Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!gamiddleton From: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty Message-ID: <20421@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 18 Aug 88 14:18:52 GMT References: <1061@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> <1062@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> Reply-To: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) Organization: University of Waterloo [MFCF/ICR] Lines: 13 In article <1062@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> donna@cfa250.harvard.edu (Donna Irwin x57134) writes: > If there is something in those newsgroups on the national system but the info > was deleted on the system I'm using, Usenet is at fault -- Usenet shouldn't > let local systems to delete the documentation. If the documentation is > unavailable to users nationwide, then Usenet is doubly at fault. Saying "Usenet is at fault" is meaningless, since there is no central Usenet administration. Since it is at best a cooperative of independent sites, one must blame the local administrators for any failure to make users aware of how the net operates. -Guy Middleton, University of Waterloo Institute for Computer Research gamiddleton@math.waterloo.edu