Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cfa!cfa250!donna
From: donna@cfa250.harvard.edu (Donna Irwin x57134)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty
Message-ID: <1062@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Date: 17 Aug 88 14:49:10 GMT
References: <1061@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Organization: Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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> From: rja 

> You haven't read the newsgroup news.annnounce.newuser and it is probably
> your own fault . . . [some rude comments deleted] Don't
> complain about the documentation before you read it -- RTFM !

The first thing I did when I was told how to get onto Usenet is try
to read all the news.* articles.  On my system, there isn't
anything in news.announce.newuser or news.announce.important.

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.  At
any given time, there are probably thousands of users who've been told
how to get onto Usenet and nothing else.

And flaming (rather, charbroiling) people for doing their best to
learn about a rather disorganized computer network seems childish to
me.  It's as if what you really want is to establish a high priesthood
of the Church of Usenet and brand all who come after you
as heretics.  Perhaps your comments should be posted to another newsgroup,
religion.comp.usenet.

 
 Allison Bell, using Donna's terminal