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This article is from the Geographic
Information Systems FAQ, by Lisa Nyman lnyman@census.gov with
numerous contributions by others.
1.2: What is the difference between the newsgroup and listserv? (comp.infosystems.gis)
The newsgroup comp.infosystems.gis is a Usenet special interest news
distribution scheme that allows individuals with access to Usenet to
read and post articles. The system is somewhat like e-mail but
involves a network of news 'feeds' that pass the news along.
The listserv system is a mailing list of e-mail addresses which allows
members to send messages to the GIS-L mailing list. The GIS-L mailing
list consists of a large number of people interested in GIS who receive
GIS related articles using their normal e-mail software.
Check with the systems administrator(s) at your site
to see if you receive USENET news or if a site mail alias has
already been set up for the mailing list before subscribing.
This will help cutdown on network traffic.
Articles sent to either of the above will be sent to the other so there
is no need to post to both groups.
[PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU READ GIS-L AND REPLY TO A MESSAGE, YOUR REPLY MAY
SENT TO THE ENTIRE LIST, NOT JUST THE ORIGINAL SENDER OF
THE LETTER. KNOW THY MAILER!]
A note to Usenet posters: To avoid the above problem, if you are
posting something like "Send me mail if you want a copy of..."
set the Followup-to: line in the post header to 'poster'.
Please use meaningful subject headings. For example, 'TIGER: How do I
determine boundaries?' is preferable to 'Duh! Need help'.
** Place job title and location in the subject line of job announcements.
It is important that people remember that messages to GIS-L end up on
Usenet and those with Usenet access should read new user information in
the news.announce.newusers group. One highlight to note is that while
product information can be valuable to a group, please post only one
article per product, as this should -not- become a commercial
advertisement center (See 1.3 below).
This is not a moderated group or list so sometimes irrelevant junk
gets posted. Please ignore such posts and let them dissappear.
Also, please keep .signatures to a reasonable number of lines.
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