From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ultrasound
Date: 16 Nov 1992 17:53:25 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca

In article <101982@bu.edu> edwong@bu.edu (Edward Wong) writes:
>Has anyone received their gravis ultrasound card?

Join the Ultrasound mailing list. There are plenty of people who are
proud Ultrasound owners in there, from Canada to Australia. And by
joining the list, you have all sorts of knowledgeable people answering
your question including Gravis themselves. There is a mailserver and a
ftp site which contains our archive of files with everything from info
text files/announcements to software, demos....etc. And fixes/patches
will also be available there as Gravis release them. Here is the info...

Thomas.
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	Greetings!

	There's been a lot of talk lately about the Gravis Ultrasound,
as well as the mailing list for it.  I thought I'd put in my two cents
worth on the topic, as I happen to know a little about the mailing
list... I'm the administrator.  :)

	First and foremost, as of about 6 hours ago, the mailing list
stopped being a mailing list and became a digest.  This is a
compilation of messages that is mailed out once a day, 2am MST.  I
know there are some people out there who won't like this, but I really
had no choice.  Readership just reached 300, and the problems of
maintaing a reflector kept getting worse and worse.  There were also
complaints about the volume of messages that were going out, so
putting them all into one message may help these problems.  I can
always alter the frequency of a digest being sent out depending on the
volume of mail we get with this new format.

	Also new is that Advanced Gravis Corp. is one of the
subscribers to the digest.  That means any problems that are found and
posted to the digest will be in the hands of the engineers at Gravis
very quickly.

	The digest is complemented by a mail request server.
Currently, there's not a lot on the server.  However, a FAQ is being
made up to go there.  Also, as soon as I get a little time, I'll put
up several different reviews of the card, a hardware description as
grokked by one of the digest readers, the Big List O' Games and how
they interact with the Ultrasound as soon as it is released, and
anything else I can find.

	We're also negotiating to get some space on an FTP site so you
don't have to use the mail server.  Also on the FTP site will be
programs and data submitted by users.  Gravis has also planned to open
a BBS, and one of the members of the digest has volunteered to
download anything they put up there, and copy it over to our FTP site.

	If you're even just THINKING about getting an Ultrasound, I'd
suggest joining the digest.  You can ask questions if you've got
trouble, you can get the latest info on the card and daughterboards,
find the best in PD software for it, etc., etc.

	To join, mail to the request server.  It will help you get
signed up.  This is also the address for accessing the mailserver.
Just send mail to:

	ultrasound-request@dsd.es.com

	To post a message onto the digest, mail to:

	ultrasound@dsd.es.com

	If you have trouble with the server, feel free to mail to:

	ultrasound-owner@dsd.es.com

	This will put you in touch with a real human.  If you can't
mail to that, just mail me directly and we'll figure something out.
The server isn't perfect, though, and I'd  really appreciate it if
you'd let me know what goes wrong with it if you try to use it and it
croaks. 

	Thanks for your time!

Note:

The FTP site is now available, epas.utoronto.ca.
Look for the directory pub/pc/ultrasound.

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