26 Jan 1991
From: John Thywissen
To:   Matt Dillon

Subj: UUCP/USENET information

Here are a few directories of information related to UUCP and the
USENET.  The information is broken into the following directories:

    Netiquette      Guidelines and suggestions on posting news
    Lists           Lists of newsgroups and mailing lists as of Jan 91
    Registering     Contains information on registering your "node"
    Protocol        UUCP official protocol standards (RFC's)

The files in these directories are:
    Netiquette/Posting_Rules   Rules for posting to Usenet
    Netiquette/Usenet_Primer   Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
    Netiquette/Emily_Postnews  Emily Postnews Answers Questions on Netiquette
    Netiquette/Writing_Style   Hints on writing style for Usenet
    Netiquette/Questions_Answered  Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
    Netiquette/Usenet_History  USENET Software: History and Sources
    Netiquette/Periodic_Postings  List of Periodic Informational Postings
    Lists/Active_Newsgroups    List of Active Newsgroups
    Lists/Alt_Newsgroups       Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies
    Lists/Regional_Newsgroups  Regional Newsgroup Hierarchies
    Lists/Mailing_Lists        Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists
    Lists/Moderated_Newsgroups List of Moderators
    Lists/Social_Newsgroups    A Guide to Social Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
    Registering/README         A narrative on how to register your machine
    Registering/map_README     A description of UUCP map files
                               (their format, use, and creation)
    Registering/US-DOMAIN.TXT  The US Domain (A top-level Internet domain)
    Protocol/RFC-822           Standard for the format of ARPA
                               Internet text messages
    Protocol/RFC-920           Domain requirements
    Protocol/RFC-976           UUCP mail interchange format standard
    Protocol/RFC-1036          Standard for interchange of USENET messages
    Protocol/RFC-1137          Mapping between full RFC 822 and 
                               RFC 822 with restricted encoding

All of this is public domain and freely redistributable.  I would
suggest including some, if not all, of it with your UUCP distribution.
I feel that the Netiquette directory is REQUIRED READING for anyone
capable of posting news.  The order in which I listed them is a fairly
logical reading sequence.

Also, anyone who is thinking of writing any UUCP code should be
conversant with the RFCs in the Protocol directory.  Perhaps that
should be included with your source distribution.

Feel free to contact me at the below addresses if you would like more.
You may include this letter in your distribution if you like.

           John A. Thywissen
Internet:  tigger!thywiss@mimsy.umd.edu
UUCP:      uunet!mimsy!tigger!thywiss
Postal:    4205 Tuckerman Street, University Park, MD 20782-2144