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From: bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Newsgroup created: alt.sys.hp48
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Date: 11 Jun 91 19:10:24 GMT
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In a posting of [11 Jun 91 16:57:57 GMT]
   HCLIMER%UTCVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Harold Climer) writes:

 >  1. How does one subscribe to this new newsgroup?

	1. Get an account on a system with a news feed

	2. Type "rn" and RETURN (non 3270 stuff)

	3. Type "g alt.sys.hp48" and RETURN

Or use any of the other half a dozen or so news readers.

   Comp.sys.handhelds is not a mailing list, nor is alt.sys.hp48. It's
not RSCS-NET, you know...


 >  2. Will all 48 specific questions go to this group only or also to Comp.Sys.
 >     Handhelds 

They will go wherever people post them.


 > for people who have limited disk space for mail from the net and don't
 > think they can afford to subscribe to both groups.( I use the IBM
 > VM/SP for other things than reading and storing mail)

   Ask someone to set up a local shared distribution point and write a
couple of XEDIT (CMS EXEC, or Rexx, or whatever) scripts for you,
unless you do it yourself, to read the shared messages.


 >  3. Is this group being started by you alone or is it a sub-group of the
 > Comp.Sys.Handhelds at GAC.VM.EDU ?

   Again, it's a newsgroup, not a mailing list. GAC.VM.EDU only
transmutes the news feed into a mailing list for the benefit of
readers who do not have access to a news feed.

						-- Jan Brittenson
						   bson@ai.mit.edu