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From: rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Frequently asked questions -> usenet vs. internet
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Date: 12 Jun 89 22:58:31 GMT
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? From: Rich Zellich <zellich@st-louis-emh2.army.mil>

? PLEASE, all of you who are arguing about having a Frequently Asked Questions
? posting, remember that "info-unix" (listed as the To: address in Mr. Lawrence's
? message - NOT a usenet newsgroup) is an *internet mailing list*.  Many of us
? get our info-unix and unix-wizards feed as mail on the net, and *not* as a
? newsgroup via the usenet.  We *don't have access to* monthly postings and
? "abc.xyz.announce', etc.

? You can flame at people all you want for not reading the standard newsgroup
? items, but if they don't get it, they can't read it...you're talking at a
? mixed audience here, folks...we ain't all on the usenet, and the monthly
? and other administrivia postings *aren't gatewayed*.

I was going to propose this as a general solution, but then I realized
that the ARPANET isn't the whole thing. USENET exists as well.

For us ARPA types, the solution is to mail us the foo.bar.announce text
when we sign up to the foo.bar (opps, info-foobar :-) newsgroup. Most of
the moderators just send a `ok, you're on' message. Some other ones
send what looks to be their blurb in the list-of-lists.

And If I run a distribution list, I should give JRH* a copy as well
before I add him to my distribution list.

Solutions are easy if you look for them.

	Root Boy Jim is what I am
	Are you what you are or what?

*JRH is, of course, Joe Random Hacker