2.1 News And Discussion Groups In Hungarian: HIX
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This article is from the Hungarian FAQ, by Zoli Fekete fekete@bc.edu with numerous contributions by others.
2.1 News And Discussion Groups In Hungarian: HIX
HIX, or Hollosi Information eXchange, is a non-profit formation run
and supported by several individuals and organizations. HIX was started
in 1989/90 and now it reaches more than 10,000 readers in about 45 countries
around the World.
Its services, mostly in Hungarian, are abundant and change frequently, so
it is best to obtain an up-to-date help file by sending an email message to
<mailto:help@hix.com> (a recent copy of that also seems to be in
<http://www.hix.com/hix/hixcore/senddoc/MAIN/HELP.ALL> - but please
notice that there are superseded copies scattered in other parts in
the archive on the one hand, and many of the other files in this same
directory are outdated on the other hand; most notably, DO NOT TOUCH
that ancient version of hungarian-faq found there!). Here's a list of
what it currently offers in email digest format:
HIR -- 'Hirmondo', current newspaper survey edited in Budapest
NARANCS -- The Internet edition of the 'Magyar Narancs' weekly
TIPP -- politics-free questions, tips etc.
SZALON -- moderated political discussion forum
FORUM -- unmoderated political discussion forum
GURU -- computer-related questions
RANDI -- moderated personals; anonymous submissions possible
VITA -- moderated non-political discussion forum
OTTHON -- issues around the home
MOKA -- jokes, humor (Hungarian and other)
MOZAIK -- semi-regular bits of news and other info, mostly in
English, crossposts from the OMRI list, VoA gopher, CET
and other sources
HUNGARY -- daily digest of the Hungary LISTSERV list (see 1.7)
SCM -- gatewayed email digest of the Usenet newsgroup
soc.culture.magyar
The following is not available for email subscription from
Hungary, but are accessible via the SENDDOC interface (or the
'finger new@hix.mit.com' service for the latest issues):
HUNGROUPS - gatewayed email digest of the hun.* regional newsgroups
Note that KEP (transcripts from the videotext news from Hungarian
Television's Kepujsag) has been suspended indefinitely - despite what
HIX' own HELP says.
To subscribe (unsubscribe) to a particular email-journal, send email
to subs.NAME@hix.com (unsubs.NAME@hix.com) where NAME is one of the
above.
The postings for the HIX discussion lists are sent out daily in
digested form. You can send your own submission to NAME@hix.com,
whatever NAME is (provided it's actually a discussion list).
The volume for some of these lists is becoming rather high, e.g. TIPP
often digests dozens of messages in hundreds of lines daily! You ought
to try targeting your audience properly in order to find those who'd
help with your questions; also keep in mind that readers often answer
to the list rather than the individual even when personal reply is
requested, so if you ask something it's a good idea to subscribe also
(even though technically it's not required) instead of just addressing
a list as a non-subscriber. A reminder to those who reply to a post:
always remember that list messages get sent to several thousand readers,
so consider personal email if the subject is not of general interest!
If you answer through a list it's courteous to send a personal copy
(Cc: with most mailers) as well - this may reach the addressee
considerably earlier than the post distributed through the list.
Notice the (undocumented) feature of the HIX mail-server: it only
accepts submissions if its address is found in the 'To:' header field!
It would quietly ignore incoming email Cc-d to it, so do not put the
<name>@hix.com in the 'Cc:' (you can do so with other addressees).
The HIX server can also send out archived files, see the SENDDOC
function in its description. In case you have any problems or questions
on the HIX services, please read through the automatic help response
first. If you need human intervention you can reach
<mailto:supervisor@hix.com> - but keep in mind that list managers have
to do plenty other than answering things already laid out in the Fine
Manual.
You can also view the output of HIX interactively. See section 3.
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