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- Subject: Changes to "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Usenet"
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- Original-author: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
- Comment: enhanced & edited until 5/93 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
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- Original-author: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
- Comment: enhanced & edited until 5/93 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
- ! Last-change: 15 Mar 1994 by moraes@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
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- Frequently Submitted/Asked Items
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- Original-author: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
- Comment: enhanced & edited until 5/93 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
- ! Last-change: 23 Mar 1994 by moraes@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
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- Frequently Submitted/Asked Items
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- postings?
- 46. I'm on Bitnet -- can I connect to the net?
- + 47. What is a "flame"?
- + 48. What is a mail-server/listserv?
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- Sites with Internet access can ftp several versions of empire
- ! from site g.ms.uky.edu
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- Also, please note that the wizards' passwords in games like these
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- Sites with Internet access can ftp several versions of empire
- ! from site ftp.ms.uky.edu in the directory pub/games/empire.
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- Also, please note that the wizards' passwords in games like these
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- the List of Lists):
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- ! list-request@host (e.g. xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu)
- ! list@host (e.g. xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu)
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- When you have something for everyone on the mailing list to read,
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- the List of Lists):
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- ! list-request@host (e.g. xpert-request@x.org)
- ! list@host (e.g. xpert@x.org)
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- When you have something for everyone on the mailing list to read,
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- + 47. What is a "flame"?
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- + A "flame" usually refers to any message or article that contains
- + strong criticism, usually irrational or highly emotional. Avoid
- + "flames", and if you do get "flamed", relax, calm down and decide
- + if it's really worth "counter-flaming". Usually, it isn't worth
- + it -- a complete waste of bandwidth and time; it also gets you
- + perceived as a "flamer" by the large silent majority of Usenet
- + readers, who will probably start ignoring your articles.
- +
- + 48. What is a mail-server/list-server?
- +
- + Mail servers are a family of programs that answer email
- + automatically. These programs are also called list servers (or
- + listserv, from the original BITNET LISTSERV list management program)
- + when the automatically maintain mailing lists, or info-servers or
- + netlibs if they permit automatic software retrieval). Most mail
- + servers will tell you all about themselves if you send them
- + a message with no Subject: and the one-line body
- + help
- + (without the indentation, of course!)
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