From mech@io.com Wed Jun 22 14:56:03 1994 Received: from illuminati.io.com (illuminati.io.com [198.4.60.10]) by eff.org (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA08545 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 1994 14:56:02 -0400 Received: from localhost by illuminati.io.com (8.6.5/PERFORMIX-0.9/08-16-92) id NAA27344; Wed, 22 Jun 1994 13:55:12 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 13:55:12 -0500 From: mech@io.com (Stanton McCandlish) Message-Id: <199406221855.NAA27344@illuminati.io.com> To: mech@io.com Status: RO Path: illuminati.io.com!uunet!deshaw.com!do-not-use-path-to-reply Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 08:00:21 GMT Supersedes: Expires: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 08:00:20 GMT Message-ID: Approved: netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes) From: netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes) Subject: Introduction to news.announce Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.answers Followup-To: news.newusers.questions Lines: 104 Xref: illuminati.io.com news.announce.newusers:1401 news.answers:23058 Archive-name: news-announce-intro/part1 Original-author: mark@stargate.com (Mark Horton) Comment: enhanced & edited until 5/93 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) Last-change: 31 May 1994 by netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes) The news.announce hierarchy contains the seven moderated newsgroups news.announce.important, news.announce.newgroups, news.admin.technical, news.announce.newusers, news.answers, news.lists and news.announce.conferences. "news.announce.important" is a newsgroup for just what it says it is -- important announcements. It is intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to subscribe. To post to news.announce.important, send mail to the moderator at "announce@stargate.com". Some netnews implementations will automatically mail to the moderator anything posted instead of attempting to post it directly. If the message is appropriate, it will be posted by the moderator; if not, the moderator will suggest a more appropriate place to post it or a better way to go about the same goal. Discussions in news.announce.important are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point of reading news.announce.important. The current policy is that news.announce.important submissions must be: (a) short - preferably they should fit on one crt screen, including headers. (b) important enough to at least have their header shown to everyone on the net. The posting should be more of benefit to the net than to the poster. (c) not posted to any other newsgroup - news.announce.important by itself is supposed to be sufficient to reach everybody, and nobody should have to read an announcement more than once. (d) signed - the author should be clearly evident. (e) not commercial, political, or religious in nature. news.announce.newgroups exists for announcements of either the creation or the consideration of a new newsgroup. All calls for votes, calls for discussions, vote results, and creation notices of all hierarchies should be posted to news.announce.newgroups. Submissions should be directed to announce-newgroups@uunet.uu.net (or to your nearest major site). Followups will be redirected to news.groups. news.admin.technical is a newsgroup for discussion about software. policies, and the technical aspects of running Usenet news. Postings of a more general nature should be posted to the unmoderated group news.admin.misc instead. Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all newcomers. These messages will be placed in news.announce.newusers, which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who have already read these messages to unsubscribe to news.announce.newusers without missing anything new in news.announce.important. If you aren't familiar with the netnews guidelines in news.announce.newusers, please read them carefully. Your understanding of these rules will assure that you don't annoy the more than 3 million members of the net community (estimated) by unintentionally abusing the net, and will help you get more value from the net. This group does not accept postings from users (although the moderator is usually willing to entertain suggestions for edits and additions to existing postings). Changes to the news.announce.newusers postings will be posted to news.misc instead of news.announce; this allows experienced users to just follow the differences. After reading the postings in news.announce.newusers, newcomers should probably look at the lists of newsgroups, mailing lists and periodic informational postings in news.lists. Many newsgroups have postings that are made periodically for new users of those specific groups. These postings are usually referred to as FAQs, or Frequently-Asked Questions. The postings are usually cross-posted to the news.answers (and companion comp.answers, sci.answers, etc.) newsgroup for purposes of archiving and consolidated searching. Normally, users will not post articles here unless they have constructed a FAQ for a particular newsgroup. Several people make an on-going effort to collect administrative information and interesting statistics about the news. This information, usually in the form of lists, is posted on a regular basis to the news.lists newsgroup. This allows others interested in these topics (such as news flow, volume, valid newsgroup names, etc) to find them all in one particular place. Again, this is not a group in which users will normally post, but they may find the information in the group to be of interest. news.announce.conference is for announcements of conference programs, calls for papers, and things of that kind. Submissions should be directed to nac@sparky.sterling.com. Please keep Subject lines informative; if space permits, mention the topic and location there, and avoid acronyms unless very widely known. Mark Horton Mark Moraes news.announce.important moderator news.announce.newusers moderator mark@stargate.com netannounce@deshaw.com David Lawrence Rich Ohnemus news.announce.newgroups moderator news.announce.conferences moderator news.lists moderator nac-request@sparky.sterling.com tale@uunet.uu.net Jonathan Kamens Scott Hazen Mueller news.answers moderator news.admin.technical moderator news-answers-request@mit.edu natech-request@uunet.uu.net