Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!nrl-cmf!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Introductory Postings Needed? Message-ID: <10040@g.ms.uky.edu> Date: 26 Jul 88 05:33:18 GMT References: <4985@gryphon.CTS.COM> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 29 In article <4985@gryphon.CTS.COM> jdow@pnet02.cts.com (Joanne Dow) writes: >(Gee, as I posted on usenet - bix has over 12megs of purely amiga conference >stuff online right now for spelunking for old answers. It saves a lot of >redundant questions - and redundant answers...) >{o.o} > Sowwy re the commercial bit it's hard to resist. gee ... only 12 megs? that's only a season's traffic here ... Please try harder to resist in the future ... We see at least 130 megs per month going through all of usenet. There is no way that we could all afford to keep *everything* forever ... Given that there's very little history on Usenet, things like Frequently Asked Questions happen a lot. A posting like what being proposed is a Very Good Thing. Whoever is putting this together -- if there is anything I can do to help just let me know. I won't be able to give any technical hints about Amiga's, *but* I can help some with the automatic postings if you need. The basic idea is simply to have a file somewhere which has the complete article including headers; then every month or two weeks (it's real easy to do this in your monthly news cleanup script) you do "inews -h <---- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- A misplaced Kansan trapped in the heart of Kentucky, <---- the state where it is now illegal to water your lawn on the wrong day.