Welcome Back to www-talk

Hi everyone,

As you may have noticed, the www-* mailing lists have been down
for the past week as we dealt with an overloaded system and a
massive queue of infinitely-bouncing messages.  All requests and
submissions for the past week have been lost to the bit bucket
(necessary in order to rebuild the system) and the old ListProcessor
has been replaced with SmartLists (part of the procmail package).

Since this is equivalent to being subscribed for the first time,
I am sending the help text with this message -- please save it for
later reference.

If you want to unsubscribe, just send a message to
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.....Roy Fielding (fielding@w3.org) speaking as listmaster@w3.org

******* www-talk@mail.w3.org *******
 
This is the primary public mailing list for TECHNICAL DISCUSSION among
those developing World-Wide Web software.  It is explicitly intended
for the collaborative design of new systems, software, protocols, and
documentation which may be useful to the WWW developer community.
 
There are a number of related lists which have been provided for
more focused discussion and to remove some of the load from www-talk.
If a discussion falls under one of these focused lists, please
move the discussion there.  DO NOT CC TO MULTIPLE LISTS!
 
    Topics                        Focused discussion list
    ------                        -----------------------
 
    HyperText Markup Language     www-html@mail.w3.org
    HTML Style Sheets             www-style@mail.w3.org
    Proxies and Caching           www-proxy@mail.w3.org
    HTTP Server Development       www-servers@mail.w3.org
    libwww (W3C Reference Code)   www-lib@mail.w3.org
    Speech-enabled Interfaces     www-speech@mail.w3.org
    WWW w/Database Systems        www-rdb@mail.w3.org
    WWW w/NeXT and NeXTstep       www-next@mail.w3.org
    WWW Virtual Library Admin     www-vlib@mail.w3.org (moderated)
    WWW Virtual Library Announce  www-vlib-announce@mail.w3.org
 
Announcements should be sent to <www-announce@mail.w3.org>.
 
******* About the WWW-* Mailing Lists *******
 
There are many WWW-related mailing lists.  A full list of them
is available at
 
   <URL:http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Mailing/Mail/Overview.html>
 
NOTE that this list is not the place for any of the following:
 
   How do I configure [insert-favorite-software-here]?
   I'm new to the web -- what is it?
   I tried to ask [insert-company-here] customer support, but
        [I didn't get any response / they told me to RTFM]
   What does RTFM mean?
 
Answers to the above are often found in the WWW FAQ maintained
by Thomas Boutell.  The FAQ is available from several sites.
Use the mirror closest to you: 
 
   Sunsite, eastern United States (North America):
       <URL:http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/> 
   Internex Online, Montreal, eastern Canada (North America):
       <URL:http://www.io.org/faq/www/index.html> 
   New Software Technologies Service, Austria (Europe):
       <URL:http://nswt.tuwien.ac.at:8000/htdocs/boutell/> 
   Glocom, Japan (Asia):
       <URL:http://www.glocom.ac.jp/mirror/sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/> 

The FAQ also lists the names of all the USENET newsgroups that are
available regarding the WWW (most under the comp.infosystems.www.*
hierarchy).

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Received on Sunday, 18 June 1995 18:51:58 UTC