Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!agate!garnet!weemba From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty Message-ID: <13498@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 20 Aug 88 03:41:17 GMT References: <20421@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1070@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) Organization: Brahms Gang Posting Central Lines: 9 In-reply-to: donna@cfa250.harvard.edu (Donna Irwin x57134) In article <1070@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu>, donna@cfa250 (Donna Irwin x57134) writes: >However, I'm certain a slight modification could be made which >would help novice users without irritating veterans. While you've learned that "blaming Usenet" doesn't make sense, perhaps a software fix is possible: modify expire so that by default it doesn't touch n.a.u. That is, it requires an explicit -nau flag. And Gene can start superseding the articles. ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720