Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck
From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty
Message-ID: <2396@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 18 Aug 88 16:12:57 GMT
References: <1061@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> <1062@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1062@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> donna@cfa250.harvard.edu (Donna Irwin x57134) writes:
>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.
There is no "Usenet" in the sense you describe. Usenet has no central
administration and no police force. There is no Usenet corporation or
Usenet president or other entity to be at fault. There are a lot of
people who work on keeping it running, but their only power over your
administrator is peer pressure. Your administrator was provided with
software and documentation and receives new articles every month in
news.announce.newusers; it is his or her responsibility to educate
the local users.
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