From: alg@cs.cornell.edu (Anne Louise Gockel)
Subject: FAQs for textile-related subjects
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:09:45 GMT


The FAQs are posted at approximately 6 week intervals.  The following is a
canned note that explains how to get the FAQs in between the (semi-)regular
postings.  Should I post this canned note at more frequent intervals?

						-alg
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There are three FAQs related to the textiles groups.  Each FAQ is a list of
Frequently Asked Questions and answers.  The textile FAQs include:

1) General textile and sewing question and answers, including:
    Where can I discuss xyzzy (weaving, spinning, flower arrangements, 
       dyeing etc)? 
    Where can I get material for outdoor gear or windsocks? 
    What's the best brand of sewing machine or serger? 
    Are there any archives for rec.crafts.textiles or alt.sewing? 
    Are there any archives for cross stitch information? 
    What are the addresses of various places?   
    What are the best periodicals and sources for Heirloom Sewing (also known
	as French Hand Sewing) projects? 
    Would anyone like to exchange quilt blocks?
    Are there any sewing shows that travel the U.S. and are worth going to see?
    Can anyone help me fix it or restore my Great Grandmother's sewing machine?
This FAQ has a subject line of:
    Subject:  Textiles FAQ
and is currently available in the archives under:
    Archive-name: crafts-textiles
    Last-modified: 14 Dec 1992


2) Questions and answers related to Historical Costuming.  This FAQ has a
subject line of:
    Subject: Historical Costuming FAQ
and is currently available in the archives under:
    Archive-name: crafts-historical-costuming
    Last-modified: 14 Dec 1992


3) A list of books about sewing and pattern making.  This FAQ is posted in
two parts.  This FAQ has subject lines of:
    Subject: Textile Related Books FAQ: Part 1 of 2
    Subject: Textile Related Books FAQ: Part 2 of 2
and is currently available in the archives under:
    Archive-name: crafts-textiles-books/part1
    Last-modified: 14 Dec 1992
    Archive-name: crafts-textiles-books/part2
    Last-modified: 14 Dec 1992


            HOW TO GET FAQ LISTS (THREE AND A HALF METHODS)

When looking for an FAQ list, first do the obvious and check the relevant
newsgroup for articles with "FAQ" in the subject line.  If you don't know how
to check articles marked as read, your sysadmin can tell you.

Next, try the group news.answers.  FAQ lists for many groups are cross- posted
there.  Subject lines usually contain the names of the base newsgroups.  For
instance, all the misc.consumers FAQ lists will have "misc.consumers" in their
subject lines.  Again, your sysadmin can tell you the commands to use in
searching.

The articles in news.answers are posted in such a way that each version should
stay around at each site until the new version is posted.  But some sites are
configured so that this does not occur.  If FAQ lists that you're looking for
have expired in news.answers at your site, you can get copies of them by FTP
or email.

Jonathan Kamens of MIT's Project Athena has kindly set up an archive of
periodic postings.  By way of example, I give specific instructions below for
getting the textile related FAQs plus some general material on getting the
most out of Usenet.

(For general instructions on the server, send email containing the commands
"help" and "send index" (no quotes, separate lines) to
	mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu  
For a list of all periodic postings that are archives in news.answers, email
the command "send usenet/news.answers/index" to the server.)

via anonymous FTP
=================

Periodic postings including FAQs are archived at "pit-manager.mit.edu"
(18.72.1.58), in the directory "/pub/usenet".  Multi-part FAQs, such as the
FAQ for textile books, are stored in separate directories such that
subdirectory is a archive name, and the files in the subdirectories are the
periodic postings.  FAQs that are a single posting, such as the sewing and
historical costuming FAQs, are in a file that is the archive-name

    /pub/usenet/news.answers/crafts-textiles
    /pub/usenet/news.answers/crafts-historical-costuming
    /pub/usenet/news.answers/crafts-textiles-books/part1
    /pub/usenet/news.answers/crafts-textiles-books/part2

via email server
================
The address of the server is mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu.  To
retrieve files, send email to the server with a blank subject and one or
more of these lines in the body:

    send usenet/news.answers/crafts-textiles
    send usenet/news.answers/crafts-historical-costuming
    send usenet/news.answers/crafts-textiles-books/part1
    send usenet/news.answers/crafts-textiles-books/part2


when other methods fail
=======================
I currently maintain the textiles FAQs and I can send you a copy of the
current FAQ (which may be slightly updated from the archived copies).  Try the
following addresses:
	Internet: 	alg@cs.cornell.edu		Preferred Address
	UUCP: 		cornell!alg
	Bitnet: 	ANNE@CRNLVAX5 or AG4@CORNELLC	Last Resort Please

(thanks to "brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown)" for writing this intro!)

					-Anne Louise Gockel
					Cornell Computer Science

Internet: alg@cs.cornell.edu		UUCP: cornell!alg