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From: gordon@june.cs.washington.edu (Gordon Davisson)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty
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Date: 22 Aug 88 02:29:17 GMT
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In article <133@carpet.WLK.COM> bill@carpet.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes:
>I vote to keep the "recordings" coming even though no one asked for a vote.

Me too!

>I would be curious to know why the diffs are sent out when they just update
>the old ones to the current versions.  Do some sites actually apply the diffs
>rather than take the newer article?  If not, then it seems like they aren't
>as useful as they might be.

Well, I find them useful because I can read them and keep up with what's
in the postings without having to re-read the whole thing every time.  
I'm applying the diffs to the copy in my head, if you like to think of
it that way.

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