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- Archive-name: biz-sco-faq
- Posting-Frequency: monthly
- X-Version: 2.02c
- X-Original: Fri May 10 12:17:43 EDT 1991
- X-Revised: Sat Jan 21 03:19:38 EST 1995
-
-
- *** Please be aware of the CFV effectively proposing ***
- *** reorganization of biz.sco.* into comp.unix.sco.* ***
-
-
- Evolution of SCO newsgroups and Mailing Lists
- ---------------------------------------------
-
- A Bit of History:
- ----------------
-
- Many readers enjoyed the opportunity to obtain and contribute useful
- information on SCO Open Desktop since 1990 through the ancestral USENET
- newsgroup sco.opendesktop or it's companion mailing list. Similarly,
- there was a demonstrated need for an information and discussion forum
- for SCO products in general.
-
- With the increasing demand for accessibility and for additional SCO
- newsgroups, many current contributors including those who have been
- active in circulating SCO related newsgroups and mailing lists felt
- that the readership would be best served by creating a biz.sco.*
- hierarchy to improve propagation (and hence availability) worldwide.
-
- biz.sco.{opendesktop,general,announce} were newgrouped May 1, 1991 in
- accordance with accepted procedure within "biz". Given the content,
- this change relocated the "opendesktop" newsgroup to a more proper place
- within the established usenet news hierarchy and adds the new "announce"
- and "general" groups. On Aug 1, 1991, the former "sco-list@uunet.uu.net"
- became "scogen" in keeping with established biz.sco.* naming conventions.
-
- biz.sco.binaries and biz.sco.sources were newgrouped on June 1, 1992
- to respectively accommodate SCO Xenix, UNIX and OpenDesktop specific
- binaries and source code. The binaries and sources news groups are
- moderated, with moderator and submissions information and policy
- outlined in the periodic imformational postings in those newsgroups.
- Respecting USENET etiquite, these newsgroups are _not_ gated to
- mailing lists, but are archived on several nuucp and ftp hosts.
-
- biz.sco.magazine was newgrouped Dec 14, 1992, to provide a discussion
- area for the readers, writers and publishers of the original SCO Magazine
- and now SCO World Magazine.
-
- biz.sco.vtcl replaced biz.sco.wserver (first newgrouped Sep 15, 1993),
- on Sep 5, 1994, reflecting the revised version of the SCO technology
- formerly referred to as the "Widget Server".
-
-
- Newsgroups and Mailing Lists:
- ----------------------------
-
- Subject to the USENET NEWS hierarchies carried by your upstream feed,
- you are able to subscribe to the following:
-
- Newsgroup mailing list subscription
- --------- -------------------------
- biz.sco.opendesktop scoodt-request@xenitec.on.ca
- biz.sco.general scogen-request@xenitec.on.ca
- biz.sco.announce scoann-request@xenitec.on.ca
- biz.sco.sources <none>
- biz.sco.binaries <none>
- biz.sco.magazine scomag-request@xenitec.on.ca
- biz.sco.vtcl scovtcl-request@xenitec.on.ca
-
- You are _strongly_ encouraged to obtain these newsgroups via USENET
- NEWS mechanisms vrs email. Anyone having difficulty arranging a news
- feed for these newsgroups is welcome to email the undersigned and
- I'll do my best to help. We also offer all required software in
- source code form via anonymous FTP and UUCP, as do many archive sites.
- If, after having explored all options, you are still unable to receive
- biz.sco.* as news, you may subscribe to the mailing lists.
-
- The 5 discussion newsgroups are bi-directionally gated to companion
- mailing lists, so anyone not having access to NEWS but who does have a
- UUCP or Internet mail feed can still participate fully using email.
- Mailing list subscribers should send their request to the appropriate
- "mailing list subscription" address above, including in the message body:
-
- Add: subscriber_address -eg-
- Add: your_logname@site.do.main -or-
- Add: up!stream!yoursite!your_logname
-
- Inclusion of an alternative working bang-path relative to a well know
- major functional site might prove beneficial. Deletions are handled
- the same way, simply substitute "Delete:" for "Add:", ensuring that
- you use the exact same address you subscribed with. Subscribers receive
- "how to post to the mlist" article submission information when their
- request is processed. Mailing list subscriptions are free, subject to
- whatever arrangements you may have with the site(s) feeding you.
-
- If you don't receive an acknowledgment within a few days, it's likely
- that someone, somewhere, is bouncing mail replies to you, and would do
- the same with mailing list traffic for you. Check your routing, then
- try a test message via xenitec.on.ca back to your host. You'll want
- to resolve your connectivity problem before trying to subscribe again.
- Similarily, should you experience a sudden and prolonged drop to zero
- volume on the mailing lists, this often indicates that we are no longer
- able to find a working route to your site. We loose a handful of
- subscribers this way each month. If this happens to you, please email
- us your known working bang-path relative to a major site.
-
-
- What's in the newsgroups (and gated mailing lists):
- ---------------------------------------------------
-
- biz.sco.announce: SCO and SCO Developer product announcements of
- interest to current and future users of SCO products,
- and to SCO developers, resellers and distributors.
- [moderated by Ed Hew <scoannmod@xenitec.on.ca>]
- [approved articles gated to "scoann" mailing list.]
-
- biz.sco.binaries: Binary packages compiled from SCO compatible source
- code, often from source posted in biz.sco.sources
- and often installable using the SCO "custom" utility.
- [moderated by Bill Campbell <bill@Celestial.com>]
- [no mailing list]
-
- biz.sco.general: Questions, answers and comments on SCO products
- in general, and of course resulting discussions.
- [mailing list injector: scogen@xenitec.on.ca]
-
- biz.sco.magazine: Interaction between the SCO World Magazine readers,
- writers, editors and publishers.
- [mailing list injector: scomag@xenitec.on.ca]
-
- biz.sco.opendesktop: Technical questions and answers and informative
- postings relating to past, present, and future
- implementations of the SCO OpenDesktop operating
- environment and it's various bundled components.
- [mailing list injector: scoodt@xenitec.on.ca]
-
- biz.sco.sources: SysV or BSD source code for useful programs and
- utilities, modified to compile and run with various
- incarnations of SCO Xenix, UNIX, and/or OpenDesktop.
- [moderated by Michael Deignan) <kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.com>]
- [no mailing list]
-
- biz.sco.vtcl: An un-moderated newsgroup to facilitate questions,
- answers and discussion of SCO Visual Tcl.
- [mailing list injector: scovtcl@xenitec.on.ca]
-
- You should always endeavour to post your article to the most applicable
- newsgroup. For example, posting your ODT question to the "general"
- newsgroup will preclude your question and answers to it from being
- saved in the public ODT archives. Appropriate crossposting is allowed.
-
- Articles destined for a moderated newsgroup should NOT be crossposted.
- Articles posted to the moderated newsgroups are emailed to the moderator
- who verifies appropriate content and posts the approved message.
-
- Full biz.sco.* archives live at URL: ftp://ftp.xenitec.on.ca/pub/news/
- ___________
-
- The undersigned is solely responsible for administration of the biz.sco
- namespace. Suggestions for additional biz.sco.* newsgroups and/or
- mailing lists should be emailed to the address below.
- --
- Ed. A. Hew, <edhew@xenitec.on.ca> ....!uunet.ca!xenitec!eah
- XeniTec Consulting Services, Kitchener ON, Canada +1 519 570 9848
- triOS Training Centres Ltd. Mississauga ON Canada +1 905 542-0656
- {biz.sco godfather, biz FAQ maintainer, biz newsgroup authority.}
-