jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (03/21/91)
Archive-name: news/faq/mit-faq-collection/1991-03-20
Archive-directory: pit-manager.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/ [18.72.1.58]
Original-posting-by: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Original-subject: archive site for periodic informational postings
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)
After seeing a rash of requests recently for the informational postings in
various newsgroups, and after being deluged with requests to mail copies of
various such postings to people after offering to do so, I have decided to set
up an archive of the various informational postings in various Usenet
newsgroups.
I will not be putting a lot of effort into keeping the archive up-to-date in
all newsgroups. However, I will keep it up-to-date in the newsgroups I read,
and I am also willing to install new copies that are forwarded to me by the
people who maintain them (Note: I would prefer being sent copies of actual
usenet postings, with full, intact headers, because it helps me to keep track
of how up-to-date what I have in the archive is, and because it makes the
shell script I have to install them work better. :-).
The archive is on the machine pit-manager.mit.edu (18.72.1.58). It is
accessible via anonymous ftp in the directory /pub/usenet. Each subdirectory
of that directory is a newsgroup name, and the files in the subdirectories are
the informational postings, with filenames corresponding to their titles in an
obvious way. For example, one file in the archive is
/pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers/Answers_to_Frequently_Asked_Questions
The archive is also accessible via mail archive server. The address of the
server is mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu. The names are the same, with the
"/pub/" chopped off. To retrieve the file mentioned above, you would send
mail to the mail-server with a subject or body of
send usenet/news.announce.newusers/Answers_to_Frequently_Asked_Questions
You can also do "send help", "send index", "send usenet/index", "send
usenet/news.announce.newusers/index", etc.
Comments, questions, suggestions, etc. can be sent to me at the address
below, or at {root,jik,postmaster,daemon}@pit-manager.mit.edu. Feel free to
mention this service in any informational postings you may maintain; I hope to
keep it up and running for a while.
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