kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth) (01/03/84)
This article originates from the usenet and was posted to the usenet news
group net.micro. If you are on the ARPA net you are reading this article
due to the fact that it was forwarded to the ARPA group INFO-MICRO. All
net.micro articles are posted to INFO-MICRO (by some mysterious force) and
all INFO-MICRO articles are forwarded to net.micro (by some equally
mysterious force).
On the usenet, net.micro is broken up into several subgroups, net.micro.cpm,
net.micro.pc, net.micro.cbm, net.micro.68000, net.micro.6809 etc. All of
these groups reach INFO-MICRO. If you read INFO-MICRO you get all the
usenet stuff. I think the reverse is also true; INFO-PC, INFO-CPM and
other micro-related groups are forwarded to the usenet.
If you read an article on the ARPA net, you can send mail to the usenet
originator of the article. Unfortunately, the reverse is not true. It is
almost impossible to get mail from the usenet to the ARPA net because the
DoD has decided that ARPA access must be controlled. So don't count on a
reply to your letter to the usenet.
I hope this explains a few things that were not clear.
--
Kurt Guntheroth
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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