Subject: Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists, Part 6/8 Newsgroups: news.lists,news.announce.newusers,news.answers From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 02:50:47 GMT Archive-name: mail/mailing-lists/part6 [This is the sixth of eight articles on mailing lists.] NA-net Contact: na.join@na-net.ornl.gov Purpose: Numerical analysis discussions. To join the NA-NET send mail and in the message body specify the following three fields in any order: Lastname: Firstname: E-mail: NativeNet Contact: gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) Purpose: To provide information about and to discuss issues relating to indigenous people around the world, and current threats to their cultures and habitats (e.g. rainforests). navnews Contact: navnews@nctamslant.navy.mil Purpose: E-mail distribution list for the weekly Navy News Service (NAVNEWS), published by the Navy Internal Relations Activity in Washington. 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