From: 095446@adpdp2.lanl.gov (095446)
Subject: Re: biz.sco.* newsgroups/mlists FAQ (periodic posting)
Summary: how to subscribe (and why)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: biz, sco, newsgroups, mailing lists
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, EMVAX
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:17:00 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.023510.24882@xenitec.on.ca>, eah@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) writes...
> 
>              Evolution of SCO newsgroups and Mailing Lists
>              ---------------------------------------------
>   
>   Many readers enjoyed the opportunity to obtain and contribute useful
>   information on SCO Open Desktop since 1990 through the ancestral USENET
>   newsgroup sco.opendesktop or it's companion mailing list.  Similarly,
>   there was a demonstrated need for an information and discussion forum
>   for SCO products in general.
>   
>   With the increasing demand for accessibility and for additional SCO
>   newsgroups, many current contributors including those who have been
>   active in circulating SCO related newsgroups and mailing lists 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 procedure within "biz".  Given the content,
>   this change relocated the "opendesktop" newsgroup to a more proper place
>   within the established usenet news hierarchy and adds the new "announce"
>   and "general" groups.  On Aug 1, 1991, the former "sco-list@uunet.uu.net"
>   became "scogen" in keeping with established biz.sco.* naming conventions.
> 
>   biz.sco.binaries and biz.sco.sources were newgrouped on June 1, 1992
>   to respectively accommodate SCO Xenix, UNIX and OpenDesktop specific
>   binaries and source code.  The binaries and sources news groups are
>   moderated, with moderator and submissions information and policy
>   outlined in the periodic imformational postings in those newsgroups.
>   Respecting USENET etiquite, these newsgroups are _not_ gated to
>   mailing lists, but are archived on several nuucp and ftp hosts.
> 
>   biz.sco.magazine was newgrouped Dec 14, 1992, to provide a discussion
>   area for the readers, writers and publishers of SCO Magazine.
>   
>   Subject to the USENET NEWS 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              scogen-request@xenitec.on.ca
>        biz.sco.announce             scoann-request@xenitec.on.ca
>	biz.sco.sources			<none>
>	biz.sco.binaries		<none>
>	biz.sco.magazine	     scomag-request@xenitec.on.ca
> 
>   You are _strongly_ encouraged to obtain these newsgroups via USENET
>   NEWS mechanisms vrs mail.  Anyone having difficulty arranging a news
>   feed for these newsgroups is welcome to email the undersigned and
>   I'll do my best to help.  We also offer all required software in
>   source code form via anonymous FTP and UUCP, as do many archive sites.
>   If, after having explored all options, you are still unable to receive
>   biz.sco.* as news, you may subscribe to the mailing lists.
>   
>   The 4 discussion newsgroups are bi-directionally gated to companion
>   mailing lists, so anyone not having access to NEWS but who does have a
>   UUCP or Internet 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.  Deletions are handled
>   the same way, simply substitute "Delete:" for "Add:", ensuring that
>   you use the exact same address you subscribed with.  Mailing list
>   subscribers receive "how to post to the mlist" article submission
>   information when their request is processed.  If you don't receive
>   an acknowledgement within a few days, check your routing and try a test
>   message via xenitec.on.ca back to your host.  In such cases, it's likely
>   that someone, somewhere, is bouncing mail replies to you (and would do
>   the same with mailing list traffic), and you'll want to resolve your
>   connectivity problem before trying to subscribe again.  Mailing list
>   subscriptions are free, subject to whatever arrangements you may have
>   with the site(s) feeding you.
>   
>   Should you receive no response or experience a sudden and prolonged
>   drop to zero volume on one of the mailing lists, this indicates that we
>   are no longer able to find a working route to your site.  We loose a
>   handful of subscribers this way each month.  If this happens to you,
>   please email us your known working bang-path relative to a major site.
> 
>   What's in the newsgroups (and mailing_lists where applicable):
>   
>   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 and SCO Developer 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).
> 
>   biz.sco.sources:	SysV or BSD source code for useful programs and
>			utilities, modified to compile and run with various
>			incarnations of SCO Xenix, UNIX, and/or OpenDesktop.
> 
>   biz.sco.binaries:	Binary packages compiled from SCO compatible source
>			code, often from source posted in biz.sco.sources
>			and often installable using the SCO "custom" utility.
> 
>   biz.sco.magazine:	Interaction between the SCO Magazine readers, 
>			writers and publishers.
> 
>   You should always endeavour to post your article to the most applicable
>   newsgroup.  For example, posting your ODT question to the "general"
>   newsgroup will preclude your question and answers to it from being
>   saved in the public ODT archives.  Appropriate crossposting is allowed.
> 
>   The undersigned is solely responsible for administration of the biz.sco
>   namespace.  Suggestions for additional biz.sco.* newsgroups and/or
>   mailing lists should be emailed to the address below.
>--
>  Ed. A. Hew,    <edhew@xenitec.on.ca>    ....!uunet.ca!xenitec!eah
>  XeniTec Consulting Services, Kitchener ON, Canada +1 519 570 9848
>          [biz.sco.* newsgroups and mailing lists godfather]