Newsgroups: biz.sco.opendesktop,biz.sco.general,comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif,biz.config Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!swrinde!network.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!xenitec!edhew From: Ed Hew Subject: biz.sco.* newsgroups/mlists FAQ (periodic posting) Expires: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 17:00:00 GMT Organization: XeniTec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON, CANADA Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1993 06:53:28 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jul04.065328.3111@xenitec.on.ca> Followup-To: biz.sco.general Summary: how to subscribe (and why) Keywords: biz, sco, newsgroups, mailing lists, moderators, addresses Sender: edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) Lines: 147 Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu biz.sco.opendesktop:2026 biz.sco.general:10268 comp.unix.xenix.sco:8485 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5425 comp.windows.x:69891 comp.windows.x.motif:18463 biz.config:101 X-Revised: Sun Jul 04 01:38:45 EDT 1993 Evolution of SCO newsgroups and Mailing Lists --------------------------------------------- A Bit of History: ---------------- Many readers enjoyed the opportunity to obtain and contribute useful information on SCO Open Desktop since 1990 through the ancestral USENET newsgroup sco.opendesktop or it's companion mailing list. Similarly, there was a demonstrated need for an information and discussion forum for SCO products in general. With the increasing demand for accessibility and for additional SCO newsgroups, many current contributors including those who have been active in circulating SCO related newsgroups and mailing lists felt that the readership would be best served by creating a biz.sco.* hierarchy to improve propagation (and hence availability) worldwide. biz.sco.{opendesktop,general,announce} were newgrouped May 1, 1991 in accordance with accepted procedure within "biz". Given the content, this change relocated the "opendesktop" newsgroup to a more proper place within the established usenet news hierarchy and adds the new "announce" and "general" groups. On Aug 1, 1991, the former "sco-list@uunet.uu.net" became "scogen" in keeping with established biz.sco.* naming conventions. biz.sco.binaries and biz.sco.sources were newgrouped on June 1, 1992 to respectively accommodate SCO Xenix, UNIX and OpenDesktop specific binaries and source code. The binaries and sources news groups are moderated, with moderator and submissions information and policy outlined in the periodic imformational postings in those newsgroups. Respecting USENET etiquite, these newsgroups are _not_ gated to mailing lists, but are archived on several nuucp and ftp hosts. biz.sco.magazine was newgrouped Dec 14, 1992, to provide a discussion area for the readers, writers and publishers of SCO Magazine. Newsgroups and Mailing Lists: ---------------------------- Subject to the USENET NEWS hierarchies carried by your upstream feed, you are able to subscribe to the following: Newsgroup mailing list subscription --------- ------------------------- biz.sco.opendesktop scoodt-request@xenitec.on.ca biz.sco.general scogen-request@xenitec.on.ca biz.sco.announce scoann-request@xenitec.on.ca biz.sco.sources biz.sco.binaries biz.sco.magazine scomag-request@xenitec.on.ca You are _strongly_ encouraged to obtain these newsgroups via USENET NEWS mechanisms vrs email. Anyone having difficulty arranging a news feed for these newsgroups is welcome to email the undersigned and I'll do my best to help. We also offer all required software in source code form via anonymous FTP and UUCP, as do many archive sites. If, after having explored all options, you are still unable to receive biz.sco.* as news, you may subscribe to the mailing lists. The 4 discussion newsgroups are bi-directionally gated to companion mailing lists, so anyone not having access to NEWS but who does have a UUCP or Internet mail feed can still participate fully using email. Mailing list subscribers should send their request to the appropriate "mailing list subscription" address above, including in the message body: Add: subscriber_address -eg- Add: your_logname@site.do.main -or- Add: up!stream!yoursite!your_logname Inclusion of an alternative working bang-path relative to a well know major functional site might prove beneficial. Deletions are handled the same way, simply substitute "Delete:" for "Add:", ensuring that you use the exact same address you subscribed with. Mailing list subscribers receive "how to post to the mlist" article submission information when their request is processed. If you don't receive an acknowledgment within a few days, check your routing and try a test message via xenitec.on.ca back to your host. In such cases, it's likely that someone, somewhere, is bouncing mail replies to you, and does the same with mailing list traffic. You'll want to resolve your connectivity problem before trying to subscribe again. Mailing list subscriptions are free, subject to whatever arrangements you may have with the site(s) feeding you. Should you receive no response or experience a sudden and prolonged drop to zero volume on the mailing lists, this indicates that we are no longer able to find a working route to your site. We loose a handful of subscribers this way each month. If this happens to you, please email us your known working bang-path relative to a major site. What's in the newsgroups (and applicable mailing lists): ------------------------------------------------------- biz.sco.announce: SCO and SCO Developer product announcements of interest to current and future users of SCO products, and to SCO developers, resellers and distributors. [moderated by Ed Hew ] [approved articles gated to "scoann" mailing list.] biz.sco.binaries: Binary packages compiled from SCO compatible source code, often from source posted in biz.sco.sources and often installable using the SCO "custom" utility. [moderated by Stuart Lynne ] [no mailing list] biz.sco.general: Questions, answers and comments on SCO products in general, and of course resulting discussions. [mailing list injector: scogen@xenitec.on.ca] biz.sco.magazine: Interaction between the SCO Magazine readers, writers and publishers. [mailing list injector: scomag@xenitec.on.ca] biz.sco.opendesktop: Technical questions and answers and informative postings relating to past, present, and future implementations of the SCO OpenDesktop operating environment and it's various bundled components. [mailing list injector: scoodt@xenitec.on.ca] biz.sco.sources: SysV or BSD source code for useful programs and utilities, modified to compile and run with various incarnations of SCO Xenix, UNIX, and/or OpenDesktop. [moderated by Michael Deignan) ] [no mailing list] You should always endeavour to post your article to the most applicable newsgroup. For example, posting your ODT question to the "general" newsgroup will preclude your question and answers to it from being saved in the public ODT archives. Appropriate crossposting is allowed. Articles destined for a moderated newsgroup should NOT be crossposted. Articles posted to the moderated newsgroups are emailed to the moderator who verifies appropriate content and posts the approved message. ___________ The undersigned is solely responsible for administration of the biz.sco namespace. Suggestions for additional biz.sco.* newsgroups and/or mailing lists should be emailed to the address below. -- Ed. A. Hew, ....!uunet.ca!xenitec!eah XeniTec Consulting Services, Kitchener ON, Canada +1 519 570 9848 triOS Training Centres Ltd. Mississauga ON Canada +1 800-387-8649 [biz.sco.* newsgroups and mailing lists godfather]