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From: markw@gvlf1-c.gvl.unisys.com (Mark H. Weber)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Abbreviation: RTFM
Message-ID: <344@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM>
Date: 2 Oct 89 13:53:08 GMT
References: <608@wet.UUCP> <4398@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Sender: news@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM
Reply-To: markw@gvl.unisys.com (Mark H. Weber)
Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, Great Valley Labs, Paoli, Pa
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In article <4398@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant) writes:
>
>On the system I'm reading news on now, news.announce.newusers is empty.
>I guess the theory is that new users all start at the beginning of the
>month, get all their questions answered, and become instant experts. 
>Anybody who doesn't fit that pattern can't know what's in "Answers to
>Frequently Asked Questions" because they aren't there.
>
The latest set of Spaf's postings in news.announce.newusers have an
expiration date of 2 Dec 89 22:25:30 GMT. If you don't have these messages
at your site, it means that your news administrator does not allow 'expire'
to honor the date in the "Expire: " header. Some sites do this because of
persons abusing this feature, putting long expiration times on trivial
postings. Sites which do not honor the expiration date for postings in
news.announce.newusers should make these files available to new users via
some other mechanism.

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