system: You are Cheryl Singhal, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Al Freas about "News Groups".

They wrote:
AF> EC>you can subscribe to and get the posts.  I don't have the list of the
AF> EC>groups and the corresponding mailing lists but maybe Cheryl or Richard
AF> EC>help out as I've seen them both post in the some of the groups.
AF> CS> With luck, Richard will have that info.  I use the ng, not the -l
AF> CS> options, so I never remember what the addresses are.  Sorry, wish I
AF> CS> could help.
AF> CS> Cheryl
AF>Cheryl, and ALL:
AF>Following is the list as of 8/15/97 together with Email subscription
AF>info. Note the ROOTS-L mailing list which does *not* have a
AF>corresponding news group:
AF>Al...
AF>*******************************************************
AF>X-Message: #1
AF>Date: 27 Sep 1997 06:36:29 GMT
AF>From: olson@shout.net (Margaret Olson)
AF>To: GENMSC-L@rootsweb.com, GENCMP-L@rootsweb.com
AF>Message-ID: <60i9hd$gce$1@roundup.shout.net>
AF>Subject: Newsgroups and their associated mailing lists
AF>Subject: Newsgroups and their associated mailing lists
AF>Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.misc,alt.genealogy,soc.genealogy.computing
AF>There are 25 soc.genealogy newsgroups - and most of them have mailing
AF>list counterparts.  You have the choice of reading a mailing list (like
AF>GENCMP-L) or a newsgroup (soc.genealogy.computing).  Messages to/from
AF>either show up in both.
AF>You can keep up with changes to the addresses of mailing lists by
AF>visiting
AF>  http://users.aol.com/johnf14246/gen_mail.html
AF>and for newsgroups by visiting
AF>  http://users.aol.com/johnf14246/gen_use.html
AF>Here are main groups - with the changes made by the move to RootsWeb.
AF>soc.genealogy groups:          with mailing list gateways to:
AF>soc.genealogy.african               (none)
AF>soc.genealogy.australia+nz      **  GENANZ-L@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.benelux           ==  GENBNL-L@ufsia.ac.be
AF>soc.genealogy.britain           **  GENBRIT-L@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.computing         **  GENCMP-L@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.french            **  GEN-FR-L@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.german            **  GEN-DE-L@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.hispanic              (none)
AF>soc.genealogy.ireland           **  GENIRE-L@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.italian               (none)
AF>soc.genealogy.jewish            ^^  JEWISHGEN@apple.ease.lsoft.com
AF>soc.genealogy.marketplace       **  GEN-MARKET@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.medieval          **  GEN-MEDIEVAL@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.methods           **  GENMTD-L@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.misc              **  GENMSC-L@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.nordic            **  GEN-NORDIC-L@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.slavic            **  GEN-SLAVIC@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.surnames.britain  **  SURNAMES-BRITAIN@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.surnames.canada   **  SURNAMES-CANADA@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.surnames.german   **  SURNAMES-GERMAN@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.surnames.ireland  **  SURNAMES-IRELAND@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.surnames.misc     **  SURNAMES-MISC@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.surnames.usa      **  SURNAMES-USA@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.surnames.global   **  SURNAMES@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>soc.genealogy.west-indies           (none)
AF>plus newsgroups (there are others from other countries, also):
AF>alt.genealogy                   **  ALT-GENEALOGY-L@rootsweb.com
AF>fr.rec.genealogie               **  GEN-FF-L@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>plus mailing list:
AF>(no newsgroup)                  **  ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com
AF>(no newsgroup)                  **  GEN-OBIT@apple.rootsweb.com
AF>^^ Subscribe by sending email To: LISTSERV@apple.ease.lsoft.com
AF>== Subscribe by sending email To: majordomo@ufsia.ac.be
AF>** Subscribe by sending email To: <groupname>-request@rootsweb.com
AF>            where <groupname> is genanz-l or roots-l or genmtd-l etc.
AF>Subscription messages say:
AF>SUBSCRIBE
AF>or
AF>SUBSCRIBE <your firstname> <your lastname>     (for LISTSERV)
AF>Margaret Olson
AF>olson@shout.net  or  mjolson@prairienet.org
AF>last revised 8/15/97

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