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From: harmo@cc.helsinki.fi (Timo Harmo (Valt. tiet. tdk))
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Questions about USENET (/bitnet)
Message-ID: <1466@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 21 Jan 89 18:48:02 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki Computing Centre
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Hi

I'm on a bitnet site and we have recently started to recieve USE-
NET news. I'm writing a guide to different communications systems
availlable  in our system and I'll like to write something on our
news-system also. I'd appreachiate all answers to the  following
(maybe silly) questions. 

1.  What is USENET? I've understood it's a network of all the si-
tes that participate and distribute these newsgroups. Should BIT-
NET sites that distibute news be counted in?
2. Do you receive any newsgroups originated in BITNET (things li-
ke Bitnet.listserv.history)?
3.  What  other network are connected to the news services (FIDO-
NET,...?)
4. I understand you have  a  voting  system  for  organizing  new
groups. How many votes are needed?                      
5. What kind of people are you  in  USENET?  Computer-pros,  stu-
dents, ...? (are there some surveys?)

Thanks in advance!

 Timo Harmo
 Faculty of Soc. Sci,
 U of Helsinki, Finland
 Bitnet: HARMO@FINUH
 internet: HARMO@cc.helsinki.fi.bitnet