steve@umiacs.umd.edu (Steve D. Miller) (11/17/89)
The correct addresses for Sun-Nets are: sun-nets@umiacs.umd.edu (submissions to the readership) sun-nets-request@umiacs.umd.edu (administrivia, like getting on and off the list) For those in bangland, try ...!uunet!umiacs.umd.edu!whatever. The old brillig.umd.edu addresses will work, and forward mail over here to UMIACS-land. Still, they're deprecated, and should go away someday... Just to be completely clear: *please* send to sun-nets-request rather than sun-nets if you want to be on the list. Look at it this way... if you send mail to sun-nets-request, the one person who can help you sees the mail and deals with it. If you send to sun-nets instead, the one person who can help you (me!) probably sees the mail, but 1000 (guess) other people who *can't* help you also see the mail. At least one percent of these people will get upset and flame you; some might even flame me for not moderating the list. (And I definitely don't have time to moderate the list, because I don't even have time to run it anyway.) This is true for most (99% at least) Internet mailing lists. With my flamage aside, I think Sun-Nets is useful, and I encourage people to fill my mailbox with requests to join. -Steve (sun-nets-request@umiacs.umd.edu) [[Ed's Note: Okay, I stand corrected :), I'll forward this note to the maintainer of the sun-386i list also so he can update his list to show the new address. -bdg]]
randall@uvaarpa.virginia.edu (Randall Atkinson) (12/03/89)
It would be nice if the moderator of the sun-nets list would drop a note past Erik Fair, Keeper of the Inet Distribution, and ask that comp.sys.sun.nets be created as a "moderated" newsgroup that would really be a transport for the sun-nets list. It wouldn't take any more time to moderate (since it would just be another receiving address on the list) and it would make things a lot easier for Sun users on the USENET side. The same notion can be equally applied to the 386i mailing list and a comp.sys.sun.i386 group (newsgroup names can't begin with a number for technical reasons). [[Ed's Note: I don't think that sun-nets is moderated and I'm not sure how ugly it would be to have two unmoderated lists feeding each other (the word 'chaos' springs to mind :). Also, I think the moderator of the Sun-386i list hasn't created a comp.sys.sun.i386 because of the existance of comp.sys.i386 (or something similar) -bdg]]
cathyf@lost.rice.edu (Catherine A. Foulston) (12/10/89)
I noticed when I saw your earlier posting you still have rice listed for sun-386i and sun-managers. They have new addresses as well (though rice still works.) They are: sun-managers@eecs.nwu.edu sun-386i@mgh-coffee.harvard.edu the -request suffixes are valid too, of course, like normal.