Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: pubnet.nixpub? Message-ID: Date: 29 Jul 89 02:54:16 GMT References: <18896@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu> <396@ai.cs.utexas.edu> <15838@ut-emx.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Distribution: na Lines: 23 In-reply-to: poole@ut-emx.UUCP's message of 28 Jul 89 17:46:20 GMT In <15838@ut-emx.UUCP> poole@ut-emx.UUCP (Steve Poole) writes: SP> I tried to subscribe to pubnet.nixpub using the g command in SP> rn. I got the message "newsgroup pubnet.nixpub does not exit". SP> I listed newsgroups with pub in the name, or with net in SP> the name. Didn't see anything remotely resembling pubnet.nixpub . SP> Why can't I get this newsgroup? It is most likely the case that your site does not carry the pubnet alternate hierarchy; typically only public access sites do. If you were perhaps looking for the posting on public access Unix sites then you can find it posted semi-regularly (I think it is being done monthly now) in the comp.misc newsgroup. I was originally going to post a fairly lengthy article here on the alternate hierarchies but I decided to save both myself and the readers here the effort. The best place to start is the Alternate Newsgroup Hierachies posted roughly every six weeks to news.announce.newusers. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))