Special Interest Mailing
Lists
Updated: 04/16/96
This is a semi-regular announcement of special interest group
mailing lists for the VNese community.
Back when we had Vietnet, and now with SCV, there was always the
problem of there being too many messages and people feeling lost
or frustrated at not being able to discuss things they are
interested in. A number of special interest groups (SIGs) were
created to meet these needs. I will give a short description
of each lists and then the instruction on how to join it.
These mailing lists are based at Viet.Net, a machine in
Sunnyvale (near San Jose, California). Viet.Net is the first
and original archive site for Vietnet. It is also the first Vietnet BBS
in the world (started in 1984).
You can also dialin to Viet.Net directly by modem. The dialup
phone number is 408-XXX-XXXX (300 to 28800 baud, V32bis/V.Fast).
Login as bbs.
The names of the lists and their email addresses are:
- [email protected]
- This is the SCV Relay gateway. It allows those who can not
access Usenet News to receive SCV through email. To subscribe
to it, send a message to
scv-request@vietgate.net
with the subject of SIGN-ON.
- [email protected]
- This is the gateway between alt.politics.vietnamese and
email. For those of you who do not have access to the alt
newsgroup, you can subscribe to this list. To subscribe
to it, send a message to apv-request@vietgate.net with the
subject of SIGN-ON.
The following lists uses a different subscription format.
Please read the instructions carefully.
- [email protected]
- This is a Vietnam Discussion Forum. It is for discussing all things
relating to Vietnam, and is moderated. No flaming is allow. Send email
to vnforum-request@vietgate.net to subscribe.
- vn-tech
- This is for technical discussions on such areas as software
programming, hardware designs, technical supports (hw/sw).
Oriented toward the Vietnamese engineers. Discussions are
in both English and Vietnamese.
- vn-atnp
- This is A(n Tu.c No'i Phe't. A mailing list for people to
talk about whatever "No'i Phe't". Let me warn you that the
conversation can get rather racy, risque' at times. Join it
at your own discretion. The only restriction I place on the
list is no flame wars, no name callings, and so on.
- vn-singles
- This is a list for the VNese singles, professionals or students.
Although there are a number of married people in it. The focus
is on issues relating to the VNese singles life. It is small
and well focused on these kind of topics. Again, no flames,
no political nor religious discussions are allowed.
SUBSCRIBING Information
To subscribe to any of the vn-* lists, send a message to
majordomo@vietgate.net with the following in the body of
the message:
subscribe vn-atnp Your_Full_Name_here
Example:
To subscribe to vn-singles.
$ mail [email protected]
Subject: subscribe
subscribe vn-singles [email protected]
EOF (this is usually by typing Control-D)
NOTE: You may also send mail to the list, suffix with
-request. For example, send mail to
vn-singles-request@vietgate.net
instead of sending your request to majordomo@vietgate.net.
Tin Le
For comments, additions/corrections, questions
and
other requests, please send email to
[email protected].