (Moderated) fj.mail-lists.connectionist Connectionist mailing list. (Moderated) fj.mail-lists.info-japan Info-japan mailing list from ARPA. (Moderated) fj.mail-lists.nihongo Nihongo mailing list from ARPA. (Moderated) fj.mail-lists.occam Occam mailing list from ARPA. (Moderated) fj.mail-lists.parallel comp.parallel mailing list. (Moderated) fj.mail-lists.reduce Reduce mailing list. (Moderated) fj.mail-lists.types Types mailing list from ARPA. (Moderated) fj.mail-lists.x-window X window mailing list from ARPA. (Moderated) fj.meetings announce for conference, workshop, etc. Not-moderated. fj.misc Various discussions that there are no groups to match. fj.net-people Announcements, requests, etc. about people on the net. fj.news.adm Comments directed to news administrators. fj.news.b Discussion about B news software. fj.news.config Postings of system down times and configuration change. fj.news.group Discussions and lists of newsgroups. fj.news.lists News-related statistics and lists. fj.news.map Various maps, including UUCP maps. fj.news.misc Discussions of network news on JUNET itself. fj.news.newsite Postings of new site announcements. fj.news.sa Comments directed to system administrators. fj.os.minix Discussion about the MINIX operating system. fj.os.misc Discussion about operating systems not covered elsewhere. fj.os.msdos Discussion about the MSDOS operating system. fj.os.os9 Discussion about the OS9 operating system. fj.papers Papers of all genres. fj.ptt Information about PTT. fj.questions.junet Questions especially about JUNET. fj.questions.misc Questions about miscellaneous subjects. fj.questions.unix Questions especially about UNIX. fj.rec.aerospace About aviation. Airplane, airsports,,, fj.rec.animation Discussion about animated movies. fj.rec.autos Automobiles, automotive products and laws. fj.rec.av High fidelity audio and video components. fj.rec.baseball Discussion about baseball. fj.rec.bikes Motorcycles and Bicycles, related products and laws. fj.rec.comics The funnies, old and new. fj.rec.food Food, wine, spirits, cooking, cookbooks, and recipes. fj.rec.games Discussion about games and computer games. fj.rec.games.scores Personal best scores of games and computer games. fj.rec.ham topics about ham radio. fj.rec.idol General topics about idol. fj.rec.marine Marine recreation. Diving, swimming, yachting,,, fj.rec.misc Recreational/participant topics not covered elsewhere. fj.rec.movies Reviews and discussions of movies. fj.rec.music Discussion about music. fj.rec.music.classical Talk around classical music. fj.rec.music.progressive Talk around Progressive rock. fj.rec.mystery Talk about mystery. fj.rec.photo Topics about cameras and photographs. fj.rec.rail Discussion about railway & railroad. fj.rec.sf Discussion about science fiction. fj.rec.sports Topics about sports. fj.rec.sports.football Talk around footballs. fj.rec.sports.keiba About horseracing. fj.rec.sports.prowrestling About prowrestling. fj.rec.sports.ski About skiing. fj.rec.travel Traveling all over the world. fj.rec.tv Talk about Television and its shows. fj.sci.astro Discussion about stars, planets and comets. fj.sci.lang Natural languages, communication, etc. fj.sci.math Mathematical discussions and pursuits. fj.sci.misc Discussions about sciences not covered elsewhere. fj.soc.culture Group about (japanese?) culture. fj.soc.law Topics on Low and right. fj.soc.men-women Fairness ,Right, etc. between women and men. fj.soc.misc Socially-oriented topics not covered elsewhere. fj.soc.tech Topics on society and technology . fj.sources For the posting of software packages & documentation. fj.sources.d For any discussion of source postings. fj.sources.mac Software for the Apple Macintosh. fj.std Discussion about various standards. fj.sys.famicom Discussion about Nintendo's Family Computer. fj.sys.j3100 Discussion about TOSHIBA's J3100-family computers. fj.sys.mac Discussion about the Apple Macintosh & Lisa. fj.sys.misc Discussion about computers of all other kinds. fj.sys.news Discussion about SONY NEWS workstation. fj.sys.pc98 Discussion about NEC's PC-9800 & other computers. fj.sys.sun Discussion about SUN workstation. fj.sys.x68000 Discussion about Sharp's X-68000 & other computers. fj.test Testing all over JUNET. Very boring. fj.unix UNIX neophytes group. fj.unix.wizards Discussions, bug reports, and fixes on and for UNIX. fj.wanted Requests for things that are needed. fj.windows.gmw GMW window systems. fj.windows.misc miscellaneous window systems. fj.windows.x About X window systems. Fl -- Newsgroups in Florida, USA. For more information you can try contacting Andrew Mossberg . fl.announce Important announcements for everyone in Florida. fl.attractions Florida attractions and entertainment. fl.comp General computers in florida. fl.comp.rep Technical computer repair or modifications in Florida. fl.general General topics in Florida. fl.jobs The Florida job market. fl.mail Mail systems, routers, paths .. in Florida. fl.map Map entries for Florida sites. (Moderated) fl.news News problems and features in Florida. fl.sources Distribution of source code or documentation in Florida. fl.test Testing workspace in Florida. fl.travel Travel within Florida. fl.uug UNIX user groups within Florida. fl.yumyum Reviews and advice on restaurants in Florida. Fnet ---- Newsgroups in France (?). fnet.followup Followups in France. fnet.general Items of general interest in France. fnet.test USENET testing in France. Ga -- Newsgroups in Georgia, USA. ga.forsale Items for sale in Georgia. ga.general Items of general interest in Georgia. ga.test Testing in Georgia. Gbg --- Newsgroups in Gothenburg, Sweden. For more information, you can try contacting d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se. gbg.general general Houston ------- Newsgroups in Houston, Texas, USA. For more information, you can try contacting Stan Barber . houston.eats Dining in Houston, TX. houston.general Items of general interest in Houston, TX. houston.news USENET in Houston, TX. houston.personals Personals for Houston, Texas. houston.singles Singles for Houston, Texas. houston.wanted Things wanted in Houston, TX. Hsv --- Newsgroups in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. hsv.general Items of general interest in Huntsville, Alabama. Kc -- Newsgroups in the Kansas City metro area, Kansas, USA. kc.misc Misc. postings in Kansas City. kc.test USENET testing in Kansas City. Ks -- Newsgroups in Kansas, USA. ks.admin Administration in Kansas. ks.misc Misc postings in Kansas. Kw -- Newsgroups in Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. kw.bb.sale Things for sale kw.birthdays Happy birthday kw.cpsr KW branch of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility kw.eats Restaurant reviews kw.forsale Things for sale kw.fun Fun stuff kw.general General information in Kitchener-Waterloo kw.housing Rooms for rent kw.jobs Job postings kw.micro Microcomputer discussion kw.microvax DEC microvax users kw.movies Film reviews kw.theatre Theatre reviews, etc kw.uucp Local uucp problems La -- Newsgroups in Los Angeles, California, USA. la.eats Dining in Los Angeles, CA. la.general Items of general interest in Los Angeles, CA. la.news USENET in Los Angeles, CA. la.seminars Seminars in Los Angeles, CA. la.slug Los Angeles Sun Lover's User Group. la.test Testing in Los Angeles, CA. Lou --- Newsgroups in Louisiana, USA. lou.general Items of general interest in Louisiana. lou.sun Suns in Louisiana. Ls -- Newsgroups in some unknown place. ls.amnesty Amnesty International?? in ?? ls.olnews ?? in ?? ls.ussr Postings on the Soviet Union??? Math --- Newsgroups at the Chalmers University of Technology, Math Department, in Gothenburg, Sweden. For more information, you can try contacting d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se. math.general general math.news about news (math is a central nntpserver on cth) Mcnc ---- Newsgroups at the MicroElectronics Center of North Carolina, USA. For more information, you can try contacting Gregory G. Woodbury . mcnc.cad ?? mcnc.convex ?? mcnc.dcom ?? mcnc.general general notes at MCNC. mcnc.ncsulab ?? mcnc.programmers ?? mcnc.srt ?? mcnc.staff notes to the staff at MCNC. mcnc.systems system admin notices at MCNC. mcnc.talks Seminars at MCNC. mcnc.teleclass ?? mcnc.test ?? mcnc.text ?? mcnc.video Programming announcements for MCNC Video Network. Melb ---- Newsgroups in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. melb.general Items of general interest in Melbourne. melb.seminars Seminar announcements in Melbourne. Mhk --- Newsgroups in Manhattan, Kansas, USA. mhk.forsale Items for sale. mhk.talk.drivel Trivia, flames, drivel. mhk.talk.misc Miscellaneous. mhk.test Test messages. Mi -- Newsgroups in Michigan, USA. For more information, you can try contacting Steve Simmons . mi.map USENET maps in Michigan. mi.misc Catchall for Michigan. mi.news USENET news and mail discussions. mi.sun Suns Microsystems products in Michigan. mi.wanted Jobs and products, wanted and offered. Milw ---- Newsgroups in Milwaukee, Wisconsion, USA. milw.general Items of general interest in Milwaukee. MIT --- Newsgroups at MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. For more information, you can try contacting Nick Papadakis . mit.bboard MIT's Bulletin Board. mit.test For mit.all test USENET news messages. Boring. Mn -- Newsgroups in Minnesota, USA. mn.archive Archive sites in Minnesota. mn.general Items of general interest to Minnesota. mn.map Minnesota uucp map postings. (Moderated) mn.sources Minnesota program sources. mn.test Testing in Minnesota. mn.traffic Minnesota USENET traffic statistics. Mtl --- Newsgroups in Montreal, Canada. mtl.general General stuff in Montreal. mtl.test USENET Testing in Montreal. Ncsc ---- Newsgroups at the North Carolina Supercomputing Center. For more information, you can try contacting Gregory G. Woodbury . ncsc.chemistry ?? ncsc.general NC Supercomputing general topics. ncsc.training ?? Ne -- Newsgroups in the New England area of the USA. For more information, you can try contacting Leonard (Len) H. Tower Jr. . ne.food New England food and restaurant reviews. ne.forsale Short postings on items for sale in New England. ne.general New England general stuff. ne.housing Short postings on housing wanted or available in NE. ne.jobs New England job listings. ne.nearnet.general Discuss the New England Academic and Research Network. ne.nearnet.tech Technical operation and future of NEARnet. ne.news New England news (USENET) administration. ne.org.decus CRIMLUG discussion, the Southern NE Decus group. ne.politics Discussio of NE political issues. ne.seminars New England upcoming talks, seminars, etc. ne.wanted New England want-ads. Nj -- Newsgroups in New Jersey, USA. nj.events Events in New Jersey. nj.followup Followups to items of general interest in New Jersey. nj.forsale Items for sale in New Jersey. nj.general Items of general interest in New Jersey. nj.housing Housing in New Jersey. nj.test USENET Testing in New Jersey. nj.wanted New Jersey want ads. nj.weather Weather in New Jersey. Nmsu ---- Newsgroups at New Mexico State University, in New Mexico, USA. nmsu.cc.general computer center general announcements nmsu.cc.test computer center test nmsu.crl.general computing research laboratory announcements nmsu.crl.ksg knowledge systems group in crl at nmsu nmsu.crl.nlp natural language processing group in crl at nmsu nmsu.crl.test crl test group nmsu.cs.ACM the acm student organization announcement group nmsu.cs.general general cs department announcements nmsu.cs.system cs department system announcements for uptime, etc. nmsu.forsale for sale at nmsu nmsu.general general announcements of interest at nmsu nmsu.unix.questions the novice's home for unix questioning No -- Newsgroups in Norway, mostly in Norwegian. For more information, you can try contacting Bjorn Larsen . no.c Discussion of the C programming language. no.general Items of general interest in Norway. no.kjemi Chemistry. no.net Discussion of network related things. no.nuug Forum for the Norwegian Unix Users Group. no.sources.list Announcements of new, available software. no.sources.wanted Requests for software. no.test Testing the Norwegian News network. no.unix Discussion of the UNIX operating system. no.x Discussions of the X Window System from MIT. Nordunet -------- Newsgroups for the Nordic University Net (Universities in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and possible Iceland?). For more information, you can try contacting d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se. nordunet.apple-ip ?? nordunet.doc documentation?? nordunet.ds ?? nordunet.followup followups nordunet.general general nordunet.ietf ?? nordunet.nucc Nordic Universities Computer Clubs nordunet.sources sourcecode nordunet.sources.list list of ditto Nwu --- Newsgroups in some unknown place. This may be Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, USA. nwu.general Items of general interest in ??. Ny -- Newsgroups in New York, USA (for all of New York state - not just the City). ny.config Discussions of NY, non-nysernet, network matters. ny.forsale Things for sale in NY. ny.general NY State regional sub network - General Stuff. ny.nysernet Discussions about NY State Educ. Research Network. ny.nysernet.maps Various NYSERNET maps. ny.nysernet.nysertech Technical discussions about NYSERNET. ny.politics Politics in New York. ny.test USENET news testing in New York. ny.wanted New York want ads. Nz -- Newsgroups in New Zealand. For more information, you can try contacting Mark Davies . nz.archives Announcements of available software. nz.arts Discussion on the Arts. nz.comp Computing and computers. nz.general General information, announcements, etc nz.molbio Molecular Biology. nz.netstatus Status of local & international net links nz.rec Recreation. nz.soc Social issues. nz.soc.green Environmental issues. nz.wanted Requests for sources, information, ... Oau --- Newsgroups in Orlando, Florida, USA. oau.news Orlando FL news Oc -- Newsgroups in Orange County, California, USA. oc.acm Orange County, CA ACM related information. oc.general Items of general interest in Orange County, CA. oc.test Testing in Orange County, CA. Oh -- Newsgroups in Ohio, USA. oh.general Items of general interest in Ohio, USA. Ok -- Newsgroups in Oklahoma, USA. For more information, you can try contacting Mark Lawrence . ok.general Items of general interest in Oklahoma, USA. Ont --- Newsgroups in Ontario, Canada. ont.archives Archives in Ontario, Canada. ont.events Ontario, Canada happenings. ont.followup Followups in Ontario, Canada. ont.general Items of general interest in Ontario, Canada. ont.jobs Jobs in Ontario, Canada. ont.micro Microcomputer related postings in Ontario, Canada. ont.sf-lovers Science Fiction Lovers in Ontario, Canada. ont.singles Singles in Ontario, Canada. ont.test Testing in Ontario, Canada. ont.uucp UUCP related postings in Ontario, Canada. Or -- Newsgroups in Oregon, USA. or.forsale Oregon want ads. or.general Items of general interest in Oregon. or.test Testing in Oregon. Ott --- Newsgroups in Ottawa, Canada. ott.general Items of general interest in Ottawa, Canada. ott.events Events in Ottawa, Canada. Pa -- Newsgroups in Pennsylvania, USA. For more information, you can try contacting Mark Weber or . pa.config USENET configuration for Pennsylvania pa.forsale Items for sale in Pennsylvania. pa.general Items of general interest in Pennsylvania. pa.test USENET testing in Pennsylvania. pa.wanted Items wanted in Pennsylvania. Pdx --- Newsgroups in Portland, Oregon, USA. For more information, you can try contacting Jeff Beadles or Doug Grant . pdx.books Information about various books. pdx.computing Computing information. pdx.forsale Stuff for sale. pdx.games Talk about games. pdx.general General discissions pdx.golf Talk regarding golf. pdx.movies Talk regarding movies. pdx.music Talk regarding music. pdx.online On-line information. (BBS's, Usenet access, etc.) pdx.running Running information. pdx.singles Singles information. pdx.slug Sun Users group. pdx.soc Social events in Portland, Or. pdx.telecom Issues regarding telecommunications. pdx.test Tests. pdx.utek Discissions regarding UTek, the Tektronix implimention of Unix. Pgh --- Newsgroups in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. pgh.general Items of general interest in Pittsburgh. pgh.test Testing in Pittsburgh. pgh.food Food in Pittsburgh. Pnw --- Newsgroups in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon/Washington, USA. For more information, you can try contacting Jeff Beadles . pnw.forsale Things for sale. pnw.general General information. pnw.news General news issues. pnw.sys.sun Sun users. pnw.test Your vanilla test group. Princeton --------- Newsgroups at Princeton University, in New Jersey, USA. For more information, you can try contacting usenet@princeton.edu. princeton.general Items of general interest to Princeton. Purdue ------ Newsgroups at Purdue University. For more information, you can try contacting news@cc.purdue.edu, news@cs.purdue.edu, and/or news@ecn.purdue.edu. purdue.arpa-bboard Items forwarded from the Arpanet bboards. purdue.cc.amiga Amiga computer discussion purdue.cc.consult For the PUCC consulting staff. purdue.cc.consult.subs Substitutions requests, etc. for PUCC consultants. purdue.cc.eta Announcement about the ETA-10P at PUCC purdue.cc.general Items of interest for all PUCC hosts. purdue.cc.info-205 Discussion and information about the CDC Cyber 205. purdue.cc.log.hardware PUCC hardware changes purdue.cc.log.unix Logging of Unix system and program changes at PUCC purdue.cc.log.vm IBM system software changes at PUCC purdue.cc.log.vsos Cyber 205 software changes at PUCC purdue.cc.log.wkst Workstation lab software and hardware log at PUCC purdue.cc.news Announcements of system and program changes at PUCC. purdue.cc.newsletter Electronic publication of the PUCC newsletter (Moderate d) purdue.cc.pclrc PUCC Personal Computer Learning Resource Center. purdue.cc.s Discussion about the "S" statistical analysis system purdue.cc.suggest Responses to suggestions and comments. (Moderated) purdue.cc.test Testing PUCC connections. purdue.cc.tex Discussion and information about the TeX system purdue.cs Items of interest to all CS hosts. purdue.cs.acm Association for Computing Machinery purdue.cs.bboard CS department bulletin board. purdue.cs.news Announcements of system and program changes at CS. purdue.cs.seminar Announcements of seminars and colloquia at CS. purdue.cs.test Testing CS connections. purdue.dov Information on Data-Over-Voice technology purdue.ecn.aae Aero department announcements. purdue.ecn.asce American Society of Civil Engineers purdue.ecn.general Items of interest to all ECN hosts. purdue.ecn.news Logging of Unix system and program changes. purdue.ecn.seminar Announcements of seminars and colloquia in engineering. purdue.ecn.test ECN news connection testing. purdue.forsale Advertisements for items for sale purdue.framemaker Discussion of FrameMaker software purdue.general Items of interest for all Purdue sites. purdue.networks Information and discussion about networking issues. purdue.news Announcements of system and program changes at Purdue. purdue.next Discussions and information about NeXT computers. purdue.psych Psychology department announcements purdue.seminar Purdue area seminar and colliquia announcements. purdue.test Testing Purdue connections. purdue.unix Questions and answers about unix systems. purdue.windows General discussion of windowing systems purdue.windows.news Discussion of the NEWS windowing system purdue.windows.sun Discussion of the Sun windowing system purdue.windows.x Discussion of the X windowing system Rpi --- Newsgroups at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, New York, USA. 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X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 125 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!gatech!purdue!spaf Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.announce.newusers Subject: List of Moderators Message-ID: <13128@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:25 GMT Followup-To: news.lists Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:15:24 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <12406@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Lines: 389 Xref: simpact news.lists:447 news.groups:14274 news.announce.newusers:125 Original-from: Gene Spafford (spaf@cs.purdue.edu) [Most recent change: 19 Jan 1991 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] A number of moderated groups exist on the net. These are groups which usually have one or more individuals (acting as editors and/or moderators) who must approve articles before they are published to the net. In general, these groups fall into one of five categories: 1) Groups with postings of an informative nature not suited to discussion and always originating from the same (very small) group of posters. Groups within this category include news.lists, news.announce.newusers, and comp.mail.maps. 2) Groups derived from regular groups with such a high volume that it is hard for the average reader to keep up. The moderated versions of these groups are an attempt to provide a lower volume and higher quality version of the same forum. Examples of this category include news.announce and comp.unix. 3) Groups derived from regular groups which have often been abused. That is, the regular groups often received postings of items which were not germane to the stated topic of the group (or sometimes even within the realm of politeness for the net). This also includes groups suffering from an annoying number of duplicate postings and inappropriate followups. Moderated groups in this category include comp.sources.unix. 4) Groups designed to serve also as direct feedback to an off-the-net group. The discussion in comp.std.mumps is an example of this. 5) Groups which are gatewayed into the Usenet from an Internet mailing list. These groups are moderated by someone on the Internet side but are shared with the Usenet population. Submissions mailed to the proper addresses, given below, will appear in both the group on Usenet, and the Internet list. This includes some groups in the "inet" distribution which are listed here for completeness: comp.ai.vision, comp.lang.clu and rec.mag.fsfnet. To post to a moderated group, write your article and mail it to the listed SUBMISSION address. The moderator will then do the actual posting of the article. The news software on the Usenet will not allow direct posting to moderated newsgroups, nor will it forward unauthorized articles to other sites. The only way to post to a moderated group is to mail it to the moderator. If you are running 2.11 news or later, your news software will automatically mail your article to the moderator if you attempt to post it. Thus, posting to a moderated newsgroup should appear the same as posting to any other group (except you don't see the posting right away). Depending on the newsgroup involved, if the moderator feels that your article is inappropriate for the group, s/he will return the article to you with a suggestion for other newsgroups in which to post it, and/or an explanation of why it is not appropriate for the moderated group. You may still post such articles to the regular groups as you currently do, if such groups exist. If you have questions or complaints about the way a moderated group is run, contact the moderator by mail. Alternatively, you can send mail to the mailing list "moderators@purdue.edu" and it will be rebroadcast to all of the current Usenet-only newsgroup moderators. Below is a list of the current moderated groups and the moderators of those groups. Included in that list are the addresses to use if you have questions of comments about the groups. After that is given a list of addresses for submissions of articles to those groups. If your site is running 2.10.2 or 2.10.3 news, these addresses can be used to build the "moderators" file so that "postnews" can automatically mail an article to the correct moderator. If your system is running 2.11 news, posting to moderated newsgroups is done by mailing your submission to well-defined aliases at a nearby well-connected site. The mail path to that site should be in your news library, in the file "mailpaths" -- there is no need to update a moderators file. Information on how to construct the paths in the "mailpaths" file are posted monthly in a companion article. If you are NOT running 2.11 news, you are *STRONGLY* advised to upgrade to it so as to take advantage of this feature, as well as the numerous bug fixes and other enhancements. The addresses below are given in Internet/domain form. If you are a UUCP-only site, you can mail to an Internet (EDU, GOV, etc.)-only site by mailing through the gateways using a uucp-style path, e.g.: ...!{mcnc,rutgers,ucsd,uunet,uw-beaver,watmath}!site.domain!address Gene Spafford 21 January 1991 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Group Moderator or Coordinator Requests, Comments, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------ comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Christopher Welty nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu comp.ai.shells Bernd Bachmann shellreq@dfki.uni-kl.de comp.ai.vision Tod Levitt vision-list-request@ads.com comp.archives Edward Vielmetti archives@math.lsa.umich.edu comp.binaries.amiga Tad Guy amiga-request@uunet.uu.net comp.binaries.atari.st Steven Grimm atari-binaries@panarthea.ebay.sun.com comp.binaries.ibm.pc Bill Davidsen ibmbin-request@crdgw1.crd.ge.com comp.binaries.mac Roger Long macintosh-request%felix.uucp@uunet.uu.net comp.binaries.os2 Tom Haapanen os2bin-request@mims-iris.waterloo.edu comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes Keith Bostic ucb-fixes-request@okeeffe.berkeley.edu comp.compilers John Levine compilers-request@iecc.cambridge.ma.us comp.dcom.telecom Patrick Townson telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu comp.doc Brian Kantor comp-doc@ucsd.edu comp.doc.techreports Lawrence Leff trlist-request@smu.edu comp.graphics.digest Andy Cromarty info-graphics-request@ads.com comp.lang.clu Matti Jokinen clu-sw-request@cs.utu.fi comp.lang.sigplan Stu Feldman sigplan-request@bellcore.com comp.laser-printers Richard Furuta furuta@cs.umd.edu comp.mail.maps Mel Pleasant uucpmap@rutgers.edu comp.newprod Ron Heiby newprod-request@chg.mcd.mot.com comp.org.fidonet Tim Pozar pozar@hop.toad.com comp.os.research Darrell Long darrell@jupiter.ucsc.edu comp.parallel Dennis Stevenson hypercube-request@hubcap.clemson.edu comp.protocols.kermit Frank da Cruz info-kermit-request@cu20b.columbia.edu comp.research.japan Rick Schlichting rick@cs.arizona.edu comp.risks Peter G. Neumann risks-request@csl.sri.com comp.simulation Paul A. Fishwick simulation-request@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu comp.society Dave Taylor taylor@limbo.intuitive.com comp.society.women Trish Roberts comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu comp.sources.amiga Tad Guy amiga-request@uunet.uu.net comp.sources.apple2 Jonathan Chandross jac@paul.rutgers.edu comp.sources.atari.st Steven Grimm atari-sources@panarthea.ebay.sun.com comp.sources.games Bill Randle games-request@saab.cna.tek.com comp.sources.mac Roger Long macintosh-request%felix.uucp@uunet.uu.net comp.sources.misc Kent Landfield sources-misc-request@uunet.uu.net comp.sources.sun Charles McGrew mcgrew@aramis.rutgers.edu comp.sources.unix Rich Salz rsalz@uunet.uu.net comp.sources.x Dan Heller argv@sun.com comp.std.mumps Hokey std-mumps-request@plus5.com comp.std.unix John S. Quarterman std-unix-request@uunet.uu.net comp.sys.amiga.announce ?? zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu comp.sys.amiga.reviews Jason Tibbitts III honp9@menudo.uh.edu comp.sys.concurrent Stan Barber concurrent-request@soma.bcm.tmc.edu comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest Gregory Hicks info-ibmpc-request@simtel20.army.mil comp.sys.m68k.pc Mike Meyer info-68k-request@ucbvax.berkeley.edu comp.sys.mac.announce Werner Uhrig werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu comp.sys.mac.digest Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, & Dwayne Virnau info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu comp.sys.sun Robert D. Greene sun-spots-request@rice.edu comp.sys.workstations Dave Steiner works-request@rutgers.edu comp.theory.info-retrieval Edward A. Fox fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu comp.unix Chuck L. Peterson comp-unix-request%megadon.uucp@uunet.uu.net comp.virus Kenneth van Wyk krvw@cert.sei.cmu.edu misc.handicap Bill McGarry wtm%bunker.uucp@uunet.uu.net misc.security A. "*Hobbit*" Walker security-request@rutgers.edu news.announce.conferences Dennis Page denny@tekbspa.tss.com news.announce.important Mark Horton announce@stargate.com news.announce.newgroups Eliot Lear lear@turbo.bio.net news.announce.newusers Gene Spafford spaf@purdue.edu news.lists Rick Adams, Brian Reid & Gene Spafford news-lists-request@cs.purdue.edu news.lists.ps-maps Brian Reid reid@decwrl.dec.com rec.arts.cinema Manavendra Thakur thakur@zerkalo.harvard.edu rec.arts.erotica Evan Leibovitch erotica@telly.on.ca rec.arts.movies.reviews Evelyn C. 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Tower Jr. info-gnu-request@prep.ai.mit.edu vmsnet.announce Terry Poot tp@mccall.com vmsnet.announce.newusers Terry Poot tp@mccall.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Group Submissions :----------------------------------------------------------------- comp.ai.nlang-know-rep nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu comp.ai.shells shell@dfki.uni-kl.de comp.ai.vision vision-list@ads.com comp.archives archives@math.lsa.umich.edu comp.binaries.amiga amiga@uunet.uu.net comp.binaries.atari.st atari-binaries@panarthea.ebay.sun.com comp.binaries.ibm.pc ibmbin@crdgw1.crd.ge.com comp.binaries.mac macintosh%felix.uucp@uunet.uu.net comp.binaries.os2 os2bin@mims-iris.waterloo.edu comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes ucb-fixes@okeeffe.berkeley.edu comp.compilers compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us comp.dcom.telecom telecom@eecs.nwu.edu comp.doc comp-doc@ucsd.edu comp.doc.techreports trlist@smu.edu comp.graphics.digest info-graphics@ads.com comp.lang.clu clu-sw@cs.utu.fi comp.lang.sigplan 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movies@mtgzy.att.com rec.arts.startrek.info trek-info@dweeb.fx.com rec.audio.high-end info-high-audio@csd4.csd.uwm.edu rec.food.recipes recipes@mthvax.cs.miami.edu rec.guns magnum@flubber.cs.umd.edu rec.humor.funny funny@looking.on.ca rec.mag.fsfnet white@duvm.bitnet rec.mag.otherrealms chuq@apple.com rec.music.gaffa gaffa-post@eddie.mit.edu sci.med.aids aids@cs.ucla.edu sci.military military@att.att.com sci.nanotech nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu sci.psychology.digest psyc@phoenix.princeton.edu sci.virtual-worlds virtual-worlds@milton.u.washington.edu soc.feminism feminism@ncar.ucar.edu soc.human-nets human-nets@red.rutgers.edu soc.politics poli-sci@rutgers.edu soc.politics.arms-d arms-d@xx.lcs.mit.edu soc.religion.christian christian@aramis.rutgers.edu soc.religion.eastern prabhu@amelia.nas.nasa.gov soc.religion.islam religion-islam@ncar.ucar.edu gnu.announce info-gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu gnu.bash.bug bug-bash@prep.ai.mit.edu gnu.emacs.announce info-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu gnu.emacs.bug bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu gnu.g++.announce info-g++@prep.ai.mit.edu gnu.g++.bug bug-g++@prep.ai.mit.edu gnu.g++.lib.bug bug-lib-g++@prep.ai.mit.edu gnu.gcc.announce info-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu gnu.gcc.bug bug-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu gnu.gdb.bug bug-gdb@prep.ai.mit.edu gnu.ghostscript.bug bug-ghostscript@prep.ai.mit.edu gnu.groff.bug bug-groff@prep.ai.mit.edu gnu.smalltalk.bug bug-gnu-smalltalk@prep.ai.mit.edu gnu.utils.bug bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu alt.gourmand recipes@decwrl.dec.com alt.society.cu-digest cud@chinacat.unicom.com bionet.molbio.genbank.updates lear@genbank.bio.net vmsnet.announce vmsnet-announce@mccall.com vmsnet.announce.newusers vmsnet-announce-newusers@mccall.com ddn.mgt-bulletin nic@nic.ddn.mil ddn.newsletter nic@nic.ddn.mil comp.org.eff.news effnews@eff.org comp.protocols.iso.x400 mhsnews-usenet@ics.uci.edu comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway ifip-gtwy-usenet@ics.uci.edu comp.security.announce cert@cert.sei.cmu.edu -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 126 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!hsdndev!husc6!purdue!spaf Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.announce.newusers Subject: List of Active Newsgroups Message-ID: <13124@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:17 GMT Followup-To: news.lists Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:15:16 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <12402@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Lines: 675 Xref: simpact news.lists:448 news.groups:14275 news.announce.newusers:126 [Most recent change: 19 Jan 1991 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] The following is a list of currently active USENET newsgroups as of 21 January 1991. The groups distributed worldwide are divided into seven broad classifications: "news", "soc", "talk", "misc", "sci", "comp" and "rec". Each of these classifications is organized into groups and subgroups according to topic. "comp" Topics of interest to both computer professionals and hobbyists, including topics in computer science, software source, and information on hardware and software systems. "sci" Discussions marked by special and usually practical knowledge, relating to research in or application of the established sciences. "misc" Groups addressing themes not easily classified under any of the other headings or which incorporate themes from multiple categories. "soc" Groups primarily addressing social issues and socializing. "talk" Groups largely debate-oriented and tending to feature long discussions without resolution and without appreciable amounts of generally useful information. "news" Groups concerned with the news network and software themselves. "rec" Groups oriented towards hobbies and recreational activities. These "world" newsgroups are (usually) circulated around the entire USENET -- this implies world-wide distribution. Not all groups actually enjoy such wide distribution, however. The European Usenet and Eunet sites take only a selected subset of the more "technical" groups, and controversial "noise" groups are often not carried by many sites in the US and Canada (these groups are primarily under the "talk" and "soc" classifications). Many sites do not carry some or all of the comp.binaries groups. There are groups in other subcategories, but they are local: to institutions, to geographic regions, etc. and they are not listed here. Note that these distribution categories can be used to restrict the propagation of news articles. Currently, distributions include: world worldwide distribution (default) att limited to AT&T can limited to Canada eunet limited to European sites na limited to North America usa limited to the United States There may be other regional and local distribution categories available at your site. Most US states have distribution categories named after the two letter abbreviation for that state or category (e.g., "ga" for Georgia, "nj" for New Jersey). Please use an appropriate distribution category if your article is not likely to be of interest to USENET readers worldwide. Some groups are moderated or are monitored mailing lists. They can only be posted to by mailing submissions to the coordinator (provided in a companion posting). Some selected sites provide automatic remailing in support of 2.11 news -- posting to one of these groups automatically mails the article for the poster. Some of the moderated groups are gatewayed to USENET from the Internet and appear as newsgroups to facilitate distribution and posting from the Usenet. Other of the "world" groups are bidirectionally gatewayed with Internet mailing lists; items submitted from the Internet side to the digest are split up and submitted to the USENET group, while articles submitted on the USENET side are bundled up and submitted to the mailing list. A complete list of moderated newsgroups, submission addresses and moderators is given in a companion posting. The following "world" groups have been gatewayed with the listed Internet lists. Some of them may not still be gatewayed due to broken software and/or gateways; such groups are marked with an asterisk ("*") in the list below. Please contact me if you should know of their current status. Also note that the group "comp.lang.forth" is gatewayed with the Bitnet discussion list "umforth@weizmann.bitnet", and rec.railroad is run from "railroad@queens.bitnet". Some of these lists are gated one-way into Usenet groups; those groups have been marked with a ">" symbol in the list below. If you are reading this article from a site not on the Usenet, you may subscribe to Internet lists by writing to the request address. You form such an address by putting "-request" before the "@" symbol, as in "unix-emacs-request@bbn.com". This gets your message directly to the list maintainer instead of broadcasting it to all the readers of the list. Also note that moderators of Usenet groups may not be in charge of the corresponding mailing list or gateway. For example, the moderator of comp.sources.unix does not have anything to do with the unix-sources mailing list; matters concerning the mailing list should be addressed to unix-sources-request@brl.mil Usenet Group Internet list ------------ ------------- comp.dcom.modems info-modems@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil comp.dcom.telecom telecom@eecs.nwu.edu comp.emacs unix-emacs@bbn.com >comp.emacs info-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu >comp.emacs help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu *comp.lang.ada info-ada@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu comp.lang.c info-c@brl.mil >comp.lang.c++ info-g++@prep.ai.mit.edu >comp.lang.c++ help-g++@prep.ai.mit.edu comp.lang.modula2 info-m2@ucf1vm.bitnet *comp.lang.pascal info-pascal@brl.mil *comp.lang.prolog prolog@score.stanford.edu comp.os.cpm info-cpm@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil comp.os.minix info-minix@udel.edu comp.os.vms info-vax@sri.com comp.protocols.kerberos kerberos@athena.mit.edu comp.protocols.nfs nfs@tmc.edu comp.protocols.tcp-ip tcp-ip@nic.ddn.mil comp.sources.misc unix-sources@brl.mil comp.sources.unix unix-sources@brl.mil comp.sys.apollo apollo@umix.cc.umich.edu comp.sys.apple2 info-apple@apple.com comp.sys.atari.8bit info-atari8@score.stanford.edu comp.sys.atari.st info-atari16@score.stanford.edu comp.sys.misc info-micro@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil comp.sys.sun sun-spots@rice.edu comp.sys.tahoe info-tahoe@csd1.milw.wisc.edu comp.sys.xerox info-1100@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu *comp.terminals info-terms@mc.lcs.mit.edu >comp.text.tex texhax@cs.washington.edu comp.unix.questions info-unix@brl.mil comp.unix.internals unix-wizards@brl.mil comp.windows.x xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu rec.arts.sf-lovers sf-lovers@rutgers.edu rec.equestrian horse@bbn.com rec.food.recipes recipes@mthvax.cs.miami.edu rec.ham-radio info-hams@ucsd.edu rec.ham-radio.packet packet-radio@ucsd.edu rec.music.gdead dead-flames@virginia.edu rec.music.synth synth-l@auvm.auvm.edu rec.video videotech@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil *sci.astro sky-fans@xx.lcs.mit.edu sci.physics physics@unix.sri.com sci.physics.fusion fusion@zorch.sf-bay.org sci.space space@andrew.cmu.edu soc.roots roots-l@vm1.nodak.edu Please notify me of any errors or changes to this article. Gene Spafford spaf@purdue.EDU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroup Description ---------------------------------------------------------------------- comp.ai Artificial intelligence discussions. comp.ai.neural-nets All aspects of neural networks. comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Natural Language and Knowledge Representation. (Moderated) comp.ai.philosophy Philosophical aspects of Artificial Intelligence. comp.ai.shells Artificial intelligence applied to shells. (Moderated) comp.arch Computer architecture. comp.archives Descriptions of public access archives. (Moderated) comp.benchmarks Discussion of benchmarking techniques and results. comp.binaries.amiga Encoded public domain programs in binary. (Moderated) comp.binaries.apple2 Binary-only postings for the Apple II computer. comp.binaries.atari.st Binary-only postings for the Atari ST. (Moderated) comp.binaries.ibm.pc Binary-only postings for IBM PC/MS-DOS. (Moderated) comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Discussions about IBM/PC binary postings. comp.binaries.mac Encoded Macintosh programs in binary. (Moderated) comp.binaries.os2 Binaries for use under the OS/2 ABI. (Moderated) comp.bugs.2bsd Reports of UNIX* version 2BSD related bugs. comp.bugs.4bsd Reports of UNIX version 4BSD related bugs. comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes Bug reports/fixes for BSD Unix. (Moderated) comp.bugs.misc General UNIX bug reports and fixes (incl V7, uucp) comp.bugs.sys5 Reports of USG (System III, V, etc.) bugs. comp.cog-eng Cognitive engineering. comp.compilers Compiler construction, theory, etc. (Moderated) comp.databases Database and data management issues and theory. comp.dcom.fax Fax hardware, software, and protocols. comp.dcom.lans Local area network hardware and software. comp.dcom.modems Data communications hardware and software. comp.dcom.sys.cisco Info on Cisco routers and bridges. comp.dcom.telecom Telecommunications digest. (Moderated) comp.doc Archived public-domain documentation. (Moderated) comp.doc.techreports Lists of technical reports. (Moderated) comp.dsp Digital Signal Processing using computers. comp.edu Computer science education. comp.emacs EMACS editors of different flavors. comp.fonts Typefonts -- design, conversion, use, etc. comp.graphics Computer graphics, art, animation, image processing. comp.graphics.digest Graphics software, hardware, theory, etc. (Moderated) comp.graphics.visualization Info on scientific visualization. comp.groupware Hardware & software for facilitating group interaction. comp.infosystems Any discussion about information systems. comp.ivideodisc Interactive videodiscs -- uses, potential, etc. comp.lang.ada Discussion about Ada*. comp.lang.apl Discussion about APL. comp.lang.c Discussion about C. comp.lang.c++ The object-oriented C++ language. comp.lang.clos Commpn Lisp Object System discussions. comp.lang.eiffel The object-oriented Eiffel language. comp.lang.forth Discussion about Forth. comp.lang.fortran Discussion about FORTRAN. comp.lang.functional Discussion about functional languages. comp.lang.idl-pvwave IDL and PV-Wave language discussions. comp.lang.lisp Discussion about LISP. comp.lang.misc Different computer languages not specifically listed. comp.lang.modula2 Discussion about Modula-2. comp.lang.modula3 Discussion about the Modula-3 language. comp.lang.objective-c The Objective-C language and environment. comp.lang.pascal Discussion about Pascal. comp.lang.perl Discussion of Larry Wall's Perl system. comp.lang.postscript The PostScript Page Description Language. comp.lang.prolog Discussion about PROLOG. comp.lang.scheme The Scheme Programming language. comp.lang.sigplan Info & announcements from ACM SIGPLAN. (Moderated) comp.lang.smalltalk Discussion about Smalltalk 80. comp.lang.vhdl VHSIC Hardware Description Language, IEEE 1076/87. comp.laser-printers Laser printers, hardware & software. (Moderated) comp.lsi Large scale integrated circuits. comp.mail.elm Discussion and fixes for ELM mail system. comp.mail.headers Gatewayed from the Internet header-people list. comp.mail.maps Various maps, including UUCP maps. (Moderated) comp.mail.mh The UCI version of the Rand Message Handling system. comp.mail.misc General discussions about computer mail. comp.mail.mush The Mail User's Shell (MUSH). comp.mail.sendmail Configuring and using the BSD sendmail agent. comp.mail.uucp Mail in the uucp network environment. comp.misc General topics about computers not covered elsewhere. comp.multimedia Interactive multimedia technologies of all kinds. comp.newprod Announcements of new products of interest. (Moderated) comp.object Object-oriented programming and languages. comp.org.decus Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society newsgroup. comp.org.fidonet FidoNews digest, official news of FidoNet Assoc. (Moderated) comp.org.ieee Issues and announcements about the IEEE & its members. comp.org.sug Talk about/for the The Sun User's Group. comp.org.usenix USENIX Association events and announcements. comp.org.usenix.roomshare Finding lodging during Usenix conferences. comp.org.uniforum News/discussion about/from the UniForum organization. comp.os.cpm Discussion about the CP/M operating system. comp.os.eunice The SRI Eunice system. comp.os.mach The MACH OS from CMU & other places. comp.os.minix Discussion of Tanenbaum's MINIX system. comp.os.misc General OS-oriented discussion not carried elsewhere. comp.os.msdos.apps Discussion of applications that run under MS-DOS. comp.os.msdos.misc Miscellaneous topics about MS-DOS machines. comp.os.msdos.programmer Programming MS-DOS machines. comp.os.os2.apps Discussions of applications under OS/2. comp.os.os2.misc Miscellaneous topics about the OS/2 system. comp.os.os2.programmer Programming OS/2 machines. comp.os.os9 Discussions about the os9 operating system. comp.os.research Operating systems and related areas. (Moderated) comp.os.vms DEC's VAX* line of computers & VMS. comp.os.xinu The XINU operating system from Purdue (D. Comer). comp.parallel Massively parallel hardware/software. (Moderated) comp.periphs Peripheral devices. comp.periphs.scsi Discussion of SCSI-based peripheral devices. comp.protocols.appletalk Applebus hardware & software. comp.protocols.ibm Networking with IBM mainframes. comp.protocols.iso The ISO protocol stack. comp.protocols.kerberos The Kerberos authentication server. comp.protocols.kermit Info about the Kermit package. (Moderated) comp.protocols.misc Various forms and types of FTP protocol. comp.protocols.nfs Discussion about the Network File System protocol. comp.protocols.tcp-ip TCP and IP network protocols. comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc TCP/IP for IBM(-like) personal computers. comp.realtime Issues related to real-time computing. comp.research.japan The nature of research in Japan. (Moderated) comp.risks Risks to the public from computers & users. (Moderated) comp.robotics All aspects of robots and their applications. comp.simulation Simulation methods, problems, uses. (Moderated) comp.society The impact of technology on society. (Moderated) comp.society.futures Events in technology affecting future computing. comp.society.women Women's roles and problems in computing (Moderated) comp.software-eng Software Engineering and related topics. comp.sources.amiga Source code-only postings for the Amiga. (Moderated) comp.sources.apple2 Source code and discussion for the Apple2. (Moderated) comp.sources.atari.st Source code-only postings for the Atari ST. (Moderated) comp.sources.bugs Bug reports, fixes, discussion for posted sources. comp.sources.d For any discussion of source postings. comp.sources.games Postings of recreational software. (Moderated) comp.sources.games.bugs Bug reports and fixes for posted game software. comp.sources.mac Software for the Apple Macintosh. (Moderated) comp.sources.misc Posting of software. (Moderated) comp.sources.sun Software for Sun workstations. (Moderated) comp.sources.unix Postings of complete, UNIX-oriented sources. (Moderated) comp.sources.wanted Requests for software and fixes. comp.sources.x Software for the X windows system. (Moderated) comp.specification Languages and methodologies for formal specification. comp.std.c Discussion about C language standards. comp.std.c++ Discussion about C++ language, library, standards. comp.std.internat Discussion about international standards. comp.std.misc Discussion about various standards. comp.std.mumps Discussion for the X11.1 committee on Mumps. (Moderated) comp.std.unix Discussion for the P1003 committee on UNIX. (Moderated) comp.sw.components Software components and related technology. comp.sys.acorn The Acorn computer. comp.sys.alliant Info and discussion about Alliant computers. comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Why an Amiga is better than XYZ. comp.sys.amiga.announce Announcements about the Amiga. (Moderated) comp.sys.amiga.applications Miscellaneous applications. comp.sys.amiga.audio Music, MIDI, speech synthesis, other sounds. comp.sys.amiga.datacom Methods of getting bytes in and out. comp.sys.amiga.emulation Various hardware & software emulators. comp.sys.amiga.games Discussion of games for the Commodore Amiga. comp.sys.amiga.graphics Charts, graphs, pictures, etc. comp.sys.amiga.hardware Amiga computer hardware, Q&A, reviews, etc. comp.sys.amiga.introduction Group for newcomers to Amigas. comp.sys.amiga.marketplace Where to find it, prices, etc. comp.sys.amiga.misc Discussions not falling in another Amiga group. comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Animations, video, & multimedia. comp.sys.amiga.programmer Developers & hobbyists discuss code. comp.sys.amiga.reviews Reviews of Amiga software, hardware. (Moderated) comp.sys.amiga.tech Technical discussion about the Amiga. comp.sys.apollo Apollo computer systems. comp.sys.apple2 Discussion about Apple II micros. comp.sys.atari.8bit Discussion about 8 bit Atari micros. comp.sys.atari.st Discussion about 16 bit Atari micros. comp.sys.atari.st.tech Technical discussions of Atari ST hard/software. comp.sys.att Discussions about AT&T microcomputers. comp.sys.cbm Discussion about Commodore micros. comp.sys.celerity Celerity Computers. comp.sys.concurrent The Concurrent/Masscomp line of computers. (Moderated) comp.sys.dec Discussions about DEC computer systems. comp.sys.dec.micro DEC Micros (Rainbow, Professional 350/380) comp.sys.encore Encore's MultiMax computers. comp.sys.hp Discussion about Hewlett-Packard equipment. comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Discussion about IBM personal computers. comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest The IBM PC, PC-XT, and PC-AT. (Moderated) comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware XT/AT/EISA hardware, any vendor. comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Topics related to IBM's RT computer. comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware Microchannel hardware, any vendor. comp.sys.intel Discussions about Intel systems and parts. comp.sys.isis The ISIS distributed system from Cornell. comp.sys.laptops Laptop (portable) computers. comp.sys.m6809 Discussion about 6809's. comp.sys.m68k Discussion about 68k's. comp.sys.m68k.pc Discussion about 68k-based PCs. (Moderated) comp.sys.m88k Discussion about 88k-based computers. comp.sys.mac.announce Important notices for Macintosh users. (Moderated) comp.sys.mac.apps Discussions of Macintosh applications. comp.sys.mac.comm Discussion of Macintosh communications. comp.sys.mac.digest Apple Macintosh: info&uses, but no programs. (Moderated) comp.sys.mac.games Discussions of games on the Macintosh. comp.sys.mac.hardware Macintosh hardware issues & discussions. comp.sys.mac.hypercard The Macintosh Hypercard: info & uses. comp.sys.mac.misc General discussions about the Apple Macintosh. comp.sys.mac.programmer Discussion by people programming the Apple Macintosh. comp.sys.mac.system Discussions of Macintosh system software. comp.sys.mac.wanted Postings of "I want XYZ for my Mac." comp.sys.mips Systems based on MIPS chips. comp.sys.misc Discussion about computers of all kinds. comp.sys.ncr Discussion about NCR computers. comp.sys.next NeXT's workstations, peripherals, and software. comp.sys.nsc.32k National Semiconductor 32000 series chips. comp.sys.novell Discussion of Novell Netware products. comp.sys.proteon Proteon gateway products. comp.sys.pyramid Pyramid 90x computers. comp.sys.ridge Ridge 32 computers and ROS. comp.sys.sequent Sequent systems, (Balance and Symmetry). comp.sys.sgi Silicon Graphics's Iris workstations and software. comp.sys.sun Sun "workstation" computers. (Moderated) comp.sys.tahoe CCI 6/32, Harris HCX/7, & Sperry 7000 computers. comp.sys.tandy Discussion about TRS-80's. comp.sys.ti Discussion about Texas Instruments. comp.sys.transputer The Transputer computer and OCCAM language. comp.sys.workstations Various workstation-type computers. (Moderated) comp.sys.xerox Xerox 1100 workstations and protocols. comp.sys.zenith.z100 The Zenith Z-100 (Heath H-100) family of computers. comp.terminals All sorts of terminals. comp.text Text processing issues and methods. comp.text.desktop Technology & techniques of desktop publishing. comp.text.tex Discussion about the TeX and LaTeX systems & macros. comp.theory.info-retrieval Information Retrieval topics. (Moderated) comp.unix Discussion of UNIX* features and bugs. (Moderated) comp.unix.admin Administering a Unix-based system. comp.unix.aix IBM's version of UNIX. comp.unix.amiga Minix, SYSV4 and other *nix on an Amiga. comp.unix.aux The version of UNIX for Apple Macintosh II computers. comp.unix.internals Discussions on hacking UNIX internals. comp.unix.large UNIX on mainframes and in large networks. comp.unix.misc Various topics that don't fit other groups. comp.unix.msdos MS-DOS running under UNIX by whatever means. comp.unix.programmer Q&A for people programming under Unix. comp.unix.questions UNIX neophytes group. comp.unix.shell Using and programming the Unix shell. comp.unix.sysv286 UNIX System V (not XENIX) on the '286. comp.unix.sysv386 Versions of System V (not Xenix) on Intel 80386-based boxes. comp.unix.ultrix Discussions about DEC's Ultrix. comp.unix.wizards Questions for only true Unix wizards. comp.unix.xenix.misc General discussions regarding XENIX (except SCO). comp.unix.xenix.sco XENIX versions from the Santa Cruz Operation. comp.windows.misc Various issues about windowing systems. comp.windows.ms Window systems under MS/DOS. comp.windows.ms.programmer Writing apps for MS Windows. comp.windows.news Sun Microsystems' NeWS window system. comp.windows.open-look Discussion about the Open Look GUI. comp.windows.x Discussion about the X Window System. comp.virus Computer viruses & security. (Moderated) misc.consumers Consumer interests, product reviews, etc. misc.consumers.house Discussion about owning and maintaining a house. misc.education Discussion of the educational system. misc.emerg-services Forum for paramedics & other first responders. misc.fitness Physical fitness, exercise, etc. misc.forsale Short, tasteful postings about items for sale. misc.forsale.computers Computers and computer equipment for sale. misc.handicap Items of interest for/about the handicapped. (Moderated) misc.headlines Current interest: drug testing, terrorism, etc. misc.invest Investments and the handling of money. misc.jobs.contract Discussions about contract labor. misc.jobs.misc Discussion about employment, workplaces, careers. misc.jobs.offered Announcements of positions available. misc.jobs.resumes Postings of resumes and "situation wanted" articles. misc.kids Children, their behavior and activities. misc.legal Legalities and the ethics of law. misc.misc Various discussions not fitting in any other group. misc.rural Devoted to issues concerning rural living. misc.security Security in general, not just computers. (Moderated) misc.taxes Tax laws and advice. misc.test For testing of network software. Very boring. misc.wanted Requests for things that are needed (NOT software). news.admin Comments directed to news administrators. news.announce.conferences Calls for papers and conference announcements. (Moderated) news.announce.important General announcements of interest to all. (Moderated) news.announce.newgroups Calls for newgroups & announcements of same. (Moderated) news.announce.newusers Explanatory postings for new users. (Moderated) news.config Postings of system down times and interruptions. news.groups Discussions and lists of newsgroups. news.lists News-related statistics and lists. (Moderated) news.lists.ps-maps Maps relating to USENET traffic flows. (Moderated) news.misc Discussions of USENET itself. news.newsites Postings of new site announcements. news.newusers.questions Q & A for users new to the Usenet. news.software.anu-news VMS B-news software from Australian National Univ. news.software.b Discussion about B-news-compatible software. news.software.nn Discussion about the "nn" news reader package. news.software.notes Notesfile software from the Univ. of Illinois. news.sysadmin Comments directed to system administrators. rec.aquaria Keeping fish and aquaria as a hobby. rec.arts.animation Discussion of various kinds of animation. rec.arts.anime Japanese animation fen discussion. rec.arts.books Books of all genres, and the publishing industry. rec.arts.cinema Discussion of the art of cinema. (Moderated) rec.arts.comics Comic books and strips, graphic novels, sequential art. rec.arts.dance Any aspects of dance not covered in another newsgroup. rec.arts.disney Discussion of any Disney-related subjects. rec.arts.drwho Discussion about Dr. Who. rec.arts.erotica Erotic fiction and verse. (Moderated) rec.arts.fine Fine arts & artists. rec.arts.int-fiction Discussions about interactive fiction. rec.arts.misc Discussions about the arts not in other groups. rec.arts.movies Discussions of movies and movie making. rec.arts.movies.reviews Reviews of movies. (Moderated) rec.arts.poems For the posting of poems. rec.arts.sf-lovers Science fiction lovers' newsgroup. rec.arts.startrek Star Trek, the TV shows and the movies. rec.arts.startrek.info Information about the universe of Star Trek. (Moderated) rec.arts.theatre Discussion of all aspects of stage work & theatre. rec.arts.tv The boob tube, its history, and past and current shows. rec.arts.tv.soaps Postings about soap operas. rec.arts.tv.uk Discussions of telly shows from the UK. rec.arts.wobegon "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show discussion. rec.audio High fidelity audio. rec.audio.car Discussions of automobile audio systems. rec.audio.high-end High-end audio systems. (Moderated) rec.autos Automobiles, automotive products and laws. rec.autos.driving Driving automobiles. rec.autos.sport Discussion of organized, legal auto competitions. rec.autos.tech Technical aspects of automobiles, et. al. rec.autos.vw Issues pertaining to Volkswagon products. rec.aviation Aviation rules, means, and methods. rec.backcountry Activities in the Great Outdoors. rec.bicycles Bicycles, related products and laws. rec.birds Hobbyists interested in bird watching. rec.boats Hobbyists interested in boating. rec.boats.paddle Talk about any boats with oars, paddles, etc. rec.equestrian Discussion of things equestrian. rec.folk-dancing Folk dances, dancers, and dancing. rec.food.cooking Food, cooking, cookbooks, and recipes. rec.food.drink Wines and spirits. rec.food.recipes Recipes for interesting food and drink. (Moderated) rec.food.restaurants Discussion of dining out. rec.food.veg Vegetarians. rec.gambling Articles on games of chance & betting. rec.games.board Discussion and hints on board games. rec.games.bridge Hobbyists interested in bridge. rec.games.chess Chess & computer chess. rec.games.empire Discussion and hints about Empire. rec.games.frp Discussion about Role Playing games. rec.games.go Discussion about Go. rec.games.hack Discussion, hints, etc. about the Hack game. rec.games.misc Games and computer games. rec.games.moria Comments, hints, and info about the Moria game. rec.games.mud Various aspects of multi-users computer games. rec.games.pbm Discussion about Play by Mail games. rec.games.pinball Discussing pinball-related issues. rec.games.programmer Discussion of adventure game programming. rec.games.rogue Discussion and hints about Rogue. rec.games.trivia Discussion about trivia. rec.games.video Discussion about video games. rec.gardens Gardening, methods and results. rec.guns Discussions about firearms. (Moderated) rec.ham-radio Amateur Radio practices, contests, events, rules, etc. rec.ham-radio.packet Discussion about packet radio setups. rec.ham-radio.swap Offers to trade and swap radio equipment. rec.humor Jokes and the like. May be somewhat offensive. rec.humor.d Discussions on the content of rec.humor articles. rec.humor.funny Jokes that are funny (in the moderator's opinion). (Moderated) rec.mag Magazine summaries, tables of contents, etc. rec.mag.otherrealms Edited science fiction & fantasy "magazine". (Moderated) rec.martial-arts Discussion of the various martial art forms. rec.misc General topics about recreational/participant sports. rec.models.rc Radio-controlled models for hobbyists. rec.models.rockets Model rockets for hobbyists. rec.motorcycles Motorcycles and related products and laws. rec.music.afro-latin Music with afro-latin influences. rec.music.beatles Postings about the Fab Four & their music. rec.music.bluenote Discussion of jazz, blues, and related types of music. rec.music.cd CDs -- availability and other discussions. rec.music.classical Discussion about classical music. rec.music.country.western C&W music, performers, performances, etc. rec.music.dementia Discussion of comedy and novelty music. rec.music.dylan Discussion of Bob's works & music. rec.music.folk Folks discussing folk music of various sorts. rec.music.gaffa Progressive music (e.g., Kate Bush). (Moderated) rec.music.gdead A group for (Grateful) Dead-heads. rec.music.makers For performers and their discussions. rec.music.misc Music lovers' group. rec.music.newage "New Age" music discussions. rec.music.synth Synthesizers and computer music. rec.nude Hobbyists interested in naturist/nudist activities. rec.org.sca Society for Creative Anachronism. rec.pets Pets, pet care, and household animals in general. rec.pets.dogs Any and all subjects relating to dogs as pets. rec.photo Hobbyists interested in photography. rec.puzzles Puzzles, problems, and quizzes. rec.pyrotechnics Fireworks, rocketry, safety, & other topics. rec.radio.noncomm Topics relating to noncommercial radio. rec.radio.shortwave Shortwave radio enthusiasts. rec.railroad Real and model train fans' newsgroup. rec.running Running for enjoyment, sport, exercise, etc. rec.scuba Hobbyists interested in SCUBA diving. rec.skiing Hobbyists interested in snow skiing. rec.skydiving Hobbyists interested in skydiving. rec.sport.baseball Discussion about baseball. rec.sport.basketball Discussion about basketball. rec.sport.cricket Discussion about the sport of cricket. rec.sport.football.college US-style college football. rec.sport.football.misc Discussion about American-style football. rec.sport.football.pro US-style professional football. rec.sport.hockey Discussion about hockey. rec.sport.misc Spectator sports. rec.sport.pro-wrestling Discussion about professional wrestling. rec.sport.rugby Discussion about the game of rugby. rec.sport.soccer Discussion about soccer (Association Football). rec.travel Traveling all over the world. rec.video Video and video components. rec.video.satellite Getting shows via satellite. rec.windsurfing Riding the waves as a hobby. rec.woodworking Hobbyists interested in woodworking. sci.aeronautics The science of aeronautics & related technology. sci.aquaria Only scientifically-oriented postings about aquaria. sci.astro Astronomy discussions and information. sci.bio Biology and related sciences. sci.chem Chemistry and related sciences. sci.crypt Different methods of data en/decryption. sci.econ The science of economics. sci.edu The science of education. sci.electronics Circuits, theory, electrons and discussions. sci.energy Discussions about energy, science & technology. sci.engr Technical discussions about engineering tasks. sci.engr.chem All aspects of chemical engineering. sci.environment Discussions about the environment and ecology. sci.geo.fluids Discussion of geophysical fluid dynamics. sci.lang Natural languages, communication, etc. sci.lang.japan The Japanese language, both spoken and written. sci.logic Logic -- math, philosophy & computational aspects. sci.math Mathematical discussions and pursuits. sci.math.stat Statistics discussion. sci.math.symbolic Symbolic algebra discussion. sci.med Medicine and its related products and regulations. sci.med.aids AIDS: treatment, pathology/biology of HIV, prevention. (Moderated) sci.med.physics Issues of physics in medical testing/care. sci.military Discussion about science & the military. (Moderated) sci.misc Short-lived discussions on subjects in the sciences. sci.nanotech Self-reproducing molecular-scale machines. (Moderated) sci.optics Discussion relating to the science of optics. sci.philosophy.tech Technical philosophy: math, science, logic, etc. sci.physics Physical laws, properties, etc. sci.physics.fusion Info on fusion, esp. "cold" fusion. sci.psychology Topics related to psychology. sci.psychology.digest Psychology discussions and information. (Moderated) sci.research Research methods, funding, ethics, and whatever. sci.skeptic Skeptics discussing pseudo-science. sci.space Space, space programs, space related research, etc. sci.space.shuttle The space shuttle and the STS program. sci.virtual-worlds Modelling the universe. (Moderated) soc.college College, college activities, campus life, etc. soc.couples Discussions for couples (cf. soc.singles). soc.culture.african Discussions about Africa & things African. soc.culture.african.american Discussions about Afro-American issues. soc.culture.arabic Technological & cultural issues, *not* politics. soc.culture.asean Countries of the Assoc. of SE Asian Nations. soc.culture.asian.american Issues & discussion about Asian-Americans. soc.culture.australian Australian culture and society. soc.culture.bangladesh Issues & discussion about Bangladesh. soc.culture.british Issues about Britain & those of British descent. soc.culture.china About China and Chinese culture. soc.culture.celtic Group about Celts (*not* basketball!). soc.culture.filipino Group about the Filipino culture. soc.culture.french French culture, history, and related discussions. soc.culture.german Discussions about German culture and history. soc.culture.greek Group about Greeks. soc.culture.hongkong Discussions pertaining to Hong Kong. soc.culture.indian Group for discussion about India & things Indian. soc.culture.iranian Discussions about Iran and things Iranian/Persian. soc.culture.japan Everything Japanese, except the Japanese language. soc.culture.jewish Jewish culture & religion. (cf. talk.politics.mideast) soc.culture.korean Discussions about Korean & things Korean. soc.culture.latin-america Topics about Latin-America. soc.culture.lebanon Discussion about things Lebanese. soc.culture.misc Group for discussion about other cultures. soc.culture.nepal Discussion of people and things in & from Nepal. soc.culture.nordic Discussion about culture up north. soc.culture.pakistan Topics of discussion about Pakistan. soc.culture.polish Polish culture, Polish past, and Polish politics. soc.culture.sri-lanka Things & people from Sri Lanka. soc.culture.taiwan Discussion about things Taiwanese. soc.culture.turkish Discussion about things Turkish. soc.culture.vietnamese Issues and discussions of Vietnamese culture. soc.feminism Discussion of feminism & feminist issues. (Moderated) soc.history Discussions of things historical. soc.human-nets Computer aided communications digest. (Moderated) soc.men Issues related to men, their problems & relationships. soc.misc Socially-oriented topics not in other groups. soc.motss Issues pertaining to homosexuality. soc.net-people Announcements, requests, etc. about people on the net. soc.politics Political problems, systems, solutions. (Moderated) soc.politics.arms-d Arms discussion digest. (Moderated) soc.religion.christian Christianity and related topics. (Moderated) soc.religion.eastern Discussions of Eastern religions. (Moderated) soc.religion.islam Discussions of the Islamic faith. (Moderated) soc.rights.human Human rights & activism (e.g., Amnesty International). soc.roots Genealogical matters. soc.singles Newsgroup for single people, their activities, etc. soc.women Issues related to women, their problems & relationships. talk.abortion All sorts of discussions and arguments on abortion. talk.bizarre The unusual, bizarre, curious, and often stupid. talk.environment Discussion the state of the environment & what to do. talk.origins Evolution versus creationism (sometimes hot!). talk.philosophy.misc Philosophical musings on all topics. talk.politics.drugs The politics of drug issues. talk.politics.guns The politics of firearm ownership and (mis)use. talk.politics.mideast Discussion & debate over Middle Eastern events. talk.politics.misc Political discussions and ravings of all kinds. talk.politics.soviet Discussion of Soviet politics, domestic and foreign. talk.politics.theory Theory of politics and political systems. talk.rape Discussions on stopping rape; not to be crossposted. talk.religion.misc Religious, ethical, & moral implications. talk.religion.newage Esoteric and minority religions & philosophies. talk.rumors For the posting of rumors. -------------------- * UNIX is a registered trademark of Unix System Laboratories, Inc. * DEC and Ultrix are Trademarks of the Digital Equipment Corporation. * VAX is a Trademark of the Digital Equipment Corporation. * Ada is a registered Trademark of the Ada Joint Program Office of the United States Department of Defense. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 127 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!think.com!hsdndev!husc6!purdue!spaf Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.announce.newusers Subject: Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies Message-ID: <13125@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:19 GMT Followup-To: news.lists Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:15:19 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Summary: describes the following alternate hierarchies: alt, bionet, biz,clarinet, gnu, ieee, inet/ddn, pubnet, unix-pc, u3b, vmsnet Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <12403@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Lines: 663 Xref: simpact news.lists:449 news.groups:14276 news.announce.newusers:127 Original-from: hoptoad!gnu (John Gilmore) and spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) [Most recent change: 21 Jan 1991 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] Introduction ------------ The Usenet software allows the support and transport of hierarchies of newsgroups not part of the "traditional" Usenet through use of the distribution mechanism. These hierarchies of groups are available to sites wishing to support them and finding a feed. In general, these groups are not carried by the entire network due to their volume, a restricted sphere of interest, or a different set of administrative rules and concerns. In general it is a bad idea to forward these newsgroups to your neighbors without asking them first; they should only be received at a site by choice. Not only is this generally-accepted net etiquette, it helps to preserve the freedom to do and say as the posters please in these newsgroups, since the only people who get them are those who asked to get them. This freedom is more restricted in the Usenet as a whole, since every mainstream posting and every mainstream newsgroup name must be acceptable to a much wider audience than is present in these hierarchies. Due to the sheer size of the mainstream Usenet, extra-long or controversial postings are more likely to cause problems when posted to the Usenet; however, these alternative hierarchies exist precisely to support those kinds of postings (if germane to the hierarchy). Usually, there is is no restriction on getting these groups as long as you have the capacity to receive, store, and forward the groups; 2.10.3 or 2.11 news is required to make the distribution mechanism work properly for these groups. How to join each distribution is described below. Note that the "uunet" service carries all of these hierarchies. Contact uunet!uunet-request for subscription details. Also note -- the lists in this article are totally unofficial and possibly incomplete or inaccurate. I try to keep the lists up-to-date, but make no guarantee that any of the information contained corresponds with the named groups in any significant way. Corrections and comments should be mailed directly to me. Alt --- "alt" is a collection of newsgroups which are being distributed by a collection of sites that choose to carry them. Many Usenet sites are not interested in these groups. Here is a recent list of the 'alt" newsgroups: alt.activism Activities for activists. alt.alien.visitors ?? alt.angst Anxiety in the modern world. alt.aquaria The aquarium & related as a hobby. alt.artcom Artistic Community, arts & communication. alt.atheism Discussions of atheism. alt.bbs Computer BBS systems & software. alt.bbs.ads Ads for various computer BBS's. alt.bbs.internet BBS systems accessible via the Internet. alt.bbs.waffle The Waffle UUCP BBS. alt.birthright Postings about the Birthright Party. alt.books.technical Discussion of technical books. alt.boomerang Technology and use of the boomerang. alt.california The state and the state of mind. alt.callahans Callahan's bar for puns and fellowship. alt.cd-rom Discussions of optical storage media. alt.censorship Discussion about restricting speech/press. alt.child-support Raising children in a split family. alt.co-ops Discussion about co-operatives. alt.cobol Use of the programming language COBOL. alt.config Alternative subnet discussions and connectivity. alt.conspiracy Be paranoid -- they're out to get you. alt.cosuard Council of Sysops & Users Against Rate Discrimination. alt.cult-movies Movies with a cult following (e.g., Rocky Horror PS). alt.cyb-sys Cybernetics and Systems. alt.cyberpunk High-tech low-life. alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo Literary virtual reality in a cyberpunk hangout. alt.cyberpunk.movement Cybernizing the Universe. alt.cyberpunk.tech Cyberspace and Cyberpunk technology. alt.cyberspace Cyberspace and how it should work. alt.desert-shield Events in the Middle East, esp. Kuwait. alt.dev.null The ultimate in moderated newsgroups. (Moderated) alt.dreams What do they mean? alt.drugs Recreational pharmaceuticals and related flames. alt.emusic Ethnic, exotic, electronic, elaborate, etc. music * alt.exotic-music Exotic music discussions. * alt.fan.albedo Fans of funny animals, ala Steve Gallacci's book. alt.fan.dave_barry Electronic fan club for humorist Dave Barry. alt.fan.dice-man Fans of Andrew Dice Clay alt.fan.mike-jittlov Electronic fan club for animator Mike Jittlov. alt.fan.monty-python Electronic fan club for those wacky Brits. alt.fandom.cons Announcements of conventions (SciFi and others). alt.fandom.misc Other topics for fans of various kinds. alt.fax Faxing documents -- protocols, equipment, etc. alt.fishing Fishing as a hobby and sport. alt.flame Alternative, literate, pithy, succinct screaming. alt.folklore.computers Stories & anecdotes about computers (some true!). alt.folklore.urban Urban legends, ala Jan Harold Brunvand. alt.forgery One place for all forgeries--crossposting encouraged. alt.fractals Fractals in math, graphics, and art. alt.fractals.pictures More large postings. alt.games.gb The Galactic Bloodshed conquest game. alt.gourmand Recipes & cooking info. (Moderated) alt.graphics.pixutils Discussion of pixmap utilities. alt.great-lakes Discussions of the Great Lakes and adjacent places. alt.hackers Descriptions of projects currently under development. (Moderated) alt.horror The horror genre. alt.humor.oracle The semi-legendary Usenet Oracle speaks... alt.hypertext Discussion of hypertext -- uses, transport, etc. alt.individualism Philosophies where individual rights are paramount. alt.irc Internet Relay Chat material. alt.kids-talk A place for the pre-college set on the net. alt.lang.cfutures Discussion of the future of the C programming language alt.lang.intercal A joke language with a real compiler. alt.models Model building, design, etc. alt.msdos.programmer For the serious MS/DOS programmer (no for sale ads). alt.native Issues for and about native Americans. alt.pagan Discussions about paganism & religion. alt.peeves Discussion of peeves & related. alt.personals Geek seeks Dweeb. Object: low-level interfacing. alt.politics.homosexuality As the name implies alt.postmodern Postmodernism, semiotics, deconstruction, and the like. alt.prose Postings of original writings, fictional & otherwise. alt.prose.d Discussions about postings in alt.prose. alt.recovery For people in recovery programs (e.g., AA, ACA, GA). alt.rap-gdead Fans of The Grateful Dead and Rap. Really. alt.religion.computers People who believe computing is "real life." alt.rhode_island Discussion of the great little state. alt.rissa Fans (and otherwise) of Patricia O'Tuama. alt.rmgroup For the people who like to rmgroup/newgroup things. alt.rock-n-roll Counterpart to alt.sex and alt.drugs. alt.rock-n-roll.metal For the headbangers on the net. alt.romance Discussion about the romantic side of love. alt.security Security issues on computer systems. alt.security.index Pointers to good stuff in alt.security. (Moderated) alt.sewing Working with needle and thread. alt.sex Postings of a prurient nature. alt.sex.bestiality Happiness is a warm puppy. alt.sex.bondage Postings about dominance/submission. alt.sex.pictures Gigabytes of copyright violations. alt.sex.pictures.d Discussion group for alt.sex.pictures. alt.skate Rollerskating and skateboarding. alt.skinheads The skinhead culture/anti-culture. alt.slack Posting relating to the Church of the Subgenius. alt.society.cu-digest Postings about the Computer Underground. (Moderated) alt.society.ati The Activist Times Digest. (Moderated) alt.sources Alternative source code, unmoderated. Caveat Emptor. alt.sources.amiga Technically-oriented Amiga PC sources. alt.sources.d Discussion of posted sources. alt.sources.index Pointers to source code in alt.sources.*. (Moderated) alt.sources.patches Reposted patches from non-.bugs groups. alt.sources.wanted Requests for source code. alt.sport.bungee Like alt.suicide with rubber bands. alt.sport.paintball The game/art/sport of splatball. alt.startrek.creative Stories and parodies related to Star Trek. alt.stupidity Discussion about stupid newsgroups. alt.suicide.holiday Talk of why suicides increase at holidays. alt.support Dealing with emotional situations & experiences. alt.sys.sun Technical discussion of Sun Microsystems products. alt.tasteless Truly disgusting. alt.tennis The game & sport of tennis. alt.test Alternative subnetwork testing. alt.text.dwb Discussion of the Documenter's WorkBench. alt.thrash Skateboards and thrashlife. alt.toolkits.xview The X windows XView toolkit. alt.tv.muppets Fans of the Muppets, TV shows & movies. alt.tv.prisoner The Prisoner television series from years ago. alt.tv.simpsons Don't have a cow, man! alt.tv.tiny-toon Dicussion about the "Tiny Toon Adventures" show. alt.tv.twin-peaks Discussion about the popular (and unusual) TV show. Submissions to the moderated alt.gourmand group should be mailed to recipes@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid). Submissions to alt.society.cu-digest should be mailed to tk0jut2@niu.bitnet or cud@chinacat.unicom.com (Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer). * alt.emusic and alt.exotic-music are aliased together at many sites. You can join the "alt subnet" by finding a site in your area that carries the groups. Either send mail to the administrators of the sites you connect to, or post something to a local "general" or "wanted" newsgroup for your area . If no sites nearby are getting them, you can get them from uunet. Bionet ------ There is a newsgroup hierarchy for topics interesting to biologists called "bionet" originating from genbank.bio.net and carried on a growing number of machines including rutgers, phri, mit-eddie, ukma, and all of the machines at UCSD. Contact Eliot Lear for more details. The current newsgroup list looks like this: bionet.agroforestry Discussion of Agroforestry. bionet.general General BIONET announcements. bionet.genome.chrom22 Discussions about human chromosome 22. bionet.jobs Scientific Job opportunities. bionet.journals.contents Contents of biology journal publications. bionet.molbio.ageing Discussions of cellular and organismal ageing. bionet.molbio.bio-matrix Computer applications to biological databases. bionet.molbio.embldatabank Info about the EMBL Nucleic acid database. bionet.molbio.evolution How genes and proteins have evolved. bionet.molbio.genbank Info about the GenBank Nucleic acid database. bionet.molbio.genbank.updates Hot off the presses! (Moderated) bionet.molbio.gene-org How genes are organized on chromosomes. bionet.molbio.genome-program Discussion of Human Genome Project issues. bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts Requests for information and lab reagents. bionet.molbio.proteins Research on proteins and protein databases. bionet.population-bio Technical discussions about population biology. bionet.sci-resources Information about funding agencies, etc. bionet.software Information about software for biology. bionet.users.addresses Who's who in Biology. Biz --- "Biz" is a distribution of newsgroups that are carried and propagated by sites interested in the world of business products around them -- in particular, computer products and services. This includes product announcements, announcements of fixes and enhancements, product reviews, and postings of demo software. Current biz groups include: biz.clarinet Announcements about ClariNet. biz.clarinet.sample Samples of ClariNet newsgroups for the outside world. biz.comp.hardware Generic commercial hardware postings. biz.comp.services Generic commercial service postings. biz.comp.software Generic commercial software postings. biz.comp.telebit Support of the Telebit modem. biz.config Biz Usenet configuration and administration. biz.control Control information and messages. biz.dec DEC equipment & software. biz.dec.ip IP networking on DEC machines. biz.dec.workstations DEC workstation discussions & info. biz.jobs.offered Position announcements. biz.misc Miscellaneous postings of a commercial nature. biz.test Biz newsgroup test messages. biz.stolen Postings about stolen merchandise. Feeds may possibly be obtained from ddsw1.mcs.com, husc6.harvard.edu, rpi.edu, rutgers.edu, spl1, and telly.on.ca among others. ClariNet -------- The ClariNet hierarchy consists of newsgroups gatewayed from commercial news services and other ``official'' sources. A feed of the ClariNet groups requires payment of a fee and execution of a license. More information may be obtained by sending mail to "info@clarinet.com". clari.news ClariNet UPI general news wiregroups. clari.news.hot Temporary groups for hot news stories. clari.biz ClariNet UPI business news wiregroups. clari.sports ClariNet UPI sports wiregroups. clari.tw ClariNet UPI technology related news wiregroups. clari.nb ClariNet Newsbytes Information service Newsgroups. clari.net ClariNet non-news newsgroups. clari.canada ClariNet broadcast style news about Canada. clari.feature Feature columns and products. clari.feature.dave_barry Columns of humorist Dave Barry. (Moderated) clari.feature.mike_royko Chicago Opinion Columnist Mike Royko. (Moderated) clari.feature.miss_manners Judith Martin's Humorous Etiquette Advice. (Moderated) clari.feature.lederer Richard Lederer's "Looking at Language". (Moderated) clari.feature.kinsey Sex Q&A and Advice from Kinsey Institute. (Moderated) clari.canada.newscast Regular newscast for Canadians. (Moderated) clari.canada.briefs Regular updates of Canadian News in Brief. (Moderated) clari.canada.briefs.ont News briefs for Ontario and Toronto. (Moderated) clari.canada.briefs.west News briefs for Alberta, the Prairies & B.C. (Moderated) clari.canada.general Short items on Canadian News stories. (Moderated) clari.canada.biz Canadian Business Summaries. (Moderated) clari.tw.aerospace Aerospace industry and companies. (Moderated) clari.tw.computers Computer industry, applications and developments. (Moderated) clari.tw.defense Defense industry issues. (Moderated) clari.tw.education Stories involving Universities & colleges. (Moderated) clari.tw.electronics Electronics makers and sellers. (Moderated) clari.tw.environment Environmental news, hazardous waste, forests. (Moderated) clari.tw.health Disease, medicine, health care, sick celebs. (Moderated) clari.tw.health.aids AIDS stories, research, political issues. (Moderated) clari.tw.misc General technical industry stories. (Moderated) clari.tw.nuclear Nuclear power & waste. (Moderated) clari.tw.science General science stories. (Moderated) clari.tw.space NASA, Astronomy & spaceflight. (Moderated) clari.tw.stocks Regular reports on computer & technology stock prices. (Moderated) clari.tw.telecom Phones, Satellites, Media & general Telecom. (Moderated) clari.biz.commodity Commodity news and price reports. (Moderated) clari.biz.courts Lawsuits and business related legal matters. (Moderated) clari.biz.economy Economic news and indicators. (Moderated) clari.biz.economy.world Economy stories for non-US countries. (Moderated) clari.biz.features Business feature stories. (Moderated) clari.biz.finance Finance, currency, Corporate finance. (Moderated) clari.biz.finance.earnings Earnings & dividend reports. (Moderated) clari.biz.finance.personal Personal investing & finance. (Moderated) clari.biz.finance.services Banks and financial industries. (Moderated) clari.biz.invest News for investors. (Moderated) clari.biz.labor Strikes, unions and labor relations. (Moderated) clari.biz.market General stock market news. (Moderated) clari.biz.market.amex American Stock Exchange reports & news. (Moderated) clari.biz.market.dow Dow Jones NYSE reports. (Moderated) clari.biz.market.ny NYSE reports. (Moderated) clari.biz.market.otc NASDAQ reports. (Moderated) clari.biz.market.report General market reports, S&P, etc. (Moderated) clari.biz.mergers Mergers and acquisitions. (Moderated) clari.biz.misc Other business news. (Moderated) clari.biz.products Important new products & services. (Moderated) clari.biz.top Top business news. (Moderated) clari.biz.urgent Breaking business news. (Moderated) clari.nb.index Weekly summary of Newsbytes computer news. (Moderated) clari.nb.apple Newsbytes Apple/Macintosh news. (Moderated) clari.nb.business Newsbytes business & industry news. (Moderated) clari.nb.general Newsbytes general computer news. (Moderated) clari.nb.govt Newsbytes legal and government computer news. (Moderated) clari.nb.ibm Newsbytes IBM PC World coverage. (Moderated) clari.nb.review Newsbytes new product reviews. (Moderated) clari.nb.telecom Newsbytes telecom & online industry news. (Moderated) clari.nb.trends Newsbytes new developments & trends. (Moderated) clari.nb.unix Newsbytes Unix news. (Moderated) clari.net.admin Announcements for news admins at ClariNet sites. (Moderated) clari.net.announce Announcements for all ClariNet readers. (Moderated) clari.net.products New ClariNet products. (Moderated) clari.net.talk Discussion of ClariNet -- only unmoderated group. clari.news.almanac Daily almanac - quotes, 'this date in history' etc. (Moderated) clari.news.arts Stage, drama & other fine arts. (Moderated) clari.news.aviation Aviation industry and mishaps. (Moderated) clari.news.books Books & publishing. (Moderated) clari.news.briefs Regular news summaries. (Moderated) clari.news.bulletin Major breaking stories of the week. (Moderated) clari.news.canada News related to Canada. (Moderated) clari.news.children Stories related to children and parenting. (Moderated) clari.news.consumer Consumer news, car reviews etc. (Moderated) clari.news.demonstration Demonstrations around the world. (Moderated) clari.news.disaster Major problems, accidents & natural disasters. (Moderated) clari.news.economy General economic news. (Moderated) clari.news.election News regarding both US and international elections. (Moderated) clari.news.entertain Entertainment industry news & features. (Moderated) clari.news.europe News related to Europe. (Moderated) clari.news.features Unclassified feature stories. (Moderated) clari.news.fighting Clashes around the world. (Moderated) clari.news.flash Ultra-important once-a-year news flashes. (Moderated) clari.news.goodnews Stories of success and survival. (Moderated) clari.news.gov General Government related stories. (Moderated) clari.news.gov.agency Government agencies, FBI etc. (Moderated) clari.news.gov.budget Budgets at all levels. (Moderated) clari.news.gov.corrupt Government corruption, kickbacks etc. (Moderated) clari.news.gov.international International government-related stories. (Moderated) clari.news.gov.officials Government officials & their problems. (Moderated) clari.news.gov.state State government stories of national importance. (Moderated) clari.news.gov.taxes Tax laws, trials etc. (Moderated) clari.news.gov.usa US Federal government news. (High volume). (Moderated) clari.news.group Special interest groups not covered in their own group. (Moderated) clari.news.group.blacks News of interest to black people. (Moderated) clari.news.group.gays Homosexuality & Gay Rights. (Moderated) clari.news.group.jews Jews & Jewish interests. (Moderated) clari.news.group.women Women's issues and abortion. (Moderated) clari.news.hot.east_europe News from Eastern Europe. (Moderated) clari.news.hot.iraq The Gulf Crisis clari.news.hot.panama Panama and General Noriega. (Moderated) clari.news.interest Human interest stories. (Moderated) clari.news.interest.animals Animals in the news. (Moderated) clari.news.interest.history Human interest stories & history in the making. (Moderated) clari.news.interest.people Famous people in the news. (Moderated) clari.news.interest.people.column Daily "People" column -- tidbits on celebs. (Moderated) clari.news.interest.quirks Unusual or funny news stories. (Moderated) clari.news.issues Stories on major issues not covered in their own group. (Moderated) clari.news.issues.civil_rights Freedom, Racism, Civil Rights Issues. (Moderated) clari.news.issues.conflict Conflict between groups around the world. (Moderated) clari.news.issues.family Family, Child abuse, etc. (Moderated) clari.news.labor Unions, strikes. (Moderated) clari.news.labor.strike Strikes. (Moderated) clari.news.law General group for law related issues. (Moderated) clari.news.law.civil Civil trials & litigation. (Moderated) clari.news.law.crime Major crimes. (Moderated) clari.news.law.crime.sex Sex crimes and trials. (Moderated) clari.news.law.crime.trial Trials for criminal actions. (Moderated) clari.news.law.crime.violent Violent crime & criminals. (Moderated) clari.news.law.drugs Drug related crimes & drug stories. (Moderated) clari.news.law.investigation Investigation of crimes. (Moderated) clari.news.law.police Police & law enforcement. (Moderated) clari.news.law.prison Prisons, prisoners & escapes. (Moderated) clari.news.law.profession Lawyers, Judges etc. (Moderated) clari.news.law.supreme U.S. Supreme court rulings & news. (Moderated) clari.news.lifestyle Fashion, leisure etc. (Moderated) clari.news.military Military equipment, people & issues. (Moderated) clari.news.movies Reviews, news and stories on movie stars. (Moderated) clari.news.music Reviews and issues concerning music & musicians. (Moderated) clari.news.politics Politicians & politics. (Moderated) clari.news.politics.people Politicians & Political Personalities. (Moderated) clari.news.religion Religion, religious leaders, televangelists. (Moderated) clari.news.sex Sexual issues, sex-related political stories. (Moderated) clari.news.terrorism Terrorist actions & related news around the world. (Moderated) clari.news.top Top US news stories. (Moderated) clari.news.top.world Top international news stories. (Moderated) clari.news.trends Surveys and trends. (Moderated) clari.news.trouble Less major accidents, problems & mishaps. (Moderated) clari.news.tv TV schedules, news, reviews & stars. (Moderated) clari.news.urgent Major breaking stories of the day. (Moderated) clari.news.weather Weather and temperature reports. (Moderated) clari.sports.baseball Baseball scores, stories, games, stats. (Moderated) clari.sports.basketball Basketball coverage. (Moderated) clari.sports.features Sports feature stories. (Moderated) clari.sports.football Pro football coverage. (Moderated) clari.sports.hockey NHL coverage. (Moderated) clari.sports.misc Other sports, plus general sports news. (Moderated) clari.sports.motor Racing, Motor Sports. (Moderated) clari.sports.tennis Tennis news & scores. (Moderated) clari.sports.top Top sports news. (Moderated) GNU --- gnUSENET (gnUSENET is Not USENET) is a set of newsgroups that are gated bi-directionally with the Internet mailing lists of the GNU Project of the Free Software Foundation. GNU (GNU's Not Unix) will be a complete operating system, including application programs, with freely redistributable source code. Please use ONLY gnu.misc.discuss for discussion of topics considered contrary to GNU aims and political philosophy (e.g., porting of GNU code to Apple machines, usefulness of intellectual property laws, etc.). The GNU mailing lists and newsgroups, like the GNU project itself, exist to promote the freedom to share software. So please don't use these newsgroups (or the other GNU lists) to promote or recommend non-free software. (Using them to post ordering information is the ultimate faux pas.) If there is no free program to do a certain task, then somebody should write one! Current groups include: Newsgroup Description --------- ----------- gnu.announce Status and announcements from the Project. (Moderated) gnu.bash.bug Bourne Again SHell bug reports and suggested fixes. (Moderated) gnu.chess Announcements about the GNU Chess program. gnu.emacs.announce Announcements about GNU Emacs. (Moderated) gnu.emacs.bug GNU Emacs bug reports and suggested fixes. (Moderated) gnu.emacs.gnews News reading under GNU Emacs using Weemba's Gnews. gnu.emacs.gnus News reading under GNU Emacs using GNUS (in English). gnu.emacs.help User queries and answers. gnu.emacs.sources ONLY (please!) C and Lisp source code for GNU Emacs. gnu.emacs.vms VMS port of GNU Emacs. gnu.g++.announce Announcements about the GNU C++ Compiler. (Moderated) gnu.g++.bug g++ bug reports and suggested fixes. (Moderated) gnu.g++.help GNU C++ compiler (G++) user queries and answers. gnu.g++.lib.bug g++ library bug reports/suggested fixes. (Moderated) gnu.gcc.announce Announcements about the GNU C Compiler. (Moderated) gnu.gcc.bug GNU C Compiler bug reports/suggested fixes. (Moderated) gnu.gcc.help GNU C Compiler (gcc) user queries and answers. gnu.gdb.bug gcc/g++ DeBugger bugs and suggested fixes. (Moderated) gnu.ghostscript.bug GNU Ghostscript interpreter bugs. (Moderated) gnu.gnusenet.config GNU's Not Usenet administration and configuration. gnu.gnusenet.test GNU's Not Usenet alternative hierarchy testing. gnu.groff.bug Bugs in the GNU roff programs. (Moderated) gnu.misc.discuss Serious discussion about GNU and freed software. gnu.smalltalk.bug Bugs in GNU Smalltalk. (Moderated) gnu.utils.bug GNU utilities bugs (e.g., make, gawk. ls). (Moderated) Use gnu.emacs.help to discuss software on gnu.emacs.sources and to ask for sources. gnu.emacs.sources is archived by many sites and they want sources ONLY! The gnu.*.bug groups are pseudo-moderated (that is, the group is marked moderated so that postings are mailed to prep.ai.mit.edu and then redistributed to the both the mailing list and newsgroup from there). The gnu.*announce groups all fully moderated. If one of your USENET feeds, can't provide you with a feed of the gnUSENET newsgroups, send mail to gnu.gnusenet.config@prep.ai.mit.edu to ask a feed. Questions about GNU can be directed to gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu or: Free Software Foundation 675 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 USA +1-617-876-3296 IEEE ---- The IEEE newsgroups concern the IEEE -- the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. ieee.announce Announcements of general nature to IEEE community. (Moderated) ieee.compmail.announce Announcements pertaining to COMPMAIL. ieee.compmail.bugs COMPMAIL Bug reports - public discussion. ieee.compmail.pc Items of interest to PC-SprintMail users. ieee.fidonet.admin FidoNet IEEE SysOps conference. ieee.fidonet.bbs-help FidoNet IEEE BBS-Help conference. ieee.fidonet.ieee FidoNet General IEEE conference. ieee.general IEEE - General discussion. ieee.mail.help Help with using Mail. ieee.net.tech Network Technical Discussion. ieee.news.admin Newsgroup Administration. ieee.news.announce Announcements pertaining to newsgroup hierarchy. ieee.news.newgroup Newgroup messages. ieee.pcnfs Discussion & tips on PC-NFS. ieee.pcnfs.lifeline Discussion & tips on using PC-NFS LifeLine Mail. ieee.rab.announce Regional Activities Board - Announcements. ieee.rab.general Regional Activities Board - General discussion. ieee.region1 Region 1 Announcements. ieee.tab.announce Technical Activities Board - Announcements. ieee.tab.general Technical Activities Board - General discussion. ieee.usab.announce USAB - Announcements. ieee.usab.general USAB - General discussion. We are willing to distribute these newsgroups via NNTP to any site that desires to carry them. If you would like a feed of these newsgroups, have the newsadmin for your site contact 'usenet@ieee.org' for a feed. These newsgroups are not available for UUCP feeds at this time. However, an intermediate site getting this feed from us is free to distribute them via UUCP to other sites. Inet/DDN -------- Another alternative hierarchy is the "inet/ddn" distribution. This consists of many newsgroups bearing names similar to traditional Usenet groups and corresponding to Internet discussion lists. These groups are circulated using the NNTP transport mechanism amongst sites on the Internet in an attempt to reduce the number of copies of these groups flowing through the mail (some sites get these groups via UUCP and other tranpost mechanisms, but the volume can be substantial and load may be significant without a high-speed link). Further details may be obtained by writing to Erik Fair (fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu). Current inet groups are: comp.ai.edu Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Education. comp.ai.vision Artificial Intelligence Vision Research. (Moderated) comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel Hyperchannel networks within an IP network. comp.dcom.lans.v2lni Proteon Pronet/V2LNI Ring networks. comp.editors Topics related to computerized text editing. comp.edu.composition Writing instruction in computer-based classrooms. comp.org.eff.news News from the Electronic Frontiers Foundation. (Moderated) comp.org.eff.talk Discussion of EFF goals, strategies, etc. comp.lang.asm370 Programming in IBM System/370 Assembly Language. comp.lang.clu The CLU language & related topics. (Moderated) comp.lang.forth.mac The CSI MacForth programming environment. comp.lang.icon Topics related to the ICON programming language. comp.lang.idl IDL (Interface Description Language) related topics. comp.lang.lisp.franz The Franz Lisp programming language. comp.lang.lisp.x The XLISP language system. comp.lang.rexx The REXX command language. comp.lang.scheme.c The Scheme language environment. comp.lang.visual Visual programming languages. comp.lsi.cad Electrical Computer Aided Design. comp.mail.multi-media Multimedia Mail. comp.music Applications of computers in music research. comp.os.aos Topics related to Data General's AOS/VS. comp.os.cpm.amethyst Discussion of Amethyst, CP/M-80 software package. comp.os.rsts Topics related to the PDP-11 RSTS/E operating system. comp.os.v The V distributed operating system from Stanford. comp.periphs.printers Information on printers. comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ The ISO Development Environment. comp.protocols.iso.x400 X400 mail protocol discussions. (Moderated) comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway X400 mail gateway discussions. (Moderated) comp.protocols.pcnet Topics related to PCNET (a personal computer network). comp.protocols.pup The Xerox PUP network protocols. comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Topics related to Domain Style names. comp.protocols.time.ntp The network time protocol. comp.security.announce Announcements from the CERT about security. (Moderated) comp.soft-sys.andrew The Andrew system from CMU. comp.sys.cdc Control Data Corporation Computers (e.g., Cybers). comp.sys.handhelds Handheld computers and programmable calculators. comp.sys.intel.ipsc310 Anything related to Xenix on an Intel 310. comp.sys.northstar Northstar microcomputer users. comp.sys.super Supercomputers. comp.sys.ti.explorer The Texas Instruments Explorer. comp.sys.zenith Heath terminals and related Zenith products. comp.terminals.bitgraph The BB&N BitGraph Terminal. comp.terminals.tty5620 AT&T Dot Mapped Display Terminals (5620 and BLIT). comp.theory Theoretical Computer Science. comp.theory.cell-automata Discussion of all aspects of cellular automata. comp.theory.dynamic-sys Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. comp.theory.self-org-sys Topics related to self-organization. comp.unix.cray Cray computers and their operating systems. comp.windows.x.announce Announcements about X windows stuff. comp.windows.x.motif The Motif GUI for the X Window System. news.software.nntp The Network News Transfer Protocol. rec.games.vectrex The Vectrex game system. rec.mag.fsfnet A Science Fiction "fanzine." (Moderated) sci.bio.technology Any topic relating to biotechnology. sci.math.num-analysis Numerical Analysis. sci.philosophy.meta Discussions within the scope of "MetaPhilosophy." soc.culture.esperanto The neutral international language Esperanto. ddn.mgt-bulletin The DDN Management Bulletin from NIC.DDN.MIL (Moderated) ddn.newsletter The DDN Newsletter from NIC.DDN.MIL (Moderated) Pubnet ------ The "pubnet" distribution is for public-access systems and was originated by Bill Wisner. Current groups include: pubnet.config Pubnet connectivity discussions. pubnet.nixpub The "nixpub" list of public access UNIXes. pubnet.sources Software of interest to BBS users and sysops. pubnet.talk Miscellaneous BBS talk. pubnet.test Pubnet subnet testing. pubnet.wanted "Wanted" messages with a limited audience. pubnet.sysops Discussions between sysops of BBS systems. Currently, the following sites receive the group, and the system admins there can be contacted for more info or to establish a feed: chinet, dasys1, ddsw1, icus, igloo, ncoast, qetzal, rpi.edu, telly, mit-eddie and tapa. Unix-PC ------- Another such hierarchy is the "unix-pc" distribution. This consists of groups devoted to users of the AT&T Unix-PC. These groups were originated as a mailing list started by three owners of AT&T Unix PCs: Gary Smith, David Dalton and Kathy Vincent. As the list expanded, it turned into a newsgroup hierarchy, and more and more sites began to carry the groups; hundreds of sites now carry these groups. To receive them, you need to contact a site already getting them; att, gatech, mit-eddie, psuvax1, ucsd and ukma are well-known sites getting these groups and the admins there may be willing to help find a feed should you desire (and ask nicely); uunet also carries these groups. The unix-pc groups circulated include: unix-pc.bugs Bug reports, fixes & workarounds. unix-pc.general General information and discussion. unix-pc.sources Source code to various programs. unix-pc.uucp Configuration and management of uucp on Unix-PCs. unix-pc.test Test group. U3B --- Groups dealing with AT&T 3B{2,5,15,20,4000} computers -- everything except for the UNIX PC/3B1. Both uunet and ames carry these groups. u3b.config 3B Distribution configuration. u3b.misc 3B Miscellaneous Discussions. u3b.sources Sources for AT&T 3B systems. u3b.tech 3B Technical Discussions. u3b.test 3B Distribution Testing. Len Rose (len@netsys.netsys.com) oversees these groups. VMSnet ------ This hierarchy is for topics of interest to VAX/VMS sites. This hierarchy is still relatively new. uunet.uu.net and many (if not most) major usenet sites carry these groups. If you have trouble finding a feed, contact tp@mccall.com, or send mail to vmsnet@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu, which is a mailing list gatewayed to vmsnet.uucp. vmsnet.admin Administration of the VMSnet newsgroups. vmsnet.announce General announcements of interest to all. (Moderated) vmsnet.announce.newusers Orientation info for new users. (Moderated) vmsnet.mail Electronic mail on VMS systems. vmsnet.mail.pmdf PMDF email system, gatewayed to ipmdf mailing list. vmsnet.misc General VMS topics not covered elsewhere. vmsnet.sources Source code postings ONLY. vmsnet.sources.d Discussion about or requests for sources. vmsnet.sources.games Recreational software postings. vmsnet.sysmgt VMS system management. vmsnet.test Test messages. vmsnet.uucp DECUS uucp software, gatewayed to vmsnet mailing list. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 128 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!gatech!purdue!turbo.bio.net!lear Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.groups,news.admin Subject: How to Create a New Newsgroup Message-ID: <13117@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: lear@turbo.bio.net Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:04 GMT Reply-To: lear@turbo.bio.net Sender: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Followup-To: news.announce.newusers Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:15:04 GMT Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <12395@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Lines: 133 Xref: simpact news.announce.newusers:128 news.groups:14277 news.admin:4785 Original-from: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) [Most recent change: 06 Sep 1990 by lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot Lear)] GUIDELINES FOR USENET GROUP CREATION REQUIREMENTS FOR GROUP CREATION: These are guidelines that have been generally agreed upon across USENET as appropriate for following in the creating of new newsgroups in the "standard" USENET newsgroup hierarchy. They are NOT intended as guidelines for setting USENET policy other than group creations, and they are not intended to apply to "alternate" or local news hierarchies. The part of the namespace affected is comp, news, sci, misc, soc, talk, rec, which are the most widely-distributed areas of the USENET hierarchy. Any group creation request which follows these guidelines to a successful result should be honored, and any request which fails to follow these procedures or to obtain a successful result from doing so should be dropped, except under extraordinary circumstances. The reason these are called guidelines and not absolute rules is that it is not possible to predict in advance what "extraordinary circumstances" are or how they might arise. It should be pointed out here that, as always, the decision whether or not to create a newsgroup on a given machine rests with the administrator of that machine. These guidelines are intended merely as an aid in making those decisions. The Discussion 1) A call for discussion on creation of a new newsgroup should be posted to news.announce.newgroups, and also to any other groups or mailing lists at all related to the proposed topic if desired. This group is moderated, and The Followup-to: header will be set so that the actual discussion takes place only in news.groups. Users on sites which have difficulty posting to moderated groups may mail submissions intended for news.announce.newgroups to "announce-newgroups@turbo.bio.net". 2) The name and charter of the proposed group and whether it will be moderated or unmoderated (and if the former, who the moderator(s) will be) should be determined during the discussion period. If there is no general agreement on these points among the proponents of a new group at the end of 30 days of discussion, the discussion should be taken offline (into mail instead of news.groups) and the proponents should iron out the details among themselves. Once that is done, a new, more specific proposal may be made, going back to step 1) above. The Vote 1) AFTER the discussion period, if it has been determined that a new group is really desired, a name and charter are agreed upon, and it has been determined whether the group will be moderated and if so who will moderate it, a call for votes may be posted to news.announce.newgroups and any other groups or mailing lists that the original call for discussion might have been posted to. There should be minimal delay between the end of the discussion period and the issuing of a call for votes. The call for votes should include clear instructions for how to cast a vote. It must be as clearly explained and as easy to do to cast a vote for creation as against it, and vice versa. It is explicitly permitted to set up two separate addresses to mail yes and no votes to provided that they are on the same machine, to set up an address different than that the article was posted from to mail votes to, or to just accept replies to the call for votes article, as long as it is clearly and explicitly stated in the call for votes article how to cast a vote. If two addresses are used for a vote, the reply address must process and accept both yes and no votes OR reject them both. 2) The voting period should last for at least 21 days and no more than 31 days, no matter what the preliminary results of the vote are. The exact date that the voting period will end should be stated in the call for votes. Only votes that arrive on the vote-taker's machine prior to this date may be counted. 3) A couple of repeats of the call for votes may be posted during the vote, provided that they contain similar clear, unbiased instructions for casting a vote as the original, and provided that it is really a repeat of the call for votes on the SAME proposal (see #5 below). Partial vote results should NOT be included; only a statement of the specific new group proposal, that a vote is in progress on it, and how to cast a vote. It is permitted to post a "mass acknowledgement" in which all the names of those from whom votes have been received are posted, as long as no indication is made of which way anybody voted until the voting period is officially over. 4) ONLY votes MAILED to the vote-taker will count. Votes posted to the net for any reason (including inability to get mail to the vote-taker) and proxy votes (such as having a mailing list maintainer claim a vote for each member of the list) may not be counted. 5) Votes may not be transferred to other, similar proposals. A vote shall count only for the EXACT proposal that it is a response to. In particular, a vote for or against a newsgroup under one name shall NOT be counted as a vote for or against a newsgroup with a different name or charter, a different moderated/unmoderated status or (if moderated) a different moderator or set of moderators. 6) Votes MUST be explicit; they should be of the form "I vote for the group foo.bar as proposed" or "I vote against the group foo.bar as proposed". The wording doesn't have to be exact, it just needs to be unambiguous. In particular, statements of the form "I would vote for this group if..." should be considered comments only and not counted as votes. The Result 1) At the completion of the voting period, the vote taker must post the vote tally and the E-mail addresses and (if available) names of the votes received to news.announce.newgroups and any other groups or mailing lists to which the original call for votes was posted. The tally should include a statement of which way each voter voted so that the results can be verified. 2) AFTER the vote result is posted, there will be a 5 day waiting period, beginning when the voting results actually appear in news.announce.newgroups, during which the net will have a chance to correct any errors in the voter list or the voting procedure. 3) AFTER the waiting period, and if there were no serious objections that might invalidate the vote, and if 100 more valid YES/create votes are received than NO/don't create AND at least 2/3 of the total number of valid votes received are in favor of creation, a newgroup control message may be sent out. If the 100 vote margin or 2/3 percentage is not met, the group should not be created. The newgroup message may be sent by the vote-taker (if able to do so) or by the system administrator on the vote-taker's machine. If this option is not available, then the vote-taker should send mail to "newgroup@ncar.ucar.edu" saying that a successful vote has been run and requesting that a newgroup message be sent. DO NOT send the vote results; we can look those up in news.announce.newgroups if we haven't seen them there already. In any case, please send mail to Gene Spafford (spaf@purdue.edu) informing him of a successful vote, so he can add the new group to the official list of groups which he maintains. X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 129 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!think.com!hsdndev!husc6!purdue!spaf Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers Subject: A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community Message-ID: <13119@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:08 GMT Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:15:08 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <12397@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Lines: 358 Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) [Most recent change: 21 Jan 1991 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] A Primer on How to Work With the USENET Community Chuq Von Rospach *** You now have access to Usenet, a network of thousands of computers. Other documents or your system administrator will provide detailed technical documentation. This message describes the Usenet culture and customs that have developed over time. All new users should read this message to find out how Usenet works. *** *** (Old users could read it, too, to refresh their memories.) *** USENET is a large collection of computers that share data with each other. It is the people on these computers that make USENET worth the effort to read and maintain, and for USENET to function properly those people must be able to interact in productive ways. This document is intended as a guide to using the net in ways that will be pleasant and productive for everyone. This document is not intended to teach you how to use USENET. Instead, it is a guide to using it politely, effectively and efficiently. Communication by computer is new to almost everybody, and there are certain aspects that can make it a frustrating experience until you get used to them. This document should help you avoid the worst traps. The easiest way to learn how to use USENET is to watch how others use it. Start reading the news and try to figure out what people are doing and why. After a couple of weeks you will start understanding why certain things are done and what things shouldn't be done. There are documents available describing the technical details of how to use the software. These are different depending on which programs you use to access the news. You can get copies of these from your system administrator. If you do not know who that person is, they can be contacted on most systems by mailing to account "usenet". Never Forget that the Person on the Other Side is Human Because your interaction with the network is through a computer it is easy to forget that there are people "out there." Situations arise where emotions erupt into a verbal free-for-all that can lead to hurt feelings. Please remember that people all over the world are reading your words. Do not attack people if you cannot persuade them with your presentation of the facts. Screaming, cursing, and abusing others only serves to make people think less of you and less willing to help you when you need it. If you are upset at something or someone, wait until you have had a chance to calm down and think about it. A cup of coffee or a good night's sleep works wonders on your perspective. Hasty words create more problems than they solve. Try not to say anything to others you would not say to them in person in a room full of people. Don't Blame System Admins for their Users' Behavior Sometimes, you may find it necessary to write to a system administrator about something concerning his or her site. Maybe it is a case of the software not working, or a control message escaped, or maybe one of the users at that site has done something you feel requires comment. No matter how steamed you may be, be polite to the sysadmin -- he or she may not have any idea of what you are going to say, and may not have any part in the incidents involved. By being civil and temperate, you are more likely to obtain their courteous attention and assistance. Be Careful What You Say About Others Please remember -- you read netnews; so do as many as 250,000 other people. This group quite possibly includes your boss, your friend's boss, your girl friend's brother's best friend and one of your father's beer buddies. Information posted on the net can come back to haunt you or the person you are talking about. Think twice before you post personal information about yourself or others. This applies especially strongly to groups like soc.singles and alt.sex but even postings in groups like talk.politics.misc have included information about the personal life of third parties that could get them into serious trouble if it got into the wrong hands. Be Brief Never say in ten words what you can say in fewer. Say it succinctly and it will have a greater impact. Remember that the longer you make your article, the fewer people will bother to read it. Your Postings Reflect Upon You -- Be Proud of Them Most people on USENET will know you only by what you say and how well you say it. They may someday be your co-workers or friends. Take some time to make sure each posting is something that will not embarrass you later. Minimize your spelling errors and make sure that the article is easy to read and understand. Writing is an art and to do it well requires practice. Since much of how people judge you on the net is based on your writing, such time is well spent. Use Descriptive Titles The subject line of an article is there to enable a person with a limited amount of time to decide whether or not to read your article. Tell people what the article is about before they read it. A title like "Car for Sale" to rec.autos does not help as much as "66 MG Midget for sale: Beaverton OR." Don't expect people to read your article to find out what it is about because many of them won't bother. Some sites truncate the length of the subject line to 40 characters so keep your subjects short and to the point. Think About Your Audience When you post an article, think about the people you are trying to reach. Asking UNIX(*) questions on rec.autos will not reach as many of the people you want to reach as if you asked them on comp.unix.questions or comp.unix.internals. Try to get the most appropriate audience for your message, not the widest. It is considered bad form to post both to misc.misc, soc.net-people, or misc.wanted and to some other newsgroup. If it belongs in that other newsgroup, it does not belong in misc.misc, soc.net-people, or misc.wanted. If your message is of interest to a limited geographic area (apartments, car sales, meetings, concerts, etc...), restrict the distribution of the message to your local area. Some areas have special newsgroups with geographical limitations, and the recent versions of the news software allow you to limit the distribution of material sent to world-wide newsgroups. Check with your system administrator to see what newsgroups are available and how to use them. If you want to try a test of something, do not use a world-wide newsgroup! Messages in misc.misc that say "This is a test" are likely to cause large numbers of caustic messages to flow into your mailbox. There are newsgroups that are local to your computer or area that should be used. Your system administrator can tell you what they are. Be familiar with the group you are posting to before you post! You shouldn't post to groups you do not read, or post to groups you've only read a few articles from -- you may not be familiar with the on-going conventions and themes of the group. One normally does not join a conversation by just walking up and talking. Instead, you listen first and then join in if you have something pertinent to contribute. Be Careful with Humor and Sarcasm Without the voice inflections and body language of personal communications, it is easy for a remark meant to be funny to be misinterpreted. Subtle humor tends to get lost, so take steps to make sure that people realize you are trying to be funny. The net has developed a symbol called the smiley face. It looks like ":-)" and points out sections of articles with humorous intent. No matter how broad the humor or satire, it is safer to remind people that you are being funny. But also be aware that quite frequently satire is posted without any explicit indications. If an article outrages you strongly, you should ask yourself if it just may have been unmarked satire. Several self-proclaimed connoisseurs refuse to use smiley faces, so take heed or you may make a temporary fool of yourself. Only Post a Message Once Avoid posting messages to more than one newsgroup unless you are sure it is appropriate. If you do post to multiple newsgroups, do not post to each group separately. Instead, specify all the groups on a single copy of the message. This reduces network overhead and lets people who subscribe to more than one of those groups see the message once instead of having to wade through each copy. Please Rotate Messages With Questionable Content Certain newsgroups (such as rec.humor) have messages in them that may be offensive to some people. To make sure that these messages are not read unless they are explicitly requested, these messages should be encrypted. The standard encryption method is to rotate each letter by thirteen characters so that an "a" becomes an "n". This is known on the network as "rot13" and when you rotate a message the word "rot13" should be in the "Subject:" line. Most of the software used to read usenet articles have some way of encrypting and decrypting messages. Your system administrator can tell you how the software on your system works, or you can use the Unix command "tr [a-z][A-Z] [n-z][a-m][N-Z][A-M]". (Note that some versions of Unix don't require the [] in the "tr" command. In fact, some systems will get upset if you use them in an unquoted manner. The following should work for everyone, but may be shortened on some systems: tr '[a-m][n-z][A-M][N-Z]' '[n-z][a-m][N-Z][A-M]' Don't forget the single quotes!) Summarize What You are Following Up When you are following up someone's article, please summarize the parts of the article to which you are responding. This allows readers to appreciate your comments rather than trying to remember what the original article said. It is also possible for your response to get to some sites before the original article. Summarization is best done by including appropriate quotes from the original article. Do not include the entire article since it will irritate the people who have already seen it. Even if you are responding to the entire article, summarize only the major points you are discussing. When Summarizing, Summarize! When you request information from the network, it is common courtesy to report your findings so that others can benefit as well. The best way of doing this is to take all the responses that you received and edit them into a single article that is posted to the places where you originally posted your question. Take the time to strip headers, combine duplicate information, and write a short summary. Try to credit the information to the people that sent it to you, where possible. Use Mail, Don't Post a Follow-up One of the biggest problems we have on the network is that when someone asks a question, many people send out identical answers. When this happens, dozens of identical answers pour through the net. Mail your answer to the person and suggest that they summarize to the network. This way the net will only see a single copy of the answers, no matter how many people answer the question. If you post a question, please remind people to send you the answers by mail and at least offer to summarize them to the network. Read All Follow-ups and Don't Repeat What Has Already Been Said Before you submit a follow-up to a message, read the rest of the messages in the newsgroup to see whether someone has already said what you want to say. If someone has, don't repeat it. Check the Headers When Following Up The news software has provisions to specify that follow-ups to an article should go to a specific set of newsgroups -- possibly different from the newsgroups to which the original article was posted. Sometimes the groups chosen for follow-ups are totally inappropriate, especially as a thread of discussion changes with repeated postings. You should carefully check the groups and distributions given in the header and edit them as appropriate. If you change the groups named in the header, or if you direct follow-ups to a particular group, say so in the body of the message -- not everyone reads the headers of postings. Be Careful About Copyrights and Licenses Once something is posted onto the network, it is *probably* in the public domain unless you own the appropriate rights (most notably, if you wrote the thing yourself) and you post it with a valid copyright notice; a court would have to decide the specifics and there are arguments for both sides of the issue. Now that the US has ratified the Berne convention, the issue is even murkier. For all practical purposes, though, assume that you effectively give up the copyright if you don't put in a notice. Of course, the *information* becomes public, so you mustn't post trade secrets that way. When posting material to the network, keep in mind that material that is UNIX-related may be restricted by the license you or your company signed with AT&T and be careful not to violate it. You should also be aware that posting movie reviews, song lyrics, or anything else published under a copyright could cause you, your company, or members of the net community to be held liable for damages, so we highly recommend caution in using this material. Cite Appropriate References If you are using facts to support a cause, state where they came from. Don't take someone else's ideas and use them as your own. You don't want someone pretending that your ideas are theirs; show them the same respect. Mark or Rotate Answers and Spoilers When you post something (like a movie review that discusses a detail of the plot) which might spoil a surprise for other people, please mark your message with a warning so that they can skip the message. Another alternative would be to use the "rot13" protocol to encrypt the message so it cannot be read accidentally. When you post a message with a spoiler in it make sure the word "spoiler" is part of the "Subject:" line. Spelling Flames Considered Harmful Every few months a plague descends on USENET called the spelling flame. It starts out when someone posts an article correcting the spelling or grammar in some article. The immediate result seems to be for everyone on the net to turn into a 6th grade English teacher and pick apart each other's postings for a few weeks. This is not productive and tends to cause people who used to be friends to get angry with each other. It is important to remember that we all make mistakes, and that there are many users on the net who use English as a second language. There are also a number of people who suffer from dyslexia and who have difficulty noticing their spelling mistakes. If you feel that you must make a comment on the quality of a posting, please do so by mail, not on the network. Don't Overdo Signatures Signatures are nice, and many people can have a signature added to their postings automatically by placing it in a file called "$HOME/.signature". Don't overdo it. Signatures can tell the world something about you, but keep them short. A signature that is longer than the message itself is considered to be in bad taste. The main purpose of a signature is to help people locate you, not to tell your life story. Every signature should include at least your return address relative to a major, known site on the network and a proper domain-format address. Your system administrator can give this to you. Some news posters attempt to enforce a 4 line limit on signature files -- an amount that should be more than sufficient to provide a return address and attribution. Limit Line Length and Avoid Control Characters Try to keep your text in a generic format. Many (if not most) of the people reading Usenet do so from 80 column terminals or from workstations with 80 column terminal windows. Try to keep your lines of text to less than 80 characters for optimal readability. Also realize that there are many, many different forms of terminals in use. If you enter special control characters in your message, it may result in your message being unreadable on some terminal types; a character sequence that causes reverse video on your screen may result in a keyboard lock and graphics mode on someone else's terminal. You should also try to avoid the use of tabs, too, since they may also be interpreted differently on terminals other than your own. Summary of Things to Remember Never forget that the person on the other side is human Don't blame system admins for their users' behavior Be careful what you say about others Be brief Your postings reflect upon you; be proud of them Use descriptive titles Think about your audience Be careful with humor and sarcasm Only post a message once Please rotate material with questionable content Summarize what you are following up Use mail, don't post a follow-up Read all follow-ups and don't repeat what has already been said Double-check follow-up newsgroups and distributions. Be careful about copyrights and licenses Cite appropriate references When summarizing, summarize Mark or rotate answers or spoilers Spelling flames considered harmful Don't overdo signatures Limit line length and avoid control characters (*)UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T. ----------- This document is in the public domain and may be reproduced or excerpted by anyone wishing to do so. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 130 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!hsdndev!husc6!purdue!spaf Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers Subject: Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquet Message-ID: <13120@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:11 GMT Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:15:10 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <12398@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Lines: 346 Original-from: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) [Most recent change: 5 Sep 1990 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] **NOTE: this is intended to be satirical. If you do not recognize it as such, consult a doctor or professional comedian. The recommendations in this article should recognized for what they are -- admonitions about what NOT to do. "Dear Emily Postnews" Emily Postnews, foremost authority on proper net behaviour, gives her advice on how to act on the net. ============================================================================ Dear Miss Postnews: How long should my signature be? -- verbose@somesite A: Dear Verbose: Please try and make your signature as long as you can. It's much more important than your article, of course, so try and have more lines of signature than actual text. Try and include a large graphic made of ASCII characters, plus lots of cute quotes and slogans. People will never tire of reading these pearls of wisdom again and again, and you will soon become personally associated with the joy each reader feels at seeing yet another delightful repeat of your signature. Be sure as well to include a complete map of USENET with each signature, to show how anybody can get mail to you from any site in the world. Be sure to include Internet gateways as well. Also tell people on your own site how to mail to you. Give independent addresses for Internet, UUCP, BITNET, and CSNET, even if they're all the same. Aside from your reply address, include your full name, company and organization. It's just common courtesy -- after all, in some newsreaders people have to type an *entire* keystroke to go back to the top of your article to see this information in the header. By all means include your phone number and street address in every single article. People are always responding to usenet articles with phone calls and letters. It would be silly to go to the extra trouble of including this information only in articles that need a response by conventional channels! ------ Dear Emily: Today I posted an article and forgot to include my signature. What should I do? -- forgetful@myvax A: Dear Forgetful: Rush to your terminal right away and post an article that says, "Oops, I forgot to post my signature with that last article. Here it is." Since most people will have forgotten your earlier article, (particularly since it dared to be so boring as to not have a nice, juicy signature) this will remind them of it. Besides, people care much more about the signature anyway. See the previous letter for more important details. Also, be sure to include your signature TWICE in each article. That way you're sure people will read it. ------ Dear Ms. Postnews: I couldn't get mail through to somebody on another site. What should I do? -- eager@beaver.dam A: Dear Eager: No problem, just post your message to a group that a lot of people read. Say, "This is for John Smith. I couldn't get mail through so I'm posting it. All others please ignore." This way tens of thousands of people will spend a few seconds scanning over and ignoring your article, using up over 16 man-hours of their collective time, but you will be saved the terrible trouble of checking through usenet maps or looking for alternate routes. Just think, if you couldn't distribute your message to 9000 other computers, you might actually have to (gasp) call directory assistance for 60 cents, or even phone the person. This can cost as much as a few DOLLARS (!) for a 5 minute call! And certainly it's better to spend 10 to 20 dollars of other people's money distributing the message than for you to have to waste $9 on an overnight letter, or even 25 cents on a stamp! Don't forget. The world will end if your message doesn't get through, so post it as many places as you can. ------ Q: What about a test message? A: It is important, when testing, to test the entire net. Never test merely a subnet distribution when the whole net can be done. Also put "please ignore" on your test messages, since we all know that everybody always skips a message with a line like that. Don't use a subject like "My sex is female but I demand to be addressed as male." because such articles are read in depth by all USEnauts. ------ Q: Somebody just posted that Roman Polanski directed Star Wars. What should I do? A: Post the correct answer at once! We can't have people go on believing that! Very good of you to spot this. You'll probably be the only one to make the correction, so post as soon as you can. No time to lose, so certainly don't wait a day, or check to see if somebody else has made the correction. And it's not good enough to send the message by mail. Since you're the only one who really knows that it was Francis Coppola, you have to inform the whole net right away! ------ Q: I read an article that said, "reply by mail, I'll summarize." What should I do? A: Post your response to the whole net. That request applies only to dumb people who don't have something interesting to say. Your postings are much more worthwhile than other people's, so it would be a waste to reply by mail. ------ Q: I collected replies to an article I wrote, and now it's time to summarize. What should I do? A: Simply concatenate all the articles together into a big file and post that. On USENET, this is known as a summary. It lets people read all the replies without annoying newsreaders getting in the way. Do the same when summarizing a vote. ------ Q: I saw a long article that I wish to rebut carefully, what should I do? A: Include the entire text with your article, and include your comments between the lines. Be sure to post, and not mail, even though your article looks like a reply to the original. Everybody *loves* to read those long point-by-point debates, especially when they evolve into name-calling and lots of "Is too!" -- "Is not!" -- "Is too, twizot!" exchanges. ------ Q: How can I choose what groups to post in? A: Pick as many as you can, so that you get the widest audience. After all, the net exists to give you an audience. Ignore those who suggest you should only use groups where you think the article is highly appropriate. Pick all groups where anybody might even be slightly interested. Always make sure followups go to all the groups. In the rare event that you post a followup which contains something original, make sure you expand the list of groups. Never include a "Followup-to:" line in the header, since some people might miss part of the valuable discussion in the fringe groups. ------ Q: How about an example? A: Ok. Let's say you want to report that Gretzky has been traded from the Oilers to the Kings. Now right away you might think rec.sport.hockey would be enough. WRONG. Many more people might be interested. This is a big trade! Since it's a NEWS article, it belongs in the news.* hierarchy as well. If you are a news admin, or there is one on your machine, try news.admin. If not, use news.misc. The Oilers are probably interested in geology, so try sci.physics. He is a big star, so post to sci.astro, and sci.space because they are also interested in stars. Next, his name is Polish sounding. So post to soc.culture.polish. Next, his new salary will involve large numbers, so post to sci.math. With this many groups of interest, your article will be quite bizarre, so post to talk.bizarre as well. (And post to comp.std.mumps, since they hardly get any articles there, and a "comp" group will propagate your article further.) You may also find it is more fun to post the article once in each group. If you list all the newsgroups in the same article, some newsreaders will only show the the article to the reader once! Don't tolerate this. ------ Q: How do I create a newsgroup? A: The easiest way goes something like "inews -C newgroup ....", and while that will stir up lots of conversation about your new newsgroup, it might not be enough. First post a message in news.groups describing the group. Hold discussion for a short while, and then ask for a vote. Collect votes for 30 days. Every few days post a long summary of all the votes so that people can complain about bad mailers and double votes. It means you'll be more popular and get lots of mail. At the end of thirty days if you have 100 more yes votes than no votes you may create the group. No matter what the group, it is not necessary to get the approval of admins at backbone sites. They will be happy to create any group if it passes the above test. To liven up discussion, choose a good cross-match for your hierarchy and group. For example, comp.race.formula1 or soc.vlsi.design would be good group names. If you want your group created quickly, include an interesting word like "sex," "aquaria" or "bible." To avoid limiting discussion, make the name as broad as possible. ------ Q: I cant spell worth a dam. I hope your going too tell me what to do? A: Don't worry about how your articles look. Remember it's the message that counts, not the way it's presented. Ignore the fact that sloppy spelling in a purely written forum sends out the same silent messages that soiled clothing would when addressing an audience. ------ Q: How should I pick a subject for my articles? A: Keep it short and meaningless. That way people will be forced to actually read your article to find out what's in it. This means a bigger audience for you, and we all know that's what the net is for. If you do a followup, be sure and keep the same subject, even if it's totally meaningless and not part of the same discussion. If you don't, you won't catch all the people who are looking for stuff on the original topic, and that means less audience for you. ------ Q: What sort of tone should I take in my article? A: Be as outrageous as possible. If you don't say outlandish things, and fill your article with libelous insults of net people, you may not stick out enough in the flood of articles to get a response. The more insane your posting looks, the more likely it is that you'll get lots of followups. The net is here, after all, so that you can get lots of attention. If your article is polite, reasoned and to the point, you may only get mailed replies. Yuck! ------ Q: The posting software suggested I had too long a signature and too many lines of included text in my article. What's the best course? A: Such restrictions were put in the software for no reason at all, so don't even try to figure out why they might apply to your article. Turns out most people search the net to find nice articles that consist of the complete text of an earlier article plus a few lines. In order to help these people, fill your article with dummy original lines to get past the restrictions. Everybody will thank you for it. For your signature, I know it's tough, but you will have to read it in with the editor. Do this twice to make sure it's firmly in there. ------ Q: They just announced on the radio that Dan Quayle was picked as the Republican V.P. candidate. Should I post? A: Of course. The net can reach people in as few as 3 to 5 days. It's the perfect way to inform people about such news events long after the broadcast networks have covered them. As you are probably the only person to have heard the news on the radio, be sure to post as soon as you can. ------ Q: I have this great joke. You see, these three strings walk into a bar.... A: Oh dear. Don't spoil it for me. Submit it to rec.humor, and post it to the moderator of rec.humor.funny at the same time. I'm sure he's never seen that joke, and I know he loves to have jokes sent to rec.humor and rec.humor.funny at the same time. ------ Q: What computer should I buy? An Atari ST or an Amiga? A: Cross post that question to the Atari and Amiga groups. It's an interesting and novel question that I am sure they would love to investigate in those groups. ------ Q: What about other important questions? How should I know when to post? A: Always post them. It would be a big waste of your time to find a knowledgeable user in one of the groups and ask through private mail if the topic has already come up. Much easier to bother thousands of people with the same question. ------ Q: What is the measure of a worthwhile group? A: Why, it's Volume, Volume, Volume. Any group that has lots of noise in it must be good. Remember, the higher the volume of material in a group, the higher percentage of useful, factual and insightful articles you will find. In fact, if a group can't demonstrate a high enough volume, it should be deleted from the net. ------ Q: Emily, I'm having a serious disagreement with somebody on the net. I tried complaints to his sysadmin, organizing mail campaigns, called for his removal from the net and phoning his employer to get him fired. Everybody laughed at me. What can I do? A: Go to the daily papers. Most modern reporters are top-notch computer experts who will understand the net, and your problems, perfectly. They will print careful, reasoned stories without any errors at all, and surely represent the situation properly to the public. The public will also all act wisely, as they are also fully cognizant of the subtle nature of net society. Papers never sensationalize or distort, so be sure to point out things like racism and sexism wherever they might exist. Be sure as well that they understand that all things on the net, particularly insults, are meant literally. Link what transpires on the net to the causes of racism, sexism, mass-murder, current political candidates, the origin of the species, and the death of Elvis, if possible. If regular papers won't take the story, go to a tabloid paper -- they are always interested in good stories. By arranging all this free publicity for the net, you'll become very well known. People on the net will wait in eager anticipation for your every posting, and refer to you constantly. You'll get more mail than you ever dreamed possible -- the ultimate in net success. ------ Q: What does foobar stand for? A: It stands for you, dear. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 131 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!think.com!hsdndev!husc6!purdue!spaf Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers Subject: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions Message-ID: <13122@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:14 GMT Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:15:14 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <12400@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Lines: 616 Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz) [Most recent change: 21 Jan 1991 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] Frequently Submitted Items This document discusses some items that occur repeatedly on USENET. They frequently are submitted by new users, and result in many followups, sometimes swamping groups for weeks. The purpose of this note is to head off these annoying events by answering some questions and warning about the inevitable consequence of asking others. If you don't like these answers let spaf@purdue.edu know. Note that some newsgroups have their own special "Frequent Questions & Answers" posting. You should read a group for a while before posting any questions, because the answers may already be present. Comp.unix.questions and comp.unix.internals are examples -- Steve Hayman regularly posts an article that answers common questions, including some of the ones asked here. This list is often referred to as FAQ -- the Frequently Asked Questions. If you are a new user of the Usenet and don't find an answer to your questions here, you can try asking in the news.newusers.questions group. Contents ======== 1. What does UNIX stand for? 2. What is the derivation of "foo" as a filler word? 3. Is a machine at "foo" on the net? 4. What does "rc" at the end of files like .newsrc mean? 5. What does :-) mean? 6. How do I decrypt jokes in rec.humor? 7. misc.misc or misc.wanted: Is John Doe out there anywhere? 8. sci.math: Proofs that 1=0. 9. rec.games.*: Where can I get the source for empire or rogue? 10. comp.unix.questions: How do I remove files with non-ascii characters in their names? 11. comp.unix.internals: There is a bug in the way UNIX handles protection for programs that run suid, or any other report of bugs with standard software. 12. Volatile topics, e.g., soc.women: What do you think about abortion? 13. soc.singles: What do MOTOS, MOTSS, and MOTAS stand for? What does LJBF mean? 14. soc.singles and elsewhere: What does HASA stand for? 15. sci.space.shuttle: Shouldn't this group be merged with sci.space? 16. How do I use the "Distribution" feature? 17. Why do some people put funny lines ("bug killers") at the beginning of their articles? 18. What is the address or phone number of the "foo" company? 19. What is the origin of the name "grep"? 20. How do I get from BITNET to UUCP, Internet to BITNET, JANET etc. etc.? 21. Didn't some state once pass a law setting pi equal to 3 ? 22. Where can I get the necessary software to get a "smart" mail system running on my machine that will take advantage of the postings in comp.mail.maps? (E.g., pathalias, smail, etc.) 23. What is "food for the NSA line-eater"? 24. Does anyone know the {pinouts, schematics, switch settings, what does jumper J3 do} for widget X? 25. What is "anonymous ftp"? 26. What is UUNET? 27. Isn't the posting mechanism broken? When I post an article to both a moderated group and unmoderated groups, it gets mailed to the moderator and not posted to the unmoderated groups. 28. comp.arch and elsewhere: What do FYI and IMHO mean? 29. Would someone repost {large software distribution}? 30. How do I contact the moderator of an Internet mailing list rather than post to the entire list? 31. I see BTW (or "btw"), wrt and RTFM in postings. What do they mean? 32. Are there any restrictions on posting e-mail someone sends to me? 33. What's an FQDN? 34. How do you pronounce "char" in C, "ioctl" in UNIX, the character "#", etc., etc.? 35. How do you pronounce "TeX"? 36. What is the last year of the 20th century A.D.? 37. I heard these stories about a dying child wanting postcards to get in the Guinness Book of World Records. Where can I post the address for people to help? 38. Is there a public access Unix system near me? How can I get access to system for news and mail? 39. In rec.pets: My pet has the following symptoms .... Is it serious? In sci.med: I have these symptoms .... Is it serious? 40. I have this great idea to make money. Alternatively, wouldn't an electronic chain letter be a nifty idea? Questions and Answers ===================== 1. What does UNIX stand for? It is not an acronym, but is a pun on "Multics". Multics is a large operating system that was being developed shortly before UNIX was created. 2. What is the derivation of "foo" as a filler word? The favorite story is that it comes from "fubar" which is an acronym for "fouled up beyond all recognition", which is supposed to be a military term. (Various forms of this exist, "fouled" usually being replaced by a stronger word.) "Foo" and "Bar" have the same derivation. 3. Is a machine at "foo" on the net? These questions belong in news.config (if anywhere), but in fact your best bet is usually to phone somebody at "foo" to find out. If you don't know anybody at "foo" you can always try calling and asking for the "comp center." Also, see the newsgroup comp.mail.maps where maps of USENET and the uucp network are posted regularly. 4. What does "rc" at the end of files like .newsrc mean? It is related to the phrase "run commands." It is used for any file that contains startup information for a command. The use of "rc" in startup files derives from the /etc/rc command file used to start multi-user UNIX. 5. What does :-) mean? This is the net convention for a "smiley face". It means that something is being said in jest. If it doesn't look like a smiley face to you, flop your head over to the left and look again. 6. How do I decrypt jokes in rec.humor? The standard cypher used in rec.humor is called "rot13." Each letter is replaced by the letter 13 farther along in the alphabet (cycling around at the end). Most systems have a built-in command to decrypt such articles; readnews and nn have the "D" command, rn has the "X" or "^X" commands, notes has "%" or "R", and VMS news has the read/rot13 command. If your system doesn't have a program to encrypt and decrypt these, you can quickly create a shell script using "tr": tr A-Za-z N-ZA-Mn-za-m On some versions of UNIX, the "tr" command should be written as: tr "[a-m][n-z][A-M][N-Z]" "[n-z][a-m][N-Z][A-M]" 7. misc.misc or misc.wanted: Is John Doe out there anywhere? I suspect that these items are people looking for Freshman room- mates that they haven't seen in ten years. If you have some idea where the person is you are usually better off calling the organization. For example, if you call any Bell Labs location and request John Doe's number they can give it to you even if he works at a different location. If you must try the net, use newsgroup soc.net-people *NOT* misc.misc or misc.wanted. 8. sci.math: Proofs that 1=0. Almost everyone has seen one or more of these in high school. They are almost always based on either division by 0 or taking the square root of a negative number. 9. rec.games.*: Where can I get the source for empire or rogue? You can't get the source of rogue. The authors of the game, as is their right, have chosen not to make the sources available. However, several rogue-like games have been posted to the comp.sources.games group and they are available in the archives. You can obtain the source to a version of empire if you provide a tape and SASE *plus* a photocopy of your UNIX source license. To obtain further info, contact mcnc!rti-sel!polyof!john. You can also call John at +1 516 454-5191 (9am-9pm EST only). Sites with Internet access can ftp several versions of empire from site g.ms.uky.edu Also, please note that the wizards' passwords in games like these are usually system-dependent and it does no good to ask the net-at-large what they are. 10. comp.unix.questions: How do I remove files with non-ascii characters in their names? You can try to find a pattern that uniquely identifies the file. This sometimes fails because a peculiarity of some shells is that they strip off the highorder bit of characters in command lines. Next, you can try an rm -i, or rm -r. Finally, you can mess around with i-node numbers and "find". Some Emacs editors allow you to directly edit a directory, and this provides yet another way to remove a file with a funny name (assuming you have Emacs and figure out how to use it!). To remove a file named "-" from your directory, simply do: rm ./- 11. comp.unix.internals: There is a bug in the way UNIX handles protection for programs that run suid, or any other report of bugs with standard software. There are indeed problems with the treatment of protection in setuid programs. When this is brought up, suggestions for changes range from implementing a full capability list arrangement to new kernel calls for allowing more control over when the effective id is used and when the real id is used to control accesses. Sooner or later you can expect this to be improved. For now you just have to live with it. Always discuss suspected bugs or problems with your site software experts before you post to the net. It is likely that the bugs have already been reported. They might also be local changes and not something you need to describe to the whole Usenet. 12. Volatile topics, e.g., soc.women: What do you think about abortion? Although abortion might appear to be an appropriate topic for soc.women, more heat than light is generated when it is brought up. All abortion-related discussion should take place in the newsgroup talk.abortion. If your site administrators have chosen not to receive this group, you should respect this and not post articles about abortion at all. This principle applies to other topics: religious upbringing of children should be restricted to talk.religion.misc and kept out of misc.kids. Similarly, rape discussions should be kept to talk.rape and not in soc.singles, alt.sex and/or soc.women, and Zionism discussions should be kept to talk.politics.mideast and not in soc.culture.jewish. USENET newsgroups are named for mostly historical reasons, and are not intended to be fully general discussion groups for everything about the named topic. Please accept this and post articles in their appropriate forums. 13. soc.singles: What do MOTOS, MOTSS, and MOTAS stand for? What does LJBF mean? Member of the opposite sex, member of the same sex, and member of the appropriate sex, respectively. SO stands for "significant other". LJBF means "Let's just be friends." This phrase is often heard when you least want it. 14. soc.singles and elsewhere: What does HASA stand for? The acronym HASA originated with the Heathen and Atheistic SCUM Alliance; the Hedonistic Asti-Spumante Alliance, Heroes Against Spaghetti Altering, the Society for Creative Atheism (SCATHE), SASA, SALSA, PASTA, and many others too numerous to mention all followed. HASA started in (what is now) talk.religion.misc and also turns up in soc.singles, talk.bizarre, et al. because members post there too. 15. sci.space.shuttle: Shouldn't this group be merged with sci.space? No. sci.space.shuttle is for timely news bulletins. sci.space is for discussions. 16. How do I use the "Distribution" feature? When postnews prompts you for a distribution, it's asking how widely distributed you want your article. The set of possible replies is different, depending on where you are, but at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, possibilities include (for example): local local to this machine mh Bell Labs, Murray Hill Branch nj all sites in New Jersey btl All Bell Labs machines att All AT&T machines usa Everywhere in the USA na Everywhere in North America world Everywhere on USENET in the world If you hit return, you'll get the default, which is usually "world.". This default is often not appropriate -- PLEASE take a moment to think about how far away people are likely to be interested in what you have to say. Used car ads, housing wanted ads, and things for sale other than specialized equipment like computers certainly shouldn't be distributed to Europe and Korea, or even to the next state. It is generally not possible to post an article to a distribution that your own machine does not receive. For instance, if you live in Indiana, you can't post an article for distribution only in New Jersey or Germany unless your site happens to exchange those particular distributions with another site. Try mailing the article to someone in the appropriate area and asking them to post it for you. 17. Why do some people put funny lines ("bug killers") at the beginning of their articles? Some earlier versions of news had a bug which would drop the first 512 or 1024 bytes of text of certain articles. The bug was triggered whenever the article started with whitespace (a blank or a tab). A fix many people adopted was to begin their articles with a line containing a character other than white space. This gradually evolved into the habit of including amusing first lines. The original bug has since been fixed in newer version of news, and sites running older versions of news have applied a patch to prevent articles from losing text. The "bug-killer" lines are therefore probably no longer needed, but they linger on. 18. What is the address or phone number of the "foo" company? Try the white and yellow pages of your phone directory, first; a sales representative will surely know, and if you're a potential customer they will be who you're looking for. Phone books for other cities are usually available in libraries of any size. Whoever buys or recommends things for your company will probably have some buyer's guides or national company directories. Call or visit the reference desk of your library; they have several company and organization directories and many will answer questions like this over the phone. Remember if you only know the city where the company is, you can telephone to find out their full address or a dealer. Calls to 1-800-555-1212 will reveal if the company has an "800" number you can call for information. The network is NOT a free resource, although it may look like that to some people. It is far better to spend a few minutes of your own time researching an answer rather than broadcast your laziness and/or ineptitude to the net. 19. What is the origin of the name "grep"? The original UNIX text editor "ed" has a construct g/re/p, where "re" stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for matches to the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing them. This was so often used that it was packaged up into its own command, thus named "grep". According to Dennis Ritchie, this is the true origin of the command. 20. How do I get from BITNET to UUCP, Internet to BITNET, JANET etc.? There are so many networks and mail systems in use now, it would take a book to describe all of them and how to send mail between them. Luckily, there are a couple of excellent books that do exactly that, and in a helpful, easy-to-use manner: "!%@:: A Directory of Electronic Mail Addressing & Networks" by Donnalyn Frey and Rick Adams, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc, 2nd edition 1990. "The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide" by John Quarterman, Digital Press, 1990. Another excellent book to have on your bookshelf (to keep those two company) is "The User's Directory of Computer Networks" edited by Tracy LaQuey, Digital Press, 1990. 21. Didn't some state once pass a law setting pi equal to 3 ? Indiana House Bill #246 was introduced on 18 January 1897, and referred to the Committee on Canals "midst general cheerfulness." The text states, "the ratio of the diameter and circumference is as five-fourths to four", which makes pi 3.2 (not 3), but there are internal contradictions in the bill as well as contradictions with reality. The author was a mathematical crank. The bill was passed by the state House on 5 February, but indefinitely tabled by the state Senate, in part thanks to the fortuitous presence on other business of a Purdue professor of mathematics. For details, including an annotated text of the bill, read the article by D. Singmaster in "The Mathematical Intelligencer" v7 #2, pp 69-72. 22. Where can I get the necessary software to get a "smart" mail system running on my machine that will take advantage of the postings in comp.mail.maps? (E.g., pathalias, smail, etc.) There are a couple of packages available through the supporters of the comp.sources.unix archives. If sites next to you don't have what you want, contact your nearest comp.sources.unix archive, or the moderator. Information on archive sites, and indices of comp.sources.unix back issues are posted regularly in comp.sources.unix and comp.sources.d. 23. What is "food for the NSA line-eater"? This refers to the alleged scanning of all USENET traffic by the National Security Agency (and possibly other intelligence organizations) for interesting keywords. The "food" is believed to contain some of those keywords in the fond hope of overloading NSA's poor computers. A little thought should convince anyone that this is unlikely to occur. Other posters have taken up this practice, either as an ambiguous form of political statement, or as an attempt at humor. The bottom line is that excessive signatures in any form are discouraged, the joke has worn stale amongst long-time net readers, and there are specific newsgroups for the discussion of politics. 24. Does anyone know the {pinouts, schematics, switch settings, what does jumper J3 do} for widget X? These postings are almost always inappropriate unless the manufacturer has gone out of business or no longer supports the device. If neither of these is the case, you're likely to get a better and faster response by simply telephoning the manufacturer. 25. What is "anonymous ftp"? "FTP" stands for File Transfer Protocol; on many systems, it's also the name of a user-level program that implements that protocol. This program allows a user to transfer files to and from a remote network site, provided that network site is reachable via the Internet or a similar facility. (Ftp is also usable on many local-area networks.) "Anonymous FTP" indicates that a user may log into the remote system as user "anonymous" with an arbitrary password. A common convention is that some sort of identification is supplied as the password, e.g. "mumble@foo". This is sometimes useful to those sites that track ftp usage. Also note that most sites restrict when transfers can be made, or at least suggest that large transfers be made only during non-peak hours. 26. What is UUNET? UUNET is a non-profit communications service designed to provide access to USENET news, mail, and various source archives at low cost by obtaining volume discounts. Charges are calculated to recover costs. For more information send your US mail address to info@uunet.uu.net (uunet!info). 27. Isn't the posting mechanism broken? When I post an article to both a moderated group and unmoderated groups, it gets mailed to the moderator and not posted to the unmoderated groups. This is a question that is debated every few months. The answer is "No, it was designed to work that way." The software is designed so that the moderator can crosspost the article so it appears in the regular groups as well as the moderated group, if appropriate. If the article were to be posted immediately to the unmoderated groups, the moderated group name would have to be deleted from the header and you would lose the crossposting. Whether or not this is correct behavior is a matter of opinion. If you want your article to go out immediately to the unmoderated groups, post it twice -- once to the unmoderated groups and once to the moderated groups. 28. comp.arch and elsewhere: What do FYI and IMHO mean? Those are abbreviations for common phrases. FYI is "For Your Information" and IMHO is "In My Humble Opinion" or "In My Honest Opinion." 29. Would someone repost {large software distribution}? This question should never be posted unless you are reporting a widespread problem in article propagation. Lamentably, there ARE occasional glitches in article transport. Large source or binary postings, by their sheer size, are an inviting target. If the problem is isolated, it is much better to take it upon yourself to obtain the bad portions of the program than to ask thousands of sites to spend thousands of dollars to needlessly move several hundred kilobytes of code. There are archive sites around the net that make most source/binary newsgroups available via anonymous FTP and UUCP. If you get desperate, you can always mail the author a blank disk or magnetic tape with provisions for return postage. 30. How do I contact the moderator of an Internet mailing list rather than post to the entire list? To do this you should know that there are, by convention, two mailing addresses for every mailing list (except where noted by the List of Lists): list@host (e.g. xpert@athena.mit.edu) list-request@host (e.g. xpert-request@athena.mit.edu) When you have something for everyone on the mailing list to read, mail to the list@host address. HOWEVER, if you have an administrative request to make (e.g. "please add me to this list", "please remove me from this list", "where are the archives?", "what is this mailer error I got from sending to this list?"), it should be directed to the list-request@host address, which goes only to the mailing list administrator. It is considered to be in bad taste to send administrative requests to the entire mailing list in question, and if (as is often the case) the administrator does not read the mailing list (i.e. he just takes care of the admin tasks for the list), he will not see your request if you don't send it to the right address. 31. I see BTW (or "btw"), wrt and RTFM in postings. What do they mean? BTW is shorthand for "by the way." WRT is "With respect to". RTFM is generally used as an admonition and means "read the f*ing manual" (choice of f-words varies according to reader). The implication is that the answer to a query or complaint is easy to find if one looks in the appropriate location FIRST. 32. Are there any restrictions on posting e-mail someone sends to me? At a minimum, it is only polite for you to contact the author of the letter and secure her or his permission to post it to the net. On a more serious note, it can be argued that posting someone's e-mail to the net without their permission is a violation of copyright law. Under that law, even though a letter was addressed to you, it does not grant you the right to publish the contents, since those are the work of the author and the author retains copyright (even if no explicit copyright mark appears). Basically, your letters are your intellectual property. If someone publishes your letters they are violating your copyright. This principle is well-founded in "paper media," and while untested in electronic forums such as Usenet, the same would probably apply if tested in court. 33. What's an FQDN? A fully-qualified domain name. That is, a hostname containing full, dotted qualification of its name up to the root of the Internet domain naming system tree. Example: uiucuxc is the single-word hostname (suitable for, e.g., UUCP transport purposes) of the machine whose FQDN is uxc.cso.uiuc.edu. 34. How do you pronounce "char" in C, "ioctl" in UNIX, the character "#", etc., etc.? Opinions differ. Pick pronunciations close to what your colleagues use. After all, they're the ones you need to communicate with. 35. How do you pronounce "TeX"? To quote Donald Knuth, the creator of TeX: "Insiders pronounce the X of TeX as a Greek chi, not as an 'x', so that TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh. It's the 'ch' sound in Scottish words like loch or German words like ach; it's a Spanish 'j' and a Russian 'kh'. When you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist." [The TeXbook, 1986, Addison Wesley, page 1] 36. What is the last year of the 20th century A.D.? The A.D. system was devised before "origin 0 counting" was invented. The year after the time when Jesus was (incorrectly) assumed to have been born was numbered 1. (The preceding year was 1 B.C.) So the 1st century was 1 to 100, the 2nd was 101 to 200, the 20th is 1901 to 2000. This is standard terminology no matter how much some of you may dislike it. However, "a" century is any span of 100 years; so if you want to celebrate the end of "the century", meaning the 1900's, on December 31, 1999, nobody will stop you. It just isn't the end of the "20th century A.D.". 37. I heard these stories about a dying child wanting postcards to get in the Guinness Book of World Records. Where can I post the address for people to help? Post it to "junk," or better yet, don't post it at all. The story of the little boy keeps popping up, even though his mother has been reported as appealing for people to stop. So many postcards were sent that the agencies involved in the effort don't know what to do with them, and the Guinness people claim they will retire the category from the record books. If you want to do something noble, donate the cost of a stamp and postcard (or more) to a worthwhile charity like UNICEF or the International Red Cross/Red Crescent. There are tens of thousands of children dying around the world daily, and they could use more than a postcard. 38. Is there a public access Unix system near me? How can I get access to system for news and mail? Phil Eschallier posts a list of open access Unix sites (he calls them "Nixpub" sites) on a regular basis to the following newsgroups: pubnet.nixpub, comp.misc, alt.bbs. Check his posting for information on sites you can contact. 39. In rec.pets: My pet has the following symptoms .... Is it serious? In sci.med: I have these symptoms .... Is it serious? Could be. The only way to tell for sure is to see an expert. The network reaches a vast audience with considerable talent, but that can never replace the expert observation and diagnosis of a trained professional. Do yourself or your pet a big favor -- if there is a problem, go see an appropriate practitioner. If there is a problem, you'll need to see them eventually, and better to see them early on. If there isn't a problem, then there is no harm done. 40. I have this great idea to make money. Alternatively, wouldn't an electronic chain letter be an nifty idea? In a few words: don't even think about it. Trying to use the net to make vast sums of money or send chain letters is a very bad idea. First of all, it is an inappropriate use of resources (arguably, so are most of the newsgroups), and tends to use up vast amounts of net bandwidth. Second, such usage of the net tends to produce extremely negative reactions by people on the net, adding even more to the volume -- most of it directed to you. Users, particular system admins, do not like that kind of activity, and they will flood your mailbox with notices to that effect. Third, it's just stupid -- even more so than the other stupidity on the net. And last, and perhaps most important, some of this activity is against the law in many places. In the US, you can (and will) be reported by hacked-off system administrators for suspicion of wire fraud or mail fraud (if you are asking people to mail something to you or others). In one incident, at *least* a half dozen people reported the person to the Postal Service inspectors; I'm not sure what the outcome was, but it probably was not a nice experience. Bottom line: don't try schemes to sell things, solicit donations, or run any kind of pyramid or Ponzi scheme. Also, don't start or support electronic chain letters. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 132 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!hsdndev!husc6!purdue!spaf Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers Subject: USENET Software: History and Sources Message-ID: <13123@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:15 GMT Followup-To: news.admin Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:15:15 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <12401@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Lines: 276 Xref: simpact news.admin:4786 news.announce.newusers:132 Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford) [Most recent change: 19 Jan 1991 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] Currently, Usenet readers interact with the news using a number of software packages and programs. This article mentions the important ones and a little of their history, gives pointers where you can look for more information and ends with some special notes about "foreign" and "obsolete" software. At the very end is a list of sites from which current versions of the Usenet software may be obtained. History ------- Usenet came into being in late 1979, shortly after the release of V7 Unix with UUCP. Two Duke University grad students in North Carolina, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, thought of hooking computers together to exchange information with the Unix community. Steve Bellovin, a grad student at the University of North Carolina, put together the first version of the news software using shell scripts and installed it on the first two sites: "unc" and "duke." At the beginning of 1980 the network consisted of those two sites and "phs" (another machine at Duke), and was described at the January Usenix conference. Steve Bellovin later rewrote the scripts into C programs, but they were never released beyond "unc" and "duke." Shortly thereafter, Steve Daniel did another implementation in C for public distribution. Tom Truscott made further modifications, and this became the "A" news release. In 1981 at U. C. Berkeley, grad student Mark Horton and high school student Matt Glickman rewrote the news software to add functionality and to cope with the ever increasing volume of news -- "A" news was intended for only a few articles per group per day. This rewrite was the "B" news version. The first public release was version 2.1 in 1982; the 1.* versions were all beta test. As the net grew, the news software was expanded and modified. The last version maintained and released primarily by Mark was 2.10.1. Rick Adams, at the Center for Seismic Studies, took over coordination of the maintenance and enhancement of the news software with the 2.10.2 release in 1984. By this time, the increasing volume of news was becoming a concern, and the mechanism for moderated groups was added to the software at 2.10.2. Moderated groups were inspired by ARPA mailing lists and experience with other bulletin board systems. In late 1986, version 2.11 of news was released, including a number of changes to support a new naming structure for newsgroups, enhanced batching and compression, enhanced ihave/sendme control messages, and other features. The current release of news is 2.11, patchlevel 19. Article format is specified in RFC 1036, last revised in December 1987 (a version is distributed with the news software). {An aside about RFCs: a RFC is a Request For Comment, a de-facto standard in the Internet Community. It is a form of published software standard, done through the Network Information Center (NIC) at SRI. Copies of RFCs are often posted to the net and obtainable from archive sites.} A new version of news, becoming known as "C" news, has been developed at the University of Toronto by Geoff Collyer and Henry Spencer. This version is a rewrite of the lowest levels of news to increase article processing speed, decrease article expiration processing and improve the reliability of the news system through better locking, etc. The package was released to the net in the autumn of 1987. For more information, see the paper "News Need Not Be Slow," published in The Winter 1987 Usenix Technical Conference proceedings. ANU-NEWS is news package written by Geoff Huston of Australia for VMS systems. ANU-NEWS is complete news system that allows reading, posting, direct replies, moderated newsgroups, etc. in a fashion closely related to regular news. The implementation includes the RFC1036 news propagation algorithms and integrated use of the NNTP protocols (see below) to support remote news servers, implemented as a VAX/VMS Decnet object. A RFC977 server implemented as a Decnet object is also included. The ANU-NEWS interface is similar to standard DEC screen oriented systems. The license for the software is free, and there are no restrictions on the re-distribution. For more info, contact gih900@fac.anu.oz.au (Geoff Huston). ANU-NEWS is available for FTP from kuhub.cc.ukans.edu. Contact SLOANE@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU for more info. Several popular screen-oriented news reading interfaces have been developed in the last few years to replace the traditional "readnews" interface. The first of these was "vnews" and it was written by Kenneth Almquist. "vnews" provides a "readnews"-like command interface, but displays articles using direct screen positioning. It appears to have been inspired, to some extent, by the "notes" system (described below). "vnews" is currently distributed with the standard 2.11 news source. A second, more versatile interface, "rn", was developed by Larry Wall now of JPL/NASA and released in 1984. This interface also uses full-screen display with direct positioning, but it includes many other useful features and is very popular with many regular net readers. The interface includes reading, discarding, and/or processing of articles based on user-definable patterns, the ability to follow "threads of discussions" in newsgroups, and the ability of the user to develop customized macros for display and keyboard interaction. "rn" is currently at release 4.3, patchlevel 53, with a major re-release under development; release 4.4 is expected at the end of January 1991. "rn" is not provided with the standard news software release, but is very widely available due to its popularity. xrn is an X11-based interface to NNTP that was written by Rick Spickelmier and Ellen Sentovich (UC Berkeley). The current version is 6.9. xrn supports many features, including sorting by subject, user-settable key bindings, graceful handling of NNTP server crashes, and many of the features of rn (including KILL files and key bindings similar to rn). xrn is actively supported by the authors with bug fixing and feature addition support from many of the users. xrn can be retrieved from most of the popular FTP sites (gatekeeper.dec.com, uunet.uu.net, expo.lcs.mit.edu) and is on the X11R4 distribution from MIT (in the contrib section). There are two popular macro packages named "GNUS" and "Gnews" that can be used with the GNU Emacs text editor. These allow reading, replying, and posting interaction with the news from inside the Emacs text editor. Client code exists to get the articles using NNTP rather than from a local disk. Copies can be found on most archive sites that carry the GNU archives. "nn" is yet another reader interface, developed by Kim F. Storm of Denmark and released in 1989. nn differs from the traditional readnews and vnews by presenting a menu of article subject and sender-name lines, allowing you to preselect articles to read. nn is also a very fast newsreader, as it keeps a database of article headers on-line (I.e. it trades space for time. A good rule of thumb is that the nn database size is 5%-10% of your news spool. So up to 110% of your news spool is the amount of space news and the nn database will take). The current version of nn is 6.4.11. nn can be obtained via anonymous FTP from dkuug.dk, uop.uop.edu, mthvax.cs.miami.edu or various other sites; European sites should request the sources from their nearest backbone site. Other options can be found by reading news.software.nn. "notes" is a software package popular at some sites. It uses a different internal organization of articles, and a different interchange format than that of the standard Usenet software. It was inspired by the notesfiles available in the PLATO system and was developed independently from the Usenet news. Eventually, the "notes" network and Usenet were joined via gateways doing (sometimes imperfect) protocol translation. The interface for "notes" is similar to "rn" but implements different features, many of which are dictated by its internal organization. "notes" was written in 1980-1981 by Ray Essick and Rob Kolstad, (then) grad students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The first public release of "notes" was at the January 1982 Usenix conference. The current release of notes is version 1.7. In March 1986 a package was released implementing news transmission, posting, and reading using the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) (as specified in RFC 977). This protocol allows hosts to exchange articles via TCP/IP connections rather than using the traditional uucp. It also permits users to read and post news (using a modified version of "rn" or other user agents) from machines which cannot or choose not to install the USENET news software. Reading and posting are done using TCP/IP messages to a server host which does run the USENET software. Sites which have many workstations like the Sun and Apollo products find this a convenient way to allow workstation users to read news without having to store articles on each system. Many of the Usenet hosts that are also on the Internet exchange news articles using NNTP because the load impact of NNTP is much lower than uucp (and NNTP ensures much faster propagation). NNTP grew out of independent work in 1984-1985 by Brian Kantor at U. C. San Diego and Phil Lapsley at U. C. Berkeley. It is now in release 1.5.11, with the next planned release at 1.6. NNTP includes support for System V UNIX with Excelan Ethernet cards and DECNET under Ultrix. NNTP was developed at U. C. Berkeley by Phil Lapsley with help from Erik Fair, Steven Grady, and Mike Meyer, among others. The NNTP package is distributed on the 4.3BSD release tape (although that is version 1.2a and out-of-date) and is also available from the various authors, many major hosts, and by anonymous FTP from lib.tmc.edu, mthvax.cs.miami.edu and uunet.uu.net Reader NNTP clients for VMS are also available, including VMS/VNEWS (current release 1.3-4.1) and an upcoming reader only version of ANU-NEWS. VMS/VNEWS is available from mcmahon@tgv.com. Although the current release of ANU-NEWS is useable as a reader it can be difficult when used with a UNIX server. An NNTP newsreader for Macintoshs is available called HyperNews. It is implemented as a HyperCard stack and depends on MacTCP. It is available from many Mac archives, including apple.com and sumex-aim.stanford.edu There is also an NNTP-based netnews reader for Symbolics Lisp Machines (under Genera 7) available for anonymous FTP from ucbvax.berkeley.edu [128.32.133.1] in pub/nntp-clients/lispm written by Ian Connolly and maintained by Richard Welty . In addition, another NNTP-based news browser is available running under Genera 7 and Genera 8. It provides mouse driven hierarchic browsing of newsgroups and articles, with support for X11 servers on remote machines. It is available for anonymous FTP on flash.bellcore.com [128.96.32.20] in the directory pub/lispm/news-reader/. It is written and maintained by Peter Clitherow A TOPS-20 reader was developed by Dave Edwards of SRI , but current availability is unknown. An NNTP reader suite for PC's running MS-DOS and having Excelan boards is available for ftp from ames.arc.nasa.gov; get the pcrrn files. There are two MS-DOS news readers that can be obtained from bcm.tmc.edu in the "nfs" directory. They both require PC-NFS (from Sun to work). They will both work under PC/TCP from FTP Software early this year. Source will be provided at that time. At least one IBM VM/SP (CMS) version of the Usenet software is available. Interested parties should contact Irwin Tillman of Princeton University (irwin@pucc.princeton.edu or irwin@pucc.bitnet) for details. Another version may also be available from Bill Verity at Penn State (whv@psuvm.bitnet). Special note on "notes" and pre-2.11 news ----------------------------------------- Users of these systems may note problems in their interactions with the Usenet. In particular, postings may be made by "notes" users to moderated groups but they will not usually propagate throughout the entire Usenet. The same may happen to users of old B news software. Users of "notes" or old B news software wishing to post to moderated groups should either mail their submissions to the moderator, as listed in the monthly posting of "List of Moderators" in the group "news.lists", or else they should post from a system running up-to-date B news software (i.e., 2.11). "notes" users may obtain some patches from the comp.sources.unix archives which enable recent versions of "notes" to interact with moderated groups properly. Users of old B news and "notes" are also not able to take advantage of some other current B news features, such as the "checkgroups" message. "notes" continues to be a "foreign" system, and B news versions before 2.10.2 are considered "obsolete." The various maintainers of the Usenet software have never expressed any commitment to maintain backwards compatibility with "foreign" or obsolete news systems and are unlikely to do so; it is the responsibility of the users to maintain compatibility of such software if they wish to continue to interact with the Usenet. Software versions & availability -------------------------------- You can obtain the version number of your news software by issuing the "v" command in either "vnews" or "readnews." "rn" version is obtainable by typing the "v" command to the top level prompt -- it should currently be 4.3.2.4. Current software is obtainable from almost any major Usenet site. Source to the 'rn' newsreader program is also widely available. The following sites have sources to the current news software available for anyone needing a copy: Site Contact ---- ------- munnari kre@munnari.oz.au osu-cis postmaster@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu philabs usenet@philabs.philips.com pyramid usenet@pyramid.com rutgers usenet@rutgers.edu tektronix news@tektronix.tek.com watmath usenet@watmath.waterloo.edu Sources for both news 2.11 and "rn" are also available in the comp.sources.unix archives. European sites should request the sources from their nearest Eunet backbone site. Acknowledgements ---------------- The preparation of this article (and Usenet itself!) was greatly enhanced by the contributions and assistance of the following persons: Steve Bellovin, Ray Essick, Mark Horton, Brian Kantor, Phil Lapsley, Bob Page, Tom Truscott, and Larry Wall. Thanks, folks. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 133 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!think.com!hsdndev!husc6!purdue!spaf Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers Subject: Hints on writing style for Usenet Message-ID: <13121@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:13 GMT Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:15:13 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <12399@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Lines: 101 Original-from: ofut@gatech.edu (A. Jeff Offutt VI) [Most recent change: 19 Jan 1991 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] I would like to take a moment to share some of my knowledge of writing style. If you read the suggestions below, remember: it's easy to agree that they make sense but it's much harder to apply them. References: Cunningham and Pearsall, "How to Write For the World of Work" Strunk & White, "Elements of Style" The above references are both excellent books. Cunningham is a standard in tech writing classes and won an award for the best tech writing book from the Association for Teaching of Technical Writing. I was lucky enough to take a class from him as an undergraduate. Strunk is a standard in college composition classes. Other ideas here come from my own experience on the net and hints from other people. This is a "long article." The rest of it is simply a list of pointers. Writing style: * Write *below* the readers' reading level. The avg. person in the US reads at a 5th grade level (11 years of age). The avg. professional reads at about the 12th grade level (18 years of age). * Keep paragraphs short and sweet. Keep sentences shorter and sweeter. This means "concise," not cryptic. * White space is not wasted space -- it greatly improves clarity. A blank line only adds a byte to the article length, so don't be stingy if it will help make your meaning clearer. * Pick your words carefully. Writing with precision is as important here as it is in any other kind of discourse. Consider carefully whether what you have written can be misinterpreted, and whether that is something you wish to have happen. * People can only grasp about seven things at once. This means ideas in a paragraph, major sections, etc.. * Avoid abbreviations and acronyms, if possible, and define the ones you use. * There are several variations on any one sentence. A passive, questioning or negative sentence takes longer to read. Net style: * Subtlety is not communicated well in written form - especially over a computer. * The above applies to humor as well. (rec.humor, of course, not included.) * When being especially "flame-boyant", I find it helpful to go to the bathroom before actually sending. Then, I often change the tone considerably. :-) Take a break before posting something in anger or that might hurt or anger others. * Subject lines should be used very carefully. How much time have you wasted reading articles with a misleading subject line? The "Subject:" header line can be edited in all the various posting programs (as can the "Distribution:", "Newsgroups:" and "Followup-To:" header lines). * References need to be made. When you answer mail, you have the original message fresh in your mind. When I receive your answer, I don't. * It's *much* easier to read a mixture of upper and lower case letters. * Leaving out articles (such as "the," "a," "an," etc.) for "brevity" mangles the meaning of your sentences and takes longer to read. It saves you time at the expense of your reader. * Be careful of contextual meanings of words. For instance, I used "articles" just now. In the context of netnews, it has a different meaning than I intended. * Make an effort to spell words correctly. Obvious misspellings are jarring and distract the reader. Every news posting program allows you to edit your article before posting, and most systems have some kind of spelling checker program that you can use on your article. * Remember - this is an international network. * Remember - your current or future employers may be reading your articles. So might your spouse, neighbors, children, and others who will long-remember your gaffes. 'Nuff said. These suggestions are all easily supported by arguments and research. There's a lot more to say, but.... -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf X-NEWS: simpact news.announce.newusers: 134 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.2; site dcs.simpact.com Path: dcs.simpact.com!crash!ncr-sd!sdd.hp.com!samsung!emory!gatech!purdue!spaf Newsgroups: news.lists,news.announce.newusers Subject: Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists Message-ID: <13129@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Date: 22 Jan 91 02:15:28 GMT Followup-To: news.lists Expires: 22 Apr 91 02:15:27 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <12407@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Lines: 2292 Xref: simpact news.lists:451 news.announce.newusers:134 Original-from: chuq@apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) [Most recent change: 20 Jan 1991 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] Quick Summary of Changes ------------------------ Added since last list: 30something ballroom biosym BMW bread cabot chem-e dirt-users Donosy fsuucp info-ingres joke-s khoros lojban mr2-interest numeric-interest picasso-users sports-cards T-E-L TolkLang Deleted since last list: C-futures hunters isi rc-cars war-worlds Changed since last list: AoN torg towers uk-motss zepplin Intro ----- This is a list of mailing lists available primarily on the UUCP network. A mailing list is different from a newsgroup because you do not receive anything unless you specifically request it. To be added to a mailing list, please mail a note to the contact for that list, listed below. Some of the lists mentioned may be available as limited-distribution newsgroups. Contact the administrator for exact details. Please note the following caveats: publication of a list here does not guarantee that you will be allowed to join as a member. That is up to the moderator and readers, and they have the right to restrict access to their list as they see fit. Mailing lists use MUCH less system overhead on a world-wide basis but do tend to increase loading on the moderators' machines so the number of people that can be added to a list may be limited by machine resources as well. The Network Information Systems Center maintains a list of mailing lists that exist primarily on the Internet. That list overlaps this one in a few places, but the lists are largely distinct. A copy of that list may be obtained by anonymous ftp from the site ftp.nisc.sri.com (192.33.33.53) in the file "netinfo/interest-groups". To add or delete an entry to that list, mail to interest-group-request@nisc.sri.com. If you cannot ftp a copy of the list, and you are a CSnet subscriber, you can get a copy from the CSnet info-server; mail to cic@sh.cs.net for instructions. If you have a list that you want added to this posting or are interested in starting a list but don't know how, drop me a note at spaf@purdue.edu Groups listed in this posting 12step fsuucp pagan 30something funky-music Papa 386users gamedesign-philo pc532 3D gnu-manual pdp8-lovers ABC Gouldbugs Peru aeronautics handicap pharm aids hang-gliding picasso-users AIDS-stat hey-joe pipes aiuan homebrew porschephiles algeria-net honda posix-ada alife horse posix-testing Alspa hyperami PRL alternates IBDlist Quanta animal-rights iclinfo rc-flying anneal impulse recovery antique-radios info-aids REM antiques info-altos rush AoN info-ccc sappho argproc info-encore sca att-pc+ info-futures SCO-list backstreets info-gnu scoodt ballroom info-high-audio scribe bears info-ingres security Between-the-lines info-soar SFER-l big-DB info-solbourne sil-info biosym info-sparc SkillsBank blackbird info-tahoe smail3-users BMW info-vm smail3-wizards bread irclist smiths-fans british-cars islam S-news cabot italian-cars sports-cards ca-firearms iti151 srv4-admin cavers jewish stardent-users cdforum joke-s stormcock chalkhills J-Pop sun-386i chem-e jump-in-the-river sun-managers chem-talk khoros sun-nets christian killifish supercomputers C-IBM-370 kites sysops cisco lang-lucid t3 clu lasnet tadream CoCo lds tandy4k commune LickVista tartan-c compress Linda tcad cryonics Logo tcp-group CTIX-users lojban T-E-L ctree martial-arts testing-archive CUSSNET matlab testing-research cyberpunkRPG mazda-list thicva CZ medphys think-c decstation-managers men TolkLang derby military torg DGRD mr2-interest towers dirt-users mtxinu-users transputer Donosy muscle-cars traveller dreams musicals turnabout drwho-spoilers mustangs ucsd-empire Dual-personalities mystery uk-motss eastender NativeNet Unisys eclipse Network-audio-bits unix-pc-net EMS newlists UPS-alumni emtex-user NewsCom usenet.hist ensembles ntp usml Episcopal nucmed venezuela esperanto numeric-interest VMEbus ethology objc weights euro-moto objectivism whitewater feminists objectivism-philosophy wildnet ferrets ocean.policy windsurfing Fiction-Writers ODA x-ada film-makers offroad XGKS firearms oracle yello flashlife orienteering Yiddish f-mac origami Z-cars folk-dancing OtherRealms zeppelin framers other-voices zilog Specific Information on Groups 12step Contact: suhre@trwrb.dsd.trw.com (Maurice Suhre) Purpose: To discuss/share experiences about 12 step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, Alanon, ACA, etc. Questions will also be answered. Please include a phone number in case of trouble establishing an e-mail path. 30something Contact: bloom1@thumper.bellcore.com (Debbie Bloom) Purpose: Discussion of the TV show by the same name, including actors, episodes, plots, characters, etc. 386users Contact: 386users-request@udel.edu (William Davidsen, Jr.) Purpose: Topics are 80386 based computers, and all hardware and software which is either 386-specific or which has special interest on the 386. 3d Contact: 3d-request@bfmny0.bfm.com (Tom Neff) Purpose: Discussion of 3-D (stereo) photography. General info, hints, experiences, equipment, techniques, and stereo "happenings." Anyone interested is welcome to join. ABC Contact: abc-list-request@cwi.nl (Steven Pemberton) Purpose: Discussion of the ABC Programming Language and its implementations. Information on ABC is available in "The ABC Programmer's Handbook", Leo Geurts et.al, Prentice Hall 1990; "An Alternative Simple Language and Environment for PCs", Steven Pemberton, IEEE Software, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1987, pp. 56-64.; by ftp from mcsun.eu.net, file programming/languages/abc/abc.intro; and by mail-server from info-server@hp4nl.nluug.nl: send two-line message: "request programming/languages/abc" "topic abc.intro". aeronautics Contact: aeronautics-request@rascal.ics.utexas.edu Purpose: The "aeronautics" mailing list will be a moderated version of the sci.aeronautics newsgroup, and as such will deal with various technical aspects of aviation, such as human factors, airliner operations, avionics, and aerodynamics. It will be a one-way feed (sci.aeronautics -> mailing list), unless sufficient demand requires that it go in the opposite direction. aids Contact: aids-request@cs.ucla.edu (Daniel R. Greening) Purpose: A distribution list for people who can't read sci.med.aids. Covers predominately medical issues of AIDS. Some discussion of political and social issues. Postings to AIDSNEWS and Health InfoCom News mailing lists are also carried. Unlike info-aids, postings to aids@cs.ucla.edu are NON-confidential. The average number of postings to aids is about 2 per day. The average size of articles is very large (statistics, news summaries, etc.) sci.med.aids and aids@cs.ucla.edu are moderated. (see also "info-aids" mailing list) AIDS-stat Contact: aids-stat-request@wubios.wustl.edu (David Dodell) Purpose: AIDS-STAT is a moderated mailing list whose sole purpose is for the distribution of AIDS statistics from various agencies. The prime information being distributed will be the Center for Disease Control's monthly AIDS Surveillance Report. aiuan Contact: aiuan-request@hombre.MASA.COM -or- rutgers!hombre!aiuan-request (Kevin Axelson) Purpose: Amnesty International "Urgent Action" letterwriting actions to protect victims of dire human rights abuse worldwide. *Distribution limited to USA* algeria-net Contact: belk@pyr.gatech.edu (Nasr Belkheir) Purpose: a forum for discussion about political, cultural aspects of Algerian society. alife Contact: alife-request@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Marek Lugowski) Purpose: The alife mailing list is for communications regarding artificial life, a formative interdisciplinary field involving computer science, the natural sciences, mathematics, medicine and others. The recent book _Artificial Life_, Christopher Langton, ed., Addison Wesley, 1989 introduces the scope of artificial life as a field of study. Alife was chartered in February 1990 at the Second Artificial Life Workshop, held in Santa Fe & organized by the Center for Nonlinear Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe Institute. The list is intended primarily for low-volume, high-content scientific correspondence and as a publically accessible forum for the interested members of the public. Membership as of July 1990 includes over 1,200 addresses on four continents. There is an FTP-accessible archives/repository of past traffic, software and papers. The list is maintained by the Artificial Life Research Group, Computer Science Department, Lindley Hall 101, Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405. There are conditions on redistribution of the list in order to minimize any misunderstanding or exaggeration concerning this new area of study. Alspa Contact: alspa-users-request@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Brad Allen) Purpose: Discussion by owners/users of the CP/M machines made by (now defunct) Alspa Computer, Inc. alternates Contact: alternates-request@binbi.roy.or.us Purpose: Mail.alternates is a mail list for people who advocate, and/or practice an open sexual lifestyle. Its members are primarily bisexual men and women, and their SO's. Mail.alternates is intended as a forum, and support group for adult men and women who espouse their freedom of choice and imagination in human sexual relations, no matter what their orientaion. Those who are offended by frank, and uninhibited discussions relating to sexual issues should not subscribe. Moderator/Editor: Hank Buurman animal-rights Contact: animal-rights-request@cs.odu.edu (Chip Roberson) Purpose: An unmoderated list for the discussion of Animal Rights. Peter Singer's book "Animal Liberation" proposes a "New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals" and many activist groups, such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), regard this as the "Bible of the Animal Rights movement". Consumers and researches alike are facing new questions concerning the human animals' treatment of the rest of the animal kingdom. The purpose of this list is to provide students, researchers, and activists, a forum for discussing issues like: Animal Rights Animal Liberation Consumer Product Testing Cruelty-free products Vivisection/Dissection Medical Testing Animals in Laboratories Research using Animals Hunting/Trapping/Fishing Animals in Entertainment Factory Farming Fur Ecology Environmental Protection Vegetarianism Vegan lifestyles Christian Perspectives anneal Contact: anneal-request@cs.ucla.edu (Daniel R. Greening) Purpose: Discussion of simulated annealing techniques and analysis, as well as other related issues (stochastic optimization, Boltzmann machines, metricity of NP-complete move spaces, etc). Membership is restricted to those doing active research in simulated annealing or related areas. Current membership is international, and about half of the members are published authors. The list itself is unmoderated. antiques Contact: antiques-request@swbatl.sbc.com (Tom Adams) Purpose: The antiques mailing list is for discussions on general antiques and collectables. Discussions on value, history, repair or general discussions about antiques are welcome. Although for-sale ads are not encouraged, they are not prohibited. There is a mailing list specifically devoted to antique-radio topics, so radio collectors should probally direct their attention to that list. This group is set up as a mail reflector. antique-radios Contact: antique-radio-request@swbatl.sbc.com (Tom Adams) Purpose: The antique-radio mailing list is for discussions on antique radio, television and vintage electronics. Discussions on value, history, repair or general discussions about early radio are welcome, as are discussions on books and magazines related to this topic. Given the difficulty in finding early radio parts, wanted and for-sale ads are encouraged in this forum. This group is set up as a mail reflector. AoN Contact: aon-request@polyslo.calpoly.edu (Cliff Tuel) Purpose: The Art of Noise Mailing List is a forum for discussing anything about the British pop group Art of Noise, or any solo works by the band's members. A discography is available, as are several other files of interest. argproc Contact: rochester!srs!argproc-request (Dan Kegel) Purpose: discussion about command-line processors like getopt(). att-pc+ Contact: bill@ssbn.wlk.com --or-- ...!{att,cs.utexas.edu,sun!daver}!ssbn!bill (Bill Kennedy) Purpose: For people interested in the AT&T PC 63xx series of systems. Sub-lists are maintained for MS-DOS-only and Simul-Task mailings as well as the full list for items of general interest. Membership must be requested and mail path verification is required before membership is granted. backstreets Contact: backstreets-request@virginia.edu (Marc Rouleau) Purpose: Our purpose is to discuss any and all issues likely to be of interest to people who enjoy Bruce Springsteen's music. ballroom Contact: ballroom-request@athena.mit.edu (Shahrukh Merchant c/o MIT Ballroom Dance Club) Purpose: Discussion of any aspect of Ballroom dancing. For instance: Places to dance, announcement of special events (e.g., inter- university competitions), exchange of information about clubs, ballroom dance music, discussion of dances, steps, etc. Anyone may join; please send ALL of the following information: (1) Full name (2) Internet-compatible e-mail address (3) Affiliation, if any, with any ballroom dance organization or group (4) ZIP or postal code, and country if other than U.S. (5) Whether you have access to Netnews (Yes/No/Don't know/Yes but don't use). bears Contact: bears-request@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer & Brian Gollum) ...!{harvard,ima,linus,mirror}!spdcc!bears-request Purpose: Mail.bears is a mailing list in digest format for gay and bisexual men who are bears themselves and for those who enjoy the company of bears. The exact definition of a "bear" seems to be a personal one, but it encompasses men who are variously cuddly, furry, perhaps stocky, or bearded. Mail.bears is designed to be a forum to bring together folks with similar interests for conversation, friendship and sharing of experiences. The tone of mail.bears will be determined by its members, but people uncomfortable with discussing sexually explicit topics via electronic mail should not subscribe. Between-the-lines Contact: pershing@athena.mit.edu (Michael Scheel) Purpose: Debbie Gibson fans & discussion. big-DB Contact: big-DB@midway.uchicago.EDU (Fareed Asad-Harooni) Purpose: Discussions pertaining to large data bases (generally greater than 1 million records) and large data base management systems such as IMS, DB2, and CCA's Model/204. Anyone having interests in large data base issues is welcome. biosym Contact: dibug-request@avogadro.barnard.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) Purpose: For users of Biosym Technologies software. This includes the products InsightII, Discover, Dmol, Homology, Delphi, and Polymer. The list is not run by Biosym. blackbird Contact: skunk-works-request@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Purpose: Discuss Lockheed special project planes, particular the Blackbird (A-12, YF-12 and SR-71) and U-2 programs. BMW Contact: bmw-request@sol.crd.ge.com (Richard Welty) Purpose: discussion of cars made by BMW. bread Contact: bread-request@onion.pdx.com (Jeff Beadles) Purpose: Discussion, recipes, and talk about home bread-making machines. british-cars Contact: muller@market.alliant.com (Jim Muller) Purpose: To discuss any and all aspects of owning, showing, repairing, driving, etc. British automobiles. ca-firearms Contact: chan@portal.com (ca-firearms-request@portal.com) Purpose: Announcement and discussion of California firearms legislation and laws. The list is not moderated and membership is open to anyone. cabot Contact: cabot-request@sol.crd.ge.com (Richard Welty) Purpose: official mailing list of the New York State Institute for Sebastian Cabot Studies. cavers Contact: cavers-request@m2c.org -or- harvard!m2c!cavers-request (John D. Sutter) Purpose: Information resource and forum for all interested in exploring caves. To join, send a note to the above address including your geographical location as well as e-mail address; details of caving experience and locations where you've caved; NSS number if you have one; and any other information that might be useful. cdforum Contact: uunet!samsung!wizvax!cdforum-request (Stephanie P. Gilgut) Purpose: To provide support/discuss/share experiences about gender related issues; Crossdressing, Transvestism, Transsexualism, etc. This list is in Digest Format. chalkhills Contact: chalkhills-request@presto.ig.com (John M. Relph) Purpose: Chalkhills is a mailing list for the discussion of the music and records of XTC (the band). Chalkhills is moderated and is distributed in a digest format. chem-e Contact: trayms@cc.curtin.edu.au (Dr. Martyn Ray) Purpose: An electronic newsletter on chemical engineering. Chem-talk Contact: Dr. Manus Monroe, Chemistry Department, Marin Community College ...!{ames,cbosgd}!pacbell!unicom!manus Purpose: As chemists, dialogue and conversation with other scientists are essential to stimulating or provoking new ideas. As teachers and researchers, we can find the demands of our profession extensive, which may lead to a reduction in our ability to keep abreast of new data and changes in theories. Sometimes, conversation helps to clarify articles, illuminate new perceptions of theories, and sustain us through our precarious journey in chemistry. A solution to this problem or concern is the creation of efficient communication network using this mailing list. christian Contact: ames!elroy!grian!mailjc-request mailjc-request@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us Purpose: To provide a non-hostile environment for discussion among christians. Non-christians may join the list and "listen-in", but full blown debates between Christians and non-Christians are best carried out in talk.religion.misc or soc.religion.christian. C-IBM-370 Contact: {spsd,zardoz,felix,elroy}!dhw68k!C-IBM-370-request C-IBM-370-request@dhw68k.cts.com (David Wolfskill) Purpose: The C on IBM mainframes mailing list is a place to discuss aspects of using the C programming language on s/370-architecture computers -- especially under IBM's operating systems for that environment. cisco Contact: cisco-request@spot.colorado.edu (David Wood) Purpose: This list is for discussion of the network products from Cisco Systems, Inc; primarily the AGS gateway, but also the ASM terminal multiplexor and any other relevant products. Discussions about operation, problems, features, topology, configuration, protocols, routing, loading, serving, etc are all encouraged. Other topics include vendor relations, new product announcements, availability of fixes and new features, and discussion of new requirements and desirables. clu Contact: clu-sw-request@cs.utu.fi -or- tucos!clu-sw-request@mcsun.eu.net (Matti Jokinen) Purpose: Exchange of CLU software and technical discussion of related topics. CoCo Contact: ewtileni@pucc.princeton.edu (Eric Tilenius) Purpose: Discussion related to the Tandy Color Computer (any model), OS-9 Operating System, and any other topics relating to the "CoCo", as this computer is affectionately known. Anyone wishing to be on the list should send me mail. UUCP users, PLEASE NOTE: I need a nearby Internet or BITNET node to get things through to you reliably, so please send me a path in the form: zeus!yourcomp!yourid@sun.COM commune Contact: commune-request@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Purpose: To discuss the COMMUNE protocol, a TELNET replacement. The list is a mail reflector, commune-list@stealth.acf.nyu.edu. compress Contact: {decvax,ucbvax}!vax135!petsd!joe Purpose: discussions about file compression, especially Lempel-Ziv algorithms. cryonics Contact: ...att!whscad1!kqb -or- kqb@whscad1.att.com (Kevin Q. Brown) Purpose: Cryonic suspension is an experimental procedure whereby patients who can no longer be kept alive with today's medical abilities are preserved at low temperatures for treatment in the future. This list is a forum for topics related to cryonics, which include biochemistry of memory, low temperature biology, legal status of cryonics and cryonically suspended people, nanotechnology and cell repair machines, philosophy of identity, mass media coverage of cryonics, new research and publications, conferences, and local cryonics group meetings. CTIX-users Contact: ctix-users-request@cs.athabascau.ca ...!atha!ctix-users-request (Lyndon Nerenberg) Purpose: The CTIX-USERS mailing list is a forum for discussion of the various aspects of the CTIX operating system from Convergent Technologies. Topics include bug reports and fixes, postings of short utility programs for system administrators, reports on new OS releases and application software updates, as well as a variety of other subjects. The list is currently unmoderated, and includes sites in North America, Europe, and Australia. ctree Contact: alberta!oha!ctree-request (Tony Olekshy) Purpose: The C-Tree mailing list provides a forum for the discussion of FairCom's C-Tree, R-Tree, and D-Tree products. This mailing list is not associated with FairCom. We have over three dozen members, amd cover virtually all hardware and operating system ports. CUSSNET (Computer Users in the Social Sciences) Contact: cussnet-request@stjhmc.fidonet.org -or- {gatech,ames,rutgers}!ncar!noao!asuvax!stjhmc!cussnet-request Purpose: CUSSNET (Computer Users in the Social Sciences) is a network of students, faculty, and professionals working in a variety of social science/social service settings and who have concerns with practice, education, ethics, computerization, and career advancement, to name a few. Many of the participants are students of social work, practicing social workers or social work educators; however, anyone with an interest in the human services/social sciences/social services areas is welcome to participate. Recent topics have included ethics, computerization concerns, social work education topics, job announcements, and adaptive technology topics. cyberpunkRPG Contact: cyberrpg@eklektik.pgh.pa.us (Steven J. Owens) Purpose: The cyberpunk mailing list is primarly for the discussion of cyberpunk role-playing games. The discussion is not limited to any game system. Subjects of a peripheral nature are welcome as long as they don't get out of hand. There is one one rule on this mailing list: the moderator gets to add new rules at will. CZ Contact: cz-request@pram.cs.ucla.edu (Ted Kim) Purpose: The purpose of the "The Convergence Zone" (or CZ for short) is to discuss the Harpoon naval wargame series and related topics. This includes Harpoon, Captain's Edition Harpoon, Computer Harpoon, Harpoon SITREP and various supplements for print and computer versions. Naval topics are discussed in so far as they are related to the game or provide useful background. Discussion is moderated. CZ is packaged in a digest format. Listeners as well as contributors are welcome. decstation-managers Contact: decstation-managers-request@ornl.gov Purpose: Fast-turnaround troubleshooting tool for managers of RISC DECstations. derby Contact: derby-request@mips.com (John Wilkes) Purpose: To discuss various aspects and strategies of Horse Racing, primarily dealing with, but not limited to, handicapping. Anyone is free to join. DGRD Contact: taylor@limbo.intuitive.com (Dave Taylor) Purpose: The digital games review digest is devoted to computer and video game reviews. We're interested in just about any games that run on computers, including IBM PC, Atari, Amiga, Macintosh, Apple II and Unix computers, as well as video games for the Nintendo, Sega, NEC, Atari, and so on. We also cover games for the portable market (e.g. the Atari Lynx and Nintendo GameBoy). This is a *REVIEWS ONLY* mailing list, with all submissions edited to fit into a common and consistent format. Discussion of the relative merits of different gaming computers, technical discussion of resolution required to display 3D graphics, and general flaming and hostility will be left to the many different forums appropriate for that type of discussion. dirt-users Contact: dirst-users-request@ukc.ac.uk Purpose: Dirt is an X11-based UIMS. Donosy Contact: przemek@ndcvx.cc.nd.edu (Przemek Klosowski) Purpose: Distribution of a news bulletin from Poland. English and Polish versions are both avaialble. dreams Contact: reynhout@wpi.wpi.edu (Andrew Reynhout) Purpose: To discuss the topics asociated with dreaming, such as: personal experiences; present literature on the subject; 'psychological' theories and 'occult' theories; the differences between a 'lucid' and a 'normal' dream; the purpose of dreams; etc. Discussion is therefore extended to all areas of dreams, perhaps also including altered state of consciousness, if deemed relevant. drwho-spoilers Contact: terminus!nyssa (James Armstrong, Jr.) Purpose: Branched off of rec.arts.drwho is a list for "Spoilers", which is intended to distribute news about upcoming seasons and discussion on recently released episodes and keep it away from the eyes of people who would rather not know until they see the shows themselves. *** This group is currently inactive. *** Dual-Personalities Contact: dual-personalities-request@darwin.uucp Purpose: Discussion, maintenance/survival tips, and commercial offerings for the System/83 UNIX box made by the now-defunct DUAL Systems Corp of Berkeley, as well as similar machines using the IEEE-696 bus (such as the CompuPro 8/16E with Root/Unisoft UNIX). eastender Contact: eastender@karazm.math.uh.edu Purpose: Discussion of the BBC serial "EastEnders" as it is broadcast within the US. UK'ers are invited, but be warned we're about two years behind the UK series. eclipse Contact: eclipse-request@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John C. Orthoefer) Purpose: Info and commentary on the musical group Pink Floyd as well as other projects members of the group have been involved with. EMS Contact: vampire@philabs.philips.com (Rich Hemmer) Purpose: The purpose of the EMS mailing list is to share ideas, training aspects, problems, solutions, EMS calls, and other aspects of the Emergency Medical Service life. The nature of the submissions could include: a hard diagnosis on a call, a rough / problem type call with solutions, training in general, training equipment new vs. old, new ideas in patient care, new protocols local / state / national, volunteer professionals vs. paid professionals, etc. emtex-user Contact: emtex@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Vera Heinau & Heiko Schlichting) or: emtex@fub.uucp Conversation language: German! Purpose: Informationen ueber das Programm emTeX, die zur Zeit beste Implementation von TeX auf MS-DOS und OS2 Rechner. Informationen ueber neue Updates, Bugs und Bezugsquellen. ensembles Contact: brass-request@dinorah.wustl.edu (Art Smith) ...!uunet!wucs1!dinorah!brass-request Purpose: A discussion group for people interested in small musical ensembles, particularly brass quintets. It is unmoderated at present. Episcopal Contact: dragon!digest (Cindy Smith) Purpose: Episcopal Digest is a forum for Episcopalians as well as members of the worldwide Anglican Catholic Communion who wish to discuss matters pertaining to Christianity in general, Episcopal Church matters in particular, and related topics. Discussions on ecumenism are encouraged. esperanto Contact: esperanto-request@rand.org (Mike Urban) Purpose: This list is a forum for people interested in the neutral international language Esperanto. Discussions about the language itself, the Esperanto movement, publications, and news are encouraged; of course, discussion *in* the language itself are especially encouraged, although English translations may be advisable when the material is of interest to beginners or non-Esperantists. ethology Contact: saarikko@cc.helsinki.fi (Jarmo Saarikko) Purpose: An unmoderated mailing list for the discussion of animal behaviour and behavioural ecology. Possible topics could be e.g. new or controversial theories, new research methods, and equipment. Announcements of books, papers, conferences, new software for behavioural analysis etc., with possible experiences, are also encouraged. f-mac Contact: brunyan%utmem2.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Bill Runyan) Purpose: Information on commentary on the musical group Fleetwood Mac as well as any work or projects that any of the members have been involved with. Such as the solo work of singer Stevie Nicks. euro-moto Contact: bowers@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Al Bowers) or euro-moto@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Al Bowers) Purpose: Topics covering all aspects of European motorcycles, for enthusiasts of pavement, dirt, classic, modern, rare or common European motorcycles. feminists Contact: collins@hplabs.hp.com (Patricia Collins) Purpose: The feminist mailing list is intended to provide a forum for discussion of issues of interest to women, in a friendly atmosphere. The basic tenets of feminism and the day-to-day experiences of women do not have to be explained or defended. Men and women can join, but everyone requesting to be added to the mailing list MUST provide the moderator with: 1) a full name; 2) a complete uucp path to a well-known host or a fully specified Internet address; 3) the correspondent's gender (for records and statistics only). NO exceptions. ferrets Contact: ferret-request@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis) {utzoo,utai,attcan}!lsuc!gate!eci386!ferret-request Purpose: This is a mailing list for people who have or are merely interested in ferrets (Mustela Furo). Discussions are welcome on any subject relating to ferrets -- suitability as pets, health information, funny ferret stories etc. Fiction-Writers Contact: writers-request@studguppy.lanl.gov (Doug Roberts) Purpose: The Fiction Writers Group exists for two purposes: To give people interested in writing fiction professionally a support group of peers for where information can be shared and discussions of the task of writing can be carried on. To create an environment where Works In Progress can be passed around and criticized so that the author can find the weak spots and polish the manuscript into a salable work. The group has handled mostly Science Fiction, Fantasy, and related genres, but is not restricted to them. Membership is open to anyone who has in interest in writing fiction regardless of previous experience or published/unpublished status. Members must be prepared to regularly contribute either by critiquing the work of others or presenting work for critique. film-makers Contact: filmmakers-request@tynan.com (Dermot Tynan) Purpose: This mailing list is for amateur and independent filmmakers. It covers everything from script-writing to distribution, and is geared toward 8mm, 16mm and video. The list is not moderated. NOTE: you don't have to be an active filmmaker to subscribe. firearms Contact: osu-cis!firearms-request --or-- firearms-request@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Purpose: The mailing list firearms has been created to provide an environment in which sportsmen can discuss issues of concern to them. Topics include but are not limited to hunting, firearms safety, legal issues, reloading tips, maintenance suggestions, target shooting, and dissemination of general info. Anyone is welcome to join -- note that we do NOT intend to discuss the merits of gun control. flashlife Contact: flashlife-request@amd.com (Carl Rigney) A mailing list for GMs of Shadowrun and other cyberpunk roleplaying games to discuss rules, scenarios, ask questions, make up answers, and similar fasfax. folk-dancing Contact: tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Terry J. Wood) {allegra,bellcore,cadre}!pitt!unix.cis.pitt.edu!tjw tjw@pittvms.bitnet Purpose: Any discussion of FOLK dancing. Areas of dance would include, but not be limited to: international, contra, square, western square morris, cajun, and barn dancing, etc. Please feel free to discuss such things as touring groups, artists, camps, workshops, styling, equipment, recordings, and so on. This mailing list also welcomes queries about where to find dance groups and how to get started dancing. Please note that the Folk Dancing Mailing List (FDML) operates in conjunction with the USENET newsgroup Rec.folk-dancing. Material in Rec.folk-dancing appears in the FDML. This mailing list is primarily for people who can not (or do not wish to) receive USENET. When subscribing to the FDML, please include several computer mail addresses AND a postal mail address (or phone number) as a last resort. framers Contact uunet!apctrc!drd!framers-request framers-request@drd.com (Mark Lawrence) Purpose: A users forum for sharing of experiences and information about the framemaker desktop publishing package from Frame Technologies. The framemaker package is mainly prevalent on Suns but those using the DECWriter product under DECWindows may notice some _amazing_ similarities between the two and may have interest in this list. fsuucp Contact: fsuucp-request@polyslo.calpoly.edu (Christopher J. Ambler) Purpose: The FSUUCP mailing list is for the discussion, bug hunting, feature proposing, and announcements of the availability and release dates of FSUUCP, an MSDOS UUCP/mail/news package. FSUUCP is shareware, and includes uucico/uuxqt (with support for rmail and rnews (single, batched and compressed batch)), as well as readnews, postnews, mail, expire, uuq, uusnap, uulog, and a host of utilities. funky-music Contact: funky-music-request@apollo.lap.upenn.edu (George Zipperlen) -or- ...!rutgers!super.upenn.edu!apollo.lap.upenn.edu!funky-music-request Purpose: The funky-music mailing list is for the discussion of funk music, as well as rap, hip-hop, soul, r&b, and related varieties. Discussions of zydeco, reggae, salsa, soca, and similar gutsy street music are also welcome. Funk music is based on the rhythmic innovations pioneered by James Brown. Other notable artists in the genre are Parliament, Funkadelic, War, Earth Wind and Fire, the Meters, and Mandrill. Funky music has a dance-able beat to it, a soulful feel, and an underlying intelligence. All the varieties of music mentioned above, are funky. gamedesign-philo Contact: game-design-request@cash.ucsc.edu (Aryeh Friedman) Purpose:The pupose of this list is to discuse the ideas and techniques of game-design. It is not intended to be a place for flames, source code, or other junk mail type messages. The list is not a part or have any connection to game-designsr run by Scott D. Yelich. Also as most people on the list belong to both so crossposting is discourged, but allowed with the moderator's approval of the list being crossposted to. The kind of things I like to see are: * New concepts, rules wise, in various types of games * Food for thought * Points and tips on playtesting * etc. gnu-manual Contact: internet: gnu-manual-request@a.cs.uiuc.edu usenet: uiucdcs!gnu-manual Purpose: "gnu-manual" members are volunteers who write, proofread, and comment on documents for a GNU Emacs Lisp programmers' manual. 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This mailing list is also gatewayed into the inet list, comp.sys.encore info-futures Contact: harvard!bu-cs!info-futures-request -or- info-futures-request@cs.bu.edu Purpose: To provide a speculative forum for analyzing current and likely events in technology as they will affect our near future in computing and related areas. info-gnu Contact: info-gnu-request@prep.ai.mit.edu --or-- ucbvax!prep.ai.mit.edu!info-gnu-request Purpose: to distribute progress reports on the GNU Project, headed by Richard Stallman, and to ask members for various kinds of help. The list is gated both ways with the alternative newsgroup "gnu.announce," and is filtered (weakly moderated) by Leonard H. Tower Jr. GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for a complete Unix-compatible software system whose sources can be given away free to everyone. Major parts have already been written; major parts still remain undone. 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This mailing list is also gatewayed into the inet list, comp.sys.tahoe info-vm Contact: info-vm-request@cs.odu.edu (Kyle Jones, and others) Purpose: Discussion and information exchange about the VM mail reader, which runs under GNU Emacs. islam Contact: islam-request@eecs.nwu.edu -or- {oddjob,laidbak,chinet}!nucsrl!islam-request (Naim Abdullah) Purpose: To discuss the basic tenets of Islam and interpretations of the Quran. The list is not for discussing the validity of Islam or any political issues. italian-cars Contact: italian-cars-request@sol.crd.ge.com (richard welty) -or- ...!uunet!sol.crd.ge.com!italian-cars-request Purpose: discussion of italian-made automobiles iti151 Contact: iti151-request@oce.orst.edu (Paul O'Neill) {tektronix, hplabs!hp-pcd}!orstcs!oce.orst.edu!iti151-request Purpose: For users of Imaging Technology's series 150 and 151 image processing systems and ITEX151 software. The goal is to share algorithms, code, tricks, pitfalls, advice, etc. in an effort to decrease development time and increase functionality for the users of these systems. (Also, despite their good support, we customers may want to gang up on ITI someday!!) J-Pop: Contact: jpop-request@wystan.bsd.uchicago.edu (Shin Kurokawa) The purpose of this group is mainly for discussing contemporary Japanese pop/rock music. We'll have reviews and comments on the latest (and the old) ``Hits'', singles, albums, etc., as well as on the various works that each of us may already have or acquire. We'll also discuss the availability of Japanese pop music on records, tapes, cd's etc., away from Japan. Since many of our most active members are actually in Japan, our list is also a very good source of news concerning Japan's pop music scene (and more). jewish Contact: avi_feldblum@att.com (Avi Feldblum) Purpose: The mailing list provides a non-abusive forum for discussion of Jewish topics with an emphasis on Jewish law. Debates between Jews and non-Jews or between various factions of Judaism should be posted to talk.religion.misc or soc.culture.jewish. joke-s Contact: ccgunter@vaxa.uwa.oz.au (Gunter Ahrendt) Purpose: Daily posting of jokes extracted from aus.jokes, rec.humor, and rec.humor.funny. Specify preference: clean, dirty, or both. jump-in-the-river Contact: jump-in-the-river-request@presto.ig.com (Michael C. Berch) -or- {apple,ames,rutgers}!bionet!ig!jump-in-the-river-request Purpose: Jump-in-the-river is a mailing list for the discussion of the music and recordings of Sinead O'Connor, and related matters such as lyrics, tour information. Unmoderated. khoros Contact: khoros-request@chama.unm.edu Purpose: to discuss the khoros software package, developed by Dr. Rasure, his staff, and his students at the University of New Mexico. Khoros is an integrated software development environment for information processing and visualization, based on X11R4. killifish Contact: killie-request@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Purpose: For people who keep and are interested in killifish, (family cyprinodontidae). kites Contact: (USA/Canada/Europe): kites-request@harvard.harvard.edu harvard!kites-request (Japan): koscvax.keio.junet!kites-request Purpose: This mailing list is for people interested in making, flying, or just talking about all kinds of kites. Topics will (I hope) include kite plans and construction techniques, reviews of commercially available kites and plans, timely (or otherwise) human interest notes, and talk about flying. lang-lucid Contact: lang-lucid-request@csl.sri.com (R. Jagannathan) Purpose: Discussions on all aspects related to the language Lucid, including (but not restricted to) language design issues, implementations for personal computers, implementations for parallel machines, language extensions, programming environments, products, bug reports, bug fixes/workarounds. lasnet Contact: lasnet-request@emx.utexas.edu (Langston James Goree VI) Purpose: To facilitate the exchange of information among scholars doing research related to Latin America. lds Contact: lds-request@decwrl.dec.com -or- decwrl!lds-request Purpose: a forum for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (mormons) to discuss church doctrine, mormon culture and life in general. Non-members are welcome to join, but we're not interested in flame wars. LickVista Contact: InfoVista-request@helios.ucsc.edu (Steve Allen) Purpose: Discussion of the use and development of the Vista astronomical data reduction package which originated at Lick Observatory. Linda Contact: linda-users-request@cs.yale.edu linda-users-request@yalecs.bitnet {cmcl2,decvax,harvard}!yale!linda-users-request Purpose: Discussion group for users and potential users of Linda based parallel programming systems. Linda is a set of operators that are added to various conventional programming languages to produce a parallel programming language. lojban Contact: lojban-list-request@snark.thyrsus.com (John Cowan) Purpose: To use, discuss, and contribute to the development of the constructed human language called Lojban (known in earlier versions as Loglan). Lojban has a grammar based on predicate logic, and vocabulary built from the six most widely spoken human languages. It is intended as a tool for experimental linguistics, as a medium for communication with computers, and as a possible international auxiliary language. Lojban-list is an unmoderated mail reflector. New subscribers are asked to send their postal mailing addresses as well, so that they can be placed on the mailing list of The Logical Language Group, Inc., a non-profit organization. The postal mailing list provides materials that are useful in learning about the language. Lojban-list and LLG, Inc. are in no way affiliated with The Loglan Institute, Inc., or with James Cooke Brown, the founder of Loglan. Logo Contact: logo-friends-request@aiai.ed.ac.uk Purpose: Discuss the Logo computer language. martial-arts Contact: martial-arts-requestdragon.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven Miller) Purpose: The martial arts mailing list is for discussion on various aspects of the martial arts. This includes teaching and training techniques, martial arts philosophy, self-defense, traditional and non-traditional styles, among others. Matlab Contact: matlab-users-request@mcs.anl.gov (Chris Bischof) Purpose: Discussion group for users and potential users of the MATLAB numeric computation software from The MathWorks. MATLAB is an interactive matrix-oriented product for linear algebra, digital signal processing, equation solving, control system design, and other engineering and scientific applications. This mailgroup is administered by the independent MATLAB User Group. mazda-list Contact: mazda-list-request@ms.uky.edu (Joel Abbott) Purpose: Technical correspondance and discussion of Mazda-designed vehicles. medphys Contact: ...!mcnc!godot!medphys-request Submissions: ...!mcnc!godot!medphys Purpose: An attempt to foster electronic communication between medical physicists, open to interested others. Medical physics is a somewhat opaque but widely used synonym for radiological physics -- the physics of the diagnostic and therapeutic use of radiation in medicine. At present most of the subscribers are involved in radiotherapy. men Contact: attunix!mail-men-request mail-men-request@attunix.att.com (Marcel Franck Simon) Purpose: This digested mailing list discusses "men's issues." Both women and men may join. Mail-men is a place where men and women can discuss men's issues in an atmosphere of openness and support. Men's issues are those problems and experiences that affect male humans. military Contact: military-request@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Purpose: Discussion of military technology, and related issues. This group is gatewayed to and from the Usenet newsgroup sci.military; all postings to the group are echoed to the list, and vice-versa. Both the group and list are moderated to prevent political flammage. mr2-interest Contact: mr2-interest-request@validgh.com (David Hough) Purpose: Discussion of Toyota MR2's, old and new. mtxinu-users Contact: dunike!mtxinu-users-request mtxinu-users-request@nike.cair.du.edu Purpose: Discussion and bug fixes for users of the 4.3+NFS release from the Mt. Xinu folks. muscle-cars Contact muscle-cars-request@sorinc.PacBell.COM or {ames,hplabs,att,...}!pacbell!sorinc!muscle-cars-request Purpose: To offer a forum where other "muscle car" enthusiasts can offer advice, share their problems and solutions, discuss technical issues, racing, buying or selling parts, cars, or services, or just to discuss cars and swap stories with others. Flames and "car wars" ("my car is better/faster than yours") are discouraged. This list is not moderated, so all submissions will be reflected to the others on the list without editing. musicals Contact: musicals-request@world.std.com (Elizabeth A. Lear) Purpose: We discuss musicals, both movie and stage, (although about 90% of the articles concern stage productions and Broadway in particular). Discussion is meant to be more or less light-hearted and not bogged down with aesthetics. This is a place for circulating information and opinions, not a theater critics' forum. We discuss productions, ticket information, recordings, proper Sondheim-appreciation-and worship, upcoming shows and Broadway-related gossip. mustangs Contact mustangs-request@hpda.hp.com (Gary Gitzen) or {hplabs,sun,uunet}!hpda!mustangs-request Purpose: To discuss/share technical issues, problems, solutions, and modifications relating to late model Ford Mustangs. Flames and "my car is faster than your car" mailings are discouraged. mystery Contact: mystery-request@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Thomas Krueger) Purpose: Mystery is a mailing list for mystery and detective fiction. Reviews of works and discussions of plot, characterization, and other aspects will be discussed. The medium, whether novel, movie, or television series, is unimportant. NativeNet Contact: gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) Purpose: To provide information about and to discuss issues relating to indigenous people around the world, and current threats to their cultures and habitats (e.g. rainforests). Network-Audio-Bits Contact: Murph@Maine.BITNET (Michael A. Murphy) Purpose: Network Audio Bits & Audio Software Review is a bi-monthly electronic magazine that features reviews of and information about current rock, pop, new age, jazz, funk, folk and other musical genres. A mixture of major label artists and independent recording artists can be found reviewed in these 'pages'. newlists Contact: info@vm1.nodak.edu (Marty Hoag) Purpose: This is a mailing list "clearing house" for new mailing lists. Subscribers will get announcements of new lists that are mailed to this list. NewsCom Contact: starkid@ddsw1.mcs.com (Lance Sanders) Purpose: To make available synergies discerned in, and created from, print news media (up to a 12-year time-span). Many "facts," particulary scientific ones, have a habit of changing with time. NewsCommando shows extreme prejudice toward those articles whose contents exhibit "legs." The depth of insight possible using the information mosaic method can be staggering. A form of electronic magazine, NewsCommando can serve as a reference tool, offer unique jump-off points for Medline, PaperChase, or other searches, and, in many ways, is the "poor-man's IdeaFisher/IdeaBank." Vol. 1 will contain the following articles: ChemTao: Synergies In the Life Sciences EarthWatch1: Defining the Scope of Environmental Destruction Why Euthanasia Must Never Be Legalized Use "NewsCom request" in the "Subject:" field of message headers. Indicate article title(s) desired or "all" in body of message. Articles will be deposited in your mailbox with a "NewsCom/Vol.#" Subject header. Most will be in excess of 20K. Please group-save them to a file for later reading. nucmed Contact: nucmed-request@uwovax.uwo.ca -or- trevorc@uwovax.uwo.ca (Trevor Cradduck) Purpose: A discussion of Nuclear Medicine and related issues. Of particular concern is the format of digital images. numeric-interest Contact: numeric-interest-request@validgh.com (David Hough) Purpose: Discussion of issues of floating-point correctness and performance with respect to hardware, operating systems, languages, and standard libraries. ntp Contact: ntp-request@trantor.umd.edu Purpose: Discussion of the Network Time Protocol. objectivism Contact: objectivism-request@vixie.sf.ca.us (Paul Vixie) Purpose: A mailing list where students of Objectivism can discuss their ideas, concrete issues, exchange news, etc. Any issue that may have some relevance to Objectivists is appropriate here. Objectivism-philosophy Contact: objectivism-request@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Purpose: A mailing list for discussion of the philosophy of Objectivism. This is not a general Objectivism mailing list; discussions are restricted to the philosophy itself. objc Contact: bunker!stpstn!objc-request (Anthony A. Datri) Purpose: The Objective-C mailing list is for the discussion of Stepstone's Objective-C language, Objective-C compiler, Objective-C interpreter, and the ICPak-201 user interface library. ocean.policy Contact: {dual,vortex}!islenet!scott Purpose: Discussions of the legal, economic, and military aspects of ocean use policies. Specific issues include the "law of the sea", pending treaties, economic implications of EEZs and the military use of the sea. Coordinated by Dr. Scott Allen, Associate Director, International Law of the Sea Institute, University of Hawaii. oracle Contact: oracle-people@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Kinzler, Ray Moody) Purpose: A cooperative effort for creative humor. The Usenet Oracle answers any questions posed to it. Send mail to oracle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (or {ames,rutgers}!iuvax!oracle) with the word "help" in the subject line for complete details on how to participate. A distribution list is available for receiving compilations of the best Oracle answers (the Usenet Oracularities, also posted to rec.humor). Send mail to oracle-request@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu. offroad Contact: uunet!samsung!wizvax!offroad-request (Stephanie P. Gilgut) Purpose: To discuss/share experiences about 4X4 offroad adventures, tips and anything else related to 4 wheel drive, off roading, etc. This list is reflector driven. ODA Contact: utzoo!trigraph!oda-request (Les Gondor) Purpose: ODA is a mailing list for topics related to the ISO 8613 standard for Office Document Architecture, and ODIF (Office Document Interchange Format). orienteering Contact: orienteering-request@squid.graphics.cornell.edu (Mitch Collinsworth) Purpose: Discuss all aspects of the sport of orienteering. origami Contact: origami-request@cs.utexas.edu (Brad Blumenthal) Purpose: This unmoderated mailing list is for discussion of all facets of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. Topics include bibliographies, folding techniques, display ideas, descriptions of new folds, creativity, materials, organizations, computer representations of folds, etc. other-voices Contact: other-voices-request@bbn.com (Nancy Everson) Purpose: A forum for discussion of The Cure, Robert Smith, their music and videos, and related topics. OtherRealms Contact: chuq@apple.com (Chuq Von Rospach) Purpose: a distribution list for people who can't read rec.mag.otherrealms. OtherRealms is an electronic fanzine that covers Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books. Pagan Contact: pagan-request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (Stacey Greenstein) Purpose: To discuss the religions, philosophy, etc. of paganism. Papa Contact: dgross@polyslo.calpoly.edu (Dave Gross) Purpose: To discuss the life and works of Ernest Hemingway. PC532 Contact: pc532-request@bungi.com (Dave Rand) Purpose: a mailing list for people interested in the pc532 project. This is a National Semiconductor NS32532 based system, offered for a very low cost. pdp8-lovers Contact: pdp8-lovers-request@mc.lcs.mit.edu (Robert E. Seastrom) Purpose: This mailing list exists in order to facilitate communication and cooperation between owners of vintage DEC computers, specifically, but not limited to, the PDP-8 series of minicomputers. Discussions of all manner of hardware, software, programming techniques are invited. Ownership of an 'antique' computer is not required for membership, but flames from people who feel that anything that is not cutting edge technology is worthless are discouraged. Peru Contact: owner-peru@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) Purpose: For discussion of Peruvian culture and other issues. pharm Contact: pharm-request@udel.edu Purpose: a mailing list digest version of "alt.drugs" restricted to postings without repetitive political arguments or flames. Political articles of particularly novel value and reports of policy developments will be included. Under no circumstances will any message be passed along that may be construed to be a solicitation to engage in any form of illegal behavior. picasso-users Contact: picasso-users@postgres.berkeley.edu Purpose: For users of the Picasso graphical User Interface Development System. pipes Contact: pipes-request@paul.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) Purpose: For all those who enjoy smoking, collecting, or sharing information on pipes, tobacco, and related topics. Flames aren't allowed (except for the purpose of lighting up :-) porschephiles Contact: porschephiles-request@bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Hanks) Purpose: Discussion of Porsches. posix-ada Contact: umd5!grebyn!posix-ada-request -or- posix-ada-request@grebyn.com (Karl Nyberg) Purpose: to discuss the Ada binding of the Posix standard. This is the IEEE P1003.5 working group. posix-testing Contact: posix-testing-request@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) Purpose: This list will provide a forum for discussion of issues related to testing operating systems for conformance to the various POSIX standards and proposed standards (IEEE 1003.x and whatever derivative standards may emerge from the NIST, ANSI, ISO, and so on). These issues include problems related to test suites in general, testability of various features of the standards, and portability of the test suites to the many very different POSIX implementations we expect to see in the near future. We'll focus on the test suites themselves, rather than on the standards to which they test (notably POSIX p1003.3). PRL Contact: brewer@ace.dec.com (John Brewer) Purpose: The Pirate Radio SWL list is for the distribution of questions, answers, information and loggings of Pirate Radio Stations. This includes SW stations, MW (AM broadcast) and FM pirates. Quanta Contact: da1n@andrew.cmu.edu Purpose: Quanta is an electronically distributed magazine of science fiction. Published monthly, each issue contains short fiction, articles and editorials by authors around the world and across the net. Quanta publishes in two formats: straight ascii and PostScript* for PostScript compatible printers. To subscribe to Quanta, or just to get more info, send mail. rc-flying Contact : sun!suntri!black!rc-flying-request (Dwight Frye) Purpose : Discussions about the sport of flying radio control models. This includes sailplanes, power planes, and helicopters. recovery Contact: recovery-request@binbi.roy.or.us Purpose: recovery is intended as a forum and support group for survivors of childhood sexual abuse/incest and/or their SO's. Postings are published in digest format and contributors may post anonymously. The emphasis is on healing and recovery through the use of the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous as adapted for our purpose. REM Contact: valerie@athena.mit.edu (Valerie Ohm) Purpose: Discussion of the music and lyrics by the music group R.E.M. rush Contact: rush-request@syrinx.umd.edu Purpose: fans of the Canadian rock group Rush discuss things about the group and its music. S-news Contact: S-news-request@stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates) Purpose: Information and discussion about the S language for data analysis and graphics. sappho Contact: sappho-request@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz) {mit-eddie,bu-cs}!bloom-beacon!sappho-request Purpose: A forum and support group for gay and bisexual women. The list is not moderated, but may become so if the volume and/or content begins to warrant it. A digest version is available; if you want it, be sure to mention it in your addition request. Men who want to "listen in," for whatever reason, are requested to use the feminist and alternates mailing lists instead; sappho membership is limited to women. sca Contact: sca-request@mc.lcs.mit.edu (Danulf Donaldson, MKA Dana Groff) Purpose: This group discusses anything relating to the Society for Creative Anachronism, a world-wide medievallist organization. Anyone in the Society (or interested in it) is welcome to join. Those with basic questions about the Society should direct them to justin@inmet.com (Justin du Coeur, MKA Mark Waks), who will be happy to answer them. (Please note that the mailing list is not officially related to the SCA in any way; it is simply a group of talkative members). The SCA mailing list is gatewayed into the rec.org.sca newsgroup. SCO-list Contact: sco-list-request@uunet.uu.net (Dave Armbrust) Purpose: This group will be beneficial to any one interested or currently using Santa Cruz Operation products. This mailing list is a single area that discussions and information can be exchanged regarding ALL SCO products. This mailing is independent of any existing news groups. scoodt Contact: scoodt-request@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) Purpose: The SCO Open Desktop electronic mailing list is intended to provide a communications vehicle for interested parties to provide, request, submit, and exchange information regarding the configuration, implementation, and use of the SCO Open Desktop operating system as available from The Santa Cruz Operation. All submissions will be posted as received with appropriate author attribution. Questions are welcome. Someone may even answer them. The "scoodt" mlist is bi-directionally gatewayed to sco.opendesktop which is also available as a limited distribution newsgroup. scribe Contact: scribe-hacks-request@decwrl.dec.com Purpose: This list is designed for persons who perform the role of Scribe Database Administrator at their installation. Discussion will be about Scribe features, bugs, enhancements, performance, support, and other topics of interest to Scribe DBAs. The list will NOT be moderated, but will simply consist of a mail "reflector" - ie. if you send a message to the list, it will be rebroadcast to everyone on the list. Discussion at the level of "How do I get a paragraph to indent 5 spaces instead of 3?" is specifically discouraged. security Contact: uunet!zardoz!security-request (Neil Gorsuch) or security-request@cpd.com Purpose: to notify of unix security flaws BEFORE they become public knowledge, and to provide unix security enhancement programs and information. Most postings are explanations of specific unix security "holes", including fixes or work-arounds to prevent their usage. This list is not intended for discussions of general and/or theoretical security issues. It is joined at the pleasure of the applicant's system administrator and the list administrator. Requests to join must be mailed from a system administration account and must specify (1) the full name of the recipient; (2) the address to send the list to; (3) the address of the contact person for that site (if different from (2)); (4) whether you want moderated digests or "reflected" postings. SFER-l (South Florida Environmental Reader) Contact: sfer-request@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e. mossberg) Purpose: A monthly digest of environmental articles of interest to South Florida residents. The newsletter is available in both paper and electronic formats. sil-info Contact: sil-info-request@isf.unisys.com Purpose: Discussion of activities of The Society for Interactive Literature and related activities. SkillsBank Contact: sun!kass!richard (Richard Karasik) Purpose:I'd like to get people together on a mailing list who are willing to share there skills with others -not just the computist ones, altho that's handy to know, but some of the oddball ones that we all seem to have aquired. Ground rules: the list is not going to be publicly available but requests to the list for specific skills will be passed on to the people that have them, and they can decide about the level of participation they want to have. The only public piece that will be mailed around is the new skills that have been added, and the new requests for assistance. I am open to any other suggestions for how to make this work. smail3-users Contact: smail3-users-request@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Purpose: The smail3-users mailing list is targeted towards those who administer smail3.X based mailers. Discussion of operational problems and fixes, specialized configurations, and other topics related to the day-to-day operation of smail3.X are found here. The list does not discuss smail 2.5 issues. (Smail 2.5 is an unrelated piece of software that appeared in the comp.sources.unix archives under the archive name "smail3.") Questions about smail 2.5 should be directed to the newsgroup comp.mail.misc. Smail3-users deals primarily with operational issues. If you're interested in technical discussions on smail3 internals, consider joining smail3-wizards. smail3-wizards Contact: smail3-wizards-request@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Purpose: Smail3-wizards is a discussion forum for people who are actively porting, debugging, and extending smail3.X. Discussion should be limited to topics concerning smail3 internals. Questions about smail3 installation and operation should be directed to the smail3-users list. smiths-fans Contact: larryn@csufres.csufresno.edu Purpose: We are a mailing list dedicated to the music of the rock group, The Smiths. Though the group is no longer together, we feel there is a substantial enough body of work to keep a list such as this going. Topics include discussion/interpretation of lyrics, work being done currently by members, and other intellectual concerns. sports-cards Contact: cards-request@tanstaafl.uchicago.edu (Keane Arase) Purpose: For people interested in collection, speculation and investing in baseball, football, basketball, hockey and other trading cards and/or memoribilia. Discussion and want/sell lists are welcome. Open to anyone. svr4-admin Contact: dynasys!svr4-admin (Jesse W. Asher) Purpose: This is for discussion of topics related to Unix System V Release 4. stagecraft Contact: stagecraft-request%cai@cs.utah.edu (Brad Davis) Submissions: stagecraft%cai@cs.utah.edu Purpose: This list is for the discussion of all aspects of stage work, including (but not limited to) special effects, sound effects, sound reinforcement, stage management, set design and building, lighting design, company management, hall management, hall design, and show production. This is not a forum for the discussion of various stage productions (unless the discussion pertains to the stagecraft of a production), acting or directing methods (unless you know of ways to get actors to stand in the right spots), film or video production (unless the techniques can be used on the stage). The list will not be moderated unless problems crop up. Archives will be kept of the discussion (send mail to stagecraft-request for copies). stardent-users Contact: stardent-users-request@jacobi.biology.yale.edu (Mark McCallum) Purpose: The stardent-users mailing list provides a forum for discussion of using/programming computers manufactured by Stardent Computer. The discussion is intended to cover programming topics (e.g. XFDI, phigs+, Dore, parallel and/or vectorizaton techniques, etc.), using one of their computers as an application engine for a Stardent software package or a third party package (e.g. AVS, Quanta, NMR1/2, etc.), or any other threads deamed applicable (e.g. customer service, fallout of merger, etc). The list will not be moderated, and it is hoped that it will generate enough interest to justify a news group. stormcock Contact: stormcock-request@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Paul Davison) Purpose: For general discussion and news concerning the music of Roy Harper, a folk-rock musician with a conscience. Recommendations and news concerning similar artists are encouraged. The list is set up as a mail reflector. NB: Some internet sites may have to route mail through the UK internet gateway, "nsfnet-relay.ac.uk". Also, in some exceptional circumstances we may have to refuse membership because we get charged for mail to certain addresses in the uucp domain. sun-386i Contact: sun-386i-request@rice.edu Purpose: Discussion and information about the 386i-based Sun machines. sun-managers Contact: sun-managers-request@eecs.nwu.edu Purpose: Information of special interest to managers of sites with Sun workstations or servers. sun-nets Contact: sun-nets-request@umiacs.umd.edu Purpose: Discussion and information on networks using Sun hardware and/or software. supercomputers Contact: supercomputer-request@nyu.edu -or- cmcl2!supercomputer-request Submissions: supercomputer@nyu.edu, cmcl2!supercomputer Purpose: To discuss "supercomputers" and related technology. Contact the list administrators for more information. sysops Contact: {harpo,bellcore,cmcl2}!cucard!dasys1!sysops-request -or- {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!dasys1!sysops-request Purpose: The purpose of this list is to facilitate communication among operators of computerized bulletin-board systems. Topics will include, but are certainly not limited to: applications, security, legal issues, and software. t3 Contact: t3-request@ncsugn.ncsu.edu (Ted H. Emigh) Purpose: Discussion of T3, a WYSIWYG (almost) scientific word processing system for MS-DOS computers. tadream Contact: tadream-request@vacs.uwp.wisc.edu (Dave Datta) Purpose: Tadream is a forum for discussions about Tangerine Dream and related artists. Discussions are not moderated, but should have some small relation to Tangerine Dream (solo works and instrumentation discussions are welcome). The list is set up both as a mail relay and a daily digest. (alternate mail paths: ....uwm!uwpvacs!tadream-request, uwpvacs!tadream-request@uwm.edu) tandy4k Contact: ...!{psu-cs,reed,ogcvax}!qiclab!tandy4k-users (Steven Neighorn) Purpose: A mailing list for owners, users, and other interested parties of the Intel 80386-based Tandy 4000 Microcomputer. The list will contain problems encountered, hints, program source code, and anything else related to the operation of Tandy's newest entry into the world of microcomputers. tartan-c Contact: astrovax!tartan-c-requests Purpose: Discussion related to the Tartan C compiler for the vax. This can include bug reports, benchmarks, C quirks handled differently by tcc, experiences compiling system source with tcc, etc. tcad Contact: tcad-request@iec.ufl.edu (Mark Law) Purpose: This mailing list ihas been set up to serve the needs of users and software developers of TCAD ( technology computer aided design ) codes. These codes typicaaly aid the the IC process designer in developing, debugging, and optimizing new and old processes. The group discusses software such as PISCES, SUPREM, FABRICS, SAMPLE, SIMPL, and MINIMOS. tcp-group Contact: tcp-group-request@ucsd.edu Purpose: Discussion about promoting TCP/IP use on Ham packet radio. T-E-L Contact: todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) Purpose: For owners and admirers of Talon, Eclipse or Laser automobiles. Testing-Archive Contact: testing-archive-request@ernie.cs.uiuc.edu (Brian Marick) Purpose: The purpose of Testing-Archive is to collect and archive material for software testing practitioners and researchers who are too busy to read ongoing discussions. Therefore, typical messages will be abstracts of technical reports, announcements of testing tools (both commercial and noncommercial), reviews of testing tools, and summaries of discussions from other mailing lists or newsgroups. The mailing list will be archived and made available for anonymous FTP via cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/testing/archiveXX. The list is unmoderated. Testing-Research Contact: testing-research-request@ernie.cs.uiuc.edu (Brian Marick) Purpose: Testing-Research is a forum for testing researchers to discuss current and future research at greater length (and with perhaps lower "density") than in Testing-Archive. The goal of Testing-Archive is to create a historical record; the goal of Testing-Research is to create a community. Since testing is one of the most down-to-earth kinds of software engineering research, testing practitioners are welcomed. Messages about practice should be the kind that can guide or improve research; messages that can improve practice should go in comp.software-eng. This list is unmoderated. thicva Contact: thicva-request@stjhmc.fidonet.org -or- {gatech,ames,rutgers}!ncar!noao!asuvax!stjhmc!thicva-request Purpose: The purpose of this list is to provide for the discussion of Traumatic Head Injuries, Cerebrovascular Accidents, and other related Intracranial Malformations. It is hoped that this conference will provide a clearing house for information on the above topics, on facilities that specialize in the treatment of Intracranial problems, and most importantly a conference where victims and their families can meet to discuss problems, concerns, and successes. An electronic international support group. think-c Contact: think-c-request@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) Purpose: This list exists to discuss the Think C compiler for the Macintosh. Acceptable topics include discussion of compiler problems and solutions/workarounds, discussion of object-oriented programming and Macintosh programming, and the sharing of source code. Associated with this list is an archive stored on ics.uci.edu accessible via ftp and a mail archive server (archive-server@ics.uci.edu). Submissions to the archive should go to think-c-request. TolkLang Contact: tolklang-request@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Julian Bradfield) Purpose: Discussions of the linguistic aspects of J.R.R. Tolkien's works. This covers everything from Elvish vocabulary and grammar to his use of Old English. The list is (lightly) moderated. torg Contact: torg-owner@supernet.haus.com (Clay Luther) Purpose: Torg is the mailing list dedicated to the infiniverse of West End Game's "Torg, the Possibility Wars" Roleplaying Game. towers Contact: bill@wrangler.wlk.com (Bill Kennedy) Purpose: General discussion on the subject of NCR Tower computers. Gatewayed with comp.sys.ncr transputer Submissions: transputer@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu -or- ...{cmcl2,decvax,uw-beaver}!cornell!batcomputer!transputer Contact: transputer-request (at the above address) Purpose: The Transputer mailing list was created to enhance the communication among those who are interested in the Transputer and Transputer based systems. Submissions should be of non-proprietary nature and be concerned with, but not limited to: o Algorithms o Current development efforts (hardware and software) o INMOS and third party systems (Meiko, FPS, etc.) o Interfaces o Dedicated computational resources o Occam and Non-Occam language development Archives of submissions are available by anonymous ftp from the host tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (userid "anonymous", password is of the form "user@host") and through uucp on a per-request basis. The list is maintained as a mail reflector. Submissions are therefore sent out as they are received. traveller Contact: traveller-request@metolius.wr.tek.com (James T. Perkins) Purpose: This mailing list exists to discuss the TRAVELLER Science Fiction Role Playing Game, published by Game Designers' Workshop. All variants of Traveller (Traveller 2300, MegaTraveller), and Traveller games (Snapshot, Trillion Credit Squadron, etc.) are included, too. Discussion is unmoderated and open to all facets and levels of Traveller discussion. Listeners as well as contributors are welcome. turnabout Contact: turnabout-request@ads.com (Charleen Bunjiovianna) Purpose: Discussion of gender issues in an attempt to understand male/female socialization and how it affects our adult lives. ucsd-Empire Contact: ucsd-empire-request@cogsci.berkeley.edu (David Muir Sharnoff) Purpose: ucsd-empire is devoted to co-ordinating work on the UCSD version of the game of Empire (ideas, announcements, and patches). uk-motss Contact: uk-motss-request@cc.ic.ac.uk (Nigel Whitfield) Purpose: The uk-motss mailing list is for gay people in the UK, or those who are interested in the UK gay scene / politics. It is a supportive environment for those unwilling or unable to read the soc.motss newsgroup, and confidentiality is assured. Anonymous posting is available. weights Contact: cit-vax!mickey!weights-request (Michael Sullivan) Purpose: The discussion of all aspects of using weights in exercise. Includes bodybuilding (competetive and non-competetive), sport-related weight training, "stay in shape" weight training; basically anything to do with lifting weights. whitewater Contact: iuvax!whitewater-request --or-- whitewater-request@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Charles Daffinger) Purpose: To discuss WhiteWater sports, experiences, and information. Includes kayak and canoeing enthusiasts. Please note that this mailing list is partially bidirectionally gatewayed to the USENET group rec.boats.paddle. Whitewater specific postings are culled and sent to the mailing list, and mailing list traffic is sent to the newsgroup. This mailing list is moderated and is probably only useful to those who do not receive rec.boats.paddle, or are only interested in the whitewater traffic in that group. Unisys Contact: unisys-request@bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller) Purpose: Discussion of all Unisys products and equipment. unix-pc-net Contact: unix-pc-request@zorch.sf-bay.org -or- {pyramid,ames}!zorch!unix-pc-request (Scott H. Mueller) Purpose: To provide redistribution via mail of the unix-pc news hierarchy to sites that don't or cannot receive it as a regular distribution. The special address "zorch!unix-pc" can be used by subscribers to post to the group unix-pc.general. UPS-alumni Contact: ups_alumni-request@stephsf.com (Bill England) Purpose: The mailing list has been put together ostensibly for the purpose of linking graduates of The University of Puget Sound. This list will also help those interested keep abreast of current events and changes at the University. Commercial postings are prohibited. usenet.hist Contact: bjones@ucsd.edu (Bruce Jones) Purpose: This list is for the discussion of the socio-cultural, technical and political history of usenet. The list is not moderated and is open to anyone interested in the history of the net. usml Contact: usml-request@hc.dspo.gov (Josh Siegel) Purpose: This mailing list is for discussions on various techniques for simulations of the universe as related to games and reality. venezuela Contact: venezuela-request@arisia.xerox.com (Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart) Purpose: Discussion of anything related to Venezuela. VMEbus Contact: {clyde,att,ulysses}!houxl!mlh (Marc Harrison) Purpose: A user's group for the AT&T VMEbus products to provide a two-way USENET conduit for the open exchange of information, both within and outside of AT&T. There's very little data that's proprietary about the products (other than the source code for UNIX System V/VME), so the list is open to suggestions as to items of interest. If you're interested, please send your name, e-mail path (via att preferred), affiliation, and use of WE 321SB (if you have one). Suggestions for items of interest are also encouraged. wildnet Contact: dvinci!ejw --or-- woodsworth@sask.bitnet (Eric Woodsworth) Purpose: This list is concerned with computing and statistics in fisheries and wildlife biology. windsurfing Contact: windsurfing-request@gallium.uucp ...uunet!philabs!crpmks!gallium!windsurfing-request ...uunet!hsi!stpstn!gaboon!crpmks!gallium!windsurfing-request Purpose: The windsurfing mailing list serves as a discussion forum for boardsailing enthusiasts all over the world. While non-windsurfers are welcome to join, the primary purpose is to promote the sport of windsurfing by specializing in windsurfing related topics such as equipment, technique, sailing sites, weather, the windsurf industry, etc. We welcome you to join and share your windsurfing experiences and thoughts. The list is non-moderated and your articles will circulate to everyone who joins. x-ada Contact: x-ada-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu Purpose: to discuss the interfaces and bindings for an Ada interface to the X window system. XGKS Contact: xgks-request@unidata.ucar.edu (Steve Emmerson) Purpose: A mailing-list for the maintenance, enhancement, and evolution of the XGKS package, created by the University of Illinois under contract with IBM and distributed as part of X11R4. The XGKS package is a full 2C GKS implementation and allows GKS applications to operate in an X Window System environment. yello Contact: yello-request@polyslo.calpoly.edu (Cliff Tuel) Purpose: The Yello Mailing List is a forum for discussing anything about the group Yello, or any solo works by the band's members. An extensive discography is available, as are several other files of interest. Yiddish Contact: dave@lsuc.on.ca -or- lsuc!dave (Dave Sherman) Purpose: articles, jokes, etc. in transliterated Yiddish, and discussion of Yiddish language and culture (in English). Some familiarity with the language is required to understand most of the messages. Z-cars Contact: rsiatl!z-car-request (John De Armond) Purpose:The Z-car mailing list operates for the benefit of those interested in Datsun/Nissan Z cars. The interest base is primarily for the original Z, though all discussion regarding the Z line of cars is welcome. zeppelin Contact: zeppelin-request@ux.acs.umn.edu (Michael John Negron, Jr.) Purpose: For fans of the rock group Led Zeppelin. zilog Contact: ...!cbmvax!mail-zilog-request Purpose: A self-help group to provide communications among Zilog users. Topics include problems with Zeus, fixes, portability problems, availability of ported software and exchange of programs on Zilog compatible media. Open to both end users and systems houses, but all should be able to cope with the phrase Zilog Brain Damage with some degree of equanimity. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf