Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!gamiddleton
From: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty
Message-ID: <20421@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 18 Aug 88 14:18:52 GMT
References: <1061@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> <1062@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Organization: University of Waterloo [MFCF/ICR]
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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.

Saying "Usenet is at fault" is meaningless, since there is no central Usenet
administration.  Since it is at best a cooperative of independent sites, one
must blame the local administrators for any failure to make users aware of how
the net operates.

 -Guy Middleton, University of Waterloo Institute for Computer Research
						gamiddleton@math.waterloo.edu