Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!emory!wa4mei!holos0!Bill Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr Subject: Introduction, hello! Message-ID: Date: 27 Nov 90 19:54:17 GMT Reply-To: gatech!ssbn.WLK.COM!bill (Bill Kennedy) Lines: 62 Hello everyone. I got a note from Greg this morning telling me that he wanted me to start handling the mailing list right away, so I thought I would send my "maiden voyage" message and introduce myself. I'll also repeat my understanding of how this works (it's different from the other mailing list I coordinate) so that you know what's on my mind. You'll hear very little out of me after this other than pleas for help with my Tower :-) The address towers@wrangler.WLK.COM is a "reflector", meaning that any mail sent there will be automatically sent to the mailing list with a copy to me to post into comp.sys.ncr. I will also send all comp.sys.ncr news articles to this address so that each of you gets a copy. The address towers-request@wrangler.WLK.COM is an address that you may use to send in administriviae, address changes, additions, deletions, etc. Please use this address or bill@ssbn.WLK.COM when you need to tell me something that need not be passed on to the rest of the mailing list or posted to comp.sys.ncr. If internet addresses don't work for you, uunet!cs.utexas.edu will work just fine, but please put the .wlk.com domain in the address for fastest and most reliable service. If you omit the .wlk.com you're likely to introduce a delay of several days before your mail is processed. Please DO NOT use any other addresses or sites, let me explain why. As a solo computer consultant I move around a lot and I send and receive mail and news from a number of identities and sites. I can _always_ be reached as bill@ssbn.WLK.COM or towers-request@wrangler.WLK.COM, _always_, I promise. If you just hit the `r' button or try to track me down, it probably won't work and may have some undesirable side effects here. After four years with the AT&T PC63xx mailing list they've finally agreed to ignore who he claims to be or where it says he is, stick with the ones that always work. One more request, if you would please. Although there are about 150 fewer addressees on the towers list than PC63xx, the result is the same. Please keep me informed if you change addresses or you know of a better path to reach you. I personally pay the long distance to mail the stuff out and I personally pay the long distance to get back misaddressed and undeliverable mail. I don't mind paying to send it out, but I get testy when I pay for the bounces. Accordingly, I'm not very forgiving when an address starts bouncing, I just comment it out and you "go dark" for a while. If you don't hear anything from the list for a while, I might have commented you out. You should drop me a note and check. I will probably ask you to ACK my reply so that we both know the new mail path actually reaches you. Finally, this mailing list is completely unmoderated. What you get is what was sent. I will intervene manually only to the extent needed to make sure that you're not getting double messages and that you are getting everything in comp.sys.ncr. In fact, if you mail to towers@wrangler.WLK.COM, there's a good chance that I'll see it after the others have already gotten it, it's that automatic. I'll do my level best to not introduce any needless delays in the gateway to and from comp.sys.ncr, but unlike the AT&T PC63xx, I'm not going to edit or screen anything. The PC63xx folks prefer that I edit and screen and they aren't shy about telling me when they don't like it! :-) I don't have the time to do the same and Greg told me that there were strong feelings among you that it not be done. Please blaze away if I'm screwing up the addressing or somesuch, but I don't want any complaints about the content unless I'm the originator. Feel free, for example, to scald me for taking too much time and too many words to say hello :-) -- Bill Kennedy usenet {att,cs.utexas.edu,pyramid!daver}!ssbn.wlk.com!bill internet bill@ssbn.WLK.COM or attmail!ssbn!bill