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- From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: [l/m 11/30/92] Related news groups: Distilled Wisdom (26/28) XYZ
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- Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator)
- Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 12:20:15 GMT
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- Reply-To: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
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- If you wish to test post, you should realize that various little test groups
- exist like misc.test, ba.test, ca.test, etc. The specific advantage of
- these test groups is that some sites have automatic daemons which mail
- ACKnowledgements back to you. Make REAL posts as a test in this group.
- Test post with blank fields as a last resort. You should also be able to
- "Cancel" test files.
-
- Consider OTHER NEWS GROUPS:
-
- Living (all the time) in the outdoors:
- misc.rural
-
- Skiing: (X-C or downhill)
- check rec.skiing
- Also nordic-ski-request@graphics.cornell.edu
-
- Climbing:
- rec.climbing
- alt.lycra
-
- Windsurfing:
- check rec.boats, rec.boats.paddle, rec.windsurfing
-
- Whitewater:
- rec.boats.paddle
- check the mailing list: Charles Daffinger, Indiana U. (deceased)
- References to whitewater are now in rec.boats.paddle
-
- Caving:
- check the mailing list:
- cavers-request@m2c.org
- Hunting:
- rec.hunting (moderated)
- if weapons related: rec.guns
- else if political talk.politics.guns
- talk.politics.animals
- if professional: sci.military
-
- Hang gliding
- check the mailing list:
- hang-gliding-request@virginia.edu
-
- Mtn biking:
- rec.bicycles was just split into:
- rec.bicycles.marketplace
- rec.bicycles.misc
- rec.bicycles.racing
- rec.bicycles.rides
- rec.bicycles.soc
- rec.bicycles.tech
- use these groups rather than the old rec.bicycles which will disappear
- in time.
-
- Environmental issues of the outdoors
- sci.environment,ca.environment,talk.environment, etc.
- alt.save.the.earth,alt.destroy.the.earth
-
- Rescue:
- misc.emerg-services
-
- Orienteering mailing list:
- check the mailing list:
- orienteering-request@graphics.cornell.edu
-
- Fishing
- alt.fishing
- rec.outdoors.fishing
- rec.boats
-
- Surfing
- alt.surfing
-
- Scouting:
- rec.scouting, Scouting references over there.
-
- Naturism/Nudist:
- rec.nude
-
- Non-rec interest groups
- sci.geo.fluids
- sci.geo.geology
- sci.geo.meteorology
- sci.bio
- bionet.* (professional biology)
-
- General foreign travel:
- de.*, sub.*: German newsgroups
- fj.rec.travel: requires 16-bit Kanji terms
- soc.culture.spain: nice history of dual (2 column) translation
- soc.culture.mexican: 8^)
- soc.culture.france: francais
- soc.culture.nepal:
- soc.culture.nordic:
- soc.culture.pakistan:
- soc.culture.tibet: ... you get the idea.
-
- Birding:
- rec.birds
- BIRDCHAT-REQUEST@ARIZVM1.BITNET
-
- And if your activity ISN'T mentioned, may we say nasty little things
- about it until you give us references. 8^)
-
- SPECIAL NOTE: DO NOT ASK OR ACCEPT MEDICAL OR LEGAL ADVICE from the net.
- Do not ask in r.b, consider sci.med or misc.legal. These are licensed
- professions. First aid is okay (good samatarian laws), but you should Cc
- In article <1991Aug5.171418.17996@riacs.edu>,
- watson@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson - FSC) writes:
-
- |> Mark Twain once said:
- |> "Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint."
- |> Today we could replace "health books" with "usenet medical advice".
- to sci.med.
-
- Short explanation on network news groups.
- Netnews should not be regarded as a reliable information service.
- It is low priority for your computer. Different computers have
- different means of disseminating and presenting news articles.
- You may read terms like "nn," "rn," "notes" or "notesfiles" or
- "notesfolders," "bulletin boards," "BBS," "gnunews," "readnews,"
- ad infinitum. This means 1) you may not get all articles on a topic,
- 2) the order in which articles come to you may not resemble a discussion.
- E.g.,
- Subject: re: original topic
- Subject: original topic
- Or you may see "attribution" using '>' characters.
-
- What you are reading is an automated message posted once a month.
- This is sometimes called an FAQ or Frequently Answered/Asked Questions
- post. The purpose is to answer various types of basic questions
- for new comers as well as be a stable source of information for old
- foggies. Unfortunately, no conventions determine when an FAQ is posted.
- The structure of this FAQ is broken into 28 separate parts. Each
- part is intended to be small, and regularly posted (like clockwork).
- We could have one huge post, but that gets really cumbersome
- and it loses its effect. This new style is called a chain. Chains
- are the current experiment in FAQ design for large FAQs. We don't know
- how chains will works, but one problem we hope to solve is when
- a beginner posts a question have not seen the FAQ. Chains are designed
- with pointers to other panels which might have desired information.
-
- What is appropriate? Rec.backcountry is an unmoderated news group.
- Technically, this means anything, ANYTHING is appropriate.
- This is why I only support moderated newsgroups (moderation != censorship).
-
- Personal attacks are generally frowned upon.
- i.e., "Jane, you ignorant slut..."
-
- When in question/doubt, when in doubt, ask YOUR news administrator.
-
- TABLE OF CONTENTS of this chain:
-
- 26/ Other news groups of related interest, networking <* THIS PANEL *>
- 27/ Films/cinema references
- 28/ References (written)
- 1/ DISCLAIMER
- 2/ Ethics
- 3/ Learning I
- 4/ learning II (lists, "Ten Essentials," Chouinard comments)
- 5/ Summary of past topics
- 6/ Non-wisdom: fire-arms topic circular discussion
- 7/ Phone / address lists
- 8/ Fletcher's Law of Inverse Appreciation and advice
- 9/ Water Filter wisdom
- 10/ Words from Rachel Carson
- 11/ Snake bite
- 12/ Netiquette
- 13/ Questions on conditions and travel
- 14/ Dedication to Aldo Leopold
- 15/ Leopold's lot.
- 16/ Morbid backcountry
- 17/ Information about bears
- 18/ Poison ivy, frequently ask, under question
- 19/ Lyme disease, frequently ask, under question
- 20/ "Telling questions" backcountry Turing test
- 21/ AMS
- 22/ Words from Foreman and Hayduke
- 23/ A bit of song (like camp songs)
- 24/ What is natural?
- 25/ A romantic notion of high-tech employment
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-