dan@gacvx2.gac.edu (11/13/90)
Greetings,
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The HANDHELDS mailing list used to be run out of SRI.EDU, and was gated to
COMP.SYS.HANDHELDS. The list manager at SRI deceided to discontinue the mailing
list, and asked for volunteers to take it over. When Tom Huber (HUBER@GAC.EDU)
and I took over the list we discovered that we would have to rebuld the gateway
between the mailing and USENET. This has taken a few weeks, and now it is
finished. During the period between the time we took over the list and we got
the gateway running again, there was a one way gateway between the mailing list
and the newsgroup, but it did not work the other way.
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rules when sending messages to the list. I have appended some guidelines to
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--
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--------------------------- USENET GUIDE LINES ---------------------------
This article is excerpted from The University of Chicago Computation
Center Newsletter, Fall, 1986, Vol XXII, No. 3, edited by Yvonne Behn,
written by Melinda Shore.
News is one of the more popular systems on our UNIX machine....Here are
some guidelines, provided by the Usenet community, to keep in mind when
posting:
Deciding to post
Do not repeat postings
Do not post anything when upset, angry, or intoxicated
Be sure your posting is appropriate to Usenet
Do not post other people's work without permission
Don't forget that opinions are those of the poster and not his/her
company
Reply to postings via mail as often as possible
Do not post personal attacks
Where to post
Keep the distribution as limited as possible
Do not post the same article twice to different groups
Do not post to mod., or net.announce newsgroups
Do not post to net.general
Ask someone, if you can't figure out where to post your article
Watch out for newsgroups which have special rules about posting
Writing the article
Write for your audience
Be clear and concise
Compose your "Subject:" line carefully
Proofread your article
Be extra careful with announcements of products or services
Mark postings which spoil surprises
Rotate offensive postings
The shorter your signature, the better
If you must use sarcasm, mark it with a smiley (':-)') or another
device
Please, please, please do not use BITNET, USENET, or the Internet for
advertising your product. This includes shareware authors.
These guidelines were taken from "How to Use USENET Effectively," by
Matt Bishop, NASA Ames Research Center. Don't let this list intimidate
you. The net is a valuable and entertaining resource, and was meant to
be used.