Subject: Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists, Part 3/8 Newsgroups: news.lists,news.announce.newusers,news.answers From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 02:48:48 GMT Archive-name: mail/mailing-lists/part3 [This is the third of eight articles on mailing lists.] Dallas Stars Contact: hamlet@u.washington.edu (Mitch McGowan) Purpose: Discussion of the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League and their farms clubs, the Kalamazoo Wings of the International Hockey League, the Moncton Hawks of the American Hockey League and the Dayton Bombers of the East Coast Hockey League. To subscribe to the list, please send email to . Please include the word "DSTARS" in your subject line and include your name and preferred e-mail address in the body of your message. dark-shadows Contact: shadows-request@sunee.waterloo.ca (Bernie Roehl) Purpose: Dark Shadows was a daily soap opera that ran on ABC in the late sixties (ending in 1971). It had a Gothic feel to it, and featured storylines involving witchcraft, vampires, werewolves and the supernatural. It was (appropriately enough) "brought back from the dead" by NBC for a single season last year. It also spawned two feature films, a series of paperback novels, and lots more; the series is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. There are a number of international fan clubs for the series, but so far there has been no newsgroup or (electronic) mailling list devoted to it. Now there is. data-exp Contact: stein@watson.ibm.com Purpose: The mail list server provides an open forum for users to discuss the Visualization Data Explorer Package. It contains three files at the moment: a. faq - frequently asked questions b. summary - a summary of the software, user interface, executive, data architecture c. forum - continuing forum of questions and answers about the software. Additionally, internal forum questions and answers are also posted to it by me. The mail server understands the following commands: index - send an index of available files faq - send the faq file forum - send the forum file Each of the above commands can be preceded with: send subscribe - subscribe to any appends that are made to the forum add - add this mail file to the forum remove - remove the subscribe to the forum help - send help on this mail server. This has been setup to quickly disseminate information about the software. We are in the process of setting up a unmoderated usenet forum too. datsun-roadsters Contact: datsun-roadsters-request@autox.team.net (Mark J. Bradakis) datsun-roadsters-request@hoosier.utah.edu Purpose: To discuss any and all aspects of owning, showing, repairing, driving, etc. Datsun roadsters. DC-MOTSS Contact: DC-MOTSS-REQUEST@vector.intercon.com Purpose: DC-MOTSS is a social mailing list for the GLBO folks who live in the Washington Metropolitan Area -- everything within approximately 50 miles of The Mall. DCRaves (DC Raves) Contact: listserv@american.edu (Tom Edwards) (Susie Kameny) (Doug Zimmerman) Purpose: One of several regional rave-related mailing lists, DC-Raves covers the Washington, D.C. area exclusively. Archives are available through the listserv, FTP, or Gopher at american.edu. DDTs-Users Contact: DDTs-Users-request@BigBird.BU.EDU (automated help reply) Purpose: The DDTs-Users mailing list is for discussions of issues related to the DDTs defect tracking software from QualTrak, including (but not limited to) software, methods, mechanisms, techniques, general usage tips, policies, bugs, and bug workarounds. It is intended primarily for DDTs administrators, but that does not necessarily preclude other topics. 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