Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!execu!dewey From: dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty Summary: some folks read it, anyhow Message-ID: <292@execu.UUCP> Date: 21 Aug 88 00:13:42 GMT References: <20421@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1070@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> <13498@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <4712@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Reply-To: dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize) Organization: Home for Recalcitrant Hackers Lines: 31 In article <4712@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) writes: > >...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 I have no doubt that there are any number of sites, especially the more established ones, where new users aren't explicitly steered to these documents when they are introduced to the net. Nonetheless Gene, there are also a good number of sites that DO try to encourage folks to read this stuff. For us newer news admins, any and all help is one more step we can use to get caught up. These docs are good ones, even if honored only on occasion. Thanks for publishing them. Dewey -- =============================================================================== | execu!dewey Dewey Henize or juniper!dhenize | | Can you say standard disclaimer? I knew you could. Somehow... | ===============================================================================