Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!gordon From: gordon@june.cs.washington.edu (Gordon Davisson) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty Message-ID: <5533@june.cs.washington.edu> Date: 22 Aug 88 02:29:17 GMT References: <20421@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1070@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> <13498@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <4712@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <133@carpet.WLK.COM> Reply-To: gordon@uw-june.UUCP (Gordon Davisson) Distribution: na Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle Lines: 20 In article <133@carpet.WLK.COM> bill@carpet.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes: >I vote to keep the "recordings" coming even though no one asked for a vote. Me too! >I would be curious to know why the diffs are sent out when they just update >the old ones to the current versions. Do some sites actually apply the diffs >rather than take the newer article? If not, then it seems like they aren't >as useful as they might be. Well, I find them useful because I can read them and keep up with what's in the postings without having to re-read the whole thing every time. I'm applying the diffs to the copy in my head, if you like to think of it that way. -- Human: Gordon Davisson ARPA: gordon@june.cs.washington.edu UUCP: {ihnp4,decvax,tektronix}!uw-beaver!uw-june!gordon Bitnet: gordon@uwaphast