zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) (01/31/91)
Comp.sys.amiga and comp.sys.amiga.tech are going away. Soon. I will
issue the group removal messages on February 5th. No later.
Please stop posting to these two groups immediately. If there is some
discussion going on, move it to one of the many Amiga groups that now
exists and will not be removed.
Detailed descriptions of the new groups are posted regularly in
comp.sys.amiga.introduction. Please see the posts there to pick a
group to use instead of one of the groups that is dying.
Many people are complaining that they can not post to the new groups
or that their site is not receiving them yet. If this is happening to
you, the problem is with your local site, and not with the net as a
whole. It has to be fixed where you get your news.
If you have this problem, take these steps to fix it:
1. Find the system administrator of your machine. Tell him (or her)
about the problem. Show him (or her) the list of groups at the end
of this message. Ask him (assume the "or her" for the rest of this
message) to fix the problem. If he says that he is not in charge
of Usenet at your site, ask him who is in charge, then talk to that
person.
2. If your problem rests with another site, send e-mail to the News
administrator at that site. The problem can be at another site if
you get Usenet through e-mail or if your site gets a feed from another
site with a problem. First send a message to usenet@site. For instance,
if you are having trouble posting by sending mail to Berkeley, you
should send mail to usenet@ucbvax.berkeley.edu. The usenet@site
address will usually get you the proper administrator. If you get no
response, send a message to postmaster@site, and ask for the
address of the Usenet administrator at that site. Send the list at
the end of this message to the administrator, and make sure to
inform him that comp.sys.amiga.tech and comp.sys.amiga itself are going
away very soon.
The new groups are:
comp.sys.amiga.misc
comp.sys.amiga.programmer
comp.sys.amiga.announce (moderated)
comp.sys.amiga.reviews (moderated)
comp.sys.amiga.introduction
comp.sys.amiga.audio
comp.sys.amiga.graphics
comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
comp.sys.amiga.applications
comp.sys.amiga.emulations
comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
comp.unix.amiga
Groups remaining from before are:
comp.sys.amiga.games
comp.sys.amiga.hardware
comp.sources.amiga (moderated)
comp.binaries.amiga (moderated)
alt.sources.amiga
Dan Zerkle zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu (916) 754-0240
Amiga... Because life is too short for boring computers.