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Top Document: Unix - Frequently Asked Questions (1/7) [Frequent posting] Previous Document: What does {some strange unix command name} stand for? Next Document: What are some useful Unix or C books? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge 1.4) How does the gateway between "comp.unix.questions" and the "info-unix" mailing list work? "info-unix" and "unix-wizards" are mailing list versions of comp.unix.questions and comp.unix.wizards respectively. There should be no difference in content between the mailing list and the newsgroup. To get on or off either of these lists, send mail to info-unix-request@brl.mil or unix-wizards-request@brl.mil. Be sure to use the '-Request'. Don't expect an immediate response. Here are the gory details, courtesy of the list's maintainer, Bob Reschly. ==== postings to info-UNIX and UNIX-wizards lists ==== Anything submitted to the list is posted; I do not moderate incoming traffic -- BRL functions as a reflector. Postings submitted by Internet subscribers should be addressed to the list address (info-UNIX or UNIX- wizards); the '-request' addresses are for correspondence with the list maintainer [me]. Postings submitted by USENET readers should be addressed to the appropriate news group (comp.unix.questions or comp.unix.wizards). For Internet subscribers, received traffic will be of two types; individual messages, and digests. Traffic which comes to BRL from the Internet and BITNET (via the BITNET-Internet gateway) is immediately resent to all addressees on the mailing list. Traffic originating on USENET is gathered up into digests which are sent to all list members daily. BITNET traffic is much like Internet traffic. The main difference is that I maintain only one address for traffic destined to all BITNET subscribers. That address points to a list exploder which then sends copies to individual BITNET subscribers. This way only one copy of a given message has to cross the BITNET-Internet gateway in either direction. USENET subscribers see only individual messages. All messages originating on the Internet side are forwarded to our USENET machine. They are then posted to the appropriate newsgroup. Unfortunately, for gatewayed messages, the sender becomes "news@brl-adm". This is currently an unavoidable side-effect of the software which performs the gateway function. As for readership, USENET has an extremely large readership - I would guess several thousand hosts and tens of thousands of readers. The master list maintained here at BRL runs about two hundred fifty entries with roughly ten percent of those being local redistribution lists. I don't have a good feel for the size of the BITNET redistribution, but I would guess it is roughly the same size and composition as the master list. Traffic runs 150K to 400K bytes per list per week on average. User Contributions:Top Document: Unix - Frequently Asked Questions (1/7) [Frequent posting] Previous Document: What does {some strange unix command name} stand for? Next Document: What are some useful Unix or C books? Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: tmatimar@isgtec.com (Ted Timar)
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