eah@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew happily using ksh) (06/29/91)
Originally_Posted: Fri May 10 00:18:50 1991
Evolution of SCO newsgroups and Mailing Lists
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Many readers have had the opportunity to obtain and contribute
useful information on SCOs Open Desktop over the past year through
the USENET newsgroup sco.opendesktop or it's companion mailing list.
With the increasing demand for accessibility to this newsgroup and
a need for additional SCO newsgroups, many current contributors
including those who have been active in circulating SCO related
newsgroups and mailing lists have felt that the readership would
be best served by creating a biz.sco.* hierarchy to improve
propagation (and hence availability) worldwide.
biz.sco.{opendesktop,general,announce} were newgrouped May 1, 1991
in accordance with accepted proceedure within "biz". Given the
content, this change relocates the "opendesktop" newsgroup to a
more proper place within the established usenet news hierarchy
and adds the new "announce" and "general" groups.
Subject to the USENET hierarchies carried by your upstream feed,
you are now able to subscribe to the following:
Newsgroup mailing list subscription
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biz.sco.opendesktop scoodt-request@xenitec.on.ca
biz.sco.general sco-list-request@uunet.uu.net
biz.sco.announce scoann-request@xenitec.on.ca
All 3 newsgroups are bi-directionally gated to companion mailing
lists, so anyone not having access to NEWS but who does have a
USENET mail feed can still participate fully using email.
Mailing list subscribers should send their request to the
appropriate "mailing list subscription" address above,
including in the message body:
Add: subscriber_address -eg-
Add: your_logname@site.do.main -or-
Add: up!stream!yoursite!your_logname
Inclusion of an alternative working bang-path relative to a well
know major functional site might prove beneficial. Mailing list
subscribers generally receive "how to post to the mlist" article
submission information when their request is processed.
[note that mlist subscriptions are free, subject to whatever
arrangements you may have with the site(s) feeding you].
What's in the newsgroups/mailing_lists:
biz.sco.opendesktop: Technical questions and answers and informative
postings relating to past, present, and future
implementations of the SCO OpenDeskTop operating
environment and it's various bundled components.
biz.sco.general: Questions, answers and comments on SCO products
in general, and of course resulting discussions.
biz.sco.announce: SCO product announcements of interest to current
and future users of SCO products, and to SCO
developers, resellers and distributors.
(moderated, followups directed to biz.sco.general).
--
Ed. A. Hew, <edhew@xenitec.on.ca> ..!{watmath|lsuc}!xenitec!eah
XeniTec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON, Canada (519) 570-9848
[biz.sco.{opendesktop,general,announce} newsgroup/mlists person.]