austin.announce publishes announcements of widespread interest
to Usenet readers in Austin.  

Appropriate submissions include advance notice of events, meetings,
lectures, symposia, etc.  If you have an important bulletin that
should receive rapid and wide distribution throughout Austin, we
encourage you to submit it.  On the other hand, we want to publish
fun stuff too.  Let us publish the monthly meeting notice for your
club or organization.

This newsgroup is moderated to ensure postings are appropriate,
timely, and meet the guidelines discussed here.  This is a
low-volume (and nearly no-noise) newsgroup.  All Usenet users
in Austin should consider subscribing to this group.

This is austin.announce, so items posted here must be happening in or
related to Austin.

This newsgroup is moderated by Doug McLaren.  This periodic
informational message is maintained by the moderator.  You comments
and suggestions, both about the newsgroup and this message, are
welcome.  Our email address is <austin-announce-request -at-
frenzy.austin.tx.us>.

This address gets a lot of spam -- I strongly suggest giving the email
a good subject, putting Austin in there somewhere --

   Subject: AUSTIN: why was my post rejected?

so it's noticed it in all the spam.