> Where may I ftp a copy of your newsgroup list.Thanks You can retrieve lists from the news.answers archive. Appended is how to use the mailserver; files are under /pub/usenet/news.answers. Or you can ftp to ftp.uu.net:/usenet/news.answers if you have ftp. Moderators: moderator-list/* Active Groups in comp, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, and talk: active-newsgroups/* Groups in other worldwide hierarchies: alt-hierarchies/* Mailing lists: mail/mailing-lists/* Gateways between some newsgroups and mailing lists: mail/news-gateways/* You can get a list of all groups uunet carries from ftp.uu.net (or uunet!~ via uucp) under /uunet-info/newsgroups.Z (newsgroups with descriptions) and /uunet/info/active.Z (newsgroups with traffic margins over past two weeks). This includes many hierarchies that the other sets of lists do not. From daemon@charon.MIT.EDU Tue Aug 3 13:52:07 1993 Message-Id: <9308031751.AA26117@charon> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 93 13:51:58 -0400 From: mail-server@CHARON.MIT.EDU Subject: mail-server: "help" Reply-To: mail-server@CHARON.MIT.EDU Precedence: bulk X-Problems-To: owner-mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu -----cut here----- Commands should be sent to "mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu". You can use the following commands, placed in the body of your mail message: path Specify a return mail path to use other than the mail path in the header of your message. The new address is used for responses to any commands after the "path" command. It is legal to have multple "path" commands to cause different responses to be sent to different addresses. The mail server's mailer is capable of understanding Internet addresses, UUCP addresses in the form "user@site.UUCP" (if "site" is registered in the UUCP maps), and UUCP addresses in bang-path form. If you want replies to your request to be directed to the address from which you are sending it, and you think that your message might contain a valid reply address in its header, than don't use the "path" command to specify a path -- the server is smart enough to figure out the reply address. If, however, you send a request to the server and do not get a response within a reasonable amount of time, then try sending another request with a "path" command in it to see if the server had trouble figuring out your reply address in the original request. help Get this help. index Get the top-level index of files available from the archive server. send Get a particular file. For example, to get the "patch15" file in the "delete" archive, you would use "send delete/patch15". To get an index for one of the archives, you would use "send /index", e.g. "send delete/index". Some notes: 1) Archives can nest. For example, to get the first shar file in the sources for "delete", you would use "send delete/delete/Part01". 2) The special filename "-listing-" will retrieve a list of the files in an archive. For example, to get a list of the newsgroups which have FAQs archived in the "usenet" archive (i.e. which have subarchives under the "usenet" archive), you could use "send usenet/-listing-". 3) If the final component of a specified path is "*", all files in the archive will be sent. No other wildcards or combinations of wildcards are allowed; only "*" to match every file in an archive is allowed. 4) The special sub-archive "usenet-addresses", can be used to search a large list of addresses of people on the Usenet. To find out more, send "send usenet-addresses/help". 5) Files whose names end in ".Z" are compressed, but will be uncompressed automatically before they are sent to you, so that the server does not try to send non-text data in E-mail. Also, you can specify names of such files with or without the ".Z" extension. size Specify the maximum size, in bytes, of the mailed responses from the mail server. The default is 50000 characters. Note that the mail server will subtract some from the value specified in order to leave room for mail headers. The new size affects only mail messages sent after the "size" command was issued. If the response from the mail server is larger than the specified size, it will be broken up into multiple messages which will be mailed to you separately. Note that a "size" command with an invalid number will be silently ignored, and that a specified size smaller than 10000 will be silently changed to 10000 (i.e., 10000 is the minimum size). For example, you could use "size 100000" if you know that messages that are 100000 characters in length will reach you successfully. vote Cast a vote with the mail server's automatic voting software. To find out currently valid votes, send "vote help". Note that responses from the server to "vote" commands are always sent in a single message, even if there are multiple "vote" commands in your mail to the server. group Start a "group" of commands whose output should be returned in a single mail message (or in one multi-part message, if the output is too large to fit in a single mail message), rather than being sent in separate mail messages. endgroup End the current group. The server executes "endgroup" implicitly when it encounters a "path" command, a "size" command, a "vote" command, a "quit" command, or the end of your message. If an "endgroup" is executed implicitly, it is executed *before* the command that caused it to be executed; for example, a "path" command that caused a group to end will cause the output of the grouped commands to be sent to the previous address, not to the new one. quit Stop parsing your message at this point. The mail server limits messages to 20 valid requests ("send", "index", "help", or "vote" commands). Anything after the 20th valid request in a message is ignored. Furthermore, if the mail server encounters 20 errors in a message, it will ignore the remainder of the message. In addition to these limits, the server also limits the number of mail messages it will send to a particular address to approximately 25 messages in 24 hours. If you exceed this limit, responses to your requests may be delayed. If you do not understand something in these instructions, or if you need to talk to a real person about the mail server for some other reason, please send mail to "owner-mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu". -----cut here-----