From: tli@caldera.usc.edu (Tony Li)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria,sci.aquaria
Subject: FAQ: README and administrivia
Date: 1 Jan 1993 01:05:03 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Expires: 31 Jan 1993 09:05:01 GMT
Reply-To: tli@cisco.com,patti@hosehead.hf.intel.com
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    Introduction to FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for *.aquaria 

The monthly posting to rec.aquaria and alt.aquaria will consist of this 
introduction followed by the FAQ in four additional postings.

The FAQ (and any other useful information that is submitted) will be 
available through anonymous FTP on jerico.usc.edu (128.125.51.6), 
located in Los Angeles, California.  Login through ftp with 'anonymous' as
your username.  The FAQ files are located in the directory pub/aquaria, and 
they currently consist of the following:

File name     | Topics                        |  Last update | Size
--------------+-------------------------------+--------------+------
FAQ.README    | Introduction & update notes   | Oct. 24 1992 | 3487
FAQ.beginner  | Beginner stuff and books      | Oct. 10 1992 | 44599
FAQ.filters   | Filters, Air pumps, misc eqip | Oct. 24 1992 | 27336
FAQ.mail      | Mail order and Magazines      | Oct. 10 1992 | 10998
FAQ.plants    | Plants 			      | Oct. 24 1992 | 11165
FAQ.water     | Water quality and disease     | Aug. 21 1992 | 11109

Correspondence regarding the FAQ should be directed to Tony Li
(tli@cisco.com) AND Patti Beadles (patti@hosehead.hf.intel.com).

Rev 1.9   10/24/92

Added contributions on chiller sizing, fixed minor bug in plants. added
mail order info on live rock.

Rev 1.8   10/10/92

Added contributions on live food, mail order pond places.  Added missing
disclaimer to FAQ.plants.

Rev 1.7   8/21/92

Added plants

Rev 1.6   7/7/92

Removed a contributor per their request.

Rev 1.5   7/3/92

Added contribution from Dave Beverstock on power filters.

Rev 1.4   6/1/92

Added a recommendation to test air pumps under load.

Rev 1.3   2/11/91

Added Oleg's recommendations on books.  Updated phone numbers for mail
order houses.

Rev 1.2   10/4/91

A few other minor administrative changes.

Rev 1.1	  6/19/91

Minor administrative changes, ran it through a spelling checker.

Collected the contributors names and addresses into a "phone book" at the
end of this file.  This will make it easier to change addresses when people
move around, as the address is only listed in one place.

Rev 1.0   3/23/91

UPDATE NOTES:  What's changed in the FAQ:
-------------
I thought I would just write this when I enter new stuff into the
four part FAQ.  The newest set of the FAQ (dated 3/23/91) contains:

-    stuff about moving aquaria,
-    yet another modification of the protein skimmer description
     (will we ever get this right :-)
-    a brief (very very brief) description of the history behind
     *.aquaria
-    useful data on weight/volume of water
-    brief description of air pumps
-    miscellaneous stuff.

You may notice that I've begun to include names (and addresses) of
other authors.  I did not include this practice when we were just
booting up because it would have been too confusing, and there were
quite a lot of contributors.

If you would like to be included in a list of contributors (and be
famous through posterity), please re-email me.  (Unfortunately, to
conserve disk space and preserve sanity, I purged old inputs).

Thanks to y'all.

Tim Yiu


Contributors:
Dave Beverstock			bever@erim.org
Ron Burns 			ron@minnow.sp.unisys.com
Diane DeMers			demers@MDCBBS.COM
Georg Jander 			gjander@warren.med.harvard.edu
Oleg Kiselev			oleg@veritas.com
Timothy Shimeall		shimeall@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil
Spass Stoiantschewsky		spass@midas.wr.tek.com
Tim Yiu				tyiu@mipos3.intel.com
???				jj@alice.att.com
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