Henry Wong
More and more
services are now available on
the world wide web. Our Local Newsgroup is no exception. On
9 October 1996, the Local Newsgroups for the University was set
up and released on our central news server news.cityu.edu.hk.
As you may already know, Newsgroups is an electronic
news distribution service. News items (articles) in Newsgroups
are categorized into different "groups" according to
their specific areas. Newsgroups provides a common ground for
discussion and exchange of ideas on various topics covering academic
subjects, technical areas, hobbies, etc.. There are now more
than 9,000 groups gathered in the international Newsgroups on
various topics distributed world-wide.
CityU's Local Newsgroups in fact is a subset
of our central Newsgroups services. However, it is specially
designed for use only by our staff and students. It is only accessible
by PCs and workstations within campus, and off-campus via CityLink
and CityLink Plus services. News posted on the Local Newsgroups
will NOT be distributed to other news servers.
Both staff and students can apply for creating
local newsgroup(s) on various topics, provided that one of the
same kind does not exist. Preference and priority will be given
to staff and student organizations and interest groups. However,
individual student application with a good proposal will also
be considered. Organizers of PolyLink public bulletin boards
are encouraged to move their boards to the Local Newsgroups.
To apply for creating a local newsgroup, all
you need is to simply complete an "electronic" application
form which can be found in the news item/message titled
"CityU Local Newsgroups Application" in either
the newsgroup "cityuhk.newsgroups.announce",
or the Bulletin Board #000 "CSC Facilities and Services"
in PolyLink. Simply fill in the form by using the Reply function
with the original message content included. The completed application
form will be sent as email to the Computing Services Centre for
approval. You will be informed by email on the result of your
application after it has been processed.
For your reference, the following summarizes
different ways of accessing our central Newsgroups services including
the CityU's Local Newsgroups:
Computing Services Centre City University of Hong Kong ccnetcom@cityu.edu.hk |