rgt@lanl-a.UUCP (07/12/84)
Hi. I just printed out the list of currently active USENET newsgroups, and find it very helpful. I am relatively new to the net, and do not know how to send mail messages. I tried to send one to the poster of an article using the mail response, but the machine told me that the path was too long. How do you know to set up a path for mailing articles to another user? For instance, corrections, additions, etc. to the list be reported to alb. How do I set up a path to you? Is there a map of the UUCP mail links anywhere? Also, I would like to recommend a newsgroup or message center for new users. Maybe net.general or some group that all new users would get by default. This would provide them (us) with information on how to best use the net, without getting flames from all kinds of people telling them (us) how dumb we are. It would also tell how to mail to the people on the net. Any help would be appreciated. Richard Thomsen PS. I tried mailing this to alb@alice because that seems like an ARPANET address. You said to mail it to research!alb, but I would need to know a path from lanl to there, and I have not got a clue as to how to get it there.