Hamilton.ES@PARC-MAXC@sri-unix (07/06/82)
Due to a number of complaints from Xeroids about the volume and inappropriateness of the msgs from USENET about Star Trek II sent to Movie^.pa@PARC-MAXC, Andrew Knutsen has at my request cut the link which automatically forwards <USENET msgs posted to net .movie> to Movie^.pa. However, any msgs sent directly to Movie^.pa will still be forwarded to net.movie. This is a relatively small volume of mail. As explained to me by Steve Bellovin, the only easy way for USENET to tie into our new StarTrek list would be for them to set up a new newsgroup. The way it seems to work is that USENET people post a msg to a sort of electronic bulletin board called a newsgroup. When a msg percolated its way over to SRI-UNIX, special software there would convert it to an ARPANET msg. If the STII, ET, etc., trivia ever dies down, we may consider re-establishing the USENET -> Movie^ link. Meanwhile, a brief review of Movie^'s informal "rules": a submission should be a reasonably self-contained review, and not part of an ongoing discussion. You don't have to write a grand essay, but your submission should consist of more that statements of the form "A is great; B is lousy." Finally, please remember to apply the CHOP hack against your msg before you submit it. Your msg are still going out into USENET land, where some folks can't handle long paragraphs without CRs. I hope some of you Junk-ies who got turned off recently will rejoin the fold. --Bruce