From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 21:45:29 -0500
From: Christopher.Vance@adfa.oz.au Christopher.Vance@adfa.oz.au
Subject: No subject
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|  First, we'll be looking for a few people to test our installation setup on their PCs
|  to help us ferret out obvious problems before we publish the software.
|  We can't handle too many requests (we're up to our ears as it is) but if you're
|  interested, send me mail and in a few days I'll send (maybe not all of) you a
|  a distribution setup to try.

I'm interested.  In fact you suggested I get this one.  (I've tried with 
the previous one, but haven't got it networking off the PC floppy yet.)  
Time for some packet snooping or other debugging.
 
|  Second, we really don't want to be in the support business, and we're hoping
|  we can use the net to help us out here.  It would be nice if there was a moderated
|  newsgroup set up where we could get an FAQ established right from the beginning.
|  We're looking for someone outside to volunteer to set that up and moderate it.

Setting up a newsgroup (whether moderated or not) in the main hierarchies 
(say comp.os.plan9) takes a fair bit of time and effort - there needs to 
be discussion, voting, and that sort of thing.

One could try to set up a group under alt.*, but it may have propagation 
problems, as many sites refuse to carry them or delay creation until 
somebody complains...

If it's just a FAQ, it can be posted in a number of existing groups.  If 
there's frequent new material, or lots of questions, it probably deserves 
a real newsgroup, bnut may not need moderation.  I would suggest 
comp.os.plan9, but haven't started a comp.* proposal before.

An alternative might be to make a moderated mailing list.  If run under a 
list manager like majordomo, it might not be too hard to set up or 
maintain.  I could probably arrange that here.

-- Christopher