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Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!hookup!torn!falcon.ccs.uwo.ca!csd.uwo.ca!jamie
From: jamie@csd.uwo.ca (Jamie Blustein)
Newsgroups: alt.backrubs,news.answers,alt.answers
Subject: [alt.backrubs] FTP archive site
Supersedes: <alt.backrubs_766421294@csd.uwo.ca>
Followup-To: alt.backrubs
Date: 15 Apr 1994 14:50:10 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Lines: 148
Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu
Distribution: world
Expires: 9 May 1994 14:50:08 GMT
Message-ID: <alt.backrubs_766421408@csd.uwo.ca>
Reply-To: jamie@uwo.ca (J. Blustein)
NNTP-Posting-Host: gleep.csd.uwo.ca
Summary: ftp.csd.uwo.ca [129.100.11.252] CA -5 DIRECTORY pub/news/alt.backrubs
Keywords: archive FTP massage faql postings advice oils technique
Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu alt.backrubs:2040 news.answers:18079 alt.answers:2439
Archive-name: backrubs-archive
Last-modified: 3 April 1994
Subject: Contents
1) The Archive Files
2) How You Can Help
3) Computer Technical Details (HOW CAN I GET THE FILES?)
4) What About The FAQL?
5) What About The Backrub Exchange?
6) See Also
7) Where to report bugs
8) What's Changed (since the last version)
Subject: The Archive Files
1) The alt.backrubs archive is my own collection of postings from the
alt.backrubs newsgroup. It is not complete since our site didn't receive
alt.backrubs for the first few months (the group was created in February
1991) and other connections weren't terribly reliable. I've been trying
collect all the informative articles since about November 1991. Although
the archive is chock full of interesting and informative postings I can't
guarantee that anyone will find what they want there.
I saved these posts because I was interested in them. I haven't
even saved all the postings about topics I'm interested in (although I've
been collecting everything informative since about November 1991). I
haven't saved anything about the old backrubs exchange programme and little
from the seemingly endless arguments about sex and massage. There are
entries below about the new backrubs exchange programme and the frequently
asked questions list (with answers).
I have created a list of categories of files in the archive.
That's the closest thing there is to an index now. The category list is in
the file `Archive.Index'. It'll help you select the files you want to
read.
Subject: How You Can Help
2) It would be great for someone would create an index to the postings
in the files. Also, please send me mail if you find something wrong with
the files. Please tell me if you know of another FTP site where I could
keep the files. I welcome all constructive criticism.
I have heard from three regular posters who are willing to assist
me in editing the FAQL if I will take responsibility for posting it. While
this isn't ideal, I'm willing to live with it. I expect to have the FAQL
posted within a week, but I make no guarantees. If you want to see a copy
of the current draft send me some mail. If I don't reply within three days
I haven't received your mail.
Subject: Computer Technical Details
3) The alt.backrubs archive is at the anonymous FTP site
ftp.csd.uwo.ca (in Ontario, Canada) whose numeric address is
129.100.11.252. Please connect during off-peak hours (between 7pm and
7am). The server is in the Eastern timezone which is 5 hours behind GMT
during standard time. The files are in the directory
`pub/news/alt.backrubs'.
The files at the FTP site have been compressed with the standard
Unix compress program. All transfers must be in binary form and you'll
need some kind of uncompress to read them (the GNU unzip, `gunzip', works
fine). The file `00README' in the archive contains information about where
you can obtain an uncompress program. It is the only file that is not
compressed or solely for indexing.
The files are in mailbox format (so you can read them as ordinary
text files or use any standard mail reader to treat them as a list of mail
messages). See the section entitled `See Also' for pointers to information
about FTP and FTP-by-mail.
This post is automagically posted, every ten days to alt.backrubs
and every 30 days to news.answers and alt.answers, with the help of
Jonathan I. Kamens's `post_faq' program (patchlevel 5).
Subject: What About The FAQL?
4) The latest frequently asked questions list (FAQL) for alt.backrubs
is in the archive file `faql'. Copies of all FAQLs are in the archive file
`faql.all'.
I think the `advice' and `technique' files in the archive are good
places to start learning about recreational massage. In general, the best
place to begin with the archive is in the `Archive.Index' file.
See the section entitled `How you can help' (above) for news about
the new FAQL that is being prepared.
Subject: What About The Backrub Exchange?
5) The backrub exchange has been restarted. There are two files in
the archive about it: the announcement and the most current update. The
files are named `exchange.prog' and `exchange.update'. Please read the
announcement before submitting your entry.
John M. Twilley <nautilus@acm.rpi.edu> is maintaining the
list. In the announcement he wrote:
>If anyone has any entries, please email to me. I will reply back when I
>finish entering your data.
>
>If anyone wants the most recent list, please don't mail me -- I'll post it
>every so often. :-)
I was putting `me too' postings at the end of the current update
file during John M. Twilley's absence. Now that he has returned he might
use them to update the exchange list.
Subject: See Also
6) If you don't know what Anonymous FTP is then I suggest you read the
article entitled `Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Usenet' that
is regularly posted to the news.announce.newusers and news.answers
newsgroups. For more information about Anonymous FTP or how to retrieve
files from FTP sites using only a mailsever see the Anonymous FTP FAQL.
The file `00README' in the archive contains some information about programs
to reverse compression for Apple Macintosh computers.
The Anonymous FTP FAQL is posted regularly to the following 8
newsgroups: alt.sources.wanted, comp.archives, comp.archives.admin,
comp.sources.wanted, news.newusers.questions, alt.answers, comp.answers,
and news.answers. It is also stored in the rtfm.mit.edu FTP site in file
`pub/usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/faq'.
Using a mailserver to retrieve compressed files from the archive
(all the files, except the zero length ones and `00README', are compressed)
will require the use of another decoding program (atob or uudecode). Both
programs are widely available and almost certainly installed at any
multiuser site. The mailservers are intended for people who cannot use an
interactive FTP program. So the mailservers can continue to provide that
service, you should use them only if you cannot use another method.
Subject: `The simplest way to put it, Doc: I've got problems.'
7) If you find something wrong with the archive, or have suggestions
about how to improve it, please send mail to jamie@uwo.ca. If you are
having trouble with the FTP site please send mail to jamie@uwo.ca. If I
can't solve the problem then I will pass the information on to the site's
FTP administrator. If I don't reply to your mail within three days I
haven't received it.
Subject: What's New
8) The archive file list now refers to the Abstracts file. Added the
`See Also' section and a reference to it in the `Computer Technical'
section. Added the bug report section (with a quote I remember from the
film _What About Bob?_ starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss). The
section partially duplicates the `How you can help' section but that's
probably good since many people will read only stuff at the end when
looking for this information. (Again, I welcome all constructive
criticism.) Updated the note about the FAQL maintainer to reflect the
ongoing changes.
I erroneously changed the information about the server's timezone a
long time ago. Mark Petrusma <max@homer.dsto.gov.au> was sharp enough to
notice the mistake. The server's timezone is, in fact, 5 hours *behind*
GMT. For example, when it is 03:45 GMT it is 22:45 E[SD]T (where the server
is) on the previous day. Thanks Mark.
--
James Blustein <jamie@uwo.ca>
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