datta@vacs.uwp.wisc.edu (David Datta) (11/20/89)
I have been deluged with a bunch of new groups that start with bit.listserv.*. Are these the mailing lists available via various ListServers? I have subscribed to a few and have not gotten any articles (in the last week), are they active? If they are new groups, are there any lists of what the topic are? -- -Dave datta@vacs.uwp.wisc.edu
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (11/21/89)
In article <1117@uwm.edu> datta@vacs.uwp.wisc.edu (David Datta) writes: >I have been deluged with a bunch of new groups that start with >bit.listserv.*. Someone is being a bad neighbor. > Are these the mailing lists available via various >ListServers? Yes, they are for netnews distributions of BITNET LISTSERV lists. > I have subscribed to a few and have not gotten any >articles (in the last week), are they active? Like I said, someone was being a bad neighbor; you shouldn't have seen newgroups for these. Probably some bozo running unfixed C News. Like any alternative hierarchy, you need a feed and the appropriate entries in your sys file. Like inet, you don't want to consider bit unless you have a Telebit or NNTP. bit is also considerably harder to find, that's why most people haven't heard of it. >If they are new groups, are there any lists of what the topic are? They're not "new"--they're just the same old BITNET lists described in Internet's INTEREST-GROUPS.TXT and BITNET's LISTSERV GROUPS files (also the NEW-LIST list). (I can't be any more specific at the moment; BITNET sites are slow to yield any sort of information, and the FTPable stuff on JADE.BERKELEY.EDU and SH.CS.NET is way out of date). -=EPS=-