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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty
Message-ID: <13498@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 20 Aug 88 03:41:17 GMT
References: <20421@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1070@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
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In-reply-to: donna@cfa250.harvard.edu (Donna Irwin x57134)

In article <1070@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu>, donna@cfa250 (Donna Irwin x57134) writes:
>However, I'm certain a slight modification could be made which
>would help novice users without irritating veterans.

While you've learned that "blaming Usenet" doesn't make sense, perhaps
a software fix is possible: modify expire so that by default it doesn't
touch n.a.u.  That is, it requires an explicit -nau flag.  And Gene can
start superseding the articles.

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720