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- Newsgroups: alt.personals.poly
- Path: sparky!uunet!psgrain!qiclab!n7kbt!acs2
- From: ap-poly.admin@n7kbt.rain.com
- Subject: APP ACS Frequently Asked Questions
- Message-ID: <BzwyqG.4r6@n7kbt.rain.com>
- Followup-To: alt.personals.poly
- Sender: acs2@n7kbt.rain.com (Anonymous Contact Service)
- Reply-To: ap-poly.admin@n7kbt.rain.com
- Organization: Anonymous Contact Service @ N7KBT
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 10:35:04 GMT
- Lines: 113
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- Frequently Asked APP ACS Questions (With Answers...)
-
- Last update: September 21, 1992
-
- Here are some answers to these common questions...
-
- 1) How do I get an alias?
- Mail to ap-poly.ping@n7kbt.rain.com
-
- 2) I don't need an alias. I just replied to someone's message.
- You received an alias so that the other person can reply to you
- and maintain *their* anonymity. Besides, it's free :-)
-
- 3) How come my message got cut off?
- The software strips anything beyond a line that starts with "--"
- because it looks like a signature. Enough sites/users don't
- know that it's suppose to be "-- " (space). Sigh.
-
- 4) Can you delete/change my address?
- I could, but since nobody else can use it, I'd rather not.
- If you really MUST have the alias deleted, I can just forward the
- mail to /dev/null here. Send mail to ap-poly.admin@n7kbt.rain.com
-
- 5) Why do I have 'n' aliases?
- A couple of reasons are that you may have posted from different machines
- in or out of your domain, or more likely, your mail took a different
- path to get here, due to rerouting by hosts along the way.
-
- 6) My pings come back, but I haven't seen my message...
- News takes a much more roundabout path than mail, and hence, takes
- significantly longer to get to some sites. News can take 2 weeks
- to reach the most outlying leaf nodes.
-
- 7) Can I post something without the 100-line limit cutting me off?
- The 100-line limit has been removed. There is currently no limit
- to the size of the message you may post or send.
-
- 8) How do I use this service?
- Read the signature of any anonymous message, or see the companion
- postings on how to use the app ACS.
-
- 9) How do I follow up anonymously?
- Save the article to a file. Invoke your mailer, address the followup
- to ap-poly.post@n7kbt.rain.com, and read in the file you saved. Edit to
- your heart's content. Send it.
-
- 10) I can't find n7kbt.
- ap-poly.*@n7kbt.rain.com should work.
- uunet!n7kbt.rain.com!ap-poly.* is an alternate.
-
- 11) Can I post something to a newsgroup other than app here?
- No. There are provisions to post to app, and e-mail only.
-
- 12) How do I post non-anonymously?
- Just do it. App isn't moderated; anyone can post. If you need technical
- assistance, ask the news guru at your site.
-
- 13) I would like to post a test message.
- The net and I would rather you didn't. Again, if you sit back and
- read, you'll see that it does in fact work rather well.
-
- 14) How can I cancel an article I just posted?
- You can't. Within ~30 minutes of receipt of your article by n7kbt,
- the article has already been posted to many machines around the
- world. Your best bet is to think before you post. Your next best
- bet is to submit another article retracting what you said in the first
- one.
-
- 15) I sent mail to ap-poly.post but didn't see my article. What's wrong?
-
- I have absolutely no idea. You MUST send me any/all error messages
- you got as well as letting me know exactly how you submitted the
- article and what the Subject: of your article is. If I don't get at
- least this much information, your request for help will be silently
- ignored (I don't have time to ask people for it).
-
- You should also ask your local news administrator if you're having any
- problems with news locally. Other sites may have received your article
- even if you didn't.
-
- 16) What the hell does "n7kbt" stand for, anyway?
- It doesn't. It's my Amateur (Ham) Radio call sign.
-
- 17) When is the "Short Form" of the instructions posted?
- Every Sunday.
-
- 18) When is the "Long Form" of the instructions posted?
- Twice a month, on the first and the fifteenth.
-
- 19) Can you delete my alias? I don't need it any more.
- First of all, see #4. Since I can't reuse the number, it's just as
- well to leave it be, except in cases of harassment.
-
- 20) Why didn't I get a reply to the mail I sent to ap-poly.admin?
- Three possibilities:
- a) I haven't gotten around to answering it yet.
- b) My answer got lost somewhere along the way.
- c) Your question is answered in the Intro postings or the FAQ.
-
-
- -John
-
- --
- ap-poly.admin@n7kbt.rain.com (non anonymous mail)
- ap-poly.0@n7kbt.rain.com (anonymous mail, no replies)
- uunet!n7kbt!{ap-poly.admin,ap-poly.0}
-
- --
- To use this service, send EMAIL to:
- Anonymous posting: ap-poly.post@n7kbt.rain.com
- Anonymous reply: <user's alias>@n7kbt.rain.com
- Test path/get alias: ap-poly.ping@n7kbt.rain.com
- ACS administrator: ap-poly.admin@n7kbt.rain.com
-