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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
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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
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