Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!nosc!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!elroy!gryphon!vector!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty Message-ID: <5677@rpp386.UUCP> Date: 21 Aug 88 16:56:31 GMT References: <20421@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1070@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> <13498@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <4712@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) Organization: HASA, "S" Division Lines: 17 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. i'd say that during the summer when all the kiddies are at home, and not on the usenet is about the only time to not post the newuser stuff. the rest of the year when all the freshmen are poised with postnews at the ready is the best time. -- John F. Haugh II +--------- Cute Chocolate Quote --------- HASA, "S" Division | "USENET should not be confused with UUCP: killer!rpp386!jfh | something that matters, like CHOCOLATE" DOMAIN: jfh@rpp386.uucp | -- apologizes to Dennis O'Connor