Subject: FAQ: CFS Index to FAQs
Supersedes: <medicine/chronic-fatigue-syndrome/cfs-index_828286929@rtfm.mit.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 1996 16:24:50 GMT
Summary: This posting describes the various FAQs available about chronic
          fatigue syndrome (CFS).
X-Last-Updated: 1995/08/01

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                         CFS Index to FAQs

This document describes the several FAQ files about chronic fatigue
syndrome and explains where to find them.  These FAQs will be posted to
alt.med.cfs and will also be available via Listserv e-mail retrieval and
by ftp.  Details about how to retrieve these documents as files are
described at the end of this document.

Some FAQs overlap in their coverage since some of them have been developed
separately and independently.  The CFS Resources FAQ will have much of its
info repeated in the general CFS FAQ and in the Electronic Resources FAQ.


                         Catalog of CFS FAQs

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Subject: FAQ: CFS Index of FAQs
ftp archive name: cfs-index
Listserv filename: CFS INDEX (at SJUVM and Albany)

   This file.

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Subject: FAQ: CFS FAQ
ftp archive name: cfs-faq
Listserv filename: CFS FAQ (at SJUVM and Albany)

   Answers to typical questions about chronic fatigue
   syndrome.  There is a separate FAQ on CFS treatments.

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Subject: FAQ: CFS Treatments FAQ
ftp archive name: cfs-treatments
Listserv filename: CFS TREATMTS (at SJUVM and Albany)

   Treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome.

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Subject: FAQ: CFS alt.med.cfs/CFS-L Topics, Rules and Information
ftp archive name: cfs-guidelines
Listserv filename: CFS-L RULES (at NIH)

   Rules and technical info about the CFS discussion group, i.e. the
   newsgroup alt.med.cfs and the mailing list CFS-L.

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Subject: FAQ: CFS Network Help
ftp archive name: cfs-network-help
Listserv filename: CFS NET-HELP (at SJUVM, NIH and Albany)

   Where to find discussion groups and info files about CFS available on
   Internet, Usenet and Listserv.

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Subject: FAQ: CFS Resources
ftp archive name: cfs-resources
Listserv filename: CFS-RES TXT (at SJUVM, NIH and Albany)

   General resource file for CFS.  Lists books, articles, national
   organizations, newsletters, and electronic discussion groups and files.
   A large document (60K).

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Subject: FAQ: CFS Electronic Resources
ftp archive name: cfs-electronic-resources
Listserv filename: CFS-NET TXT (at SJUVM)

   Lists all computer network resources for CFS on Internet, commercial
   services, and BBSs.  Includes advice for those new to compter networking.

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Subject: FAQ: CFS IRC
ftp archive name: cfs-irc  [not yet available via ftp]
Listserv filename: CFS IRC (at SJUVM)

   Describes how to participate in Internet Relay Chat (IRC, i.e., live
   conferencing), and info about the CFS channel on the IRC Undernet network.

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Subject: FAQ: CFS alt.health.cfids-action/CFIDS-L Guidelines
ftp archive name: cfids-guidelines
Listserv filename: CFIDS-L WELCOME (at American)

   Procedures and rules for the CFS political action group, i.e. the
   newsgroup alt.health.cfids-action and the mailing list CFIDS-L.

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Subject: FAQ: CFS Hello survey
ftp archive name: cfs-hello
Listserv filename: CFS SURVEY (at Albany)

   Survey for the get-to-know-you "Hello" files for the participants of
   the alt.med.cfs / CFS-L group.

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Subject: Getting these documents

On Usenet these FAQs will be posted to alt.med.cfs, with the Subject
lines as shown in the description above.

Via anonymous ftp these files can be found at rtfm.mit.edu in directory
/pub/usenet/news.answers/medicine/chronic-fatigue-syndrome .

The documents can also be obtained by e-mail from various Listservs.  To
do so, create an e-mail message which contains the command the command GET
followed by the two-part Listserv filename.  Send to the Listserv
indicated in the description above.  The various Listserv addresses are
shown below.  For example, to get the CFS Network Help file, send the command

   GET CFS NET-HELP

as an e-mail message to the address LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU (or to any of
the other Listserv that are also listed in that document's description
shown above).

Listserv addresses

NIH       LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV
SJUVM     LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU
Albany    LISTSERV@HEALTH.STATE.NY.US
American  LISTSERV@AMERICAN.EDU


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For inquiries about these files, send e-mail to CFS-L-REQUEST@LIST.NIH.GOV.
To participate in the development of the general and treatments FAQs,
post messages to the FAQ topic of the alt.med.cfs newsgroup or to the
mailing list at CFS-L@LIST.NIH.GOV (which is the same group.)

-- Roger Burns   CFS-L-REQUEST@LIST.NIH.GOV
   Moderator, CFS-L / alt.med.cfs

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