Acbosgd.1250 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Mon Jan 4 15:57:54 1982 renaming of unix-wizards newsgroup This should have been announced about a week ago, but I've been away for the holidays and just now caught up on my mail and news. sri-unix is now directly serving as a gateway between the USENET unix-wizards newsgroup and the ARPANET unix-wizards mailing list. Rather than the previous fa.unix-wizards kludge, where you had to know to reply by mailing to ucbvax!unix-wizards, you can now post directly to net.unix-wizards. It will look like a regular newsgroup on USENET, and people on the ARPANET will receive mail as always. Better yet, there will probably be a subject on each article! Thus, fa.unix-wizards is now renamed net.unix-wizards. You should change your subscriptions and ngfiles accordingly. (Best to allow both for now, since there is some faint possibility of switching back if this doesn't work out. Geoff Goodfellow is screening the mail to filter out junk, and this time he promises to try to send it out every night!) For a couple days, articles were being posted to BOTH fa and net newsgroups, with different article ID's. So please bear with the duplication of articles you are likely to find when you switch. This situation has been corrected and now everything goes to net.unix-wizards. Hopefully this will be the last article that goes on fa.unix-wizards. This same gateway method is being used with net.chess. We would like to use it to rename as many fa newsgroups as possible, but the digests probably will stay fa for now, unless someone has a wonderful suggestion about how to do this for a digest. Mark Horton' ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.