sjb (11/17/82)
net.jokes is the right joke newsgroup, NOT net.joke as many people have been using recently. This is one reason (mistyping newsgroup names) for so many dead groups around.
nickles (11/20/82)
#R:alice:-113400:ihlpb:5500003: 0:356 ihlpb!nickles Nov 19 14:20:00 1982 I disagree. Notes has an alias system and it works out fairly well. Over the past months I've compiled a list that looks like: net.games.rogu:net.games.rog net.news.newsi:net.newsite net.periphs:net.periph net.jokes:net.joke net.cycle:net.cycles Where the mapping is from right to left on input. (Note, another entry prevents the mapping out output).
essick (11/22/82)
#R:alice:-113400:uiucdcs:9700029:000:1136 uiucdcs!essick Nov 22 07:45:00 1982 Actually, the notesfile alias mechanism is a little more complex than Jack ``ihlpb!'' Nickles has described. If I want ``net.joke'' sent to ``net.jokes'' where it belongs, I would insert a line of the form: net.jokes:net.joke which would map the newsgroup net.joke into the notesfil net.jokes. When transfering the other way, (notes ->news) a similar translation takes place, so we have to put a line before the earlier one, making our table look like: net.jokes:net.jokes net.jokes:net.joke This sets up newsgroups net.joke and net.jokes to go to the notesfile net.jokes. The notesfile net.jokes will go out to the newsgroup net.jokes. You can get even more complex. Say you want anything that is in the notesfile net.jokes to go to both newsgroups: net.jokes and net.joke (and you still want the news->notes translations from above). In this case, make the file look like: net.jokes:net.jokes,net.joke net.jokes:net.jokes net.jokes:net.joke I can't think of any appropriate examples right now, but the ability to do this fell out when I did the first two stages. --Ray Essick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign