eah@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew happily using ksh) (06/29/91)
Oringinally_Posted: Fri May 10 00:18:50 1991 Evolution of SCO newsgroups and Mailing Lists --------------------------------------------- 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 --------- ------------------------- 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.]