Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!purdue!spaf From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty Message-ID: <4712@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 20 Aug 88 16:57:17 GMT References: <20421@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1070@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> <13498@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@cs.purdue.EDU Reply-To: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 19 In article <13498@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes: >[...] And Gene can >start superseding the articles. I've been doing exactly that ever since the feature appeared in the news software. And before anyone suggests it, I put an explicit "Expires" line in the articles I post to news.announce.newusers...if it disappears at a site, it's because the site admin is overriding it. ...of course, that doesn't include the 2 month period this summer when I stopped posting the items and only 3 people noticed. This whole debate may be moot -- the group may not be worth continuing. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf