From: ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Jackson) Subject: *** READ THIS BEFORE POSTING *** Date: 8 Feb 1993 07:23:01 GMT
To solve your problem more quickly, and to avoid being flamed:
- Please do NOT post questions answered in the FAQ lists.
- Please do NOT post "Please send me the FAQ". See below.
- Please do NOT post "Split this group now". See below.
- Please READ the DOCUMENTATION for the program you have a problem with.
- Please TRY REINSTALLING it - maybe you just made a mistake the first time.
- Please ASK SOMEONE LOCAL to you first.
- Please ONLY LINUX-SPECIFIC POSTS - Groups for Unix, X, C, etc. listed below.
For more information READ ON ...
To get the Frequently Asked Questions with Answers lists:
The How to get the FAQ posting, the Linux FAQ, the INFO-SHEET, the META-FAQ
sources of information posting, etc. are posted regularly to comp.os.linux and
c.o.l.announce, and can be found in /pub/usenet/news.answers/linux-faq at
pit-manager.mit.edu and on the Linux archive sites. If you can't get them
there, try mailing "mailserver@nic.funet.fi", "mailserver@pit-manager.mit.edu"
or "ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com". If you can't get them any other way, e-mail me.
Splitting the group: It's been tried, and all the new groups except .announce
failed. It can't be tried again within 6 months. See news.announce.newgroups.
Linux is a Unix clone running on PCs; X has its own groups. Your
question is quite likely more appropriate in one of the following groups:
Unix: comp.unix.questions, .admin, .programmer, .shell etc.
X: comp.windows.x, comp.windows.x.i386unix (for XFree86 etc)
GNU: gnu.emacs.help, comp.emacs, gnu.gcc.help, gnu.* generally
PCs: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
C: comp.lang.c