> Where may I ftp a copy of your newsgroup list.Thanks

You can retrieve lists from the news.answers archive.  Appended is how
to use the mailserver; files are under /pub/usenet/news.answers.  Or
you can ftp to ftp.uu.net:/usenet/news.answers if you have ftp.

Moderators:
moderator-list/*

Active Groups in comp, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, and talk:
active-newsgroups/*

Groups in other worldwide hierarchies:
alt-hierarchies/*

Mailing lists:
mail/mailing-lists/*

Gateways between some newsgroups and mailing lists:
mail/news-gateways/*

You can get a list of all groups uunet carries from
ftp.uu.net (or uunet!~ via uucp) under /uunet-info/newsgroups.Z
(newsgroups with descriptions) and /uunet/info/active.Z
(newsgroups with traffic margins over past two weeks).  This includes
many hierarchies that the other sets of lists do not.

From daemon@charon.MIT.EDU  Tue Aug  3 13:52:07 1993
Message-Id: <9308031751.AA26117@charon>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 93 13:51:58 -0400
From: mail-server@CHARON.MIT.EDU
Subject: mail-server: "help"
Reply-To: mail-server@CHARON.MIT.EDU
Precedence: bulk
X-Problems-To: owner-mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu

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Commands should be sent to "mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu".

You can use the following commands, placed in the body of your mail
message:

path <path>	Specify a return mail path to use other than the mail
path in the header of your message.  The new address
is used for responses to any commands after the "path"
command.  It is legal to have multple "path" commands
to cause different responses to be sent to different
addresses.

The mail server's mailer is capable of understanding
Internet addresses, UUCP addresses in the form
"user@site.UUCP" (if "site" is registered in the UUCP
maps), and UUCP addresses in bang-path form.

If you want replies to your request to be directed to
the address from which you are sending it, and you
think that your message might contain a valid reply
address in its header, than don't use the "path"
command to specify a path -- the server is smart
enough to figure out the reply address.  If, however,
you send a request to the server and do not get a
response within a reasonable amount of time, then try
sending another request with a "path" command in it to
see if the server had trouble figuring out your reply
address in the original request.

help            Get this help.

index		Get the top-level index of files available from the
archive server.

send <filename>	Get a particular file.  For example, to get the
"patch15" file in the "delete" archive, you would use
"send delete/patch15".  To get an index for one of the
archives, you would use "send <archive>/index", e.g.
"send delete/index".

Some notes:

1) Archives can nest.  For example, to get the first
shar file in the sources for "delete", you would use
"send delete/delete/Part01".

2) The special filename "-listing-" will retrieve a
list of the files in an archive.  For example, to get
a list of the newsgroups which have FAQs archived in
the "usenet" archive (i.e. which have subarchives
under the "usenet" archive), you could use "send
usenet/-listing-".

3) If the final component of a specified path is "*",
all files in the archive will be sent.  No other
wildcards or combinations of wildcards are allowed;
only "*" to match every file in an archive is allowed.

4) The special sub-archive "usenet-addresses", can be
used to search a large list of addresses of people on
the Usenet.  To find out more, send "send
usenet-addresses/help".

5) Files whose names end in ".Z" are compressed, but
will be uncompressed automatically before they are
sent to you, so that the server does not try to send
non-text data in E-mail.  Also, you can specify names
of such files with or without the ".Z" extension.

size <number>	Specify the maximum size, in bytes, of the mailed
responses from the mail server.  The default is 50000
characters.  Note that the mail server will subtract
some from the value specified in order to leave room
for mail headers.  The new size affects only mail
messages sent after the "size" command was issued.

If the response from the mail server is larger than
the specified size, it will be broken up into multiple
messages which will be mailed to you separately.

Note that a "size" command with an invalid number will
be silently ignored, and that a specified size smaller
than 10000 will be silently changed to 10000 (i.e.,
10000 is the minimum size).

For example, you could use "size 100000" if you know
that messages that are 100000 characters in length
will reach you successfully.

vote <vote>	Cast a vote with the mail server's automatic voting
software.  To find out currently valid votes, send
"vote help".

Note that responses from the server to "vote" commands
are always sent in a single message, even if there are
multiple "vote" commands in your mail to the server.

group		Start a "group" of commands whose output should be
returned in a single mail message (or in one
multi-part message, if the output is too large to fit
in a single mail message), rather than being sent in
separate mail messages.

endgroup	End the current group.

The server executes "endgroup" implicitly when it
encounters a "path" command, a "size" command, a
"vote" command, a "quit" command, or the end of your
message.  If an "endgroup" is executed implicitly, it
is executed *before* the command that caused it to be
executed; for example, a "path" command that caused a
group to end will cause the output of the grouped
commands to be sent to the previous address, not to
the new one.

quit            Stop parsing your message at this point.

The mail server limits messages to 20 valid requests ("send", "index",
"help", or "vote" commands).  Anything after the 20th valid request in
a message is ignored.

Furthermore, if the mail server encounters 20 errors in a message, it
will ignore the remainder of the message.

In addition to these limits, the server also limits the number of mail
messages it will send to a particular address to approximately 25
messages in 24 hours.  If you exceed this limit, responses to your
requests may be delayed.

If you do not understand something in these instructions, or if you
need to talk to a real person about the mail server for some other
reason, please send mail to "owner-mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu".
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