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send usenet-by-group/news.answers/alt-hierarchies/part2
send usenet-by-group/news.answers/alt-hierarchies/part3
quit
Have a nice day!
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From: Kent Landfield <kent@landfield.com> To: faq-maintainers@faqs.org cc: Subject: FAQ-Maintainers List is Back!!!
Dear FAQ Maintainer, Sorry for the form letter... Please read on... It seems that the faq-maintainers mailing list has died. It WAS being hosted at lists.consensus.com. The company Consensus was purchased by Certicom and it seems that the list got lost in the merging of assests. I later found out that the drive that the list was on acutally crashed. The "faq-maintainers" list is now hosted at faqs.org. You received this because your name was listed in one of the FAQs on faqs.org. If you wish to be removed from the faq-maintainers mailing list please send an unsubscribe message to majordomo@faqs.org In order to get the list started again, I gathered the email addresses from the faq files themselves and I have subscribed everyone. I know this is not the most polite way do do things and for that I'm sorry. I have asked Pam Greene to officially change the address for the list to faq-maintainers@faqs.org in the *.answers administrative postsing. As this is the brute force method for reaching people, there are quite a few people that will not be contacted since their email addresses may have changed or they were participating without having actually written an FAQ that was posted to a *.answers newsgroup. Could you please post a message to each of your newsgroups letting them know of the change ? That way people that are not being sent this message will receive the news. Please let your readership know about two items, 1. The faq-maintainers list address changed from faqs-maintainers@consensus.com to faq-maintainers@faqs.org for those interested. 2. The OSU Archives has officially died. If you have references to http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/... in your FAQs please change them to the proper location on http://www.faqs.org/... There will also be a digest version of the list shortly for those that are interested. Thanks and please bear with me as I get the list back up and operational again... --- Kent Landfield Phone: 1-817-545-2502 Email: kent@landfield.com http://www.landfield.com/ Search the Usenet FAQ Archive at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ Search the RFC/FYI/STD/BCP Archive at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/
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