data.3news-bydate.test.rec.motorcycles.104592 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: stefan@prague (Stefan Fielding-Isaacs)
Subject: Racelist: WHO WHAT WHERE
Distribution: rec
Organization: Gain Technology, Palo Alto, CA.
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Nntp-Posting-Host: prague.gain.com
Greetings fellow motorcycle roadracing enthusiasts!
BACKGROUND
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The racing listserver (boogie.EBay.sun.com) contains discussions
devoted to racing and racing-related topics. This is a pretty broad
interest group. Individuals have a variety of backgrounds: motojournalism,
roadracing from the perspective of pit crew and racers, engineering,
motosports enthusiasts.
The size of the list grows weekly. We are currently at a little
over one hundred and eighty-five members, with contributors from
New Zealand, Australia, Germany, France, England, Canada
Finland, Switzerland, and the United States.
The list was formed (October 1991) in response to a perceived need
to both provide technical discussion of riding at the edge of
performance (roadracing) and to improve on the very low signal-to-noise
ratio found in rec.motorcycles. Anyone is free to join.
Discussion is necessarily limited by the rules of the list to
issues related to racing motorcycles and is to be "flame-free".
HOW TO GET THE DAILY DISTRIBUTION
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You are welcome to subscribe. To subscribe send your request to:
[email protected]
Traffic currently runs between five and twenty-five messages per day
(depending on the topic).
NB: Please do _not_ send your subscription request to the
list directly.
After you have contacted the list administrator, you will receive
an RSVP request. Please respond to this request in a timely manner
so that you can be added to the list. The request is generated in
order to insure that there is a valid mail pathway to your site.
Upon receipt of your RSVP, you will be added to either the daily
or digest distribution (as per your initial request).
HOW TO GET THE DIGEST DISTRIBUTION
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It is possible to receive the list in 'digest'ed form (ie. a
single email message). The RoadRacing Digest is mailed out
whenever it contains enough interesting content. Given the
frequency of postings this appears to be about every other
day.
Should you wish to receive the list via digest (once every
30-40K or so), please send a subscription request to:
[email protected]
HOW TO POST TO THE LIST
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This is an open forum. To post an article to the list, send to:
[email protected]
Depending on how mail is set up at your site you may or may
not see the mail that you have posted. If you want to see it
(though this isn't necessarily a guarantee that it went out)
you can include a "metoo" line in your .mailrc file (on UNIX
based mail systems).
BOUNCES
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Because I haven't had the time (or the inclination to replace
the list distribution mechanism) we still have a problem with
bounces returning to the poster of a message. Occasionally,
sites or users go off-line (either leaving their place of
employment prematurely or hardware problems) and you will receive
bounces from the race list. Check the headers carefully, and
if you find that the bounce originated at Sun (from whence I
administer this list) contact me through my administration
hat ([email protected]). If not, ignore the bounce.
OTHER LISTS
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Two-strokes: [email protected]
Harleys: [email protected]
or uunet!watmath!thinkage!harley-request
European bikes: [email protected]
(in body of message write: subscribe euro-moto)
thanks, be seeing you,
Rich (race list administrator)
[email protected]
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Stefan Fielding-Isaacs 415.822.5654 office/fax
dba Art & Science "Books By Design" 415.599.4876 voice/pager
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