Don't be shy, there's a lot of expertise in c.b.w . That's what it's there for. However, be sure that you have looked through all the documentation before posting your question; you will not be appreciated if you ask a question that is clearly answered in the documentation (or in the FAQ, for that matter.)

with email spam, you must use your best judgment. By normal usenet definitions, spam is a message which is either cross-posted excessively or multi-posted excessively. However, other forms of postings are often frowned upon by usenet administrators and ISPs in general even if not strictly defined as spam. Usenet is much more complicated than email to evaluate. Each group has its own rules (for instance, most groups - but not all - forbid commercial postings).

Yes, there are a few USENET groups where you may find discussion about Mr. Bungle and related artists. alt.music.mr-bungle - The heavily populated Mr. Bungle newsgroup. If you can't access this through your ISP, email your support requesting it, or try a web-based newsgroup reader such as Google. Also, please see the alt.music.mr-bungle FAQ before you post. alt.music.faith-no-more - While this group is primarily for the discussion of another band, it does get a significant amount of Mr.

Why not www.newsguy.com ? It is a premium newsgroup provider, offering complete posts, long retention and high speed downloads! NewsGuy offers a free 2-day trial, and their large capacity accounts cost as little as $3/month!

Waffle is a USENET-compatible BBS system which supports UUCP mail, UUCP, and USENET news. In addition, there is a built-in editor, file upload/download, and the ability to hook in external programs and gateway to (or from) other packages. DOS Waffle supports (but does not require) external Fossil drivers to allow use of high speed modems and allows an MSDOS PC to be a fully RFC compliant USENET node. It also provides the UUCP-based transport mechanism that generally comes with unix systems.

Yes, and it's called comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. The newsgroup serves as a place for users and developers to discuss Wine, and for minor announcements for the general public. Major announcements will be cross posted to other appropriate newsgroups, such as the following: If your Usenet site does not carry these newsgroups, please urge your ISP's sysadmin to add and/or uplink them.

Usenet is a distributed bulletin board system that is not limited in scope to the network of networks we call the Internet. Many on- line services, BBSs and other computing sites have newsfeeds without the benefits of FTP, Telnet, or other functions associated with the Internet. With over 15,000 newsgroups, Usenet may be the largest body of collective reasoning in the world.

There is one Usenet newsgroup for Dixie Chicks. It is alt.fan.dixiechicks, however it has never been very active. The Dixie Chicks' fan base is predominantly young and female. Neither of those groups are frequent users of Usenet newsgroups. Therefore, there is rarely any activity in that newsgroup. In the past, any good information posted there was also quickly posted to the eGroup also. It has since become a barren wasteland, so you are not missing anything.

The purpose of the talk.origins newsgroup is to provide a forum for discussion of issues related to biological and physical origins. See the talk.origins Newsgroup Welcome FAQ.

Visit alt.tv.stargate-sg1 for daily discussion of all things Stargate! If your Internet service provider doesn't carry it, e-mail them and request that it be added. If you'd like to post or receive Stargate images, sounds, video and other files, visit the binaries group at alt.binaries.stargate-sg1.

The newsgroup comp.soft-sys.matlab is a forum for discussing issues related to the use of MATLAB, the scientific calculation and visualization package from The MathWorks Inc. Appropriate discussion in the group will include both general MATLAB issues and platform-specific questions, and discussions comparing MATLAB to other systems.

Yes. It is alt.music.veruca-salt but it is not propagated everywhere. If you do not have access to alt.music.veruca-salt, you can post Veruca Salt questions and comments to alt.music.alternative and alt.music.alternative.female. There are a few people around those groups that will answer your questions. It is okay to crosspost a Veruca Salt question or comment to any of the newsgroups listed. Or you can post your questions to Veruca Salt fans on the mailing list (see the previous question)

This is because, like most other ISP's Virgin Media have storage issues and its not in their best interest to keep forking out for new hardware that never pays for itself. Attempting to add new binary groups without the storage space to cope will have a negative impact on Virgin Media's 3 day retention period and high completion ratio. The server also slows down dramatically during busy posting periods. delays can sometimes be as much as 6-12 hours.

The DOS version is shareware that is made available in binary form at many locations so you can 'try before you buy'. The UNIX version is available as source code only, and there is no provision to 'try before you buy'. However, the look and feel of the two versions are almost identical, so the DOS version serves as a 'try' version.

Waffle (DOS version) is available via anonymous ftp from (the old) SimTel and its various mirror sites as follows: There are other Coast/SimTel mirror sites. See the periodic postings in comp.archives.msdos.announce and news.answers for more details. halcyon mirrors (keeps a current copy of) the (old) simtel waffle files, the simtel offline-mail files, and the tau-ceti fx suite. it's your one-stop waffle ftp site.

Currently, this group is for the discussion of vampires in fiction: books, comics, movies, anime, etc.. This group is also for the discussion of vampire theory, such as the mythology, psychology, physiology, and relation of the vampire to modern-day human life, and the distribution of original fiction, such as stories, poetry, or prose, which lie within the vampire realm. Is there some form of netiquette I should follow if I post? Use common sense and common courtesy.

Not yet. You can use comp.lang.perl.misc for miscellaneous Perl questions; the members of most Usenet Perl newsgroups tend to concentrate on UNIX platforms. Try the perl-win32-users mailing list (see Is there a mailing list for ActivePerl or PerlIS?) for more specific Win32 information. For web server setup and CGI programming, try one of the following three newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc

There is also a newsgroup that mirrors the mailinglist. At this point it seems that mirror is down. Mail to the mailinglist used to be posted the newsgroup, but posts on the newsgroup were not sent to the mailinglist. The newsgroup was located at: news://scully.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/vtk.mailinglist http://www.gmane.org is a bidirectional mail-to-news gateway that carries the vtkusers mailing list. Its located here: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.vtk.user or here: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.

Usenet is a collection of newsgroups. Newsgroups are discussion forums. Often Usenet refers only to the "Big Eight" hierarchies: comp, humanities, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, and talk. While k12.ed.math is a newsgroup in the k12 hierarchy, it still operates by the usual Usenet conventions and is transported through the same network systems. So, for all practical purposes, it is part of Usenet. A newsgroup is not a mailing list or a listserve.

Read at your own risk. The current, previous, or original authors make no claim as to fitness for any purpose or absence of any errors, and offer no warranty. Do not eat. use of the first person ('I') in this document may be remnants of earlier authors' comments. please check this before assuming that the current maintainer wrote everything herein (I didn't). The intent of this document is to assemble, in one place, a general list of Waffle-related Frequently Asked Questions.

Yes. [Updated answer: unless you have a cheque, probably not] [Further updated answer: sometimes -- work seems to have become much more reasonable] He's also reachable via e-mail at <dell@goonsquad.spies.com>. Be aware that Tom gets LOTS of mail, so replies usually take a while. [lately, ranging from eternity to a few hours(!)] In general, normal questions to comp.bbs.waffle will get quite a few responses in a very timely manner.

It's hard to say since there are sites that are unregistered, not in the UUCP maps, and/or are mail-only and do not exchange news. Occasionally, someone counted how many Waffle sites have posted to USENET in the past 2 weeks. Bill Fenner, and then Alan Brown: 921029 930116 930216 930416 940816 941126 1.61: 2 1 2 1 0 0 1.63: 9 8 9 5 0 0 1.64: 81 44 57 46 18 14 1.65: 266 266 280 286 240 274 1.

Waffle rmail wants to see a From_ line as the <first> line in a mail message. The From_ line is structured when you finally receive the mail item. Only the "From user" portion is required. rmail constructs the remainder if it's not present. rmail uses this line as a marker, placing its own Received: header after it. If the From_ line is not first, rmail constructs a default set of headers, and appends all the supplied text as the message body.

There is one package, Amanda, written by David Douthitt to process Fidonet news packets for MSDOS Waffle v1.65. Amanda is on (old) SimTel. lt;http://www.mailbag.com/users/ssrat/> <http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/2884/> [old] There is another package, Erin, written also by David Douthitt, which will handle Fidonet mail packets for MSDOS Waffle v1.65. However, this package is not yet released.

When in doubt poke around the Waffle directory on (old) SimTel or a mirror site for the list of stuff that's purely Waffle related. Also, keep your eyes open in the Waffle newsgroup for information related to utilities that might not have been uploaded to (old) Simtel. ftp ftp.halcyon.com, on the Internet, has a huge anonymous ftp section, in /pub/waffle, which was (but is no longer) mirrored by remote.halcyon.com for anonymous UUCP. There is an anonymous UUCP list posted frequently to c.b.

The different names are only for the user's personal signature. If you have a system default signature, /waffle/system/sig, it is applied to all messages.

waffle/docs/index.doc has the table of contents of each of the other documents. Use a text editor or something similar to look for keywords in index.doc, then it will point you to which file to look in. If you have a version of the UNIX utility 'grep', it's best to do something like 'grep keyword /waffle/docs/*', to find even obscure references to things.

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Regularly, questions about LessTif (or about any free Motif®) clone are asked in comp.windows.x or comp.windows.x.motif .