Another place to post annoucements is the net-happenings digest: From: Gleason Sackman <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 09:07:46 -0500 (CDT) Subject: *** MONTHLY REMINDER *** - Oct 4, 1995 This monthly reminder is posted for both NEW and OLD subscribers. Due to the recent changes in the list, etc. you may want to keep this handy for a reference. Thanks. <Gleason>/Internic - ----- This list is dedicated to announcing new sites, events, publications, training, and miscelleaneous information happening on the Internet. For your own general information, there are 30-45 messages per day posted to the list. Individual messages sent to the main list are grouped together and sent as one message when one of the following criteria are met: - The total number of lines in the digest queue exceeds 1500 lines. - The total number of characters in the digest queue exceeds 25K - The age of the oldest message in the digest queue is over 1 day. If you want to unsubscribe from the digest, just do the following: 1 - send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] 2 - leave the subject blank 3 - in the body of the message, type: unsubscribe net-happenings-digest 4 - send the e-mail - ----- You can also obtain a copy of any digest that been sent out. Just do the following: 1 - send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] 2 - leave the subject blank 3 - in the body of the message, type: index net-happenings-digest 4 - send the e-mail Within a short period of time, you will receive the following: >>>> index net-happenings-digest total 1952 - -rw-r----- 1 majordom majordom 103788 Sep 2 11:35 v02.n110 - -rw-r----- 1 majordom majordom 85729 Sep 2 16:22 v02.n111 [material deleted] - -rw-rw---- 1 majordom majordom 18755 Sep 14 14:53 v02.n133 - -rw-rw---- 1 majordom majordom 10203 Sep 17 22:22 v02.n134 - -rw-rw---- 1 majordom majordom 17105 Sep 18 11:08 v02.n135 - -rw-rw---- 1 majordom majordom 9095 Oct 2 13:13 v02.n136 You can now get a copy of any digest by doing the following: 1 - send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] 2 - leave the subject blank 3 - in the body of the message, type: get net-happenings-digest vxx.nxxx [xx is the volume number: 02] [xxx is the digest number: 136] - ------------ 1 - Archives - ------------ TELNET Telnet gopher.cni.org login: brsuser and follow directions on the screen(holdings are through Dec of 1994) - ----- WEB http://www.mid.net/net (primary distribution site) Messages are posted here _first_, and then sent out to the list. - ----- GOPHER gopher.mid.net 7000/1 ds.internic.net/1/pub/list_archives/ - ----- FTP ftp.mid.net/net ds.internic.net/pub/list_archives/net-happenings.archive - ----- NEWSGROUP comp.internet.net-happenings - ----- IMAP MIDnet now provides "IMAP" access to all contributions mailed to the net-happenings mailing list. This means if you have a mail client that is imap-compliant (i.e., pine), you may read the latest articles off MIDnet's IMAP server. By offering this kind of access, you don't have to subscribe to net-happenings yourself, just rely on MIDnet to provide you the articles. The format for accessing an IMAP server is: *{imap.mid.net/anonymous}pub/net/yy-mm-dd where you replace yy with "94", mm with "11", "10", etc and dd with "01", "11", etc. For example, after you press "g" in pine (for the "go-to" command), you would enter the above string like this: *{imap.mid.net/anonymous}pub/net/94-11-21 NOTE: if you receive a message stating host not found, check with your system admin to see if they have implemented imap on the system you are using If imap is implemented on your system, you will receive something like the following: 1 Dec 12 Gleason Sackman SOFT> netbook7.zip interactive web browser 2 Dec 12 Gleason Sackman SOFT> geo-gw 1.0: Gateway to the Geopgraphy 3 Dec 12 Gleason Sackman NEWSLTR> LFA (Live from Antaractica) You may now use Pine to read these as you would any other mail. Please keep in mind that these are _READ_ only. You _cannot_ delete them since they are at the MIDnet site. - ------------ 2 - Keywords - ------------ The subject line of the messages sent to the net-happenings list and its sublists contain descriptive keywords. These keywords allow you to save postings by category, and, if you have the capability, to use a "filter" on your reader, or to read, file or quickly delete the posting. . 'category keywords' are as follows: GOPHER> gopher sites WWW> web sites NEWSLTR> [newsletters not posted to Net-Newsletters] EJOUR> e-journals EMAG> e-magzines/zines CONF-NA> conference in North America CONF> conferences outside North America TRAIN> training [non-commerical] MISC> for everything else LISTS> listserv(s), e-mail lists, etc. UPDATED> update of a previous posting(s) SOFT> new software/software updated [www, etc.] WORKSHP> workshops BOOK> books on the Internet, etc. FAQ> frequently asked questions TELCONF> teleconferences SCOUT> scout report SYMP> symposiums SEM> seminars CORRECT> correction of a previous posting MEET> meetings NETLINK> Netlink Server Additions: NEWGOPH> new/changed gophers TEL/FTP> telent/ftp sites - ---------------------- 3 - POSTING GUIDELINES - ---------------------- _ALL_ postings should be made through the Net-Happenings Resource Submittal Form URL: <http://www.mid.net/net/input.html> If you cannot access the web site, the format is as follows: - - your e-mail address - - title or subject of resource (make this as clear as possible) - - keyword category of resource WWW>, GOPHER> etc. - - URL of resource - - description of resource: limited to 5-7 lines or about 1K in size Postings longer than this _will be_ edited before posting.