Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!bnfb
From: bnfb@june.cs.washington.edu (Bjorn Freeman-Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: I'm New, What Do I Read First
Message-ID: <6745@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 88 05:08:25 GMT
Reply-To: bnfb@uw-june.UUCP (Bjorn Freeman-Benson)
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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My Background:
    I have an SCO Xenix machine at home and it is attached to the net
    via UUCP.  However, I don't like having to type the full path name
    when I can use domains on other machines.
Your Background:
    This news group seems to be the place to ask about things like
    pathalias, smail, uumail, sendmail, etc, are all of which are
    vaguely familar, but not on my machine.
The Question:
    In order to have a substantive dialog with people in this
    newsgroup, I need to come up to speed on the "commonly accepted
    general knowledge".  Is there are tech report, article or
    archived text file with this sort of information, or should I
    just ask my dumb questions here?

Thanks,
Bjorn N. Freeman-Benson