The Home Page for usf.misc
This is a place where you can find out a little bit about the University of South Florida newsgroup usf.misc, which was active in the mid-1990s. After most of the regulars graduated and no longer had access to USF newsgroups, there was an egroups mailing list, but that seems to have disappeared too. I just keep this stuff on my own website for nostalgia purposes, even though I had to get rid of the outdated email addresses and web links. All the other stuff is out of date as well, but fun to read about and remember the Internet in its earlier days.
Information
A copy of the usf.misc FAQ is available. The topics covered
in the FAQ are as follows:
- What
is usf.misc?
- What about these
other newsgroups?
- Who is this
Benevolant Dictator (tm) guy?
- So
who are you?
- What does "the
Devil's child" mean?
- What's this
stuff about you being a bartender? Where do you work?
- So can I post my opinions here
too?
- Can I post test messages on
usf.misc?
- You guys go to
lunch together?
- Why do I
sometimes get an error when I try to post that says 'no message left
on device'?
- What does it mean
when it asks for a distribution when I post?
- So what's the deal with there being a
usf.misc Home page?
- I want to
get on cfrdc (sunlink). How do I do this from my account?
- I am having a problem with my system. Who
do I e-mail?
- When I post to
usenet, my address is reprinted incorrectly in the header. What do I
do?
- Is the Oracle on the
net?
- Who owns this
newsgroup?
- You are kidding,
right? This is all a joke, isn't it?
Newsreaders (Instructions from the 1990s)
There are several ways to read news at USF.
Because not all systems support the same software, you'll need to
check with your system operator to verify what is available to you.
Some of the most common ways to read news are:rn .
tin
pine (e-mail and newsreader -
it has a help file that can be printed)
Netscape (graphical browser
and newsreader)
To read the newsgroup, usf.misc, click here. If you are not in the usf.edu domain,
you may need to change your default NNTP server to news.usf.edu in
order to read the group.
usf.misc PEOPLE
People from all areas of USF can post on the
usf.* newsgroups. Many have developed their own home pages and are
linked to interesting areas on the World Wide Web. If you're
browsing I'd recommend starting here!
The people listed below
contribute regularly to the posts on usf.* groups, or used to do so.
- Trevor Aaronson
- Jonathan Adair
- Vicki Andrews, Senior
Computer Support Specialist, FMHI Computer Support Center
- Kate
Cantrell
- W. Saul "The Maven" Caplan
- Steven Chatelat
- Shira Chess]
- Matthew
Clark
- Jamie
DeVriend
- Justin Deal
- Ben Dobrin
- Sam Falco
- Robert "Devil's Child"
Fernandez
- Michelle Gilmore
- Himanshu Gohel
- Chad "Soundwave" Gould
- Dennis
Guillette
- Jonathan Hogarth
- David Horgan
- David Hubbard
- Paul Jantzen
- Phil Kaprow
- Michael Krivacek
- James
Lade
- Elizabeth Latshaw-Foti
- Johan Li
- Steve Martin
- Manuel Mejia
- Hitoshi Oi
- Kirt Olson
- Ben
Ostrowsky
- Brent Paschall
- Dave Pinero
- Dave Pringle
- Rich Rauscher
- Danno Salzana
- Suzanne Saunders, maintainer of this nostalgia page. I am still reachable at segnbora@amuck.com
- Debbie Sellers
- Stu Shapiro
- Deb Silverman
- Drew Smith
- Eric Stewart
- John
Straumann
- Lauri J. Taylor
- Matt Thatcher
- Bob Woodard
- Brent "Phantom" Wynn
- Randy Yates
- Jon Young
You can also check out pictures of usf.misc
lunches past.
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