Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!vms.macc.wisc.edu!tobis From: tobis@vms.macc.wisc.edu Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: soc.culture.canadian? Message-ID: <3246@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> Date: 26 Feb 90 04:13:56 GMT Sender: news@dogie.macc.wisc.edu Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center Lines: 14 it is for an escapee - er, uh, - expatriate to get news of the home country here in the usa. this brings up another subject - info about the net, for a computer literate net novice in this case. what is the protocol for setting up new groups. net.news.newusers, or whatever its called, looks empty to me, btw. where is all the info kept? who's running this show? can i read groups not available at my site? how? what's the appropriate forum for this type of question? etc. etc. apologies for this paragraph. also apologies for not having linked in a decent text editor yet. no apologies for all lower case, though.