Xref: utzoo news.admin:1359 news.misc:1015 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!mcnc!uvaarpa!umd5!purdue!spaf@uther.cs.purdue.edu From: spaf@uther.cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc Subject: Diffs to news.announce.newusers postings Message-ID: <2659@arthur.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 15 Dec 87 18:44:41 GMT Sender: news@cs.purdue.EDU Lines: 22 Every few weeks I post articles to news.announce.newusers describing some history and useful information for users. Traditionally, I have also posted "diff" listings of some of these postings so that long-time users could tell when changes occurred and what those changes entailed. Recently, a couple of people have complained about my posting the diffs. I asked for mailed feedback. I got 11 responses: 4 said to stop posting the diffs to news.announce.newusers 3 said to keep posting the diffs to news.announce.newusers 1 suggested I post the diffs to a different group 1 suggested a different format for the diffs, but keep them in news.announce.newusers 1 person liked the diffs, but I couldn't tell from his response exactly what he recommended. Thus, due to the overwhelming feedback received, I'm going to continue as before. :-) -- Gene Spafford Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf