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Newsgroups: alt.backrubs,news.answers,alt.answers
Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nic.hookup.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!torn!newshost.uwo.ca!csd.uwo.ca!jamie
From: jamie@csd.uwo.ca (Jamie Blustein)
Subject: [alt.backrubs] FTP archive site (updated 5 Dec 1993)
Expires: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 12:49:13 GMT
Reply-To: jamie@uwo.ca (J. Blustein)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 12:49:17 GMT
Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu
Message-ID: <alt.backrubs_755268553@csd.uwo.ca>
Followup-To: alt.backrubs
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
Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System)
Nntp-Posting-Host: berfert.csd.uwo.ca
Supersedes: <alt.backrubs_755267497@csd.uwo.ca>
Lines: 114
Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu alt.backrubs:2668 news.answers:15577 alt.answers:1368
Archive-name: backrubs-archive
Last-modified: 5 Dec 1993
Subject: Contents
1) Computer Technical Details
2) The Archive Files
3) What About The FAQL?
4) What About The Backrub Exchange?
5) How You Can Help
6) Where is the `List Of Files'?
7) What's Changed (since the last version)
Subject: Computer Technical Details
1) The alt.backrubs archive is at the ftp site ftp.csd.uwo.ca
whose numeric address is 129.100.11.252. Please connect during
off-peak hours (between 7pm and 7am), the server's timezone is 5 hours
behind GMT (it is in Ontario, Canada). The files are in the directory
pub/news/alt.backrubs. I now have ownership of the directory and
files in it. I had to choose an expiry date for the files so I chose
31 Dec 1996.
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. 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).
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: The Archive Files
2) The alt.backrubs archive is my own collection of postings and
is far from complete. Our site didn't receive alt.backrubs for the
first few months and other connections weren't terribly reliable.
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 --
this is especially true of the suggestions for books. I haven't saved
anything about the old backrubs exchange programme and very little
from the seemingly endless arguments about sex and massage. There is
an entry below about the new backrubs exchange programme.
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'.
Subject: What About The FAQL?
3) There hasn't been a frequently asked questions list (FAQL)
posted to alt.backrubs for a long time. Copies of all FAQLs are in
the archive.
I think the advice file in the archive is a good place to
start learning about recreational massage.
Subject: What About The Backrub Exchange?
4) 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.
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. :-)
Please read the announcement before submitting your entry.
The latest update and recent `me too' postings are in the archive file
`exchange.update'.
Subject: How You Can Help
5) I'd be very grateful if someone would create an index to the
postings in the files. Also, please send me mail if you find something
wrong with the files.
Subject: Where is the `List Of Files'?
6) They've been moved into a different posting. This is so the
date on this post won't change everytime the list changes. If you are
reading alt.backrubs with a threaded newsreader then the list will be
the next article in the thread.
That posting also includes a list of categories of files in
the archive. The file `Archive.Index' in the archive contains the
same list of categories *and* files within those categories. It's
formatted to be easy to search automatically.
Subject: What's New
7) I changed John M. Twilley's address to reflect his unfortunate
change in circumstances. I split the `head&neck.ache' file into two
files named (surprise, surprise!) `head.ache' and `neck.ache'. I
inserted mention of the `index' in sections 2 and 6. I made minor
editing changes to the first paragraph of section 2. I changed
`compress' in section 1 to `the standard Unix ...' and pointed readers
to the 00README file in the archive for more info.
I added `Subject:' lines at the beginning of every section to
make the most more convenient for people reading with suitably
equipped newsreaders. If you find this terribly offensive to your
aesthetic sensibilities please tell me -- I might remove them.
--
James Blustein <jamie@uwo.ca>
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