cdr@acc.stolaf.edu (Craig D. Rice, St. Olaf College) (03/13/91)
Greetings -- some of you might be familiar with the sun-managers mailing list; it has been very useful in tracking down quick answers to tough questions regarding management of Sun workstations. This is an announcement for a new list along the same lines for "next-managers"... If you are interested in subscribing to this new list, please read the following policy statement carefully. It is very similiar to the Sun-Managers policy. Craig -- Craig D. Rice UNIX Systems Specialist/Network Analyst cdr@acc.stolaf.edu Academic Computing Center, St. Olaf College +1 507 663-3631 1520 St. Olaf Avenue +1 507 663-3549 FAX Northfield, MN 55057-1098 USA ----- CUT HERE ----- This message is a summary of the next-managers charter and rules. Failure to adhere to these guidelines may result in severe chastisement by the list maintainer and other list participants or your being removed from the next-managers mailing list. 1: This list is NOT moderated! Every message that is sent to the list "next-managers@stolaf.edu" will be passed on to every member of the list. 2: Requests to have addresses added or removed from the list should NOT be sent to the entire list. Instead, they should be mailed to: next-managers-request@stolaf.edu 3: This list is intended to be a quick-turnaround trouble shooting aid for those who administer and manage NeXT systems. Its primary purpose is to provide the NeXT manager with a quick source of information for system management problems that are of a time-critical nature. 4: Answers to questions are to be mailed back to the questioner and are NOT to be sent to the entire list. The person who originally asked the question has the responsibility of summarizing the answers and sending the entire summary back to the list. If everyone follows this, one problem will only generate two or possibly three messages on the list. 5: Corrections to compiled answers should be addressed only to the person who first asked the question; this person (the writer of the original question) is then responsible for distributing the corrected information to the list. 6: Discussions on ANY topic are very strongly discouraged. 7: If it is not specifically related to NeXT system management, then it does NOT belong on this list. 8: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE...Think before you send a message! Ask yourself is this really appropriate? have you looked in the reference manuals? have you checked NextAnswers? have you checked the Digital Librarian? have you looked in the online man pages? before mailing to the next-managers list. There are enough other newsgroups, mailing lists and other resources around to cover the marginal topics. 9: Do NOT send message from "root" or from "me"; send them from your own personal account.