Conference ljsrv1::tv_chatter

MST3k conference moved to BOOKIE::MST3K (a while ago)

    Just saw this one!!
    
    ISVSPR::3STOOGES
    
    Jt
    
    

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I checked as carefully as I could in VTX to find a Babylon 5
conference and found no listing--despite the one listed in an earlier
note on MEDDLE.  I don't want to step on anyone's toes, but I've
created a Babylon 5 conference on our node:

CLOSUS::BABYLON5

Here is my entry in the VTX registry:

This conference has been created for discussion of the FOX TV series
Babylon 5.  Appropriate topics include discussion of series episodes,
series personalities, technical wizardry used on Babylon 5, posts from
the Internet Babylon 5 newsgroups, and similar subjects.

I've entered the FAQ from the Internet, as well as some general
information on Internet ftp sites, etc.

Everyone's welcome!

    HI - Does anyone know if there is an Internet mailing list or WWW
    address or somesuch for the UK tv show Dr Who?  The notes conference on
    the Dr has been very quiet lately, and I'm looking for someone to talk
    to!
    
    
    Many thanks
    
    Mike Fiddler, WOTVAX::FIDDLERM

I'm pretty sure there's an Internet newsgroup on Dr. Who.  Check it out
using your favorite newsgroup reader (VNEWS, XRN, Mosaic etc.).

    RE: .4
    
    I came across this in my copy of "The Internet Complete Reference"
    
    rec.arts.drwho   	Dr. Who
    
    Here are a few others:
    
    alt.tv.babylon-5
    alt.tv.bh90210
    alt.tv.la-law
    alt.tv.mash
    alt.tv.x-files
    alt.tv.melrose-place
    alt.tv.mst3k	(mystery science theater 3000)
    alt.tv.northern-exp
    alt.tv.lois-n-clark
    alt.tv.seinfeld
    alt.tv.simpsons
    alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
    

    Joyce, how do you access them?
    
    Holly
    

    You need an account on the Internet.  Digital does have some accounts
    but almost all of DEC's are protected by 'firewalls'.  You can send and
    recieve mail messages at DEC but you can't access other information.
    
    Once you have and account on the Internet either on a home computer or
    a certain type of account here, you read them kinda like notes.
    
    I have access to them via my account at school. 
    
    Jt

    Actually, all you need is a newsreader (if you have DECwindows, check
    out XRN or, for motif, MXRN, look in the UFP::XRN notesfile for
    pointers to these kits), and a list of servers (UPSAR::NEWS-BACKBONE, I
    believe the list in there).   Call up the newsreader, configure it to
    point at local news server and voila! Access to newsgroups galore. 
    
    If you are behind one of DECs firewalls, you may have trouble receiving
    mail, especially to hidden nodes, but I have no problem sending and
    receving mail to my regular cluster account and I have no problem
    reading news from my hidden standalone.
    
    Careful, though, newsgroups can get habit forming.  :) Also, be
    prepared for a generally less polite crowd than can be found in here. 
    Internet and the Usenet Newsgroups have no Personnel Policies and
    Guidelines.  The old "Valuing Differences" don't float out there.
    Basically, if you think SOAPBOX can be bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.
    
    However, with a good newsreader, like MXRN, you can easily skip over
    articles (and authors) you don't care to bother reading.  Kinda Next
    Unseen en masse.  And it's kinda fun.
    
    I'm not a News Professional, I just play one on TV.
    
    
    Cheers,
    
    kim

If you don't have a workstation, use VNEWS ... see the notesfile (I think
it's CLO::VNEWS) for info on how to get the kit.

Re: .8

	You don't need an account on the Internet (actually mean an
	account on a system that has Internet access :-), you don't
	even need to be running the Internet protocols.  That's because
	most all of the USENET newsgroups are routed inside of Digital,
	and as .9/.10 said, you just need either DECnet or TCP/IP on your
	system (or cluster) and know the name/address of a USENET server
	(along with a NEWS reader) to plug in.

	The conference UPSAR::News-Backbone used to have posted the most
	up to date list of NEWS servers, and also pointers to various
	news readers for ULTRIX, DEC OSF/1, OpenVMS, DOS, etc (and various
	flavors of readers from command line, to screeen menu, to full
	blown Motif/X11 Windows).

	Press SELECT (or KP7) now to add the conference to your notebook.