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From: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Fifty percent new text rule (was: Re: US PC programmers)
Message-ID: <5424@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 88 14:13:02 GMT
References: <1988Jun22.223158.1366@LTH.Se> <699@omen.UUCP> <1288@odyssee.UUCP> <133@dcs.UUCP> <343@ns.ns.com> <245@pigs.UUCP>
Reply-To: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Organization: Independent Users Guild
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In article <245@pigs.UUCP>, John Haugh lays out the reasons for the
50%-new-textrule very cogently.  I just want to add a couple of
points:

  *  If all you really want to do is pat the author of a posting on
     the back with an "I agree 100%" message, DO IT VIA NETMAIL not news!
     The author might enjoy hearing your applause, but to the rest of
     the net it's just noise.

  *  Users, PLEASE read the articles in news.announce.newusers!  They are
     updated monthly and cover all these basics, including the reasons
     why it's done the way it is.  If you have a technical problem, ask
     your sysadmin locally first before SOS'ing to the net -- he or she
     may already have the answer.

OK at ease, smoke em if you got em. 
-- 
Tom Neff			UUCP: ...!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tneff
	"None of your toys	CIS: 76556,2536	       MCI: TNEFF
	 will function..."	GEnie: TOMNEFF	       BIX: t.neff (no kidding)