Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!menlo70!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Ladies and Gentlewombats, a little reminder Message-ID: <698@nsc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 11:59:20 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.698 Posted: Thu Feb 23 11:59:20 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 07:43:07 EST References: <688@nsc.UUCP> <243@teltone.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 23 Getting news to remind people of appropriate use has possibilities, and the structure is at least partially in place in the 'recordings' software, which is unfortunately broken in many ways. Also, it doesn't particularly handle multiple postings well, and many people dislike being bbitched at everytime they do something. The proper way to handle it is to get people to read the documents on news before they post away at it, and to THINK about what they are doing before they do it. These, of course, are unreasonable goals because they assume that the users have enough intelligence to be reasonable (I'm kidding, users... really!). What really needs to happen is to make sure that usenet administrators make the documents available and are willing to take an active enough part in the net to answer questions at their site. As I have found out from my discussions with the mistake makers, all too often the net simply sits there, and nobody knows who to ask questions of or where to get reading material... When that happens, it's no wonder they make mistakes.... chuq -- From the house at Pooh Corner: Chuq 'Nuke Wobegon' Von Rospach {fortune,menlo70}!nsc!chuqui Have you hugged your Pooh today? Yo, Ho! Yo, Ho! A pirates life for me...