From: pnwp-0@onion.rain.com (AFS Administrator)
Newsgroups: pnw.personals
Subject: PNW personals Frequently Asked Questions
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:45:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: onion.1992Dec15.144527.25562
Reply-To: pnwp-0@onion.rain.com  (AFS Administrator)
Distribution: pnw
Organization: Anonymous Forwarding Service
X-Posting-Software: afs 1.2


Frequently Asked PNWP Questions (With Answers...)

Last update: November 26, 1992

Here are some answers to these common questions...

1) How do I get an alias?
   Mail to pnwp-ping@onion.rain.com

2) I don't need an alias. I just replied to someones message.
   You received an alias so that the other person can reply to you
   and maintain *their* anonyminity.  Besides, it's free :-)

3) How come my message got cut off?
   The software strips anything beyond a line that starts with "--"
   because it looks like a signature.  Enough sites/users don't
   know that it's suppose to be "-- " (space), sigh.

4) Can you delete/change my address?
   I could, but since nobody else can use it, I'd rather not.
   If you really MUST have the alias deleted, I can just forward the
   mail to /dev/null here.  Send mail to pnwp-admin@onion.rain.com

5) Why do I have 'n' aliases?
   A couple of reasons are that you may have posted from different machines
   in or out of your domain, or the more common, your mail took a different
   path to get here, due to re-routing by hosts in between us.

6) My pings come back, but I haven't seen my message...
    News takes a much more roundabout path than mail, and hence, takes
    significantly longer to get to some sites. News can take 2 weeks
    to reach the most outlying leaf nodes.

7) Can I post something without the 30 line limit cutting me?
    There is not 30 line limit.  I might impose one someday, but I see
    no reason at this time to do that.  If you want to get technical,
    there is a 9999 line limit.

8) How do I use this service?
    Read the signature of any anonymous message, or see the companion
    posting on how to use the pnwp AFS.  You can also send mail to
    pnwp-help@onion.rain.com to receive an alias, plus these instructions.

9) How do I follow up anonymously?
    Save the article to a file. Invoke your mailer, address the followup
    to pnwp-personals@onion.rain.com, and read in the file you saved.
    Edit to your heart's content.  Send it.

10) I can't find onion.rain.com.
    pnwp-*@onion.rain.com should work.
    uunet!onion.rain.com!pnwp-* is an alternate.

11) Can I post something to a newsgroup other than pnw.personals here?
    No.  There are provisions only to post to pnw.personals, and send email.

12) I would like to post a test message.
    The net and I would rather you didn't. Again, if you sit back and
    read, you'll see that it does in fact work rather well.

13) How can I cancel an article I just posted
    You can't.  Within minutes of receipt of your article by onion,
    the article has already been posted to many machines around the
    Pacific NorthWest.  Your best bet is to think before you post.

14) I sent mail to pnwp-personals (or pnwp-ping or pnwp-###) but didn't see
    my article.  What's wrong?

    I have absolutely no idea.  You MUST send me any/all error messages
    you got as well as letting me know exactly how you submitted the
    article and what the Subject: of your article is.  If I don't get at
    least this much information, your request for help will be silently
    ignored (I don't have time to ask people for it).

    You should also ask your local news administrator if you're having any
    problems with news locally.  Other sites may have received your article
    even if you didn't.

16)  How to I use the pnwp forwarding service?
    See the companion posting on how to use the Anonymous Forwarding Service,
    or send mail to pnwp-help@onion.rain.com

17)  How to I assign a nickname?
    To get a nickname, send mail to "pnwp-nickname@onion.rain.com".
    On the Subject line of the message, include your desired nickname.
    Nicknames may contain the characters:  a-zA-Z!@#$%^&*-_+=,./?;:, spaces
    and tabs.


If you have any other questions regarding the operation of the Anonymous
Forwarding Service, you can send mail to pnwp-help@onion.rain.com.  If you
feel the need for human contact, I can be reached at pnwp-admin@onion.rain.com.

	-Jeff


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