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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS);faqs.098 ftp.epcc.ed.ac.uk 129.215.56.29 /pub/explorer SGI Explorer modules ftp.lysator.liu.se 130.236.23.254, 130.236.254.1 /pub/ident/servers pidentd ftp.math.utah.edu 128.110.198.2 /pub/misc lptops ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu 141.142.20.50 /UNIX much PD X and GL utils /SGI/Polyview3.0 NCSA Polyview 3.0 ftp.physics.mcgill.ca 132.206.9.13 /pub/ocean ocean (background program), xfishtank /pub DNQS (batch system), bombs (game), xpsv, FORMS ftp.rrz.uni-koeln.de 134.95.80.1 /graph/khoros khoros ftp.scri.fsu.edu 192.70.169.254 /pub/SciAn Scientific visualization and animation package ftp.uni-erlangen.de 131.188.1.43, 131.188.31.3, 131.188.34.43, 131.188.44.43 /cyber/khoros khoros ftp.uu.net 137.39.1.9, 192.48.96.9 /graphics/jpeg jpeg source /graphics/vogle/vort.tar.Z Ray tracer and support tools. /graphics/vogle/vogle.tar.Z 3D device independent graphics library. /graphics/vogle/vopl.tar.Z 2d plotting library written in the above. /graphics/vogle/vogl.tar.Z SGI GL subset library - also device independent, based on VOGLE. /graphics/vogle/hershey.tar.Z Hershey font library for SGI GL, included in VOGL. ftp.waseda.ac.jp 133.9.1.32 /pub/khoros khoros geom.umn.edu 128.101.25.31 /pub/geomview 3D Geometry tool godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au 131.170.14.2 / texsgi, nff (GL previewer), C-scheme gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au 128.250.70.62 /pub/vort.tar.Z Ray tracer and support tools. /pub/vogle.tar.Z 3D device independent graphics library. /pub/vopl.tar.Z 2d plotting library written in the above. /pub/vogl.tar.Z SGI GL subset library - also device independent, based on VOGLE. /pub/hershey.tar.Z Hershey font library for SGI GL, included in VOGL. /pub/glx.shar.Z Simple replacement functions for GL written for X windows. grind.isca.uiowa.edu 128.255.19.233 /misc/sgi bzone, irisgames (executable and source) /unix/apple2 apple2e emulator with SGI GL graphics support imag.imag.fr 129.88.32.1 /archive a2ps (4.0) iraun1.ira.uka.de 129.13.10.90 pub/src edge (graph editor) iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov 128.183.46.16 /pub tn3270, pscat, other stuff iris1.ucis.dal.ca 129.173.18.107 /pub ftpd, gasp, night, panel, ployview, rayshade, urt iti.gov.sg 192.122.132.130 /pub/svlib1 svlibdemo.tar.Z (Scientific Visualization) karron.med.nyu.edu 128.122.135.3 /pub Flipiconic, EndianLib, GyroPaste, TableTop, Symboltin, StickeyWindows, qterm, DirectoryMailer, DiskAdmin, RotationLib keckiris.rice.edu 128.42.25.3 /pub g++ kiawe.soest.hawaii.edu 128.171.151.16 /pub/gmt Readme on how to request GMT, a Generic mapping tool lsr.nei.nih.gov 128.231.132.2 /pub jove (4.14), UEmacs (3.11), zip, unzip marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au 134.7.1.1 /pub/xpsv/ xpsv.tar.Z (xpsview clone) menaik.cs.ualberta.ca 129.128.4.241 /pub/graphics/MR MR Toolkit licensing info midnight.uvm.edu 132.198.3.1 /pub/util etherview 1.0 miro.berkeley.edu 128.32.149.20 /pub/sgi psgl mondrian.princeton.edu 128.112.224.14 /pub pxtools (image conv. tools) monu1.cc.monash.edu.au 130.194.1.101 /pub scicalc /pub/SciAn SciAn ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 130.14.20.1 /pub/blast BLAST program source /pub/blast/binaries/sgi BLAST binaries for SGI nic.funet.fi 128.214.6.100 /pub/csc/tools/iris jobgen.tar (Cray job control file generator) perelandra.cms.udel.edu 128.175.74.1 /pub/Graphics/nsight nsight /bench benchmarks, libblas pi1.arc.umn.edu 137.66.130.11 /pub/Motif++ Motif++, xmedit, xcolors pprg.eece.unm.edu 129.24.24.10 /pub/khoros khoros procyon.cis.ksu.edu 129.130.10.80 /pub/JPEG cjpeg, djpeg scslwide.sony.co.jp 133.138.199.1 ftp2/SGI Demos (Mirror of US sites) sdsc.edu 132.249.20.22, 132.249.20.20, 132.249.20.28, 132.249.20.49 [.sdscpub.sgi4d.graphics] imtools (image conversion tools) Note: This machine is running VMS. That's why it's a wierd directory path. sg25.aud.temple.edu 129.32.66.7 /sgi/cap60 cap60pl126.tar.Z. sgi.com 192.48.153.1 /sgi gman, fax, fsn, ksh, libblas, libfft, SGI bug fixes /sgi/ghost Ghostscript, Ghostview /sgi/src pax, ttcp, screen, whois, netrek /graphics GL graphics progs, zip editor, InterViews, TIFF sgigate.sgi.com 192.82.208.1 /net-services nn-nntpd, xntp, emacs18.58 stanzi.bchem.washington.edu 128.95.12.38 /pub raster3d swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov 139.88.54.33 /drlabs benchmark codes and results /editors cmenu, emacs, epoch (emacs with X extensions) /explorer SGI explorer modules (mirrored from ftp.epcc.ed.ac.uk) /glexamples 4Dgifts src, software from SGI classes /gpc Graphics Performance results /image/conversion from*, to*, cpprint, imtools /image/toolkits fbm, pbmplus, pixtools, tiff, urt /image/viewers gifpaste, gifview, igif, tiffgt, xv /libraries gadget, GRAFIC, libblas, PLOT10, psgl, vogl, vogle, vopl, xview /libraries/4DX XV11R4 distribution /libraries/FORMS FORMS software and doc /libraries/GGems Source code from Graphics Gems /programs awf, des, forchek, genmake, ghostscript, hpgl2ps, mh, plotxy, pstoepsi, rayshade, sc, vort /programs/GL CteditMenu, GL_lander, Irisplot, PeriodicTable, bacpaste, draw, fax, gdiff, gman, imp, isolev, itool, matedit, plot3d, rgbcolor, sgilock, spaceball /programs/X 3DPlot, Contour, NetMandel, xfig, xmahjongg, xterm_color, xtetris terminator.niehs.nih.gov 192.41.200.12 /pub MULTI 3.0 (Multi-Process Molecular Modeling Suite) uvacs.cs.virginia.edu 128.143.8.100, 128.143.60.100. /pub/suit/sgi suit (Simple User Interface Toolkit) watmsg.waterloo.edu 129.97.141.9 /pub/uSystem uSystem (GNU C required) zebra.desy.de 131.169.2.244 /pub cfortran -- *** Bill Henderson *** *** Silicon Graphics, Inc. --- __o __o __o *** *** Hampton, VA ------ \<, \<, \<, *** *** billh@hampton.sgi.com ----- ( )/ ( ) ( )/ ( ) ( )/ ( ) *** Xref: bloom-picayune.mit.edu news.admin.misc:1074 news.announce.newusers:944 news.answers:4656 Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!jik From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) Newsgroups: news.admin.misc,news.announce.newusers,news.answers Subject: How to become a USENET site Supersedes: <site-setup_722066417@athena.mit.edu> Followup-To: poster Date: 18 Dec 1992 06:01:22 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 723 Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.edu, news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Expires: 31 Jan 1993 06:01:17 GMT Message-ID: <site-setup_724658477@athena.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pit-manager.mit.edu Summary: Periodic posting about the basic steps involved in configuring a machine to store USENET news. Archive-name: site-setup Version: $Id: site-setup,v 1.93 1992/11/30 14:44:55 jik Exp $ This article attempts to summarize, in a general way, the steps involved in setting up a machine to be on the USENET. It assumes that you already have some sort of USENET access (otherwise, how did you get this article?), or at the very least, that you have ftp or mail server access to get to some of the files mentioned in it, and that you are trying to configure your own site to be on the USENET after using some other site for some period of time. If this assumption is incorrect, then ask whoever made this article available to you to help you get access to the resources mentioned below. Before reading this posting, you should be familiar with the contents of the introductory postings in the news.announce.newusers newsgroup, most importantly the posting entitled "USENET Software: History and Sources". Many of the terms used below are defined in those postings. The news.announce.newusers postings are accessible in the periodic posting archive on pit-manager.mit.edu [18.172.1.27], in /pub/usenet via anonymous ftp, or via E-mail by sending a message to mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu (send a message with "help" in the body to get more information). ************************* There are five basic steps involved in configuring a machine to be a USENET site. 1. Make the decision -- do you *really* want to do this? If you just want to read USENET yourself, then putting your machine onto the USENET is probably not what you want to do. The process of doing so can be time-consuming, and regular maintenance is also required. Furthermore, the resources consumed by a full USENET setup on a machine are significant: - disk space for the programs (a few Mb for the binaries, another couple of Mb for any sources you keep online); - disk space for the articles - currently approaching 400Mb a month, although it is possible to minimize the amount of disk space consumed by article by carefully selecting which newsgroups and/or hierarchies you wish to receive; - modem time (possibly long-distance) transferring the articles to your machine (assuming that you are using a modem rather than an Internet NNTP connection); and - fees if you're paying someone to provide you with a news feed. You might choose, instead, to get an account on a public-access USENET site on which you can read news by dialing up. See, for example, the "Nixpub posting" articles in comp.misc and the "NetPub listing" articles in alt.bbs.lists for lists of such sites. Even if there are no public-access USENET sites that are a local phone call away from you, you might still choose this approach, especially if you only read a few (low traffic) groups. Using a public-access site that is accessible via PC Pursuit or some other packet network might still be cheaper and/or easier than setting up the feed, transferring the news and configuring your machine to store news locally. You should be sure that the benefits you are going to get by storing news locally are going to outweigh the costs before deciding to proceed. In summary, however, let me say that this decision is not always a clear one. To explain why, let me include an alternative perspective, from joe@jshark.rn.com, on why getting a feed may be appropriate even for a single-user machine: >When you get to long distance calls, reading the news on-line gets the >cost rising fast. A few seconds to skip an article you've no interest >in, maybe a minute to take in a good one plus more time to save it and >download it later. But when the whole lot is batched together (as >news), a) it only takes a few minutes and b) it's all conveniently >automated. Sure, configuring the hardware and software may take a >(small) time - but it's something you only do once. > >And unless you want to get comp.*, the disk space needed is not that >great. (20Mb disks are about 100 dollars over here; the saving in >phone charges would pay for that in a few months) > >I also find that replying takes time, and this is where on-line >"reading" would start to really burn dollars! The alternative, { >download - logout - compose reply - dial back in - login - post (or >mail) reply}, is a) inconvenient and b) still costly. > >Perhaps I see "news administration" as a simple task *because* I only >provide news to one other site and get a very limited feed. (No >overflowing disks, no "disappearing inodes", neither angry users nor >management.) The initial stages were a bit fraught (200kb batches >being bounced back because of permission problems :-( ), but very >little effort now. I have an impression, based on your address and >past postings, that you are involved in "system management" at MIT so >you see things from a "major site" point of view?? 2. Find a site to feed you news and/or mail. In order to make your machine a USENET site, you need to find other sites on the USENET that are willing to feed you news and/or mail. You might want to locate more than one such site if you want higher reliability. Finding feeds for a UUCP site. If you are going to be using a modem (and, presumably, UUCP) to transfer your news and mail, then then there are several resources you can use when trying to locate a feed site: a. Comp.mail.maps Find the postings in the comp.mail.maps newsgroup for your state, country, or whatever. Look in it for sites that sound like they are local to you. Contact their administrators and ask if they would be willing to give you a feed. Comp.mail.maps is archived at several anonymous ftp and mail server sites, including ftp.uu.net, so you can examine map entries even if the maps have expired at your news-reading site (or if you do not currently have USENET access). See the article entitled "UUCP map for README" in the comp.mail.maps newsgroup or archives for more information about the maps. The comp.mail.maps postings are also archived in pit-manager.mit.edu's periodic posting archive, which was mentioned in detail above. b. News.admin.misc Post a message to news.admin.misc. If at all possible, post it with a restricted distribution, so that only people who are likely to be able to give you a feed will have to get it (e.g. if you have posting access on a machine in Massachusetts, and the site you're setting up is going to be in Massachusetts, then post with a distribution of "ne"). Note that you can post to news.admin.misc even if you do not have direct USENET access right now, as long as you have E-mail access -- send your message to news.admin.misc.usenet@decwrl.dec.com. However, if you use this gateway, you probably can't use a restricted distribution as described above, since the gateway probably isn't in the distribution you want to post to, and besides, it's not clear that it listens to the "Distribution:" header in postings that are mailed to it. (Other gateways: news.admin.misc@pws.bull.com, news-admin-misc@cs.utexas.edu, news.admin.misc@news.cs.indiana.edu) When posting your message, try to be as specific as possible. Mention where you are, how you intend to transfer news from your feed site to you (e.g. what kind of modem, how fast), approximately how many newsgroups you are going to want to get and from which hierarchies, and perhaps what kind of machine it's all for. A descriptive Subject line such as "news feed wanted -- Boston, MA" is also useful. If there is a regional hierarchy for the distribution in which you want a feed, then you might want to post a message in one of the regional newsgroups as well, or cross-post your message to one of the regional newsgroups. Look first for an "admin" group (e.g. "ne.admin"), then (if there is no admin group) a "config" group, then for a "wanted" group. c. Commercial services If all else fails, you may have to resort to paying someone to provide you with a feed. I know about the following service providers: a2i communications 1211 Park Avenue #202 San Jose, CA 95126 Data: (408) 293-9010 (v.32bis, v.32), (408) 293-9020 (PEP) (log in as "guest") Telnet: a2i.rahul.net [192.160.13.1] (log in as "guest") Ftp: ftp.rahul.net [192.160.13.1], get /pub/BLURB info@rahul.net (a daemon will auto-reply) (UUCP, news feeds, mail feeds, MX forwarding, name service) Anterior Technology P.O. Box 1206 Menlo Park, CA 94026-1206 Voice: (415) 328-5615 Fax: (415) 322-1753 info@fernwood.mpk.ca.us (UUCP, connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds) CERFnet P.O. Box 85608 San Diego, CA 92186-9784 Voice: (800) 876-CERF help@cerf.net (connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds) Colorado SuperNet, Inc. Attn: David C. Menges Colorado School of Mines 1500 Illinois Golden, CO 80401 Voice: 303-273-3471 dcm@csn.org (UUCP, news feeds) Demon Internet Systems internet@demon.co.uk (Internet access, SLIP, PPP, name service) DMConnection 267 Cox St. Hudson, Ma. 01749 Voice: (508) 562-1618 Fax: (508) 562-1133 info@dmc.com (UUCP, news feeds, mail feeds, MX forwarding, file servers, mailing lists, large volume archives) ExNet Systems Ltd 60 Sunningdale Avenue Hanworth Middlesex, TW13 5JT, UK Voice/Fax: +44 81 755 0077 exnet@exnet.co.uk (UUCP, mail and news feeds) HoloNet Information Access Technologies, Inc. 46 Shattuck Square, Suite 11 Berkeley, CA 94704-1152 Voice: 510-704-0160, Fax: 510-704-8019, Modem: 704-1058 Telnet: holonet.net E-mail: info@holonet.net (automated reply) Support: support@holonet.net (UUCP/USENET feeds, local to 850+ cities nationwide) JvNCnet B6 von Neumann Hall Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08543 Voice: (800) 35-TIGER market@jvnc.net (connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds) MSEN, Inc. 628 Brooks Street Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Voice: (313) 998-4562 Ftp: ftp.msen.com [148.59.1.2], see /pub/vendor/msen/* info@msen.com (UUCP, connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds) MV Communications, Inc. P.O. Box 4963 Manchester, NH 03108-4963 Voice: (603) 429-2223 Data: (603) 429-1735 (log in as "info" or "rates") info@mv.mv.com (UUCP, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds) NEARnet (New England Academic and Resarch Network) 10 Moulton Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Voice: (617) 873-8730 Fax: (617) 873-5620 nearnet-join@nic.near.net (connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds (for NEARnet sites)) Netcom - Online Communication Services 4000 Moorpark Avenue - Suite 209 San Jose, CA 95117 Voice: (408) 554-UNIX Data: (408) 241-9760 (login guest, no password) Telnet: netcom.netcom.com [192.100.81.100] (login guest) E-mail: info@netcom.com (UUCP, connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds, other services) Performance Systems International, Inc. 11800 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 1100 Reston, VA 22091 Voice: (703) 620-6651 or (800) 827-7482 Computerized info: all-info@psi.com Human-based info: info@psi.com (UUCP, connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds) SURAnet 8400 Baltimore Blvd. College Park, MD 20742 Voice: (301) 982-3214 Fax: (301) 982-4605 news-admin@sura.net (connectivity, name service (for SURAnet sites), news feeds (for SURAnet sites)) UUNET Canada, Inc. 1 Yonge St., Suite 1801 Toronto, Ontario Canada M5E 1W7 Voice: (416) 368-6621 Fax: (416) 369-0515 info@uunet.ca or uunet-ca@uunet.uu.net (UUCP, connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds) UUNET Technologies Inc. 3110 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 570 Falls Church, VA 22042 Voice: (703) 876-5050 Fax: (703) 876-5059 info@uunet.uu.net AlterNet (network connectivity) info: alternet-info@uunet.uu.net (UUCP, connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds) UUNORTH, Inc. Box 445, Station E Toronto, Ontario Canada M6H 4E3 Voice: (416) 537-4930 or (416) 225-UNIX Fax: (416) 537-4890 WIMSEY Attn: Stuart Lynne 225B Evergreen Dr. Port Moody, BC, V3H 1S1 Voice: 604-93-7532 sl@vanbc.wimsey.bc.ca (UUCP, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds) Xenon Systems Attn: Julian Macassey 742 1/2 North Hayworth Ave. Hollywood, CA 90046-7142 Voice: (213) 654-2822 postmaster@xenon.sr.com (UUCP, news feeds, mail feeds) Note that some of these are actually network service providers which provide Internet connectivity, but some will also provide news feeds to their customers. For more information about many network service providers, see the anonymous ftp file /nsfnet/referral-list on nnsc.nsf.net. Some regional network service providers, especially in large urban areas, offer both UUCP and TCP/IP service via modem or leased line. If you can find such a company, the cost of a dedicated (leased line) Internet connection will often be cheaper and more desirable than a UUCP connection, if you plan on using it for a full newsfeed or for frequent downloading. Some companies can offer combined voice and data connections using T1 links, for large-scale users seeking both Internet access and low-cost toll telephone service. For more information about the possibility of hooking up to the network, see the "How to Get Information about Networks" posting in news.announce.newusers. NOTE: I am not endorsing any of these companies in any way. I don't know anything about the level or quality of service either of them provides. They are simply the ones I know about. If you know of a site that provides feeds and think it should be mentioned here, please let me know. d. Special information for European users (This section discusses the various big European networks. There are also smaller service providers, such as ExNet Systems (see above), in Europe.) In Europe, you can get a feed from one of EUNet's national networks. They charge for feeds but are "non-commercial," which means (I assume) that the fees go to the maintenance of the networks. Most provide help on getting started, can provide source for the mail and news software and lists of sites who have indicated they will provide feeds. They also act as Internet forwarders (see below for more information on this). To contact them, try sending mail to postmaster@country.eu.net or newsmaster@country.eu.net. The "country" in this case should be whatever country you're in. Note that the national networks have a "no redistribution" policy and have the option to cut off sites which break this rule. There are other groups (such as sublink); see (a) and (b) above for suggestions on how to contact them. Subscribing to EUNet or to one of the NALnets (National Networks) currently requires to be member of EurOpen either directly or indirectly by being member of a NALUUG (National Unix User Group) affiliated to EurOpen. In the UK, smaller scale users and individuals can also get news access via Demon Internet Systems. They provide very cheap dialup Internet access, SLIP, PPP and name service entries. Contact them (contact information is given above) for more information. There are also several other network services providers, already operational (or to become soon available for some of them). Contrary to EUnet which generally accepts any organization as customer, those networks may have restrictions and accept only some kind of customers (generally academic and/or research) as they are sometimes government funded. Some of these networks are NORDunet (northern Europe), FUNET (Finland), SWITCH (Switzerland), EASInet (European Academic Supercomputing Initiative, mainly if not totally funded by IBM), DFN (Germany), PIPEX(UK) and RENATER (France). There are several anonymous ftp sites from which information about all of these networks and about networking in Europe in general might be obtained. They are ftp.switch.ch, ftp.easi.net, ftp.ripe.net, ftp.eu.net, corton.inria.fr and nic.nordu.net. Note that it is to your advantage to try to find a feed site that is directly on the Internet, if you are not going to be. Getting a feed from a site on the Internet will allow that site to act as your MX forwarder (see section 5 below), and the fact that you are only one hop off of the Internet will make both mail and news delivery fast (assuming that the feed you get from the Internet site is for both mail and news; of course, if you can only find someone willing to forward mail to you but not to traffic with you the heavier load of a news feed, then your mail delivery will still be fast). Finding feeds for an Internet site. If you are on the Internet and would like your news feed to be over the Internet rather than over a modem link, then you *might* want to look in the UUCP maps in comp.mail.maps, as mentioned above, since many USENET sites that are on the Internet are mentioned there. News.admin and the commercial services listed above are also viable options. Another option which is relevant only to Internet sites is to send mail to the mailing list nntp-managers@ucbvax.berkeley.edu, and ask if anyone on that list is willing to provide you with a news feed. If you do this, be specific, just as if you were posting to news.admin as described above. 3. Get the software. The "USENET Software" posting referenced above goes into quite a bit of detail about the software that is available. There are three components in the software at a USENET site: (a) the software that transports the news (usually using either UUCP or NNTP), (b) the software that stores the news on the local disks, expires old articles, etc., and (c) the news-readers for looking at the news. For example, if you're a UNIX site on the Internet and you're going to be getting your news feed over the Internet, then you are probably going to want to get the NNTP and C news packages mentioned in the "USENET Software" posting, as well as one or more of the UNIX news readers mentioned there. Since you are probably going to be exchanging mail as well as news, and the mail software that is shipped with the OS you are using might not be powerful enough to handle mail exchanging with the rest of the USENET, you might want to obtain new mail software as well. There are several packages you might choose you use. Discussion of them is beyond the scope of this document; the books referenced below will probably provide some useful information in this area. Furthermore, if you are a UNIX site, the posting by Chris Lewis <clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca> entitled "UNIX Email Software Survey FAQ" in news.admin, comp.mail.misc and news.answers provides a good introduction to the UNIX mail software that's out there. Finally, James H. Thompson <jimmy_t@verifone.com>'s "FAQ - UUCP Mail, News and Gateway Software for PCs and MACs" posting, in alt.bbs.waffle, comp.mail.uucp, news.software.readers and vmsnet.uucp, will help you to find out more about the UUCP software that is available to you if you wish to run it on a PC or Macintosh computer. The basic idea is to go read the "USENET Software" posting, and then to work from there. Europeans can ask their national backbone site, which will usually either be a software archive or be closely associated with one. UKNET, for example, provides an information pack explaining what is needed and where (and how) to get it. 4. Do what it says. Most of the software available for news transport or storage comes with installation instructions. Follow them. This part should be self-explanatory (although the instructions might not be :-). 5. Register your site on the network. The "traditional" method of advertising your site to the rest of the USENET after setting it up is to get an entry for it added to the UUCP maps. Doing this involves choosing a name for your site and submitting a map entry indicating the name, other vital statistics, and a list of your feed sites, preferentially weighted. Since many USENET sites still rely exclusively on the UUCP maps for routing mail, you will almost certainly want to register in the maps. To find out more about how to do this, read the "UUCP map for README" posting in comp.mail.maps, referenced above.