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From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty
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Date: 20 Aug 88 16:57:17 GMT
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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