G.2 Netnews
The Usenet network newsgroup and mailing lists are probably the most valuable source of information abouta X. The current list of public mailing lists that discuss X is as follows:
News Group | Description |
|---|---|
People interested in the OSF’s Motif X toolkit This mailing list is also gatewayed to the Usenet newsgroup comp.windows.x.motif. If you receive that newsgroup, you don’t need to get this mailing list. | |
People interested in X and 3-D graphics | |
X and ada | |
People interested in image processing and X | |
General discussion of X This mailing list is also gatewayed to the Usenet newsgroup comp.windows.x. If you receive that newsgroup, you don’t need to get this mailing list. | |
Discussion of the OPEN LOOK graphical user interface, and its various implementations. This mailing list is also gatewayed to the Usenet newsgroup comp.windows.open-look. If you receive that newsgroup, you don’t need to get this mailing list. | |
Discussion of video extensions for X |
First ask your site administrator whether you can get these news groups locally. Requests to have the motif mailing list mailed directly to you should be sent to motif-request@lobo.gsfc.nasa.gov. Requests to have the OPEN LOOK mailing list mailed directly to you should be sent to openlook-request@unify.com. Requests for all the other lists should be sent to mailing-list-name-request@x.org, or uunet!x.org!mailing-list-name-request (for example, to ...
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