Here's the deal.
At least half of the regulars at alt.music.chapel-hill get there via the news server at the University of North Carolina. Now, due to some weirdness with UNC's UseNate (tm) feed, it takes a long long time for news to move back and forth between UNC and the Real World. In fact, many things simply don't survive the trip.
This means, essentially, that there are two separate versions of alt.music.chapel-hill--the one seen by folks at UNC, and the one seen by folks in the Real World. Sometimes the two overlap, and sometimes they don't. This results in massive confusion and many unnecessary wiseass remarks.
Luckily enough (for me, at least), there's a clever workaround. We've got a listserv list, called ch-scene, which takes every alt.music.chapel-hill post from UNC's news server, and mails it to everyone on its list.
In the past, this list was used primarily by people who didn't like to use trn.
Now, with the hellacious UseNate propagation problems we're saddled with, many many folks in the Real World use ch-scene to keep track of what's happening on the UNC side of alt.music.chapel hill. It's also a good way to keep the UNC folks in the loop with the goings-on in the Real World.
I'm sold. I'm in the Real World, and I want to keep up with my pals over there at UNC. How do I sign up for ch-scene?
It's easy. Simply send email to listproc@listserv.oit.unc.edu with nothing in the subject line. In the body, type subscribe ch-scene <your name>. Put your name in there where the bracket thingies are. (one of these days I'll make that into some kind of automated form so you can subscribe from here. Not today, though.)
The idea is that you'll continue to read alt.music.chapel-hill the old-fashioned way, via news, only you'll supplement it with a daily dose of email from the UNC side of the world.
That takes care of the reading part. As for the posting part, you will want to be sure you're posting to both alt.music.chapel-hill, and ch-scene@listserv.oit.unc.edu. I know. Pain in the ass. Sorry.
Hey. I'm at UNC. Not only do I resent this whole Real World conceit, but I'd like to know what you're gonna do for me?
Nothing. Nothing directly, that is. We've got no better way to pipe Real World news into UNC, except by convincing those poor folks unlucky enough to have to live in the Real World to make sure they send a cc: to ch-scene@listserv.oit.unc.edu every time they post to alt.music.chapel-hill.
Okay? Okay.
Oh yeah. If you have any snappy answers to any other commonly-asked alt.music.chapel-hill questions, please email 'em to me at factory@sprynet.com . Save me from doing this all by myself.
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