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From: stevegt@TerraLuna.Org
To: entnet-a
Subject: ENTNET-L General Information (Periodic Posting)
Version: v2.3 - Sun May 22 10:45:01 1994
Author: stevegt@TerraLuna.Org (Steve Traugott)
For-latest-version-send-mail-to: entnet-info@info.terraluna.org
The Engineering Entrepreneur's Network (ENTNET-L)
General Information
Contents:
About ENTNET-L
How ENTNET-L Works
How to Subscribe
How to Unsubscribe
How to Obtain a Copy of the Mailing List
Volume Considerations
About Midnight Engineering Magazine
ENTNET-L Technical Implementation
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About ENTNET-L
ENTNET-L is a communications, commerce, and random discussion mailing
list for Engineering Entrepreneurs.
While not officially affiliated with Midnight Engineering magazine
and the magazine's annual ENTCON conference, ENTNET is a spinoff of
the two.
How ENTNET-L Works
You may be unfamiliar with email mailing lists - what happens is that
any messages sent to ENTNET-L@terraluna.org are duplicated many times
and the copies are sent to everyone on the list. So to talk to the
entire group, just send a message to ENTNET-L@terraluna.org (not to
entnet-a@terraluna.org - that'll only go to me). But first you'll
need to subscribe.
How To Subscribe
To subscribe to ENTNET-L, send the following in the body of a mail
message to the Internet address listserv@TerraLuna.Org :
subscribe ENTNET-L Your Name
You can reach this address from CompuServe, MCImail, GEnie, The Whole
Earth 'Lectronic Link, The World, AOL, Usenet, FidoNet, Prodigy, most
commercial and public-access UNIX machines in hundreds of cities in
North America, and over 100,000 of the internetworked computers in
use in the workplaces and on the college campuses of Earth. Find out
how to get Internet mail access if you don't already have it.
How to Unsubscribe
If you ever want to remove yourself from ENTNET-L, send mail to
listserv@terraluna.org (*not* to the list itself) with the following
in the body of the message:
unsubscribe ENTNET-L
If you are subscribed to ENTNET-L via a fax gateway and do not have
e-mail access, then page Steve Traugott at 800-852-5654
(international U.S. 619-279-8495) and leave him a message asking to
be removed.
How to Change (or Add) Your Name
If you do a 'review' of the list (see below) and see that your real
name isn't showing up next to your email address, you can correct
that. Tell it your name (or change it) by sending the following
message to listserv@terraluna.org:
register ENTNET-L Your Name
How to Obtain a Copy of the List
To obtain a copy of the list of ENTNET-L subscribers (including
yourself, to see where the list server thinks you are), send the
following in the body of a mail message to listserv@TerraLuna.Org:
review ENTNET-L
Volume Considerations
ENTNET-L is hosted by my home machine, and I pay out of my pocket for
my UUCP connection. Since this isn't a huge mainframe with a
megabuck budget, remember when you post anything that my machine has
to make a zillion copies of it and re-mail them over a long-distance
line.
Try to keep your messages short and make your words count; use good
wordsmith skills. Don't use the list as a soapbox for your own
political or social views - not everyone may feel the same way. Do
what you can to help the community with each and every message you
post. And finally, if you do feel the need to flame someone, either
do it in private or count to ten and realize that flames never get
anyone anywhere anyway.
About Midnight Engineering Magazine
Midnight Engineering is published by a staff of one - Bill Gates of
Rocky Ford, Colorado, and is a goldmine of resources and contacts. I
highly recommend getting a subscription if you are an enterprising
engineer.
Bill conducts an annual ski weekend/trade conference every spring in
Denver, called ENTCON. Again, I highly recommend it. It's a
compressed few days of high-energy revitalization for the road-weary
engineer, and it can pay off in many ways for the rest of the year.
And you get to ski too.
The following three paragraphs are adapted from the magazine's
introduction, again by Bill Gates, and describe the atmosphere of
both the magazine and ENTCON best:
"Midnight Engineering is dedicated to those individuals interested in
creating, developing, producing, and distributing high technology
products. The content is meant to address the individual and small
enterprise, their entrepreneurial issues and opportunities, and the
technology they use now and will use in the near future."
"The magazine is designed around the concept of 'a half-dozen
entrepreneurial engineers sitting around having a beer'. Topics
range from embedded systems technical details to software and
hardware design. A particular issue might cover biotechnology or
nanotechnology as well as everyday personal business such as taxes or
time management and productivity."
"Quite simply, Midnight Engineering reflects the exchange of
experience, insight, and concerns of today's entrepreneurial
engineer."
You can usually get the latest copy of Midnight Engineering from one
of the larger book "superstore" chains (such as Barnes & Noble in the
U.S.).
For more information about Midnight Engineering or ENTCON, write or
fax:
William E. Gates
1700 Washington Ave.
Rocky Ford, CO 81067
voice: 719-254-4558
fax: 719-254-4517
[Midnight Engineering is a trademark of William E. Gates.]
ENTNET-L Technical Implementation
TerraLuna is a 386sx Usenet node running hacked versions of DOS
(yechh!) and Waffle for mail and news, with the third-party package
Waffle File Server hosting the mailing list and archive server and
lots of Perl, Awk, and shell scripts to try to keep it all glued
together. TerraLuna is up 24 hours a day.
TerraLuna's UUCP feed connects from White Plains, NY to the
Performance Systems International UUPSI POP in Ardsley via a 19200bps
dialup link. TerraLuna transfers about 13 megabytes of outbound
mail each day.
Waffle is a shareware package which lets any DOS PC participate as a
full-fledged member of Usenet, which in turn is a great way to save
on email costs if you are currently paying a lot to a commercial
service (I'm paying a commercial service because I don't want to
inflict this kind of volume on any neighbor). More information on
Waffle, including where to get it, can be obtained by sending any
mail message to:
waffle@info.terraluna.org
Steve
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