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- From: alg@cs.cornell.edu (Anne Louise Gockel)
- Subject: FAQs for textile-related subjects
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.210945.20835@cs.cornell.edu>
- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:09:45 GMT
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- The FAQs are posted at approximately 6 week intervals. The following is a
- canned note that explains how to get the FAQs in between the (semi-)regular
- postings. Should I post this canned note at more frequent intervals?
-
- -alg
- ---------
- There are three FAQs related to the textiles groups. Each FAQ is a list of
- Frequently Asked Questions and answers. The textile FAQs include:
-
- 1) General textile and sewing question and answers, including:
- Where can I discuss xyzzy (weaving, spinning, flower arrangements,
- dyeing etc)?
- Where can I get material for outdoor gear or windsocks?
- What's the best brand of sewing machine or serger?
- Are there any archives for rec.crafts.textiles or alt.sewing?
- Are there any archives for cross stitch information?
- What are the addresses of various places?
- What are the best periodicals and sources for Heirloom Sewing (also known
- as French Hand Sewing) projects?
- Would anyone like to exchange quilt blocks?
- Are there any sewing shows that travel the U.S. and are worth going to see?
- Can anyone help me fix it or restore my Great Grandmother's sewing machine?
- This FAQ has a subject line of:
- Subject: Textiles FAQ
- and is currently available in the archives under:
- Archive-name: crafts-textiles
- Last-modified: 14 Dec 1992
-
-
- 2) Questions and answers related to Historical Costuming. This FAQ has a
- subject line of:
- Subject: Historical Costuming FAQ
- and is currently available in the archives under:
- Archive-name: crafts-historical-costuming
- Last-modified: 14 Dec 1992
-
-
- 3) A list of books about sewing and pattern making. This FAQ is posted in
- two parts. This FAQ has subject lines of:
- Subject: Textile Related Books FAQ: Part 1 of 2
- Subject: Textile Related Books FAQ: Part 2 of 2
- and is currently available in the archives under:
- Archive-name: crafts-textiles-books/part1
- Last-modified: 14 Dec 1992
- Archive-name: crafts-textiles-books/part2
- Last-modified: 14 Dec 1992
-
-
- HOW TO GET FAQ LISTS (THREE AND A HALF METHODS)
-
- When looking for an FAQ list, first do the obvious and check the relevant
- newsgroup for articles with "FAQ" in the subject line. If you don't know how
- to check articles marked as read, your sysadmin can tell you.
-
- Next, try the group news.answers. FAQ lists for many groups are cross- posted
- there. Subject lines usually contain the names of the base newsgroups. For
- instance, all the misc.consumers FAQ lists will have "misc.consumers" in their
- subject lines. Again, your sysadmin can tell you the commands to use in
- searching.
-
- The articles in news.answers are posted in such a way that each version should
- stay around at each site until the new version is posted. But some sites are
- configured so that this does not occur. If FAQ lists that you're looking for
- have expired in news.answers at your site, you can get copies of them by FTP
- or email.
-
- Jonathan Kamens of MIT's Project Athena has kindly set up an archive of
- periodic postings. By way of example, I give specific instructions below for
- getting the textile related FAQs plus some general material on getting the
- most out of Usenet.
-
- (For general instructions on the server, send email containing the commands
- "help" and "send index" (no quotes, separate lines) to
- mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu
- For a list of all periodic postings that are archives in news.answers, email
- the command "send usenet/news.answers/index" to the server.)
-
- via anonymous FTP
- =================
-
- Periodic postings including FAQs are archived at "pit-manager.mit.edu"
- (18.72.1.58), in the directory "/pub/usenet". Multi-part FAQs, such as the
- FAQ for textile books, are stored in separate directories such that
- subdirectory is a archive name, and the files in the subdirectories are the
- periodic postings. FAQs that are a single posting, such as the sewing and
- historical costuming FAQs, are in a file that is the archive-name
-
- /pub/usenet/news.answers/crafts-textiles
- /pub/usenet/news.answers/crafts-historical-costuming
- /pub/usenet/news.answers/crafts-textiles-books/part1
- /pub/usenet/news.answers/crafts-textiles-books/part2
-
- via email server
- ================
- The address of the server is mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu. To
- retrieve files, send email to the server with a blank subject and one or
- more of these lines in the body:
-
- send usenet/news.answers/crafts-textiles
- send usenet/news.answers/crafts-historical-costuming
- send usenet/news.answers/crafts-textiles-books/part1
- send usenet/news.answers/crafts-textiles-books/part2
-
-
- when other methods fail
- =======================
- I currently maintain the textiles FAQs and I can send you a copy of the
- current FAQ (which may be slightly updated from the archived copies). Try the
- following addresses:
- Internet: alg@cs.cornell.edu Preferred Address
- UUCP: cornell!alg
- Bitnet: ANNE@CRNLVAX5 or AG4@CORNELLC Last Resort Please
-
- (thanks to "brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown)" for writing this intro!)
-
- -Anne Louise Gockel
- Cornell Computer Science
-
- Internet: alg@cs.cornell.edu UUCP: cornell!alg
-
-