Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!lll-winken!xanth!mcnc!ecsvax.uncecs.edu!uncmed!uncmed.med.unc.edu!unccab From: unccab@uncmed.med.unc.edu Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: How to do FTP and access rec.*, soc.*, talk.*, alt.* Keywords: I have 2 questions. The first is how do I contact the FTP addresses to signin anonymously? Do I mail or message to them? I know they are Listservs, but are they all interactive? And I know to signin anon. and then use my id as password, but I just Message-ID: <546@uncmed.med.unc.edu> Date: 24 Oct 89 14:01:11 GMT Sender: news@uncmed.med.unc.edu Reply-To: unccab@uncmed.med.unc.edu () Organization: UNC-CH School of Medicine Lines: 13 My second question is I have seen many ppl on the net say that they receive feeds from elsewhere to receive soc.all or alt.all, etc. My feed doesn't allow me to receive, for example :-), alt.aquaria nor will it allow me to receive rec.aqu* (supposing it goes to that :-), so how can I find a feed that will allow me to receive these other hierarchies? I hope that these questions aren't too stupid for posting. Thanks. Charles Balan UNCCAB@med.unc.edu , UNCCAB@uncmed.uucp , UNCCAB@unc.bitnet %%%%% They're from Aliens.....I seen 'em! %%%%%%%%%%%%