[news.newusers.questions] What are bit.listserv.* groups for?

tommyk@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Tommy Kelly) (02/23/90)

What are bit.listserv groups for?  They seem to duplicate other groups?

Also, I've used /pattern/ to search for my username in headers, and I find
that when I check the articles that are found, they have nothing to do
with me, and my username is mowhere to be found?  What am I doing wrong?

eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (02/24/90)

In article <4624@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> tommyk@cs.glasgow.ac.uk
	(Tommy Kelly) writes:
>What are bit.listserv groups for?  They seem to duplicate other groups?

LISTSERV is how BITNET sites handle large mailing lists.
bit.listserv is a translation into usenet semantics to take
advantage of netnews' propagation efficiency and storage economy.
I don't expect non-NNTP sites to carry bit.listserv, it's huge.

					-=EPS=-