fkho@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Frederick K. Ho) (06/02/89)
This message concerns about the subscription to the Hong Kong news digest. If you are not interested type n right now .... Okay, there is currently a group of Hong Kong students from around the world (mostly from North America) participate in an informal discussion through mailing list (HKnet). The discussion are on Hong Kong in particulars and are open to any Chinese/Cantonese students/staff. There are currently about 200 people in the mailing list and if anyone would like to subscribe to the HKnet, just send a message to Wilson Ho in UC Davis with the following information exactly as shown: ============== from how@iris.ucdavis.edu ================== ----- name: last name, first name nick or english name email address: Internet address preferred class status: Fr., Soph., Jr. Sr. MS, PhD major: institute: phone: mailing address: ----- Each field must begin at the first (1st) column. Field names must be in lower cases and must be typed exactly as shown (no abbreviation please). There is *NO* space before the colon (:). Anything entered after the colon (:) will be recorded as is. Each field will be on a separate line. All fields except the mailing address should be kept on one single line. Also, please enter your last name first, followed by a comma (,) and your first name. Here is an example: name: Ho, W. Wilson email address: how@iris.ucdavis.edu class status: Ph.D. major: Computer Science institute: University of California at Davis, CA, USA phone: (916)756-9434 mailing address: Wilson Ho Division of Computer Science University of California Davis, CA 95616 USA Please forward this message to any Hong Kong/Cantonese speaking students you know. We'd like to see as many people joining as possible. For those who read this message for the first time, our goal is to set up a communication network for students originated from Hong Kong. If we get enough support, we will try to start a new newsgroup. Something like soc.culture.hong.kong or soc.hong.kong. Thank you for your cooperation! Wilson Ho ========================= end of message ================== Because of the growing in size of the mailing list I recently posted a request to news.groups calling for a discussion for the creation of a new moderated news group "soc.culture.hongkong". If anyone would like to comment on the creation of such a group please post to news.groups. /fred University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario -- internet: fkho@watdragon.waterloo.edu uucp: {ihnp4,decvax,uunet,utai, ...}!watmath!watdragon!fkho bitnet: fkho@water.BITNET arpa: fkho%watdragon.waterloo.edu@csnet-relay.arpa