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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS);faqs.098
ftp.epcc.ed.ac.uk 129.215.56.29
/pub/explorer SGI Explorer modules
ftp.lysator.liu.se 130.236.23.254, 130.236.254.1
/pub/ident/servers pidentd
ftp.math.utah.edu 128.110.198.2
/pub/misc lptops
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu 141.142.20.50
/UNIX much PD X and GL utils
/SGI/Polyview3.0 NCSA Polyview 3.0
ftp.physics.mcgill.ca 132.206.9.13
/pub/ocean ocean (background program),
xfishtank
/pub DNQS (batch system),
bombs (game), xpsv, FORMS
ftp.rrz.uni-koeln.de 134.95.80.1
/graph/khoros khoros
ftp.scri.fsu.edu 192.70.169.254
/pub/SciAn Scientific visualization
and animation package
ftp.uni-erlangen.de 131.188.1.43, 131.188.31.3,
131.188.34.43, 131.188.44.43
/cyber/khoros khoros
ftp.uu.net 137.39.1.9, 192.48.96.9
/graphics/jpeg jpeg source
/graphics/vogle/vort.tar.Z Ray tracer and support tools.
/graphics/vogle/vogle.tar.Z 3D device independent graphics
library.
/graphics/vogle/vopl.tar.Z 2d plotting library written in
the above.
/graphics/vogle/vogl.tar.Z SGI GL subset library - also
device independent, based on
VOGLE.
/graphics/vogle/hershey.tar.Z Hershey font library for SGI
GL, included in VOGL.
ftp.waseda.ac.jp 133.9.1.32
/pub/khoros khoros
geom.umn.edu 128.101.25.31
/pub/geomview 3D Geometry tool
godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au 131.170.14.2
/ texsgi, nff (GL previewer),
C-scheme
gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au 128.250.70.62
/pub/vort.tar.Z Ray tracer and support tools.
/pub/vogle.tar.Z 3D device independent graphics
library.
/pub/vopl.tar.Z 2d plotting library written in
the above.
/pub/vogl.tar.Z SGI GL subset library - also
device independent, based on
VOGLE.
/pub/hershey.tar.Z Hershey font library for SGI
GL, included in VOGL.
/pub/glx.shar.Z Simple replacement functions
for GL written for X windows.
grind.isca.uiowa.edu 128.255.19.233
/misc/sgi bzone, irisgames (executable
and source)
/unix/apple2 apple2e emulator with
SGI GL graphics support
imag.imag.fr 129.88.32.1
/archive a2ps (4.0)
iraun1.ira.uka.de 129.13.10.90
pub/src edge (graph editor)
iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov 128.183.46.16
/pub tn3270, pscat, other stuff
iris1.ucis.dal.ca 129.173.18.107
/pub ftpd, gasp, night, panel,
ployview, rayshade, urt
iti.gov.sg 192.122.132.130
/pub/svlib1 svlibdemo.tar.Z
(Scientific Visualization)
karron.med.nyu.edu 128.122.135.3
/pub Flipiconic, EndianLib,
GyroPaste, TableTop, Symboltin,
StickeyWindows, qterm,
DirectoryMailer, DiskAdmin,
RotationLib
keckiris.rice.edu 128.42.25.3
/pub g++
kiawe.soest.hawaii.edu 128.171.151.16
/pub/gmt Readme on how to request
GMT, a Generic mapping tool
lsr.nei.nih.gov 128.231.132.2
/pub jove (4.14), UEmacs (3.11),
zip, unzip
marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au 134.7.1.1
/pub/xpsv/ xpsv.tar.Z (xpsview clone)
menaik.cs.ualberta.ca 129.128.4.241
/pub/graphics/MR MR Toolkit licensing info
midnight.uvm.edu 132.198.3.1
/pub/util etherview 1.0
miro.berkeley.edu 128.32.149.20
/pub/sgi psgl
mondrian.princeton.edu 128.112.224.14
/pub pxtools (image conv. tools)
monu1.cc.monash.edu.au 130.194.1.101
/pub scicalc
/pub/SciAn SciAn
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 130.14.20.1
/pub/blast BLAST program source
/pub/blast/binaries/sgi BLAST binaries for SGI
nic.funet.fi 128.214.6.100
/pub/csc/tools/iris jobgen.tar (Cray job control
file generator)
perelandra.cms.udel.edu 128.175.74.1
/pub/Graphics/nsight nsight
/bench benchmarks, libblas
pi1.arc.umn.edu 137.66.130.11
/pub/Motif++ Motif++, xmedit, xcolors
pprg.eece.unm.edu 129.24.24.10
/pub/khoros khoros
procyon.cis.ksu.edu 129.130.10.80
/pub/JPEG cjpeg, djpeg
scslwide.sony.co.jp 133.138.199.1
ftp2/SGI Demos
(Mirror of US sites)
sdsc.edu 132.249.20.22, 132.249.20.20,
132.249.20.28, 132.249.20.49
[.sdscpub.sgi4d.graphics] imtools (image conversion tools)
Note: This machine is running VMS. That's why it's a
wierd directory path.
sg25.aud.temple.edu 129.32.66.7
/sgi/cap60 cap60pl126.tar.Z.
sgi.com 192.48.153.1
/sgi gman, fax, fsn, ksh, libblas,
libfft, SGI bug fixes
/sgi/ghost Ghostscript, Ghostview
/sgi/src pax, ttcp, screen, whois,
netrek
/graphics GL graphics progs, zip editor,
InterViews, TIFF
sgigate.sgi.com 192.82.208.1
/net-services nn-nntpd, xntp, emacs18.58
stanzi.bchem.washington.edu 128.95.12.38
/pub raster3d
swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov 139.88.54.33
/drlabs benchmark codes and results
/editors cmenu, emacs, epoch (emacs
with X extensions)
/explorer SGI explorer modules
(mirrored from ftp.epcc.ed.ac.uk)
/glexamples 4Dgifts src, software from
SGI classes
/gpc Graphics Performance results
/image/conversion from*, to*, cpprint, imtools
/image/toolkits fbm, pbmplus, pixtools, tiff,
urt
/image/viewers gifpaste, gifview, igif,
tiffgt, xv
/libraries gadget, GRAFIC, libblas,
PLOT10, psgl, vogl, vogle,
vopl, xview
/libraries/4DX XV11R4 distribution
/libraries/FORMS FORMS software and doc
/libraries/GGems Source code from Graphics Gems
/programs awf, des, forchek, genmake,
ghostscript, hpgl2ps, mh,
plotxy, pstoepsi, rayshade,
sc, vort
/programs/GL CteditMenu, GL_lander, Irisplot,
PeriodicTable, bacpaste, draw,
fax, gdiff, gman, imp, isolev,
itool, matedit, plot3d, rgbcolor,
sgilock, spaceball
/programs/X 3DPlot, Contour, NetMandel,
xfig, xmahjongg, xterm_color,
xtetris
terminator.niehs.nih.gov 192.41.200.12
/pub MULTI 3.0 (Multi-Process
Molecular Modeling Suite)
uvacs.cs.virginia.edu 128.143.8.100, 128.143.60.100.
/pub/suit/sgi suit (Simple User Interface
Toolkit)
watmsg.waterloo.edu 129.97.141.9
/pub/uSystem uSystem (GNU C required)
zebra.desy.de 131.169.2.244
/pub cfortran
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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc,news.announce.newusers,news.answers
Subject: How to become a USENET site
Supersedes: <site-setup_722066417@athena.mit.edu>
Followup-To: poster
Date: 18 Dec 1992 06:01:22 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lines: 723
Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.edu, news-answers-request@MIT.Edu
Expires: 31 Jan 1993 06:01:17 GMT
Message-ID: <site-setup_724658477@athena.mit.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pit-manager.mit.edu
Summary: Periodic posting about the basic steps involved in
configuring a machine to store USENET news.
Archive-name: site-setup
Version: $Id: site-setup,v 1.93 1992/11/30 14:44:55 jik Exp $
This article attempts to summarize, in a general way, the steps
involved in setting up a machine to be on the USENET.
It assumes that you already have some sort of USENET access
(otherwise, how did you get this article?), or at the very least, that
you have ftp or mail server access to get to some of the files
mentioned in it, and that you are trying to configure your own site to
be on the USENET after using some other site for some period of time.
If this assumption is incorrect, then ask whoever made this article
available to you to help you get access to the resources mentioned
below.
Before reading this posting, you should be familiar with the
contents of the introductory postings in the news.announce.newusers
newsgroup, most importantly the posting entitled "USENET Software:
History and Sources". Many of the terms used below are defined in
those postings. The news.announce.newusers postings are accessible in
the periodic posting archive on pit-manager.mit.edu [18.172.1.27], in
/pub/usenet via anonymous ftp, or via E-mail by sending a message to
mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu (send a message with "help" in the
body to get more information).
*************************
There are five basic steps involved in configuring a machine to be a
USENET site.
1. Make the decision -- do you *really* want to do this?
If you just want to read USENET yourself, then putting your machine
onto the USENET is probably not what you want to do. The process of
doing so can be time-consuming, and regular maintenance is also
required. Furthermore, the resources consumed by a full USENET setup
on a machine are significant:
- disk space for the programs (a few Mb for the binaries, another
couple of Mb for any sources you keep online);
- disk space for the articles - currently approaching 400Mb a
month, although it is possible to minimize the amount of disk
space consumed by article by carefully selecting which
newsgroups and/or hierarchies you wish to receive;
- modem time (possibly long-distance) transferring the articles to
your machine (assuming that you are using a modem rather than an
Internet NNTP connection); and
- fees if you're paying someone to provide you with a news feed.
You might choose, instead, to get an account on a public-access
USENET site on which you can read news by dialing up. See, for
example, the "Nixpub posting" articles in comp.misc and the "NetPub
listing" articles in alt.bbs.lists for lists of such sites.
Even if there are no public-access USENET sites that are a local
phone call away from you, you might still choose this approach,
especially if you only read a few (low traffic) groups. Using a
public-access site that is accessible via PC Pursuit or some other
packet network might still be cheaper and/or easier than setting up
the feed, transferring the news and configuring your machine to store
news locally.
You should be sure that the benefits you are going to get by storing
news locally are going to outweigh the costs before deciding to
proceed. In summary, however, let me say that this decision is not
always a clear one. To explain why, let me include an alternative
perspective, from joe@jshark.rn.com, on why getting a feed may be
appropriate even for a single-user machine:
>When you get to long distance calls, reading the news on-line gets the
>cost rising fast. A few seconds to skip an article you've no interest
>in, maybe a minute to take in a good one plus more time to save it and
>download it later. But when the whole lot is batched together (as
>news), a) it only takes a few minutes and b) it's all conveniently
>automated. Sure, configuring the hardware and software may take a
>(small) time - but it's something you only do once.
>
>And unless you want to get comp.*, the disk space needed is not that
>great. (20Mb disks are about 100 dollars over here; the saving in
>phone charges would pay for that in a few months)
>
>I also find that replying takes time, and this is where on-line
>"reading" would start to really burn dollars! The alternative, {
>download - logout - compose reply - dial back in - login - post (or
>mail) reply}, is a) inconvenient and b) still costly.
>
>Perhaps I see "news administration" as a simple task *because* I only
>provide news to one other site and get a very limited feed. (No
>overflowing disks, no "disappearing inodes", neither angry users nor
>management.) The initial stages were a bit fraught (200kb batches
>being bounced back because of permission problems :-( ), but very
>little effort now. I have an impression, based on your address and
>past postings, that you are involved in "system management" at MIT so
>you see things from a "major site" point of view??
2. Find a site to feed you news and/or mail.
In order to make your machine a USENET site, you need to find other
sites on the USENET that are willing to feed you news and/or mail.
You might want to locate more than one such site if you want higher
reliability.
Finding feeds for a UUCP site.
If you are going to be using a modem (and, presumably, UUCP) to
transfer your news and mail, then then there are several resources you
can use when trying to locate a feed site:
a. Comp.mail.maps
Find the postings in the comp.mail.maps newsgroup for your state,
country, or whatever. Look in it for sites that sound like they are
local to you. Contact their administrators and ask if they would be
willing to give you a feed.
Comp.mail.maps is archived at several anonymous ftp and mail
server sites, including ftp.uu.net, so you can examine map entries
even if the maps have expired at your news-reading site (or if you
do not currently have USENET access). See the article entitled
"UUCP map for README" in the comp.mail.maps newsgroup or archives
for more information about the maps.
The comp.mail.maps postings are also archived in
pit-manager.mit.edu's periodic posting archive, which was mentioned
in detail above.
b. News.admin.misc
Post a message to news.admin.misc. If at all possible, post it
with a restricted distribution, so that only people who are likely
to be able to give you a feed will have to get it (e.g. if you have
posting access on a machine in Massachusetts, and the site you're
setting up is going to be in Massachusetts, then post with a
distribution of "ne").
Note that you can post to news.admin.misc even if you do not have
direct USENET access right now, as long as you have E-mail access --
send your message to news.admin.misc.usenet@decwrl.dec.com.
However, if you use this gateway, you probably can't use a
restricted distribution as described above, since the gateway
probably isn't in the distribution you want to post to, and besides,
it's not clear that it listens to the "Distribution:" header in
postings that are mailed to it. (Other gateways:
news.admin.misc@pws.bull.com, news-admin-misc@cs.utexas.edu,
news.admin.misc@news.cs.indiana.edu)
When posting your message, try to be as specific as possible.
Mention where you are, how you intend to transfer news from your
feed site to you (e.g. what kind of modem, how fast), approximately
how many newsgroups you are going to want to get and from which
hierarchies, and perhaps what kind of machine it's all for. A
descriptive Subject line such as "news feed wanted -- Boston, MA" is
also useful.
If there is a regional hierarchy for the distribution in which you
want a feed, then you might want to post a message in one of the
regional newsgroups as well, or cross-post your message to one of
the regional newsgroups. Look first for an "admin" group (e.g.
"ne.admin"), then (if there is no admin group) a "config" group,
then for a "wanted" group.
c. Commercial services
If all else fails, you may have to resort to paying someone to
provide you with a feed. I know about the following service
providers:
a2i communications
1211 Park Avenue #202
San Jose, CA 95126
Data: (408) 293-9010 (v.32bis, v.32), (408) 293-9020 (PEP)
(log in as "guest")
Telnet: a2i.rahul.net [192.160.13.1] (log in as "guest")
Ftp: ftp.rahul.net [192.160.13.1], get /pub/BLURB
info@rahul.net (a daemon will auto-reply)
(UUCP, news feeds, mail feeds, MX forwarding, name service)
Anterior Technology
P.O. Box 1206
Menlo Park, CA 94026-1206
Voice: (415) 328-5615
Fax: (415) 322-1753
info@fernwood.mpk.ca.us
(UUCP, connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds)
CERFnet
P.O. Box 85608
San Diego, CA 92186-9784
Voice: (800) 876-CERF
help@cerf.net
(connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds)
Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Attn: David C. Menges
Colorado School of Mines
1500 Illinois
Golden, CO 80401
Voice: 303-273-3471
dcm@csn.org
(UUCP, news feeds)
Demon Internet Systems
internet@demon.co.uk
(Internet access, SLIP, PPP, name service)
DMConnection
267 Cox St.
Hudson, Ma. 01749
Voice: (508) 562-1618
Fax: (508) 562-1133
info@dmc.com
(UUCP, news feeds, mail feeds, MX forwarding, file servers, mailing lists,
large volume archives)
ExNet Systems Ltd
60 Sunningdale Avenue
Hanworth
Middlesex, TW13 5JT, UK
Voice/Fax: +44 81 755 0077
exnet@exnet.co.uk
(UUCP, mail and news feeds)
HoloNet
Information Access Technologies, Inc.
46 Shattuck Square, Suite 11
Berkeley, CA 94704-1152
Voice: 510-704-0160, Fax: 510-704-8019, Modem: 704-1058
Telnet: holonet.net
E-mail: info@holonet.net (automated reply)
Support: support@holonet.net
(UUCP/USENET feeds, local to 850+ cities nationwide)
JvNCnet
B6 von Neumann Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08543
Voice: (800) 35-TIGER
market@jvnc.net
(connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds)
MSEN, Inc.
628 Brooks Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Voice: (313) 998-4562
Ftp: ftp.msen.com [148.59.1.2], see /pub/vendor/msen/*
info@msen.com
(UUCP, connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds)
MV Communications, Inc.
P.O. Box 4963
Manchester, NH 03108-4963
Voice: (603) 429-2223
Data: (603) 429-1735 (log in as "info" or "rates")
info@mv.mv.com
(UUCP, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds)
NEARnet (New England Academic and Resarch Network)
10 Moulton Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Voice: (617) 873-8730
Fax: (617) 873-5620
nearnet-join@nic.near.net
(connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds (for
NEARnet sites))
Netcom - Online Communication Services
4000 Moorpark Avenue - Suite 209
San Jose, CA 95117
Voice: (408) 554-UNIX
Data: (408) 241-9760 (login guest, no password)
Telnet: netcom.netcom.com [192.100.81.100] (login guest)
E-mail: info@netcom.com
(UUCP, connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds,
other services)
Performance Systems International, Inc.
11800 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 1100
Reston, VA 22091
Voice: (703) 620-6651 or (800) 827-7482
Computerized info: all-info@psi.com
Human-based info: info@psi.com
(UUCP, connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds)
SURAnet
8400 Baltimore Blvd.
College Park, MD 20742
Voice: (301) 982-3214
Fax: (301) 982-4605
news-admin@sura.net
(connectivity, name service (for SURAnet sites), news feeds (for
SURAnet sites))
UUNET Canada, Inc.
1 Yonge St., Suite 1801
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5E 1W7
Voice: (416) 368-6621
Fax: (416) 369-0515
info@uunet.ca or uunet-ca@uunet.uu.net
(UUCP, connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds)
UUNET Technologies Inc.
3110 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 570
Falls Church, VA 22042
Voice: (703) 876-5050
Fax: (703) 876-5059
info@uunet.uu.net
AlterNet (network connectivity) info: alternet-info@uunet.uu.net
(UUCP, connectivity, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds)
UUNORTH, Inc.
Box 445, Station E
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M6H 4E3
Voice: (416) 537-4930 or (416) 225-UNIX
Fax: (416) 537-4890
WIMSEY
Attn: Stuart Lynne
225B Evergreen Dr.
Port Moody, BC, V3H 1S1
Voice: 604-93-7532
sl@vanbc.wimsey.bc.ca
(UUCP, name service, MX forwarding, news feeds)
Xenon Systems
Attn: Julian Macassey
742 1/2 North Hayworth Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90046-7142
Voice: (213) 654-2822
postmaster@xenon.sr.com
(UUCP, news feeds, mail feeds)
Note that some of these are actually network service providers which
provide Internet connectivity, but some will also provide news feeds
to their customers. For more information about many network service
providers, see the anonymous ftp file /nsfnet/referral-list on
nnsc.nsf.net.
Some regional network service providers, especially in large urban
areas, offer both UUCP and TCP/IP service via modem or leased line.
If you can find such a company, the cost of a dedicated (leased
line) Internet connection will often be cheaper and more desirable
than a UUCP connection, if you plan on using it for a full newsfeed
or for frequent downloading. Some companies can offer combined
voice and data connections using T1 links, for large-scale users
seeking both Internet access and low-cost toll telephone service.
For more information about the possibility of hooking up to the
network, see the "How to Get Information about Networks" posting in
news.announce.newusers.
NOTE: I am not endorsing any of these companies in any way. I
don't know anything about the level or quality of service either of
them provides. They are simply the ones I know about. If you know
of a site that provides feeds and think it should be mentioned here,
please let me know.
d. Special information for European users
(This section discusses the various big European networks. There
are also smaller service providers, such as ExNet Systems (see
above), in Europe.)
In Europe, you can get a feed from one of EUNet's national
networks. They charge for feeds but are "non-commercial," which
means (I assume) that the fees go to the maintenance of the
networks. Most provide help on getting started, can provide source
for the mail and news software and lists of sites who have indicated
they will provide feeds. They also act as Internet forwarders (see
below for more information on this). To contact them, try sending
mail to postmaster@country.eu.net or newsmaster@country.eu.net. The
"country" in this case should be whatever country you're in.
Note that the national networks have a "no redistribution" policy
and have the option to cut off sites which break this rule. There
are other groups (such as sublink); see (a) and (b) above for
suggestions on how to contact them.
Subscribing to EUNet or to one of the NALnets (National Networks)
currently requires to be member of EurOpen either directly or
indirectly by being member of a NALUUG (National Unix User Group)
affiliated to EurOpen.
In the UK, smaller scale users and individuals can also get news
access via Demon Internet Systems. They provide very cheap dialup
Internet access, SLIP, PPP and name service entries. Contact them
(contact information is given above) for more information.
There are also several other network services providers, already
operational (or to become soon available for some of them).
Contrary to EUnet which generally accepts any organization as
customer, those networks may have restrictions and accept only some
kind of customers (generally academic and/or research) as they are
sometimes government funded.
Some of these networks are NORDunet (northern Europe), FUNET
(Finland), SWITCH (Switzerland), EASInet (European Academic
Supercomputing Initiative, mainly if not totally funded by IBM), DFN
(Germany), PIPEX(UK) and RENATER (France).
There are several anonymous ftp sites from which information about
all of these networks and about networking in Europe in general
might be obtained. They are ftp.switch.ch, ftp.easi.net,
ftp.ripe.net, ftp.eu.net, corton.inria.fr and nic.nordu.net.
Note that it is to your advantage to try to find a feed site that is
directly on the Internet, if you are not going to be. Getting a feed
from a site on the Internet will allow that site to act as your MX
forwarder (see section 5 below), and the fact that you are only one
hop off of the Internet will make both mail and news delivery fast
(assuming that the feed you get from the Internet site is for both
mail and news; of course, if you can only find someone willing to
forward mail to you but not to traffic with you the heavier load of a
news feed, then your mail delivery will still be fast).
Finding feeds for an Internet site.
If you are on the Internet and would like your news feed to be over
the Internet rather than over a modem link, then you *might* want to
look in the UUCP maps in comp.mail.maps, as mentioned above, since
many USENET sites that are on the Internet are mentioned there.
News.admin and the commercial services listed above are also viable
options. Another option which is relevant only to Internet sites is
to send mail to the mailing list nntp-managers@ucbvax.berkeley.edu,
and ask if anyone on that list is willing to provide you with a news
feed. If you do this, be specific, just as if you were posting to
news.admin as described above.
3. Get the software.
The "USENET Software" posting referenced above goes into quite a bit
of detail about the software that is available. There are three
components in the software at a USENET site: (a) the software that
transports the news (usually using either UUCP or NNTP), (b) the
software that stores the news on the local disks, expires old
articles, etc., and (c) the news-readers for looking at the news.
For example, if you're a UNIX site on the Internet and you're going
to be getting your news feed over the Internet, then you are probably
going to want to get the NNTP and C news packages mentioned in the
"USENET Software" posting, as well as one or more of the UNIX news
readers mentioned there.
Since you are probably going to be exchanging mail as well as news,
and the mail software that is shipped with the OS you are using might
not be powerful enough to handle mail exchanging with the rest of the
USENET, you might want to obtain new mail software as well. There are
several packages you might choose you use. Discussion of them is
beyond the scope of this document; the books referenced below will
probably provide some useful information in this area. Furthermore,
if you are a UNIX site, the posting by Chris Lewis
<clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca> entitled "UNIX Email Software Survey FAQ"
in news.admin, comp.mail.misc and news.answers provides a good
introduction to the UNIX mail software that's out there. Finally,
James H. Thompson <jimmy_t@verifone.com>'s "FAQ - UUCP Mail, News and
Gateway Software for PCs and MACs" posting, in alt.bbs.waffle,
comp.mail.uucp, news.software.readers and vmsnet.uucp, will help you
to find out more about the UUCP software that is available to you if
you wish to run it on a PC or Macintosh computer.
The basic idea is to go read the "USENET Software" posting, and then
to work from there.
Europeans can ask their national backbone site, which will usually
either be a software archive or be closely associated with one.
UKNET, for example, provides an information pack explaining what is
needed and where (and how) to get it.
4. Do what it says.
Most of the software available for news transport or storage comes
with installation instructions. Follow them. This part should be
self-explanatory (although the instructions might not be :-).
5. Register your site on the network.
The "traditional" method of advertising your site to the rest of the
USENET after setting it up is to get an entry for it added to the UUCP
maps. Doing this involves choosing a name for your site and
submitting a map entry indicating the name, other vital statistics,
and a list of your feed sites, preferentially weighted. Since many
USENET sites still rely exclusively on the UUCP maps for routing mail,
you will almost certainly want to register in the maps. To find out
more about how to do this, read the "UUCP map for README" posting in
comp.mail.maps, referenced above.