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Antigone Press List of Usenet Digests

How to subscribe to a list

Bestserv Reference Card

 


Antigone Press List of Usenet Digests

Antigone.com is glad to offer the following Usenet digests:

dtp
Desktop Publishing Digest
As a service to those who do not have access to Usenet, this list distributes digests of messages posted to comp.text.desktop.

prepress
Pre-Press Digest
As a service to those who do not have access to Usenet, this list distributes digests of messages posted to comp.publish.prepress.

next-advocacy
NeXT Advocacy Digest
As a service to those who do not have access to Usenet, this list distributes digests of messages posted to comp.sys.next.advocacy:
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc.

next-announce
NeXT Announcements Digest
As a service to those who do not have access to Usenet, this list distributes digests of messages posted to comp.sys.next.announce:
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.)

next-bugs
NeXT Bugs Digest
As a service to those who do not have access to Usenet, this list distributes digests of messages posted to comp.sys.next.bugs:
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered.

next-hardware
NeXT Hardware Digest
As a service to those who do not have access to Usenet, this list distributes digests of messages posted to comp.sys.next.advocacy: Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for.

next-marketplace
NeXT Marketplace Digest
As a service to those who do not have access to Usenet, this list distributes digests of messages posted to comp.sys.next.marketplace:
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted.

next-nextstep
NeXT NeXTSTEP Digest
As a service to those who do not have access to Usenet, this list distributes digests of messages posted to comp.soft.sys.nextstep:
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.

next-misc
NeXT Miscellany Digest
As a service to those who do not have access to Usenet, this list distributes digests of messages posted to comp.sys.next.misc:
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else.

next-programmer
NeXT Programming Digest
As a service to those who do not have access to Usenet, this list distributes digests of messages posted to comp.sys.next.programmer:
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest.

next-software
NeXT Software Digest
As a service to those who do not have access to Usenet, this list distributes digests of messages posted to comp.sys.next.software:
This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems.

next-sysadmin
NeXT System Administration Digest
As a service to those who do not have access to Usenet, this list distributes digests of messages posted to comp.sys.next.sysadmin:
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software.

object
Object Languages Digest
As a service to those who do not have access to Usenet, this list distributes digests of messages posted to comp.object:
Object-oriented programming and languages.

lang-objective-c
Objective C Digest
As a service to those who do not have access to Usenet, this list distributes digests of messages posted to comp.lang.objective-c:
The Objective-C language and environment.


How to subscribe to a list

Please subscribe automatically to each list by sending the following message

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next-nextstep
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next-hardware
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next-misc
next-programmer
next-software
next-sysadmin
dtp
lang-objective-c
object
prepress


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Bestserv Reference Card

Bestserv is an automatic request processor.
With simple commands, you can add your name to a list to receive Antigone's digests.

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Commands Bestserv understands

subscribe
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help


What is a "digest"?

A digest is an electronic newsletter. At given intervals (usually once a day), you will receive e-mail that contains an accumulation of all articles that have been posted to a given Usenet
newsgroups.


Can I reply to a digest or post to it?

NO. You may, however, post to the original newsgroup being digested.
Your post will then be included in the next digest. Instructions on how to do this are included in each issue.


How to STOP receiving a digest

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What digests are available?

next-nextstep
next-advocacy
next-announce
next-bugs
next-hardware
next-marketplace
next-misc
next-programmer
next-software
next-sysadmin
dtp
lang-objective-c
object
prepress


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Why do I keep getting error messages?

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The Subject line of your message is ignored.


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Last modified 10-Jun-1998