Acbosgd.1217
net.general
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!cbosgd!mark
Sun Jan 3 17:13:13 1982
attention: usenet site contacts
It seems to be a common thing for a new site to come up on USENET without
telling anyone they exist. What happens is that someone hears about
USENET from someone already on the net, who sends them their copy of
whatever code they are running. I would appreciate it if each site would
take a moment to install the remainder of this message in their netnews
source directory as file README (or appended to any existing README file).
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Sun Jan 3 17:07:13 EST 1982
When you start getting network news, you should announce your existence
to the net by filling out the enclosed form and posting it to the newsgroup
net.general. (A later convention might make it net.newsite - ask your
contact.) This form will be used as your entry in the USENET directory.
Note that it is the policy of USENET that all sites receiving public
newsgroups (such as net.all and fa.all) are public in the sense that the
fact they are on USENET is public. The name and phone number of a contact
person, as well as the name and location of the site, is important.
If you are doing some kind of secret work there is certainly no need to
divulge the nature of your work. If you feel that you must keep your
existence a secret, you should not be joining USENET.
If you are unclear on this, please give me a call or send me mail:
Mark Horton
(614) 860-4276
ucbvax!mark or mark@berkeley
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Name of site:
What the site is all about:
Name of contact person at site:
Electronic mail address of contact person:
U.S. Mail address of contact person:
Phone number of contact person:
Systems with whom news articles are exchanged:
(what kind of link, who the neighbor(s) are):
Willingness (or lack thereof) to connect to new sites that
want to join usenet. If you run uucp, tell if new sites can
call you, if you will poll them, what your policy is.
If on the arpanet, are you willing to forward news on to new
sites by establishing an arpanet usenet connection?
If you want to publish your uucp phone number, login, and password,
include that info.
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