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The gateway between the Univel Mailing List and the newsgroup
biz.univel.misc has finally been established, and a 'newgroup' message
asking for the creation of this newsgroup will be broadcast shortly.

This facility, the ability to receive and send messages to the
community of Univel users and developers using Usenet reading and
posting mechanisms rather than e-mail, has been requested by many
people. After considerable discussion, it was generally agreed that
the best place for this would be in the 'biz' hierarchy in the same
manner as currently-existing groups regarding SCO. I myself do not
consider being in 'biz' a disadvantage -- it's carried by many sites
including Uunet, and propogation of this hierarchy is not the problem
it used to be. Those who still cannot find a feed for 'biz' are still
welcome to subscribe to the mailing list.

A formal FAQ for the news/list is under development, but may not
be ready for a month or two (volunteers to help with this are *very*
welcome). Until then, here are some basic details:

In general, the purpose of the mailing list/newsgroup is to provide a
forum for Univel users, developers and others discuss any issue
specific to Univel, on technical, marketing, and other matters. The
reasonable posting of announcements of products by and supporting Univel
is encouraged.

It is stressed that this group is *not* intended for the general
discussions regarding USL System 5 Release 4.2, upon which the current
release of Univel is based. There is a specific Usenet newsgroup,
comp.unix.sys5.r4, in which issues generic to Sys5R4 are to be discussed.

The group/list is not moderated. While the mailing list software
attempts to do some sanity checking to prevent loops and error messages
from being re-broadcast, no human intervention is intended unless things
get really gummed up.

*PLEASE* DO NOT POST TO THE NEWSGROUP, OR MAIL TO THE LIST, REQUESTS FOR
SUBSCRIPTION, UNSUBSCRIPTION, OR OTHER SUCH SERVICES. USE THE AUTOMATED
PROCEDURES DESCRIBED BELOW.

If you encounter errors, or have problems with the automated procedures,
write me private e-mail. Again, please don't broadcast your request to
everyone reading the list/newsgroup. Please note that for the very
immediate future, my resources to serve such requests in a timely manner
are currently very limited. So be patient.

Thie list and gateway is presently being run by ListProcessor 6.0, and is
capable of automatically servicing many administrative requests. Please
follow the following procedures:

TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THE LIST:
mail it to univel@telly.on.ca
or post it to biz.univel.misc (if your site propogates it)

TO SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE/GET HELP/ETC:
Send an appropriate message to either of the following addresses,
both of which are aliased to the list-server mechanism at this site:

listproc@telly.on.ca
univel-request@telly.on.ca

The body of your message should contain one of the following lines
*AS ITS ONLY CONTENT*:

subscribe univel Your Full Name      (Not your e-mail address, the system
                                      will pick that up from the headers.)

unsubscribe univel                   (to get off the list)

recipients univel                    (gets a list of subscribers)

help                                 (describes other available features
				      of the mailing list software)

Of course, to access this group through Usenet mechanisms, you have to
make sure your site can read/post to biz.univel.misc. Exactly how you
read or post is dependent on your reading/posting software.

Site administrators, please honour the 'newgroup' control message for 
biz.univel.misc when it comes your way, and propogate it as you would
any other newsgroup.

That's it for now. Enjoy the news/list!

-- 
 Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
         evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
     "It costs a lot of money to look as cheap as I do" -- Dolly Parton